It lets you play any game available through Xbox Game Pass on your phone through game streaming. The service is now simply called Xbox cloud gaming, and while it’s still in beta, it’s openly available as part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and accessible through the Xbox Game Pass app on Android. Microsoft’s cloud gaming service was previously called Project xCloud, and was available through a separate app. To play any of these games, all you have to do is load the Xbox app in Windows 10 or access the Xbox Game Pass section on your Xbox One, choose a game in the pass, and start downloading (or streaming, which I’ll get to later). EA will help shore up the list of sports games, with all other genres already well-covered. Non-racing sports games are few and far between, but that will change when EA Play is added to the service, and with it titles like Madden 20 and FIFA 20. There are shooters, racing games, platformers, RPGs, you name it. Whatever your tastes, you can probably find games you’d like to play on Xbox Game Pass. Indie games are also well-served, with many unexpected gems like Carrion, Slay the Spire, Enter the Gungeon, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Hatoful Boyfriend, Spiritfarer, Hypnospace Outlaw, and dozens more. You can play Resident Evil 7, Dead By Daylight, Yakuza 0/Kiwami/Kiwami 2, Age of Empires I/II/III: Definitive Edition, and Dragon Quest XI S. There are plenty of other excellent third-party games available on top of them, though they tend not to be quite as recent as day-one Xbox Game Studios games. Microsoft's recent acquisition of Zenimax means that all of Bethesda's franchises like Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, and Doom will be added to Xbox Game Pass as well. All Xbox Game Studios games are up there, including Forza Motorsport 7, Forza Horizon 4, every Halo game, every Gears of War game, and (currently PC-only) Microsoft Flight Simulator. There’s some gold in Xbox Game Pass, whether you play on console, PC, or both. These games are regularly refreshed, with a few rotated in or out on a monthly basis. There’s plenty of overlap between the platforms, but there are also some games specific to Xbox or PC. As mentioned before, the service offers more than 100 games for both Xbox and Windows 10. More than anything else, Xbox Game Pass' game library will determine the value the service holds for you. It costs as much as the new Apple One subscription which includes Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple Cloud storage. The $15 monthly fee is expensive compared with services like PlayStation Now ($59.99 per year), PlayStation Plus ($59.99 per year), and EA Play ($29.99 per year). It’s one of the biggest draws of the Ultimate game pass, even if the service is still in beta. It lets you play the service's games on your Android phone, streamed from Microsoft’s servers. (Opens in a new window) Read Our Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (for Nintendo Switch) Reviewīesides combining all of those services into one monthly subscription, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate adds Microsoft’s cloud gaming feature, formerly called Project xCloud. This includes all first-party Xbox Game Studios games on the day of release. Both Xbox Game Pass for Console and Xbox Game Pass for PC cost the same $9.99 per month (though the PC pass currently has a promotional monthly price of $4.99), and offer access to more than 100 games on either Xbox One (and the upcoming Xbox Series X/S) or Windows 10. Xbox Game Pass has multiple tiers, depending on your platform and the features you want. It’s an appealing service that gets even more tempting the more you’re willing to pay, with its flagship Xbox Game Pass Ultimate membership providing an incredible value with loads of benefits. For a monthly fee, you can play more than 100 games for your platform of choice, including all Xbox Game Studios releases as soon as they come out. Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass is a subscription service that provides access to a sizeable library of games for Xbox and/or Windows 10. Cloud gaming is still in beta, and suffers occasional lag.Expensive compared with other subscription-based gaming services.How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages.
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