{"id":45762,"date":"2025-04-24T05:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T05:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/45762\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T05:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T05:15:08","slug":"microsofts-xbox-app-is-now-available-on-lg-smart-tvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/45762\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Xbox app is now available on LG smart TVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2025\/1\/6\/24337366\/xbox-cloud-gaming-lg-tvs-ces-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earlier this year<\/a> that LG TVs would get access to Xbox Cloud Gaming, and now the Xbox TV app is rolling out to select LG smart TV models starting today. The Xbox app will let LG TV owners stream Xbox games directly to their TVs, and use a wireless controller to play them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The Xbox app will be available for LG\u2019s 2022 OLED TVs, select 2023 smart TVs, and newer models and smart monitors that are running webOS24 or higher. It will also soon be available for LG\u2019s portable StanbyME screens. The Xbox app is built into the LG gaming portal on the latest 2025 LG TVs, but for older models you\u2019ll have to head into the LG app store and download the Xbox app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">LG\u2019s 2022 OLED TVs and select 2023 smart TVs will also need the latest firmware upgrade to run the Xbox app, and you\u2019ll have to connect a Bluetooth-enabled controller and subscribe to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to stream Xbox games to your TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/6\/9\/23159460\/microsoft-xbox-tv-app-samsung-2022-tv-xbox-cloud-gaming-streaming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first launched its Xbox TV app<\/a> on Samsung\u2019s range of smart TVs in 2022, before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/11\/14\/23959795\/samsung-cloud-gaming-hub-boosteroid-tvs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expanding it<\/a> to older models a year later. The app looks very similar to the web version of Xbox Cloud Gaming, and aims to provide a console-like experience without the need to purchase an Xbox Series S \/ X device. The Xbox TV app is a big part of Microsoft\u2019s strategy to expand Xbox to multiple devices and make it clear that it thinks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/11\/14\/24296420\/microsoft-this-is-an-xbox-marketing-campaign-xbox-everywhere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">every screen is an Xbox now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft revealed earlier this year that LG TVs would get access to Xbox Cloud Gaming, and now the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[77,1583,25219,507,12,326,53,16,15,289],"class_list":{"0":"post-45762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gaming","10":"tag-lg","11":"tag-microsoft","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-xbox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114391241570472197","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}