Xbox Cloud Gaming Beta Now Open to All Game Pass Ultimate Subscribers on iOS and Windows 10 Via the Browser - Videogames Blogs

Xbox Cloud Gaming Beta Now Open to All Game Pass Ultimate Subscribers on iOS and Windows 10 Via the Browser



Today Microsoft has officially opened Xbox Cloud Gaming, formerly known as Project xCloud, to all Game Pass Ultimate subscribers via their iOS or Windows 10 devices. The service allows you to stream dozens of Game Pass games to your device of choice, and it first rolled out in beta on Android back in the fall of 2019. By February of 2020 Microsoft began testing the iOS version of the service in limited fashion through Testflight, but as we all know too well by now Apple squashed all hopes of the service coming via an official iOS App since it technically broke their App Store guidelines (*cough* and threatened their bottom line *cough*).
Anyway, the service, while still in beta, launched openly to Android users in September of last year, while all of us iOS users sat around all sad and stuff. About a month later though rumors suggested that Microsoft was going to pursue their game streaming goals on iOS by using a fancy browser app, also known as a Progressive Web App or PWA. This would allow them to circumvent the App Store and its guidelines altogether, and the PWA technology would make for an experience that was pretty close to indistinguishable from a native app experience. In December they capped off the year by officially announcing just that, and then launched a limited beta for iOS and Windows 10 devices using the browser this past April. Today Microsoft has announced that experience is now open to all iOS and Windows 10 users by visiting the Xbox Cloud Gaming webs...
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