Windows on Arm is a project that I can't help but get excited about, however long and torturous the road towards gaming on the OS fork might be. So I'll happily take the top-up to my excitement meter from the news that Arm-based systems will be able to download Xbox PC app games locally rather than just play them on the cloud.

Arm users have been able to play supported games via Xbox Cloud Gaming for a while now, but a new Windows Insider build (version 2508.1001.27.0 and higher) will allow Xbox Insiders to download compatible games locally . This will presumably be coming to the main update channel before long, too.

'Compatible' is the operative word here, though, as not all games will work well (you can check out compatible ones here ). That's been the biggest problem with gaming on Ar

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