{"id":462124,"date":"2025-09-30T04:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/462124\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T04:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:01:14","slug":"xbox-game-pass-adds-first-party-game-to-leaving-soon-section-but-dont-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/462124\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Game Pass Adds First-Party Game To ‘Leaving Soon’ Section, But Don’t Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Xbox<\/a><\/p>\n

Update [Mon 29th Sep 2025, 8:48pm]:<\/strong> As expected, Age of Mythology: Retold is no longer showing up in the “Leaving Soon” section of Xbox Game Pass. We assume it won’t return, but if it does, we’ll let you know.<\/p>\n

Original Story:<\/strong> If you’ve woken up today and checked your Xbox app to see that a first-party game is leaving Xbox Game Pass<\/a> soon, don’t worry! This is almost certainly just an error, and we’re assuming Microsoft will fix it in the very near future.<\/p>\n

The game in question is Age of Mythology: Retold<\/a>, which is showing up alongside all the Ninja Gaiden games that are leaving Xbox Game Pass at the end of September<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a look at Age of Mythology in the list:<\/p>\n

\"Xbox<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, it’s not impossible for an Xbox first-party game to be removed from Xbox Game Pass, but it usually only happens when the situation is out of Microsoft’s control – such as when the licenses expire for the old Forza games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s definitely weird that Age of Mythology: Retold has suddenly appeared in the list, but keep in mind that it first released exactly 12 months ago, and most third-party Game Pass titles tend to leave after a year of being on the service. Microsoft probably just forgot to update something on the backend for Age of Mythology to keep it there permanently.<\/p>\n

We’ll obviously let you know what ends up happening with this in the near future, especially as Microsoft looks set to announce a new batch of upcoming Game Pass leavers on Tuesday. Stay tuned for that!<\/p>\n

\"Fraser<\/p>\n

Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update [Mon 29th Sep 2025, 8:48pm]: As expected, Age of Mythology: Retold is no longer showing up in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[78779,53,16,15,289,515,54],"class_list":{"0":"post-462124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-leaving-soon","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-xbox","13":"tag-xbox-game-pass","14":"tag-xbox-game-studios"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115291257960431436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}