Xbox Play Anywhere is going big.

Microsoft has committed to bringing all its first-party Xbox games to PC via the Play Anywhere scheme.

“With the Xbox Play Anywhere program, you can buy a game once and play on your Windows 10 PC and Xbox One with shared progress, shared game saves and shared achievements,” Microsoft shared in a Windows Blog update.

“Every new title published from Microsoft Studios will support Xbox Play Anywhere and will be easily accessible in the Windows Store.”

This announcement would be significantly more dramatic if Microsoft hadn’t gradually closed down its first-party efforts to a handful of studios, but it does mean anything from Turn 10 (Forza), The Coalition (Gears of War) and 343 Industries (Halo), and Rare (Sea of Thieves) will come to Windows 10 PCs, which is pretty cool.

The wording seems to imply that Microsoft Studios PC games will come to Xbox One, too. We’re still waiting to hear what Microsoft’s strategy-focused studio Decisive Games is up to, and holding out hope for something Age of Empires related – especially if Halo Wars 2 does well.

Microsoft has a couple of other studios in its stable; the HoloLens and experimental crew at Lift London, the Kids and Lifestyle Entertainment team (which was responsible for the shuttered Xbox Fitness, incidentally), and the Microsoft Casual Games Team. Oh, and Mojang, I guess, though I can’t see it spitting out Xbox games any time soon.

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As well as first-party efforts, Microsoft considers externally-developed games it publishes as Microsoft Studios efforts; Crackdown 3, ReCore, Scalebound and We Happy Few are all Xbox Play Anywhere titles.

Anyway, here’s what else Microsoft had to say about games across the expanded Xbox ecosystem: