As usual, you can get a discount of at least 20% on these Xbox Game Pass titles until they leave in a few weeks' time, and some of them may be reduced even further - Party Animals, for example, has a 50% discount on the Xbox Store.

Microsoft announces the first wave of the December 2024 Xbox Game Pass lineup, which includes five new titles and several XGP Standard additions.

Deck the halls, grab yourself a mince pie and get ready for some gaming fun times, thanks to this batch of Xbox Game Pass titles for December.

Update [Tue 3rd Dec 2024, 6am]: It turns out that just seven games will be leaving Xbox Game Pass in early December rather than the original eight that were reported, as Hello Neighbor 2 is no longer on the list. We also now know what's leaving Xbox Game Pass in late December, as covered elsewhere on Pure Xbox:

Xbox Game Pass subscribers can have a good time playing Little Kitty, Big City, Aliens: Dark Descent, or Nine Sols this weekend.

A number of titles will be leaving Xbox Game Pass in the coming weeks, including Forza Horizon 4. As was announced earlier in the year, developer Playground Games is delisting Forza Horizon 4 from online stores due to "licensing and agreements" with the game's partners.

Microsoft added the remastered Spyro trilogy to Game Pass earlier in November, letting subscribers play as the iconic purple dragon. Now, Microsoft is taking subscribers back to the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in the sequel to the award-winning Stalker.

Xbox Game Pass is a subscription service for Xbox consoles and PCs. You pay a monthly fee to subscribe to the service, and in exchange, you can download and play games from the Xbox Game Pass library on your console.

If you’re looking to get your hands on Sony’s coveted PlayStation 5 for Black Friday, we have some good news: Amazon and Walmart has the PS5 in stock as part of a money-saving deal that slashes the price of a PS5 console down to starting at $374 — the cheapest price of 2024. This is …