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

So far, Xbox Game Pass subscribers only have two games to look forward to when it comes to the December 2024 lineup.

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 has just revealed the new games coming to Xbox Game Pass this month, but also the titles that are leaving. Four new games are being added to Xbox Game Pass in December, with five more games

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Forza Motorsport and more awesome titles are part of the new additions coming to Xbox Game Pass this month.

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 has announced the raft of titles coming to Xbox Game Pass this month, but there’s one we want to play more than the rest combined. That is Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, among the most promising of what were Xbox’s exclusive games — before the news just about any title might just come to PlayStation 5 these days.

All Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass owners can play it from day one on Xbox Series X /S or Windows respectively. It'll also be available to Game Pass Ultimate subscribers to play via Xbox Cloud Gaming, so can also be enjoyed on Xbox One, Samsung Smart TVs, Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K devices, and mobile.

XBOX’S additions to Game Pass seem to get more confusing by the month, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to figure out what new games you’re getting. We’ve broken down this month’s Xbox