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by an xbox game play it on Windows 10 and vice versa that's the idea behind Microsoft's newly announced Xbox play anywhere initiative launched at e3 2016 if you buy an Xbox play anywhere game you get both the windows 10 and Xbox version at no extra cost games also sync up if you start a game on Windows 10 you can continue it on Xbox one and the other way around cross play is also available meaning Xbox players can play against PC players there are some caveats not all games are xbox play anywhere compatible only games built with Microsoft Universal Windows platform tools will run on both the console and PC also games must be purchased digitally ex-wife play anywhere does not work with disk based games also you can only be signed in to either the Xbox one or PC at one time Microsoft announced a number of Xbox play anywhere titles including Dead Rising for Gears of War 2 and halo wars 2 the company also said that all games developed by Microsoft will be play anywhere compatible a full list of games is available at Xbox play anywhere com the Xbox one is lagged behind in sales compared to Sony's PlayStation 4 if a Windows 10 PC is essentially another Xbox that could capture developers interests as long as play anywhere actually works the way Microsoft claims that's it for this tech news update I'm Aya's Akhtar and you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet.com slash