Game gifting coming to Xbox Insiders today, more new features promised

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Published onOctober 27, 2017

published onOctober 27, 2017

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As we’re getting closer to the holiday season, the Xbox team announced today that game gifting from the Xbox store is now available for Xbox Insiders. Some Alpha Insidersdiscovered the option a couple of weeks ago, and it’s definitely a great addition to complement therecent Fall update for the Xbox One.

New features coming,#XboxInsiders. Game gifting from Store will be available today in Preview, others coming soon.#Xboxpic.twitter.com/7Oo6ru3eO9

— Mike Ybarra (@Qwik)October 27, 2017

The ability to gift digital Xbox games will hopefully be available for everyone in the coming weeks, assuming Microsoft wants to capitalize on the holiday season to drive game sales. Xbox’s Mike Ybarra also teased that other features are coming soon to Xbox insiders. Back at E3 2017, Microsoft unveiled amassive revamp for Xbox avatarsthat is excepted to launch later this Fall, and we hope that’s still in the pipeline for this year.

Are you looking forward to gift games to your friends and family, or do you still prefer to purchase physical games? Let us know below.

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).

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