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Content Download: Additional updates, maps, missions, modes, or characters and other content available to download via Xbox Live. Scoreboards: Measure your performance against other players with global leaderboards. Friends: View online status, invite to games, and manage your list of Xbox Live friends.
The Xbox network, formerly known and commonly referred to as Xbox Live, is an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service created and operated by Microsoft Gaming for the Xbox brand. It was first made available to the original Xbox console on November 15, 2002.
Microsoft Gaming releases video games on multiple platforms annually, including Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android. The list does not retroactively include video games that were previously produced prior to being acquired by Microsoft.
Xbox Live enabled titles will be identifiable in the marketplace by a green banner running across the top of the game page icon that reads "Xbox Live". Games with Cross-buy Column checked yes are part of Xbox Play Anywhere program which allows gamers to play a title on both Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs with a single digital purchase of a ...
The Xbox Live service is available as both a free and subscription-based service, known as Xbox Live Free [21] and Xbox Live Gold respectively, with several features such as online gaming restricted to the Gold service. Prior to October 2010, the free service was known as Xbox Live Silver. [22]
Microsoft Gaming is an American multinational video game and digital entertainment division of Microsoft based in Redmond, Washington established in 2022. Its five development and publishing labels consist of: Xbox Game Studios, Bethesda Softworks (publisher of ZeniMax Media), Activision, Blizzard Entertainment, and King (the latter three are publishers of Activision Blizzard). [2]
The Xbox One gaming system has received updates from Microsoft since its launch in 2013 that enable it to play select games from its two predecessor consoles, Xbox and Xbox 360. On June 15, 2015, backward compatibility with Xbox 360 games became available to eligible Xbox Preview program users with a beta update to the Xbox One system software .
This is a list of released and upcoming Xbox Live games for Windows 8 and Windows RT. The first wave of Windows 8 Xbox games list was announced by Xbox Live expert Major Nelson on August 31, 2012. All Xbox Live games on Windows 8 made available on the Windows Store and released on October 26, 2012, onwards.