Microsoft has announced a big update for the Xbox app on Windows 11 that brings it one step nearer to turning into a hub for all of gaming on the platform. Starting immediately, the Xbox app now helps displaying and launching all of your put in Windows video games, no matter the place you acquired them from.
The new replace brings “your game collection together with the new aggregated gaming library that shows your installed games from multiple PC storefronts, including your Xbox library, Xbox Game Pass, Battle.net and other leading PC storefronts”
Those different storefronts embody the massive names similar to Steam, Epic Games Launcher, GOG, and others. The new Xbox app will allow you to filter which video games really seem in there, letting you flip off particular sources when you do not wish to see them seem within the Xbox app.
With this new aggregated library, now you can use the Xbox app to launch any recreation you could have put in on Windows 11, without having to navigate by way of their respective storefronts or launchers first. It additionally makes launching these video games with a controller simpler, which will likely be an enormous consumer expertise enchancment for these utilizing Windows 11 on a handheld system.
The new Xbox app additionally provides a “My apps” tab, which gives a fast and straightforward approach of launching different storefronts when you want to purchase a recreation from outdoors of the Microsoft Store. This will even be useful for the upcoming handheld gaming mode, which we recently had hands-on time with and is expected to ship first on the upcoming Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X this fall.
Lastly, Microsoft says the Xbox app will soon sync your cloud-playable games across devices so that you can easily pick up where you left off across PC and console. All of the improvements announced today are going to be available on all Windows 11 PCs, whether that be a laptop, desktop, or handheld.
The new Xbox app update is rolling out now via the Microsoft Store on Windows 11.