{"id":9632,"date":"2019-09-25T19:49:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T09:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=9632"},"modified":"2019-09-25T19:49:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T09:49:35","slug":"the-important-bits-from-microsofts-inside-xbox-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/the-important-bits-from-microsofts-inside-xbox-stream\/","title":{"rendered":"The important bits from Microsoft’s “Inside Xbox” stream"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Microsoft<\/p>\n

Everyone wanted a piece of the gaming pie today!\u00a0Nintendo announced Mario Kart for iOS & Android<\/a>, PlayStation held their “Stay of Play” event and gave us a release date for The Last of Us Part 2<\/a> and then Xbox screamed “we’re still here”<\/em> and showed off a bunch of stuff during their Inside Xbox stream.<\/p>\n

First off there’s Project xCloud. Microsoft’s big bet on the streaming war to come.<\/p>\n

Starting in October Xbox are running a public preview of Project xCloud that is open to anyone living in either the UK, US or Korea. Why Korea? Well they have the best internet in the world so it makes sense that to get some good runs on the board Microsoft would take their yet-to-be-proven tech there.<\/p>\n

For those wanting to participate in the trial you can sign up on Xbox’s website<\/a>. Sorry Australia, don’t expect this anytime soon.<\/p>\n

Xbox Game Pass is getting a bunch of new games, the highlight for me being Cities: Skylines<\/em> and Dirt 2.0<\/em> both coming to PC. Console subscribers are getting Jump Forc<\/em>e and Lego Worlds<\/em> as well as an adorable comedy-puzzle game about death, which opened the stream, called Felix the Reaper<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and the highly rated rogue-like Children of Morta<\/em>.<\/p>\n