Xbox has announced that come November, you'll be able to buy and play Xbox games directly within the Android app thanks to a recent court ruling against Android owner Google.
In a message on X (formerly Twitter), Xbox president Sarah Bond says that a recent court decision ruling that Google must open up its Play Store to third-party apps will "allow more choice and flexibility".
The ruling came as part of a lawsuit brought by Epic against Google, with the former alleging that the latter's dominance of the mobile sphere (alongside that of Apple, against whom Epic also brought a lawsuit) constitutes an illegal monopoly, a position with which the court clearly agreed.
Bond says the decision to incorporate purchases directly into the Xbox Android app is born of Xbox's mission to "allow more players to play on more devices".
Right now, there's no news on whether or not this will be possible on the Apple App Store version of the app; Bond only mentions Android, and since Apple wasn't ordered by courts to open up its App Store to third-party storefronts, the iOS situation is unlikely to change anytime soon.
The Epic-Google situation began back in 2020,...
