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Xbox Game Passwill lose twoYakuzagames and six other titles at the tail end of February 2025. Following these removals,Xbox Game Passmembers will no longer be able to play through the earlyYakuzaseries entries in chronological story order.
Microsoft’s subscription service typically pulls games from its content catalog every two weeks. The latest such catalog rotation happened on January 31, whenXbox Game Pass lost six titles. Seven more games are set to follow later today, February 15.
Just ahead of themid-February 2025 wave of Xbox Game Pass departures, Microsoft updated the “Leaving Soon” section of the Xbox Cloud Gaming app, revealing eight more titles that will soon be pulled from the XGP content catalog. This group includesGRIS,Maneater, andPAW Patrol World, as well asSpace Engineers,Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, andWo Long: Fallen Dynasty. The remasters ofYakuza 3andYakuza 4are also set to leave the service on February 28.
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Half of these newly announced removals have only spent a year on Microsoft’s subscription service, having beenadded to Xbox Game Pass between February and March 2024. Meanwhile, Sega’s soon-to-be-departingYakuzagames have been available since the start of 2021, whereasWo Long: Fallen DynastyandGRISwere added to the XGP content catalog in March and September 2023, respectively.
6 Yakuza Games Will Remain on Xbox Game Pass in March 2025
The soon-to-be-departingYakuzagames were originally added to Xbox Game Pass alongsideYakuza 5 Remastered. It’s currently unclear whyY5Rwon’t be joining them in leaving the service at the end of February. Microsoft should officially confirm the next batch of Xbox Game Pass departures as part of its February 2025 Wave 2 lineup announcement, which is likely to take place on February 18, the same dayAvowedarrives on the service. Based on the company’s track record, it’s possible that the current “Leaving Soon” section of the Xbox Cloud Gaming app is incomplete, and that even more titles will leave the XGP library at the end of the month.
