[디지털투데이 황치규 기자]Following Google, Microsoft is also joining the web-based cloud game streaming service. Rather than trying to solve the problem of being inaccessible to iPhone and iPad users in conflict with the Apple App Store policy, through a bypass called a web browser.
According to The Verge on the 15th (local time), internal Microsoft employees started testing the web version of’XCloud’, a cloud game streaming service. The XCloud web version allows players to access the game through a browser. Accordingly, iPhone and iPad users can also play games on the X-Cloud through the X-Cloud web version.
Like XCloud for Android-based tablets and smartphones, the web version also includes a game recommendation screen and a simple launcher that allows you to restart the recently played game.
Microsoft also bundles the XCloud web version with the PC version of the Xbox App. The XCloud web version currently only supports Chromium-based web browsers such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. According to The Verge, Microsoft is expected to release a web version of XCloud this spring.
Earlier, Google also unveiled its cloud game service Stadia as a web app at the end of last year, considering iPhone and iPad users.
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