Xbox are officially coming to mobile with their own game store, it has been announced. Launching in July, Xbox President Sarah Bond said, during an appearance at the business conference Bloomberg Live, that the company would start by focusing on bringing their first-party portfolio to the storefront, with games like Candy Crush and Minecraft, before "extending that capability to partners."
The Xbox Mobile Game Store (our name, not theirs) is set to first come to the web with the intention of making it accessible across as many devices and regions as possible "independent of the policy of closed ecosystem stores." This could likely mean we'll see access on iOS devices since recent changes in accessing their ecosystem open up the legal possibility of getting these games (and discounts or other incentives) on mobile without dealing directly through Apple or other device manufacturers. ... [MORE]
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