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Xbox app on Windows 10 now lets you stream games from consoles or the cloud

The Xbox app on Windows 10 now allows you to stream games from either your home console or via the cloud.

PC game streaming had been in beta for the past several weeks but is now rolling out officially to everyone. However, this is the first time that Microsoft is making Remote Play on PC available for Xbox Series X/S.

In order to stream, you’ll need an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, which costs $16.99 CAD/month, as well as a compatible controller. You’ll then find a ‘cloud gaming’ option in the Xbox app which will let you stream hundreds of Game Pass titles.

For more on Game Pass, find out what’s coming to the service later this month.

Source: Xbox

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Mobile Syrup

What’s new on Xbox Game Pass on console, PC and mobile in late September 2021

Every month, Microsoft adds new games to its Xbox Game Pass subscription service.

Typically, new titles are rolled out in two waves and now, Xbox has unveiled September’s second batch of new Game Pass games:

Flynn: Son of Crimson (Cloud, Console and PC) — September 15th [day one]
I Am Fish (Cloud, Console and PC) — September 16th [day one]
SkateBird (Cloud, Console and PC) ID@Xbox — September 16th [day one]
Superliminal (Cloud, Console and PC) — September 16th
Aragami 2 (Cloud, Console and PC) — September 17th [day one]
Lost Words: Beyond the Page (Cloud, Console and PC) – September 23rd
Sable (Cloud, Console and PC) — September 23rd [day one]
Subnautica: Below Zero (Cloud, Console and PC) — September 23rd
Tainted Grail: Conquest (PC) — September 23rd
Lemnis Gate (Console and PC) — September 28th [day one]
Astria Ascending (Cloud, Console and PC) — September 30th [day one]
Unsighted (Console and PC) — September 30th [day one]

It’s worth noting that Astria Ascending is being developed by the French studio Artisan, which has teams in both Paris and Quebec City, alongside veteran Japanese developers like Kazushige Nojima (co-writer of Final Fantasy VII) and Hitoshi Sakimoto (composer of Final Fantasy XII).

Meanwhile, the following 11 games now have Touch Controls on mobile:

  • Blinx: The Time Sweeper
  • Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
  • Cris Tales
  • Halo: Spartan Assault
  • Halo Wars: Definitive Edition
  • Halo Wars 2
  • Last Stop
  • Omno
  • Raji: An Ancient Epic
  • The Medium
  • Tropico 6

You’ll also want to keep in mind that the following games are leaving the service on September 30th:

  • Drake Hollow (Cloud, Console and PC)
  • Ikenfell (Cloud, Console and PC)
  • Night in the Woods (Cloud, Console and PC)
  • Kathy Rain (PC)
  • Warhammer Vermintide II (Cloud and Console)

As always, you can buy any Game Pass title with a member-exclusive 20 percent discount to keep playing even after it leaves the catalogue.

Finally, Xbox has also teased that Phoenix Point will be coming to Game Pass for Console on October 1st.

Xbox Game Pass is available on Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC and Android and iOS in beta. Game Pass for Console and Game Pass for PC each cost $11.99 CAD/month.

Meanwhile, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate costs $16.99/month and is required for streaming (which Xbox refers to as ‘Cloud’). On top of that, this tier includes Game Pass for both Console and PC, as well as an Xbox Live Gold subscription and access to EA Play.

Find out what came to Game Pass in early September here.

Image credit: Dear Villagers

Source: Xbox

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Mobile Syrup

Master Chief blows up a banshee in Microsoft’s new Windows 11 ad

Seems like today is a day for trailers. First, Google dropped the Pixel 6 trailer, and then the new Matrix trailer arrived. Now, it’s Microsoft’s turn with a short teaser for Windows 11 featuring Master Chief.

The short ad features an actress walking through halls of apps, touching things to interact with them. First, she goes into the Xbox Game Pass app and starts Halo Infinite, which brings Master Chief into the ad. He blasts a banshee out of the sky with a rocket launcher, kick-starting the transition into the Windows 11 widgets interface.

From there, the actress looks up hummingbirds, then leaps into a Teams chat via the new taskbar integration in Windows 11. We briefly see the fancy new Windows 11 wallpaper before transitioning to a dance video. Finally, we see the actress back at her computer watching the dance video and opening a Teams call using Windows 11’s new window management system.

Overall it’s a nice little ad that does a decent job showing off some of what’s new in Windows 11. However, I wonder if people who don’t follow Windows news will get all the little hints about features peppered throughout.

Microsoft plans to launch Windows 11 on October 5th, likely alongside new Surface devices the company will probably unveil at its September 22nd event. And while I’m generally excited, I’m also concerned for the upgrade process — Microsoft has already made a mess of it with confusing system requirements and a stunning lack of clarity, and it doesn’t look like the situation will improve before October.

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Taylor Swift buys adult-themed web addresses to protect her name

Taylor Swift has bought two racy web addresses to stop adult websites being started in her name.

The 25-year-old star has bought the rights to TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult – both of which would have been available from June 1, when new alternative web ‘dot’ suffixes will be allowed – in an effort to stop her name being linked to any explicit material.

Taylor’s move follows in the footsteps of Hollywood couple Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, who have done something similar in order to protect their five-month-old daughter Wyatt Isabelle.

Speaking in October, Ashton said: ”We got the Twitter handle, the Instagram, everything. I don’t want a porn site with my daughter’s name on it.”

And earlier this year, Taylor’s Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr accounts were all hacked, prompting an angry public response from the ‘Shake It Off’ hitmaker.

She wrote in reply: ”Any hackers saying they have ‘nudes’? Pssh, you’d love that wouldn’t you! Have fun photoshopping, ’cause you got nothing.”

Meanwhile, Diplo recently likened Taylor Swift’s fans to ”an army that’s worse than North Korea”.

In November, the DJ called on his fans to start a campaign to get the singer ”a booty”, but he recently confessed blasting her on Twitter was one of the ”biggest mistakes” of his career.

He said: ”All I know is don’t ever get into a feud with Taylor Swift. She has like 50 million people that will die for her.

”It’s like an army that’s worse than North Korea. You can’t step into that arena. That was something I was never prepared for … one of the biggest mistakes of my career was definitely f***ing with her.”