
Back in early September, Microsoft made the huge announcement that EA Play would be joining its Xbox Game Pass service for PC and Ultimate Members, bringing a whole range of benefits to subscribers at no extra charge.
The company has now confirmed that EA Play will join Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on November 10th for Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S consoles, with PC to follow later in December.
We've still got a few weeks to go until then, but in the meantime, here's a more detailed guide on what you can expect to enjoy with EA Play as part of Xbox Game Pass in the very near future.
More Than 60 Fully Playable EA Games
Currently the EA Play library includes a massive range of fantastic EA games, including the likes of FIFA 20, Star Wars Battlefront II, Titanfall 2, The Sims 4, Need for Speed Heat, and many, many more.
You can expect to get full access to the majority of these titles (including many Xbox 360 games) at no extra charge with your subscription, and EA has very rarely removed games from its EA Play library until now.
What you're unlikely to get however, is full access to brand-new EA titles such as FIFA 21, Star Wars: Squadrons and others. New games typically join the EA Play library later in their lifecycles.
Playable Trials Of Brand-New EA Games
While EA rarely adds brand-new games to its EA Play library and we're assuming the same will apply with Xbox Game Pass, it does usually provide ten-hour playable trials of its new releases.
This generally provides full access to the feature set (although single-player content is sometimes restricted), allowing you to get some extensive hands-on time with the title regardless of whether you plan to buy it or not.

Member-Only Content, Including Discounts
If you tend to play a lot of EA titles, you can actually save quite a lot of money with EA Play. The service provides a 10% discount on all digital purchases of EA content from the Microsoft Store.
This naturally includes digital games, so those who like to pick up the new FIFA every year will get a nice saving, but it also extends to DLC, Season Passes and even Ultimate Team content if that's your thing.
Access To EA Titles Via Xbox Cloud Gaming
As an added bonus, Microsoft has also confirmed that "some of the best" EA Play games will also be available to play via the cloud on Android for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members.
Again, this will be at no extra charge, but no further details have been provided as of yet.
You'll get access to all of this content automatically with your Xbox Game Pass Ultimate membership beginning this November, and it'll be accessible on Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.
If you're not an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriber though, don't forget that you can still subscribe separately to EA Play at a price of £3.99 / $4.99 per-month or £19.99 / $29.99 per-year.
What are you planning to play first with EA Play on Xbox Game Pass?? Let us know in the comments below.
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While EA as a company may not be liked, it's undeniable that they have some great games and these are all on EA Play. Games like Dead Space, Mass Effect, Battlefield, Dragon Age, Mirror's Edge, Titanfall 2 and lots of great indie titles such as Unravel, Sea of Solitude, Peggle etc. It's amazing that these will be added to Game Pass Ultimate at no extra charge!
Cool, I think I'll hold off on buying FIFA 21 and just wait for it to be added to this.
So we're getting all the games from Microsoft's 23 studios on gamepass, plus whatever third party and indie games they choose to add, plus EA Play as well? This is 15 a month for ultimate? Don't tell them but I think they could up the price a bit and I would still feel this was a good deal.
@Mckilmer sssssshhhhhhh! Don't say things like that. 😂
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We have to assume they will do at some point but at the minute it seems the priority is hooking people in
Play Madden anywhere or play FIFA anywhere are pretty compelling points of differentiation. The RPG lineup also gets boosted by Dragon Age, right? I wonder if an Activision deal might be next. It feels like we’re heading down a path of Microsoft saying - “hey, if you just want to play Halo, Call of Duty and Madden each year - don’t spend $500 for a box and $210 a year on games, just spend $120 a year to get all that and more.”
A lot of these games function as games as a service anyways, where they want you to be in the ecosystem and buying battle passes or cards.
EA has zero things I'm interested in. I legitimacy mately don't even remember the last EA game I bought. Was before Andromeda came up out. That's for sure. Only thing of there's I've been interested in is the Mass Effect collection with all DLC.
That said, hopefully others have something to play through it.
@Nexozi oh I forgot to mention that they added Xcloud with that price too. Whispers quietly: this is too good of a deal.
I'm curious how this will work on PC.
@Mckilmer I feel the same way! Let's keep it a secret!
Fifa 2020? Lol
So basically all their old games and not new releases.
Also is this coming to the mobile gamepass?
@Mckilmer it is, but wait till you see. They'll get everyone on it and then the price will triple. 😂
@Valhalla91 Did you think EA would give u access to all their new games for £5 a month?
@Nexozi considering xbox give you all their new games and loads of third part games then why not lol
@Valhalla91 😂 I had a look and they have a "pro" version of the subscription for £15 a month that does get you their latest games. That's def nowhere near as good an offering as gamepass.
EA's back catalogue would be great, but it mostly consists of things we've all bought for $10 or less because it's ancient, or sports/competitive games we don't care about. Bah.
EA Play is a great addition to gamepass, I don't care what anybody says..
I understand the dislike for EA but I will enjoy the additional games.....
More games for free? Can’t complain about that!
Well Unraveled and Unraveled 2 is on the service and looking forward to trying those games .
The coolest thing about Game Pass (in general) for me is that all my friends on Xbox have access to the same game/version.
Some of my friends maybe wouldn't buy a certain game but now if we want to play, there is no hurdle to just install and try it out.
It's nice that it's added for free, but apart from the discounts on buying EA games and free trials, it's rather bare bones.
The sports games literally don't get added until they are near end of life when the next years version comes out.
Big hitters like Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, released over 10 months ago, still no sign of being added to EA Play.
All sounds good to me, for a start I nearly picked up Fifa 2020 on sale the other week so the fact I will get this with Game Pass Ultimate is great...
There is another 7/8 titles I will play with a few other possibilities....
It's all additional content which I didn't expect so that's good with me...
Anyone who hasn't played Peggle is in for a treat.
@PsychoMikey that's also my favourite thing about GPU. I've convinced some friends to try out Destiny 2 since all the content came to the service; they love it and now I have more people to play with. Win-win.
Plus I love how there's always something new to try out and there's no extra monetary barrier to trying things outside your comfort zone.
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