{"id":201869,"date":"2025-10-04T16:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/201869\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T16:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T16:35:08","slug":"microsoft-set-to-announce-free-xbox-cloud-gaming-tier-with-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/201869\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Set To Announce ‘Free’ Xbox Cloud Gaming Tier With Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Microsoft<\/a><\/p>\n

With Microsoft extending Xbox Cloud Gaming access to all versions of Xbox Game Pass<\/a> earlier this week (with different benefits and limitations for each), the company is apparently set to announce a free version for xCloud soon as well.<\/p>\n

This is coming from Tom Warren at The Verge<\/a>, who says that ad-supported streaming is being tested inside of the company right now, and the belief is that it’ll be centered around select “Stream Your Own Game<\/a>” titles, eligible Free Play Days<\/a> titles and the Xbox Retro Classics<\/a> collection.<\/p>\n

“Sources familiar with Microsoft\u2019s plans tell The Verge that the software maker has started testing ad-supported games streaming internally, allowing employees to play select titles free without a Game Pass subscription.”<\/p>\n

This will supposedly start rolling out soon as part of a public beta, while the full release will take place at some point in the coming months. It’ll also reportedly be accessible via PC, web browser, console and handheld devices.<\/p>\n

What’s particularly interesting is that the in-house tests are said to include two minutes of preroll ads before getting access to a game this way, along with a limit of one-hour sessions up to a maximum of five hours per-month. The outlet says these limits could easily be changed for the public release, so it’s not worth reading too much into them.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it sounds like Microsoft is getting ready to announce this very soon, so we’ll let you know what that happens!<\/p>\n

What are your thoughts on this? Let us know down in the comments section below.<\/p>\n

[source theverge.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\"Fraser<\/p>\n

Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Microsoft extending Xbox Cloud Gaming access to all versions of Xbox Game Pass earlier this week (with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1281,665,74,1298,116266],"class_list":["post-201869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-microsoft","tag-reports","tag-technology","tag-xbox","tag-xbox-cloud-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}