Xbox Cloud Gaming now lets you stream (some of) your own games

Microsoft has introduced that you could now stream your individual video games with Xbox Cloud Gaming, a function bundled in with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Effectively, you’ll be able to stream a few of them, with the corporate limiting this to only 50 video games to start out with.

That’s a fairly restricted opening salvo, although is sensible for Microsoft to steadily ramp the choice up – echoes of the original cloud gaming launch – as a substitute of attempting to cowl hundreds of Xbox One and Xbox Collection X|S video games from the off. After all, since it’s essential have a Sport Move Final subscription, that is along with all the streamable video games included inside that (whether or not you personal them outright or not).

Personal recreation streaming is included in all 28 countries the place Xbox Cloud Gaming is accessible, and is supported through TVs and browsers on smartphone, tablets and PC – notice that the Xbox Sport Move app just lately misplaced the flexibility to stream on Android, and by no means had it on iOS. Microsoft is working to construct it into the Xbox app for Home windows and on Xbox consoles in 2025.

Head to the Xbox site for compatible device guidelines and how to get started.

Notable video games which might be included on this launch checklist are Baldur’s Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Warhammer 40,000: Area Marine 2. They’re all video games which might be unlikely to function in Sport Move for the foreseeable future, and so are nice ones to incorporate right here.

The 50 video games obtainable at present are:

1. Animal Effectively
2. Murderer’s Creed Mirage
3. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
4. Balatro
5. Baldur’s Gate 3
6. Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
7. Name of Obligation: Fashionable Warfare II (2022)
8. The Casting of Frank Stone
9. Cyberpunk 2077
10. Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake
11. Dredge
12. Dying Gentle 2 Keep Human
13. Farming Simulator 25
14. Concern the Highlight
15. Ultimate Fantasy XIV On-line
16. Ultimate Fantasy
17. Ultimate Fantasy II
18. Ultimate Fantasy III
19. Ultimate Fantasy IV
20. Ultimate Fantasy V
21. Ultimate Fantasy VI
22. Hades
23. Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions
24. Excessive On Life
25. Hitman World of Assassination
26. Hogwarts Legacy
27. Home Flipper 2
28. Kena: Bridge of Spirits
29. Lego Harry Potter Assortment
30. Life is Unusual: Double Publicity
31. Metro Exodus
32. Mortal Kombat 1
33. NBA 2K25
34. PGA Tour 2K23
35. Phasmaphobia
36. Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown
37. Rust Console Version
38. 7 Days to Die
39. Star Wars Outlaws
40. Stray
41. The Crew Motorfest
42. The Outlast Trials
43. The Plucky Squire
44. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
45. Tom Clancy’s The Division 2
46. TopSpin 2K25
47. Undertale
48. Visions of Mana
49. Warhammer 40,000: Area Marine 2
50. WWE 2K24

When it was nonetheless referred to as Project xCloud in 2019, Microsoft confirmed their intention to let customers begin streaming their bought video games in 2020. Whereas Xbox Cloud Gaming itself launched in 2020, bought streaming was pushed again to 2022… however by no means materialised. Cloud Gaming has all the time been restricted to video games within the Xbox Sport Move library, and even then isn’t essentially common. It’s nice to lastly have this function added, even whether it is quite restricted.

Supply: Xbox Wire