Microsoft recently launched its own cloud gaming platform on 15 September in 22 countries. This service was first called Project xCloud, now it is called Cloud Gaming and along with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, it will offer more than 150 Xbox One games that can be played on Android devices over a data connection and it is pretty easy to get started with. For those who don’t know, Cloud Gaming is Microsoft’s cloud gaming platform which is designed as a complementary service to its Xbox One and forthcoming Xbox Series X/S games consoles.
This is a streaming service which will host all the game on remote servers and live gameplay video is sent to a compatible device over the internet. There are also controller codes are sent in the other direction so it feels like the player is playing a game loaded on the device they are playing on.
The company has a very large network of data centers around the world. When combined with the Azure cloud server network which will ensure that game requests can be served locally rather than across continents. What this will do is potentially reducing latency by shortening the distance between the end-user and the data center. Latency is the biggest enemy of cloud gaming which adds many milliseconds between button presses and actions performed on screen.
This is a very important thing as those that play the game will complete an understanding of how important it really is. This won’t be replacing the existing or the future generations of consoles. It will be like a normal game as players will be able to play the same games and even allowing for save games to be picked up and continued no matter which device you use: mobile, console, or even PC.
This is more like a part of the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate membership scheme, which includes over 200 games to download to the Xbox One, 100 games for PC, Xbox Live Gold. Furthermore, in November, EA Play will be available on Xbox One gaming and, eventually, Xbox Series X/S too. With its fun launch, people around the world will be able to play games on their phones except for IOS users.
Countries Which Will Get Project xCloud
1. Austria
2. Belgium
3. Canada
4. Czech Republic
5. Denmark
6. Finland
7. France
8. Germany
9. Hungary
10. Ireland
11. Italy
12. Netherlands
13. Norway
14. Poland
15. Portugal
16. Slovakia
17. Spain
18. South Korea
19. Sweden
20. Switzerland
21. United Kingdom
22. United States
In order to play games on your phones or tablets, you should at least have Android 6.0 or greater and with Bluetooth 4.0. You will have to buy the official mobile gaming hardware which is made by companies like 8bitDo, Gamevice, HORI, PowerA, Razer, and others. There is a number of hardware for this, one of which is the clip-on controls will turn your phone into a Nintendo Switch-style game console that is available for pre-order for $99.99. There is also the MOGA Mobile Gaming Clip for Xbox Wireless Controllers is available for purchase now for $14.99. Some games will have the option of touch controls too, but so far just Minecraft Dungeons has been announced to have this feature.
Project xCloud Price and Games
As for the price, this will be free to all those with an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription. Otherwise, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for Xbox One and Windows 10, is £10.99 / $14.99 per month. Down below you can see the current list of all the available games on Cloud Gaming as of 15 September 2020:
1. A Plague Tale: Innocence
2. Absolver
3. Afterparty
4. Age of Wonders: Planetfall
5. ARK: Survival Evolved
6. Astroneer
7. Batman: Arkham Knight
8. Battletoads
9. Battle Chasers: Nightwar
10. Black Desert
11. Blair Witch
12. Bleeding Edge
13. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
14. Bridge Constructor Portal
15. Carrion
16. Children of Morta
17. ClusterTruck
18. Crackdown 3: Campaign
19. Crosscode
20. Darksiders Genesis
21. Darksiders III
22. DayZ
23. de Blob
24. Dead by Daylight
25. Dead Cells
26. Dead Island Definitive Edition
27. Death Squared
28. Deliver us the moon
29. Demon’s Tilt
30. Descenders
31. DiRT 4
32. Don’t Starve
33. Double Kick Heroes
34. Drake Hollow
35. Dungeon of the Endless
36. Enter The Gungeon
37. F1 2019
38. Fallout 76
39. Farming Simulator 17
40. Felix the Reaper
41. Fishing Sim World: Pro Tour
42. For the King
43. Forager
44. Forza Horizon 4
45. Fractured Minds
46. Frostpunk: Console Edition
47. Gato Roboto
48. Gears of War 1: Ultimate Edition
49. Gears of War 4
50. Gears of War 5
51. Goat Simulator
52. Golf with Your Friends
53. Grounded
54. Guacamelee! 2
55. Halo 5: Guardians
56. Halo Wars 1: Definitive Edition
57. Halo Wars 2
58. Halo: The Master Chief Collection
59. Halo: Spartan Assault
60. Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
61. Hello Neighbor
62. Hollow Knight (Renewal)
63. Hot Shot Racing
64. Human Fall Flat
65. Hyperdot
66. Hypnospace Outlaw
67. Indivisible
68. Journey to the Savage Planet
69. Katana ZERO (coming soon)
70. Killer Instinct DE
71. Kona
72. Levelhead
73. Lonely Mountains: Downhill
74. Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
75. Metro 2033 Redux
76. Middle Earth: Shadow of War
77. Minecraft: Dungeons
78. MINIT
79. Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
80. Moonlighter
81. Mortal Kombat X (not available in Korea)
82. Mount & Blade: Warband
83. Moving Out
84. Mudrunner
85. Munchkin: Quacked Quest
86. Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
87. My Time At Portia
88. Neon Abyss
89. New Super Lucky’s Tale
90. NieR: Automata
91. Night Call
92. Night in the Woods (coming soon)
93. No Man’s Sky
94. Nowhere Prophet
95. Observation
96. Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
97. Ori and the Will of the Wisps
98. Overcooked! 2
99. Oxenfree
100. Pathologic 2
101. Pikuniku
102. Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition
103. Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid
104. ReCore: Definitive Edition
105. Remnant: From the Ashes
106. Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
107. Rise & Shine
108. River City Girls (coming soon)
109. Sea of Thieves: Anniversary Edition
110. Sea Salt
111. Secret Neighbor
112. Shadow Warrior 2
113. Slay the Spire
114. Sniper Elite 4
115. Spiritfarer
116. State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
117. Stellaris
118. Stranger Things 3: The Game
119. Streets of Rage 4
120. Streets of Rogue
121. Subnautica
122. Surviving Mars
123. Tacoma
124. Tell Me Why Episode 1 – 3
125. Terraria
126. The Bard’s Tale IV: Directors Cut
127. The Bard’s Tale Remastered and Resnarkled
128. The Bard’s Tale Trilogy
129. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics
130. The Elder Scrolls Online
131. The Gardens Between
132. The Jackbox Party Pack 4
133. The Long Dark
134. The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game
135. The Messenger
136. The Outer Worlds
137. The Surge 2
138. The Touryst
139. The Escapists 2
140. The Talos Principle
141. The Turing Test
142. The Walking Dead: A New Frontier – Episode 1 through 5
143. The Walking Dead: Michonne – Episode 1 – 3
144. The Walking Dead: Season Two
145. theHunter: Call of the Wild
146. Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
147. Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
148. Totally Reliable Delivery Service
149. Touhou Luna Nights
150. Tracks – The Train Set Game
151. Trailmakers
152. Train Sim World 2020
153. Two Point Hospital
154. Undermine
155. Untitled Goose Game
156. Void Bastards
157. Wandersong
158. Warhammer Vermintide 2 (coming soon)
159. Wasteland Remastered
160. Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut
161. Wasteland 3
162. We Happy Few
163. West of Dead
164. Wizard of Legend
165. World War Z
166. Worms W.M.D
167. Xeno Crisis
168. Yakuza 0
169. Yakuza Kiwami
170. Yakuza Kiwami 2
