Xbox Live: You’ll soon be able to buy games for friends as gifts

10 Jul 2017

Steve Wright

Friends will soon be able to gift games to others across Xbox Live, Microsoft’s Mike Ybarra has recently confirmed.

Ybarra took to Twitter to say the feature was “not far”.

Not far!

— Mike Ybarra (@Qwik) July 6, 2017

The ability to purchase a game and gift it to another is already common place on Valve’s Steam marketplace. It looks like Xbox One owners — and potentially, Windows PC players too — will soon be able to take advantage of the gifting option.

We’ll start sorting our wishlist if any of you readers want to help pad out library.

Are you excited about gifting games over Xbox Live?

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.