Microsoft plans to open up streaming ability to any game you own through Xbox. This is separate from the limited number of games available through Xbox Game Pass.
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GeForce Now continues expanding its relationship with Xbox as it becomes available via the Xbox app in Windows. Further, GeForce Now is running a tempting offer that discounts the service 50% for a limited time.
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Microsoft has announced that Amazon Fire TV is getting support for an Xbox Cloud Gaming app in the first expansion in quite some time.
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GeForce Now partnered up with Xbox Game Pass a while back to bring a ton of offerings from the Microsoft-based service to Nvidia’s cloud-gaming foundation. Nvidia is now offering three free months of PC Game Pass to current GeForce Now members.
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The web version of Xbox Cloud Gaming has lacked mouse and keyboard support until today. The company is enabling mouse and keyboard support in open beta.
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Palworld has been one of the biggest games of what little 2024 has passed. So big, in fact, that Palworld broke the Xbox Cloud Gaming record for highest traffic day-one releases from a third-party.
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Available starting today, Xbox Cloud Gaming is heading to VR on the Meta Quest series.
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Cloud gaming through Xbox Game Pass gives users quick and easy access to a huge library of games for a pretty reasonable monthly subscription, but it seems like Microsoft has plans to make that even more accessible, with free ad-supported access in the pipeline.
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As a part of Google’s attempts to salvage Stadia before its shutdown earlier this year, the company pivoted the service to offer game developers a way to provide demos of their games based on Stadia tech. That white-label service caught the attention of Microsoft, which has been working on the ability to stream PC games through the cloud in the same fashion Stadia was trying to do.
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Baldur’s Gate 3 graduated from early access recently and became essentially an overnight hit, but when Microsoft was looking at the title for Xbox Game Pass at one point, but the company didn’t seem all that thrilled with it, with execs calling the game a “second-run Stadia PC RPG.”
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An absolutely massive leak has revealed unredacted details of Microsoft’s plans for Xbox, including new consoles and a dedicated cloud gaming device.
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Samsung’s Gaming Hub is finally coming to 2020 smart TVs in a limited capacity. This update brings services like GeForce Now, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and more.
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GeForce Now continues to expand its arsenal of titles with some exciting games from Xbox Game Pass, but we can’t help but notice Starfield is nowhere to be seen.
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Xbox Game Pass remains one of the best places to try new games for an affordable cost, and it’s now getting a big cloud gaming boost as the service launches today onto Nvidia GeForce Now.
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Microsoft’s efforts with cloud gaming on Xbox Game Pass have bolstered the entire industry, but they’ve also been quite limited. Apparently, though, Microsoft had much grander plans for cloud gaming, they’re just been shelved for the time being.
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Xbox Game Pass and its PC version, PC Game Pass, remains easily one of the best deals in gaming. Later this year, Microsoft with offer Xbox’s PC Game Pass on Nvidia’s GeForce Now service in a major expansion.
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Yesterday the UK CMA passed down its ruling to block Microsoft from finishing its acquisition of Activision Blizzard over concerns on cloud gaming. Despite that, though, Microsoft is apparently continuing its deal with GeForce Now, with plans to bring Xbox games to the service.
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Microsoft has been battling it out to gain approval from the UK for its acquisition of Activision Blizzard for months now, but the final decision has not gone its way. The UK has officially blocked the Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and the reason boils down to cloud gaming concerns.
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Xbox Game Pass is already one of the best deals in gaming, but Microsoft’s continually teased “Friends and Family” plan has the potential to make it even better. Now, that plan is expanding to New Zealand.
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For quite some time now Microsoft has offered a $1 trial for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which granted new players access to the full library, including cloud gaming, for a fraction of the usual price. But now, that offer is done.
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In new statistics shared by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), we’ve learned that Google Stadia had significantly fewer active users than most other cloud gaming services.
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Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass has proven itself to be a hit, with new figures from the company offering some insight into further growth going into 2023.
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Google Stadia was a large name in the cloud gaming community. With a couple of different subscription models, it hit a sweet spot for a lot of users. With it gone, there are a few potential homes gamers might flock to. With that, we turn it over to our readers to tell us what your favorite cloud gaming alternative is now that Stadia is out of the picture.
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Out of all of the current game streaming services, Xbox Game Pass is the one most likely to succeed in all the ways that Stadia failed, but Microsoft still has a lot of catching up to do.
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