Microsoft is rolling out an update that adds demos to Xbox Game Pass and developers will get paid to make them.
Demos were a core part of the gaming scene in the ‘90s and early ‘00s, letting you play the first stages of upcoming games and whet your appetite for their full release later in the year. The problem was they were costly to make and diverted the developers’ attention from finishing the game. In the past 15 years, demos largely dropped off the scene, with alpha and beta tests for multiplayer games taking their place, and single-player game developers opting for trailers and a big marketing push to build hype for launch day. Microsoft wants to change all that. The tech giant has revealed an upcoming Xbox Game Pass update codenamed Project Moorcroft.
