Tech giant Microsoft is reportedly expanding its cloud games offering.
The Verge reports that the Xbox firm is planning to test streaming of titles that aren’t part of the existing Game Pass subscription service.
Internally this is known as Project Lapland; Microsoft has been planning to scale its streaming servers to accommodate the thousands of games that will be available.
This tech will apparently be tested from November for Xbox Insiders before the offering is expanded out to other players.
Microsoft has slowly been expanding its cloud streaming capabilities. The firm started testing xCloud on PC in 2020 and had plans to launch full game library streaming that same year.
Xbox then said that this would come out in 2022 but once again missed that date.
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