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

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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:

  1. Animal Well
  2. Assassin’s Creed Mirage
  3. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
  4. Balatro
  5. Baldur’s Gate 3
  6. Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
  7. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)
  8. The Casting of Frank Stone
  9. Cyberpunk 2077
  10. Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake
  11. Dredge
  12. Dying Light 2 Stay Human
  13. Farming Simulator 25
  14. Fear the Spotlight
  15. Final Fantasy XIV Online
  16. Final Fantasy
  17. Final Fantasy II
  18. Final Fantasy III
  19. Final Fantasy IV
  20. Final Fantasy V
  21. Final Fantasy VI
  22. Hades
  23. Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions
  24. High On Life
  25. Hitman World of Assassination
  26. Hogwarts Legacy
  27. House Flipper 2
  28. Kena: Bridge of Spirits
  29. Lego Harry Potter Collection
  30. Life is Strange: Double Exposure
  31. Metro Exodus
  32. Mortal Kombat 1
  33. NBA 2K25
  34. PGA Tour 2K23
  35. Phasmaphobia
  36. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
  37. Rust Console Edition
  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: Space Marine 2
  50. WWE 2K24

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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