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Android owners will be able to ‘play and purchase Xbox games directly’ from the Xbox app next month

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Android owners will be able to ‘play and purchase Xbox games directly’ from the Xbox app next month

Xbox players with Android devices will soon be able to buy and play games directly from the official Xbox app.

Xbox president Sarah Bond posted a message on X which referred to this week’s US court ruling that

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has to open its Android marketplace to competitors.

Bond stated that the ruling would enable Xbox players to buy and play games from its Android app.

“The court’s ruling to open up

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´s mobile store in the US will allow more choice and flexibility,” Bond wrote.

“Our mission is to allow more players to play on more devices so we are thrilled to share that starting in November, players will be able to play and purchase Xbox games directly from the Xbox App on Android.”

It’s not immediately clear which games will be available via the Xbox app, or whether the feature will extend beyond the US to players in other regions.

This week’s ruling is the most significant development yet in Epic Games’ long-running antitrust lawsuit against

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, which said on Monday that’s it’s planning to appeal the verdict.

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According to the ruling, from November 1 for a three-year ******* in the US,

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will:

  • not be allowed to pay developers to launch apps first or exclusively through the Play Store
  • be barred from offering manufacturers or carriers incentives to pre-install
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    Play (or to not pre-install rival stores) on new devices
  • not be able to force app makers to use
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    Play Billing
  • not be allowed to require a developer to set a price based on whether
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    Play is used
  • not be able to restrict developers from pointing users to external payment options outside of the Play Store

Xbox has been talking for some time about launching a mobile app store, with head of gaming Phil Spencer stating last year that

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was already preparing for the date at which this could be legally possible.

In December, Spencer also told

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about a potential Xbox mobile marketplace: “I don’t think this is multiple years away, I think this is sooner than that.”