Xbox Cloud Gaming now lets you stream (some of) your own games
Microsoft has announced that you can now stream your own games with Xbox Cloud Gaming, a feature bundled in with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Well, you can stream some of them, with the company limiting this to just 50 games to start with.
That’s a pretty limited opening salvo, though makes sense for Microsoft to gradually ramp the selection up – echoes of the original cloud gaming launch – instead of trying to cover thousands of Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S games from the off. Of course, since you need to have a Game Pass Ultimate subscription, this is in addition to all of the streamable games included within that (whether you own them outright or not).
Own game streaming is included in all 28 countries where Xbox Cloud Gaming is available, and is supported via TVs and browsers on smartphone, tablets and PC – note that the Xbox Game Pass app recently lost the ability to stream on Android, and never had it on iOS. Microsoft is working to build it into the Xbox app for Windows and on Xbox consoles in 2025.
Head to the Xbox site for compatible device guidelines and how to get started.
Notable games that are included in this launch list are Baldur’s Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. They’re all games that are unlikely to feature in Game Pass for the foreseeable future, and so are great ones to include here.
The 50 games available today are:
When it was still known as Project xCloud in 2019, Microsoft confirmed their intention to let users start streaming their purchased games in 2020. While Xbox Cloud Gaming itself launched in 2020, purchased streaming was pushed back to 2022… but never materialised. Cloud Gaming has always been restricted to games in the Xbox Game Pass library, and even then isn’t necessarily universal. It’s great to finally have this feature added, even if it is rather limited.
Source: Xbox Wire
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