Microsoft is rolling out a brand new aggregated gaming library inside its Xbox PC app at this time on Home windows. The up to date app will now record video games from Steam, Battle.internet, and different PC storefronts — making it a launcher for video games you will have put in in your PC.
Microsoft has been testing this aggregated library in current months with Xbox Insiders, but it surely’s now out there to all Xbox PC app customers. It’s designed primarily for the brand new fullscreen Xbox expertise that may ship on the Xbox Ally gadgets, but it surely’s additionally a part of Microsoft’s efforts to make the Xbox app on Home windows the home of PC gaming.
“Once you set up a recreation from a supported PC storefront, it robotically seems in ‘My Library’ throughout the Xbox PC app, in addition to the ‘Most Latest’ record of titles within the sidebar, so you possibly can leap again into your favourite video games with only a click on,” explains Jason Beaumont, vice chairman of experiences at Xbox.
Alongside the library integration, Microsoft can also be rolling out a new My Apps section within the Xbox PC app that enables PC avid gamers to rapidly set up and launch third-party apps like browsers, gaming utilities, and rival storefronts. This new function can also be designed primarily for handhelds, to assist individuals obtain and launch video games from a number of shops.
Later this month, Microsoft can even add cloud-playable video games and recreation historical past to the Xbox app that syncs your current video games record on Xbox consoles, PC, or handheld. Microsoft already started rolling this out on Xbox consoles final month. “As soon as this function is launched, search for the ‘Leap again in’ record on the Residence display screen of your console, PC, or handheld to seek out your current play historical past and decide up the place you left off,” says Beaumont.