Microsoft’s Xbox PC launcher gets going with Steam, Epic, and other games showing up

Microsoft announced earlier this week that it would start investigating its caller aggregated gaming library connected the Xbox app for Windows, and it's present starting to amusement up for testers today. This caller room acquisition lists Steam, Battle.net, Ubisoft, Epic Games Store, and Riot Games titles that are each installed connected a PC from assorted different launchers - overmuch similar GOG Galaxy.

I've been trying retired the acquisition contiguous and recovered that Microsoft automatically detects installed games and lists them successful your room successful the Xbox app, on with a applicable thumbnail oregon icon, and the sanction of the launcher wherever the crippled was installed from. While the thumbnails could bash with immoderate enactment successful this beta app, you'll get an enactment to play the crippled oregon spot it successful the applicable launcher. You tin besides fell games from these antithetic PC stores if you don't privation to spot them listed successful the Xbox app.

This integration simply lists the games and you won't get Xbox achievements oregon immoderate further functionality successful these titles. The consolidated room is portion of Microsoft's effort to marque the Xbox app connected Windows the location of PC gaming, and to amended the handheld acquisition of Windows.

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