Microsoft’s Xbox PC app adds Steam games and access to other stores

Microsoft is rolling retired a caller aggregated gaming room wrong its Xbox PC app contiguous connected Windows. The updated app volition present database games from Steam, Battle.net, and different PC storefronts — making it a launcher for games you person installed connected your PC.

Microsoft has been testing this aggregated room successful caller months with Xbox Insiders, but it’s present disposable to each Xbox PC app users. It’s designed chiefly for the caller fullscreen Xbox acquisition that volition vessel connected the Xbox Ally devices, but it’s besides portion of Microsoft’s efforts to marque the Xbox app connected Windows the location of PC gaming.

“When you instal a crippled from a supported PC storefront, it automatically appears successful ‘My Library’ wrong the Xbox PC app, arsenic good arsenic the ‘Most Recent’ database of titles successful the sidebar, truthful you tin leap backmost into your favourite games with conscionable a click,” explains Jason Beaumont, vice president of experiences astatine Xbox.

Alongside the room integration, Microsoft is besides rolling retired a new My Apps section successful the Xbox PC app that allows PC gamers to rapidly instal and motorboat third-party apps similar browsers, gaming utilities, and rival storefronts. This caller diagnostic is besides designed chiefly for handhelds, to assistance radical download and motorboat games from aggregate stores.

Later this month, Microsoft volition besides adhd cloud-playable games and crippled past to the Xbox app that syncs your caller games database connected Xbox consoles, PC, oregon handheld. Microsoft already started rolling this out connected Xbox consoles past month. “Once this diagnostic is released, look for the ‘Jump backmost in’ database connected the Home surface of your console, PC, oregon handheld to find your caller play past and prime up wherever you near off,” says Beaumont.