{"id":33344,"date":"2013-01-16T22:21:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T20:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=33344"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:39:21","slug":"microsoft-studios-releases-play-xbla-gaming-service-for-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsoft-studios-releases-play-xbla-gaming-service-for-windows-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Studios releases Play XBLA gaming service for Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"microsoft play xbla gaming service\" href=\"microsoft-studios-releases-play-xbla-gaming-service-for-windows-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-33348\" title=\"play xbla banner\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/01\/play-banner-300x141.png\" alt=\"play xbla banner\" width=\"275\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/01\/play-banner-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/01\/play-banner.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>Microsoft&#8217;s video game production division, Microsoft Studios, released their latest project, the Play gaming service. Not to be confused with <a title=\"google play store\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/b\/google-play\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google&#8217;s Play store<\/a>, Microsoft Play is a gaming platform where Xbox and <a title=\"essential guide to windows 8\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/essential-guide-to-windows-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows 8<\/a>\/RT users can <strong>buy and play games on multiple devices<\/strong>. There&#8217;s no need to buy a single game for multiple devices like your Xbox and laptop.<\/p>\n<p>This is similar to what <a title=\"steam\" href=\"http:\/\/steam.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steam<\/a> already has to offer. You can buy a game for PC and play it on your Mac as well (if it&#8217;s supported). Steam adds cloud syncing for its games so you can pick up where you left off on different computers. Microsoft Studios does not have this functionality listed on its site.<\/p>\n<p>At launch for the service there are <strong>15 titles highlighted <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">available<\/span><\/strong>. Here&#8217;s what they are:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>4 Elements: Special Edition<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Adera<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Gunstringer: Dead Man Running<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Hydro Thunder Hurricane<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Ilomilo+<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Microsoft Mahjong<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Microsoft Minesweeper<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Microsoft Solitaire Collection<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Pinball FX2<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Reckless Racing Ultimate<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Rocket Riot 3D<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Skulls of the Shogun<\/em> (to be released on Jan. 30)<\/li>\n<li><em>Taptiles<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Toy Soldiers<\/em> (not playable on Windows RT devices)<\/li>\n<li><em>Wordament<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out the video below to see Play in action.<\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s video game production division, Microsoft Studios, released their latest project, the Play gaming service. Not to be confused with Google&#8217;s Play store, Microsoft Play is a gaming platform where Xbox and Windows 8\/RT users can buy and play games on multiple devices. There&#8217;s no need to buy a single game for multiple devices like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsoft-studios-releases-play-xbla-gaming-service-for-windows-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft Studios releases Play XBLA gaming service for Windows 8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":33348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2564],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-33344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwindows-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333463,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33344\/revisions\/333463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33344"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=33344"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=33344"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=33344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}