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Microsoft teases mysterious Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnership

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft is looking at new ways to bundle third-party services into Game Pass. Microsoft is looking at new ways to bundle third-party services into Game Pass. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft has started teasing a new Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnership, just a day after lowering prices of its Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscriptions. Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma says the company is partnering with Discord again “as we continue to make Game Pass more flexible for our players.” It’s not immediately clear what the latest Discord and Xbox partnership will result in, but given it’s a Game Pass one it’s likely related to some perks for subscribers of Xbox Game Pass. At the moment Game Pass Ultimate subscribers can get a month of Discord Nitro as part of the subscr

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Apr 23, 2026·PolygonT2 · Outlet report
Microsoft Gaming is now just Xbox, as new leaders promise big changes

Microsoft Gaming is dead, long live Xbox? Xbox's new leadership is rapidly making changes to Microsoft's gaming division. That starts with the end of "Microsoft Gaming" and a reevaluation of the Xbox team's "approach to exclusivity,…

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Apr 23, 2026·PolygonT2 · Outlet reportLATEST
Microsoft Gaming is now just Xbox, as new leaders promise big changes

Microsoft Gaming is dead, long live Xbox? Xbox's new leadership is rapidly making changes to Microsoft's gaming division. That starts with the end of "Microsoft Gaming" and a reevaluation of the Xbox team's "approach to…

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Microsoft brings Xbox back, scraps Microsoft Gaming

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Microsoft teases mysterious Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnership

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