Call of Duty Black Ops 6, Modern Warfare 3, and Warzone Are Coming to Xbox Cloud Gaming on October 25

Microsoft is finally ready to bring Call of Duty games to Xbox Cloud Gaming. The upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be available on the company’s cloud gaming service on its launch day, October 25, and it won’t be coming alone: Last year’s Modern Warfare III episode and the “Warzone” free-to-play battle royale mode are also part of the ride.

“This is a first for the Call of Duty franchise, and a win for the community, “Ashley McKissick, Corporate Vice President, Gaming Experiences & Platforms.” Players will be able to access multiple Call of Duty games with Xbox Cloud Gaming for the first time, and Game Pass Ultimate members will be able to enjoy Call of Duty in more places than ever before, including on their consoles, PCs, mobile devices, select Samsung TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Meta Quest devices. This opens up even more ways to play Black Ops 6 starting on day one at launch.

Since Microsoft completed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard last fall, the company has been slow to add the company’s games to service. The first one was Diablo IV in March 2024, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III was the first Call of Duty game to launch on Game Pass in July. In August, the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy also came to Game Pass, and it was also the first Activision Blizzard game to be available on Xbox Cloud Gaming as well.

It’s not exactly clear what prevented Microsoft to make Diablo IV and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 immediately available on Xbox Cloud Gaming as well. However, Microsoft had to give cloud licensing rights for Activision Blizzard games to Ubisoft to get the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority to approve the deal in the country, so this is probably why making ABK games cloud-enabled takes some time.

According to two separate reports from The Verge and Windows Central, Microsoft should also finally deliver on its promise to let Xbox Cloud Gaming users play the games they own on the service next month. This big expansion of Xbox Cloud Gaming, which is codenamed “Project Lapland” internally, was first announced back in 2019, and Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer teased earlier this year that the streaming of personal Xbox game libraries should become available “this year.”