Microsoft’s free Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming soon with ads

Microsoft has been testing its ad-supported Xbox Cloud Gaming service over the past few months, as I exclusively revealed in ...

Microsoft Will Reportedly Launch Ad-Supported Free Xbox Cloud Gaming Tier This Year

Back in October 2025, Microsoft confirmed to New York Times that it was testing a free ad-supported cloud gaming service ...
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Xbox Testing Big Cloud Gaming Upgrade

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...

Free Xbox Cloud Gaming with ads could arrive in the coming weeks

Sources recently told The Verge that Xbox Insiders will soon be able to test a free, ad-supported tier of Microsoft's cloud gaming service. While Microsoft previously ...
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Some Xbox Gamers Can Now Test a Major New Game Pass Ultimate Feature

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...
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Xbox is letting you pay $1 to test the Game Pass Standard tier

Once upon a time, Microsoft began offering the trial for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for $1, and now it’s bringing that same deal to the new Xbox Game Pass Standard tier. It’s an easy way to test out the ...