Access xCloud via Chrome or Edge: Microsoft tests how to bring cloud gaming to all platforms

Project xCloud or what is the same, xCloud, is the alternative to play on other devices that are not the game console using the cloud and the power of Microsoft servers so that for exampleour phone is just the screen we play on

We've seen how xCloud works on a phone, but Microsoft doesn't want to be limited to bringing games to mobile and also wants to try the experience in web browsers. And that is the objective of the tests that they are carrying out, in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.A way to bypass the controls of, for example, Apple.

Breaking any (almost) imposed limit

A piece of news echoed by Tom Warren in The Verge and which significantly expands the possibilities of xCloud by not depending on an app and thus be accessible through two browsers such as Chrome and Edge, which are also multiplatform. A piece of news that is not new, since rumors were already circulating about it in December.

Some tests that are currently being developed internally by Microsoft employees, who are in charge of testing the result of this new development. A development of which no further details are known for now.

This system seems to work as a launcher, which means that once the title we want to access is selected, the game will be displayed in full screenand it will be necessary to have a controller or control pad to be able to play.

But apparently, it will not only serve as a launcher, but will also offer recommendations on games that may interest us, access to games in the cloud that can be accessed access through Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or also with the ability to resume the titles we have played. What is not clear for now is the resolution with which these games will reach our phones, tablets or computers.

For now, testing is focused on Chromium-based browsers, which limits us to Google's Chrome and the new Edge from Microsoft, what already happens with Stadia from Google. Some internal tests that should then give way to an open beta that would already be accessible to more users before a general implementation and that would mean being able to break the limits imposed, in this case by Apple, for applications that are based on the cloud.

Via | The Verge