Today's the day for the new tier of Xbox Game Pass known as Xbox Game Pass Standard! Microsoft has begun rolling out this membership option publicly, giving everyone the ability to sign up at a price of £10.99 / $14.99 per-month.

Xbox Game Pass has long been the key differentiator for Microsoft's gaming business, offering an alternative subscription-based store against Steam on PC, and offering heaps of value on console against PlayStation with its day-one games pledge. That covenant has been undone now, though.

There is another caveat, that Microsoft has seemingly arbitrarily picked a few dozen games, many of them big titles, that are not included in Xbox Game Pass Standard,

Xbox officially launched its new Game Pass Standard plan on Tuesday, but it's missing some huge first-party titles.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

In addition to the Xbox Game Pass games that have already dropped in September, Xbox has dropped a handful more that will be coming over the next few weeks. SEPTEMBER XBOX GAME PASS GAMES Wargroove 2 (Cloud/Console/PC) – September 19th Frostpunk 2 (PC) – September 20th Ara: History Untold (PC) – September 24th A bunch more games are leaving as well and you can find that list below: Gotham Knights (Cloud,

Xbox Game Pass has introduced the new Standard tier for $14.99 per month. It replaces Xbox Game Pass For Console, but bizzarely doesn't include day one releases anymore. Day one releases might eventually come to Standard after one year,