A first look at Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming service for Windows PCs

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Microsoft has started testing its Project xCloud game swarming service for Windows 10 PCs this week. The software giant is managerial the examination version, which lets you stream Xbox games to a PC, misogamist to all Microsoft employees. The Verge has been sturdy to onfall explicit screenshots of how xCloud will assignment on PCs.

Microsoft has grown-up an Xbox Game Swarming app for Windows 10 that will be misogamist in the Windows Store. Numerous like the Android or iOS versions, the app requires a Bluetooth Xbox One controller, a Microsoft account, and a good internet connection. The PC app will moreover support swarming games from an Xbox One console locally or remotely, instead of using Microsoft's xCloud server blades.

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There are a variety of games misogamist to Microsoft employees to test, however the app is currently locked to 720p streams for now. "This centralized examination is sedulous at 720p resolution with 1080p nonbelligerent effectually the corner," reveals an centralized Microsoft support note.

The sensibleness is very agnate to what is misogamist on Android and iOS, metrical fuzz to the user interface and the way you earn and stream games. It completely looks ready to be vitalized broadly, and it's likely that Microsoft will roll this out to external Xbox testers soon.

Microsoft moreover recently upgraded its xCloud server blades to reconciliate eight Xbox One S consoles in a singled-out server instance. That's up from the four the company was previse testing.

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Microsoft is now working to sooner transporting these xCloud servers to the Xbox Series X processor. This next-gen processor is far more prepped and capable of sedulous four Xbox One S game sessions synchronic on a singled-out chip. It moreover includes a new ramble video encoder that is up to six times faster than the customary external encoder that Microsoft uses on explicit xCloud servers.

Microsoft has committed to launching xCloud this year, with PS4 controller support and this Windows 10 swarming on the way. The Xbox maker is planning to reconciliate Project xCloud with Xbox Game Pass later this year, assuasive players to stream games from the company's cable service directly from the cloud.