Cyber Week is here — and the savings are holding up in the wake of Cyber Monday. If you don’t want to build up a big collection of games in a one-by-one fashion, Xbox Game Pass is the secret. It’s a subscription service that gives you access to a bigger library of games all at once, sort of like a Netflix for Xbox games. Cyber Week is also a great time to get a Game Pass for the Xbox console or PC. You can also enjoy Cyber Week deals on the subscription service.
Whether you just want a key to hop in the games now or you want a bundle that includes a Game Pass, here are the deals we think you should look at. You should also check out our Cyber Week Xbox Series X deals and Cyber Week gaming laptop deals while you’re at it.
The base ‘Core’ package comes with what Microsoft calls a “curated catalog of over 25 high-quality games” — enough to get you started for quite some time. This sub is three months (enough to get you through the holidays) and is just $15, making it an easy pickup if your collection is slim.
An obvious upgrade from the ‘Core’ experience, it includes hundreds of games. This deal gives you those games at a rate of just over $9 per month.
Get the ‘Core’ experience but for a full year. This is great for the type of gamer who likes to dive deeper into a game for a while. At a cost of just $42, you’re averaging a final payment of about $3.50 a month with this deal.
This bundle gets you everything you need to get started with the Xbox from the ground up. You’ll find the most joy with this bundle if you’re completely new to the Xbox.
Like many of the gaming laptops in Best Buy’s Cyber Week laptop deals, this comes with a free month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. This Asus TUF has an Intel Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM, an RTX 4070 laptop, and a 1TB SSD. In other words, it’s game-ready.
There are three main ways to get Xbox Game Pass at a discount: keys, console bundles, and laptop deals.
Keys are the most self-explanatory. You purchase a key and input it to unlock the software. This is great if you already have a place to play.
Grab a console bundle if you want to play on an Xbox. When you get the Xbox, you’ll get a few months free. This is a great way to get rid of that sinking feeling of having nothing to play after you get your shiny new toy.
Finally, laptop gamers can enjoy some free Xbox Game Pass, too. Just about every gaming laptop at Best Buy, including laptops on their Cyber Week gaming laptops page , will have a bonus month or more of Xbox Game Pass. At the time of this writing, the deal seems to be one month for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, but we’ve seen others, too. Note that you can also find this bundled with gaming projectors at Best Buy.
Next, you’ll need to pick between Xbox Game Pass Core and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Check out our Xbox Game Pass value guide to make sense of it all, and then check out what games are on Xbox Game Pass to see if either one makes sense for you.
The key to selecting our Cyber Week Xbox Game Pass deals is variety. In just the same way that you need to pick from keys, console bundles, and laptop deals, so did we. This list provides good deals for you to consider from each of the main categories. That means that you can find something you want if you just want a key, or if you also need the Xbox, or even if you’d prefer to get started with a gaming laptop.
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”
It’s turning into a pretty good time to be a Monster Hunter fan who plays on a phone. Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch on Android and iOS on October 29, giving the series a new mobile-first game just as Monster Hunter Rise is also preparing to make the jump to smartphones through Netflix.
Outlanders is being developed by Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group under license and supervision from Capcom. Unlike Rise, which appears to be the full console and PC game adapted for mobile, Outlanders is a free-to-play survival hunting game made specifically for phones.