While Xbox Game Pass Ultimate represents the premium gaming subscription that Microsoft offers, the $19.99/mo fee can be prohibitive for some people. Microsoft’s Game Pass Core and Standard tiers are more affordable, and there’s good news for subscribers today: Microsoft is making PC and cloud streaming games available to those tiers.

Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers will now have access to cloud gaming, both on games that they do and don’t own. Even better, Microsoft is testing giving them access to local versions of select PC titles, widening the Core and Standard tiers — which were tied to the Xbox console — and making them accessible to PC and/or handheld players, too.

All this makes sense, as Microsoft has expanded its concept of what an Xbox is to both the PC, handheld, and

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