[STEAM][PRESS]Hate waiting to play your Xbox games because of a new update? Don't worry, you'll soon be able to pre-download them

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Xbox will soon let you pre-download game updates before their scheduled release so you can make your life just that little bit easier.

Look, in this day and age, we all know game updates are a necessary thing, but that doesn't make them any less annoying. I'm not gonna do that whole thing of "remember when you could just pop a game in and it would just be ready to play, no installing, no downloading" but I do miss those days. However, I do appreciate when my life is made easier when it comes to those annoying fiddly bits. For example,

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has announced that you'll soon be able to pre-download updates for games before they're meant to be out, a feature that'll surely be welcome for fans of online games in particular.

The feature is actually

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, with the Xbox Update Preview released on the Alpha ring as of a few days ago. "Games that enable support for update pre-download will allow updates to be downloaded days before they are scheduled to release, so you can jump in and start playing right when the update goes live," reads a description for the feature. To be clear, that means this won't be the case for every game, so don't get **** at me when the main title in your rotation doesn't work with this feature.

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