Updated Aug. 10 astatine 4:40 p.m. ET: A Microsoft spokesperson told Windows Central that the Game Pass icons were owed to a bug. Original communicative is below.

What you request to know

• A caller Elden Ring listing connected the Xbox website features a (non-functional) Xbox Cloud Gaming play button, suggesting that it, arsenic good arsenic different non-Game Pass titles, volition beryllium disposable to play with Xbox Cloud Gaming soon.
• We primitively revealed Microsoft's plans to grow the Xbox Cloud Gaming room to see non-Game Pass titles permanently purchased by players, with Microsoft confirming these plans successful June 2022.
• Microsoft primitively announced that the enlargement would travel aboriginal this year, with this listing indicating that it mightiness get precise soon.

Xbox Cloud Gaming is an awesome level that allows Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers to play tons of unthinkable games connected mobile devices, Windows PCs, and Mac computers utilizing Microsoft's unreality streaming services. However, 1 of its existent downsides is that you tin lone play games that are disposable connected the Xbox Game Pass library. This means that players aren't capable to bask non-Game Pass games they've purchased permanently portion utilizing the cloud. However, that whitethorn beryllium changing soon.

Recently, Xbox contented creator @Klobrille noticed an Elden Ring listing connected Microsoft's Xbox website (opens successful caller tab) that features an Xbox Cloud Gaming play button, presumably allowing fans to play the crippled utilizing the service. The fastener doesn't really motorboat the crippled — it simply times retired implicit and implicit again — but the information that this leafage exists suggests that Microsoft whitethorn yet beryllium preparing to officially bring Elden Ring and different non-Xbox Game Pass games to Cloud Gaming soon. Some users person besides reported receiving advertisements for Elden Ring connected Cloud Gaming portion visiting the Microsoft Store, giving further credence to this theory.

We primitively revealed Microsoft's plans to grow Xbox Cloud Gaming's library to see permanently purchased games not disposable connected Game Pass astatine the extremity of 2021, with the institution officially confirming these plans successful June 2022. At the time, Microsoft announced that this enlargement would travel aboriginal this year. Based connected the find of this Elden Ring webpage, there's a bully accidental that it whitethorn lone beryllium weeks (or less!) away.

Elden Ring landing connected Xbox Cloud Gaming would beryllium peculiarly breathtaking for galore Xbox gamers, arsenic the unfastened satellite enactment RPG has proven to beryllium 1 of the biggest games of 2022 (it's besides arguably 1 of the champion games of each time). Since implicit 13.4 cardinal copies of the crippled person been sold, we're consenting to stake that determination are plentifulness of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers that ain the crippled and would emotion to research the Lands Between utilizing the cloud.

Update

A Microsoft spokesperson told Windows Central that the Game Pass Ultimate icons were popping up connected immoderate titles connected the Xbox Store owed to a bug. 

“We’re alert of a bug that incorrectly displayed immoderate titles arsenic disposable with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. We rolled retired a hole and this is present updated," they said.

Brendan Lowry is simply a Windows Central writer and Oakland University postgraduate with a burning passionateness for video games, of which he's been an avid instrumentality since childhood. You'll find him doing reviews, editorials, and wide sum connected everything Xbox and PC. Follow him connected Twitter.