2022 has been an unbelievable 12 months for PC gaming. We’ve got been so lucky to have companions bringing superb video games to PC Recreation Cross like A Plague Story: Requiem (on day one!), Persona 5 Royal, and rolling out the complete recreation launch of Grounded. All these video games and lots of extra are within the Xbox app on PC, and I’m excited to share our ultimate replace for the Xbox app on PC because the 12 months involves an in depth.
Earlier than we get to what’s new, I wish to thank everybody in our neighborhood to your continued suggestions and discussions to make the PC gaming expertise even higher. We’ll be again with extra updates and extra video games in 2023, however for now let’s recap what updates you’ll be able to see proper now!
Riot Video games Now Obtainable with Xbox Recreation Cross
As we shared earlier at present, unique advantages for Riot Video games at the moment are out there for all Xbox Recreation Cross members. Yow will discover Valorant, League of Legends, Teamfight Ways, and Legends of Runeterra within the Xbox app on PC. To get began, choose which recreation to obtain and play, then observe the prompts to hyperlink your Recreation Cross and Riot accounts. We’re excited members can begin enjoying Riot video games together with your Recreation Cross advantages on PC!
Delivering a Quicker and Extra Responsive App
This 12 months, we continued to enhance the efficiency and reliability of the Xbox app. With latest updates, the app now launches as much as 40% sooner. We’ve got additionally made fixes to the Recreation Cross tab in order that it masses as much as 30% sooner and is extra responsive as you browse video games.
Recreation Set up and Administration Options
In February, we launched a collection of options to make putting in PC Recreation Cross video games higher to fulfill the expectations of PC gamers. This contains options like accessing native recreation information, putting in to any listing, transferring video games between drives, simpler capability to mod video games, and verifying and repairing installs.
In June, we rolled out the PC Bootstrapper, which offers a constant and easy means for builders to combine capabilities like Xbox providers and recreation saves, in addition to talk recreation launch standing, make sure the put in recreation is updated, and extra. This helps ship the very best experiences for gamers.
We’re additionally dedicated to enhancing the reliability of recreation downloads and installs with each replace. With the September replace, we noticed participant reviews of video games that didn’t obtain or didn’t set up efficiently lowered by practically half, and we proceed to see success charges trending up month after month for gamers downloading, putting in, and launching video games. We’ve additionally added notifications when Gaming Providers updates are required in order that the app will all the time be contemporary for the very best recreation play.
Making it Simpler to Uncover Nice Video games
We’ve continued to replace the app to make it simpler to find the video games you’ll love. You possibly can see how properly a recreation will run in your PC earlier than you obtain it with the sport efficiency match indicator, and we partnered with HowLongToBeat as a way to view estimates for a way lengthy it should take you to finish a recreation for many PC Recreation Cross video games.
We’ve additionally made updates to make it simpler to seek out your subsequent recreation. Trailers, screenshots, and recreation descriptions can be found at a look proper on the high of the Recreation Particulars pages and in addition present information from builders for many video games. We modified the structure of the Xbox app on PC to make it simpler to seek out new video games, together with extra collections to discover, video games entrance and middle on the high of the tab, and improved accuracy of search. We additionally rolled out navigation enhancements to seek out extra video games to play. All navigation is on the sidebar and the queue helps you simply monitor recreation installations so you’ll be able to leap proper in and play.
Thanks from our workforce for an additional nice 12 months of gaming. Please preserve sharing your feedback within the Suggestions Hub, by way of Twitter, or the Xbox Insiders Reddit.
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