Older Call of Duty games are coming to Game Pass in 2026

New Xbox boss Asha Sharma had some good and bad news for Game Pass subscribers yesterday: the service is now cheaper, but new Call of Duty games will no longer be included with the service at release. They’ll now arrive a year later, around the time that they’re inevitably replaced by the next Call of Duty.

The change is one of the first major shakeups from Sharma, who takes up Phil Spencer’s mantle following a truly shameful year for Microsoft in which Xbox was the least of its fumbles.

Xbox’s two-year run of giving away its single biggest money-maker to subscribers is over, which Activision seems keen to move on from, as Call of Duty’s wider availability reportedly dealt a huge blow to the profitability of Black Ops 6 in 2024 and Black Ops 7 in 2025.

Reactions to the news among fans swung between disappointment and understanding, but among them was a specific request: “They should release all legacy Call of Duty games on game pass like today,” wrote Stallion83 on X.

Perhaps not every Call of Duty, but a source at Activision told PC Gamer it plans to add more of Call of Duty’s back catalog to Game Pass this year.

Currently, only the last handful of entries are available on the service’s Ultimate tier—the oldest being 2017’s Call of Duty: WW2. The availability of classics like Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops would be a genuine draw, especially because as the console and PC versions of many older games still go for $30 to $60 (and a few never came to PC at all):

Call of Duty (2003)Call of Duty 2 (2005)Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (2005)Call of Duty 3 (2006)Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)Call of Duty: World at War (2008)Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010)Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011)Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (2012)Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013)Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014)Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (2015)Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (2016)Call of Duty: Vanguard (2021)

I had to double check, but yes, 2021’s oft-forgotten Vanguard has also been forgotten by Game Pass. Maybe Treyarch’s Big Red One (the even more forgotten version of Call of Duty 2 for the original Xbox/PS2) will finally gets its day in the sun.

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