It seems that Jez Corden's Windows Central site accidentally published a news that should have gone online at a later time, removing it quickly but not before it was captured by the most attentive eyes: Microsoft is preparing to retire Xbox Live Gold from September 1, replacing it with the Xbox Game Pass Core offer. Let's find out what it is.

The Game Pass Core will be the basic offer and should maintain the same price as Live Gold (so € 6.99 in Europe), but with a different modulation: this subscription will always include online multiplayer (which will no longer be called Xbox Live; Microsoft also retires this term / branding) and the possibility of having exclusive discounts (those that until now were the Deals With Gold, which we imagine will change their name in turn), but the Games With Gold disappear, the two monthly games we received so far. In their place we will instead have a small collection of games, in all 25 or more, which includes a series of titles playable at no additional cost with this subscription, and which will be updated with an unspecified frequency.

The games at the beginning will be: Among Us, Descenders, Dishonored 2, DOOM Eternal, Fable Anniversary, Fallout 4, Fallout 76, Forza Horizon 4, Gears 5, Grounded, Halo 5: Guardians, Halo Wars 2, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Human Fall Flat, INSIDE, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Psychonauts 2, State of Decay 2 and The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited.

Live Gold members will still enjoy the monthly games redeemed so far, even after switching to Game Pass Core.

No change for the other Game Pass offers, which will continue to maintain current features and price. It is not clear, however, if and how the conversion from Core to Game Pass Ultimate will be maintained, but it is likely that it will no longer happen with the 1: 1 formula from Gold, which so far has allowed many to have very long subscriptions at discounted prices.

For now the news is cataloged as leak, so we await the official announcement of Microsoft that will probably arrive in the day!