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Microsoft and Epic have made Microsoft GDK plug-ins publicly available with Unreal Engine 5.8 in June 2026, letting Unreal developers build Xbox-on-PC games from the standard Win64 target instead of the older WinGDK platform. That sounds like plumbing, because it is. But in game development...

Microsoft released the Xbox Godot Sample on June 4, 2026, as a public, source-only GitHub reference project for building Godot extensions that integrate the Microsoft Game Development Kit, Xbox Services, PlayFab, and GameInput for Xbox-enabled games on PC. That sounds narrow, and in one...