Once you pick your Game Pass membership in your browser, you’ll be asked to sign into your Microsoft account. Game Pass Ultimate goes up to $14.99/£10.99/AU$15.95 a month after the first month, assuming you don’t use the workaround we linked to above. Game Pass for PC has fewer perks but most of them won’t concern those who only play on PC, and its monthly price is just for $5/£4/AU$4.95 during the beta, then 9.99/£7.99/AU$10.95 a month whenever that ends. We even found a cheeky way to effectively turn a one-month Game Pass Ultimate into 36 months. Game Pass Ultimate includes everything in Game Pass for PC, but also bundles in the console version of Game Pass (some of the games overlap, others don’t), Xbox Live Gold, and various other perks like early access to new games. There are two options for PC users: Game Pass Ultimate or Game Pass for PC. Depending on whether you own a PC or a PC and Xbox One, you may want to consider which Game Pass variant works best for you. Next, it’s time to pick a Game Pass plan from the Xbox website (opens in new tab). Click ‘Update Now’ when you’re ready.įor more help, check out our guide on how to download and install the Windows Update. It will tell you which Windows 10 version you’re on (1803 in our case), and the latest Windows 10 version you can update to (1903). Once the Update Assistant has downloaded, open it.

To download the Assistant, click ‘Update now’ on the page linked above. If not, then you’ll need to install the Windows 10 Update Assistant (opens in new tab) to get version 1903. If you already have the latest update, then you can download and install the Xbox Beta app (opens in new tab) from the Microsoft Store and scroll down this page to the next step. Scroll down and look under ‘Windows specifications’ to see if you’re on version 1903. To check if you’re on version 1903, in Windows 10 go to Settings > Update & Security then click ‘OS build info’ over in the right-hand pane.

The Windows Update – or Windows 10 version 1903 – is required to run the new Xbox app and use Xbox Game Pass for PC. True to form, the major update that was meant to come to Windows 10 in May 2019 still hasn’t rolled out to a big proportion of users.

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