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New Xbox One Update Makes Game Starts Faster While Downloading

A brand new update has hit the Xbox One has arrived as Microsoft continues to improve the console after theu ES announcement regarding the new Xbox One FastStart program.

The new update launched the new Xbox One FastStart program and it is broken down in a new Xbox Wire post.

Microsoft has had a “ready to start” feature for a long time, and it allowed players to play games while they were downloading, but the new feature is significantly faster and different because it hinges on involvement from the publisher.

Here are the games that utilize the new feature:

Xbox One games

  • Arcade Game Series: Pac-Man
  • Devil May Cry HD Collection
  • Don Bradman Cricket 17
  • Don’t Starve Together: Console Edition
  • Game of Thrones – Episode 1: Iron from Ice
  • Magic Duels
  • Minecraft: Story Mode – Season Two – Episode 1
  • Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm
  • Neverwinter
  • Pac-Man Championship Edition 2
  • Rivals of Aether
  • ScreamRide
  • Tales from the Borderlands – Episode 1: Zer0 Sum
  • The Flame in the Flood
  • The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season
  • Tropico 5 – Penultimate Edition
  • Ys Origin

Xbox 360 games

  • Dead Space 2
  • Toy Story 3
  • Viva Piñata

Original Xbox games

  • Destroy All Humans!
  • Fuzion Frenzy
  • Sid Meier’s Pirates!

Some of these games are offered as a part of the Game Pass subscription.

Additionally, Microsoft has promised that more games will feature the new FastStart in the future.

Anthony DiMoro

Covering Content Creators, Twitch, YouTube, Streamers & the digital culture. Anthony has written for publications such as Forbes and the Huffington Post, among others, during his career.

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