The rumored ad-supported tier for Xbox Cloud Gaming is now official, with public testing likely to commence soon.

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TL;DR: Microsoft is testing a free, ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming, allowing users to stream select games without a subscription. This move aims to expand access while generating revenue ...

Xbox Cloud gaming is one of the things that made Xbox Game Pass Ultimate a little exciting back when it first launched, if you were ok with paying the monthly subscription fee, but users may be ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft employees can now access an ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming ahead of a public test. Microsoft ...

Gaming habits among Xbox users are significantly different in 2025. While Xbox consoles remain popular, more players are ...

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Announced just a few weeks ago, but now available, the new Amazon Luna hosts some of the biggest games of the last year for ...

BlueStacks made its name getting Android games to run on the PC. And now it is releasing BlueStacks X, which is a free cloud-based gaming streaming service for mobile games. The Palo Alto, ...

While Google’s Stadia project is becoming a distant memory, cloud gaming lives on, and Sony is now embracing it ...

It’s been quite the week for Xbox news. A lot of people are still coming to terms with Microsoft's veritable gut-punch of an announcement that the price of a Game Pass Ultimate subscription is about ...