Crunchyroll, who recently passed 5 million subscribers, has teamed up with Xbox to give three months of Xbox Game Pass for PC to Crunchyroll Premium members and new users who start a Crunchyroll free trial outside of Asia to celebrate the beginning of the Virtual Crunchyroll Expo.
Crunchyroll Premium subscribers will be able to enjoy the following benefits as a result of this Xbox Game Pass partnership:
- More than 100 PC games to play solo or with friends.
- An EA Play membership, granting access to Electronic Arts titles for PC, alongside additional rewards and exclusive content.
- Xbox Game Studios titles the same day as release.
- Member discounts and other deals.
All new and existing Crunchyroll Premium members, as well as any new user who joins up for a Crunchyroll Premium free trial, will have access to Xbox Game Pass for PC. Visit the Crunchyroll website for more information and to sign up for a Crunchyroll Premium subscription.
The Virtual Crunchyroll Expo, which brings together the worldwide anime community to celebrate the best and brightest in Japanese animation, begins with this partnership, will be a free event from August 5-7.
[…] While anime fans are worried that the deal will give Sony supremacy over its peers in anime distribution and streaming in the west. This unprecedented authority might affect Crunchyroll’s other partnerships which include a partnership with VIZ Media to distribute licensed titles by electronic sell-through and home videos, Microsoft’s free access subscription to Xbox Game Pass. […]