2022 has been an unimaginable yr for PC gaming. We have been so lucky to have companions bringing superb video games to PC Game Pass like A Plague Tale: Requiem (on day one!), Persona 5 Royal, and rolling out the complete sport launch of Grounded. All these video games and a whole bunch extra are in the Xbox app on PC, and I’m excited to share our remaining replace for the Xbox app on PC because the yr involves an in depth.
Before we get to what’s new, I wish to thank everybody in our group on 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 Games Now Available with Xbox Game Pass
As we shared earlier at this time, unique advantages for Riot Games at the moment are out there for all Xbox Game Pass members. You can discover Valorant, League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, and Legends of Runeterra in the Xbox app on PC. To get began, choose which sport to obtain and play, then comply with the prompts to hyperlink your Game Pass and Riot accounts. We’re excited members can begin taking part in Riot video games together with your Game Pass advantages on PC!
Delivering a Faster and More Responsive App
This yr, we continued to enhance the efficiency and reliability of the Xbox app. With current updates, the app now launches as much as 40% quicker. We have additionally made fixes to the Game Pass tab in order that it hundreds as much as 30% quicker and is extra responsive as you browse video games.
Game Installation and Management Features
In February, we launched a collection of options to make putting in PC Game Pass video games higher to fulfill the expectations of PC gamers. This consists of options like accessing native sport information, putting in to any listing, transferring video games between drives, simpler skill 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 sport saves, in addition to talk sport launch standing, make sure the put in sport is updated, and extra. This helps ship the most effective experiences for gamers.
We’re additionally dedicated to bettering the reliability of sport 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 Services updates are required in order that the app will at all times be contemporary for the most effective sport play.
Making it Easier to Discover Great Games
We’ve continued to replace the app to make it simpler to find the video games you’ll love. You can see how nicely a sport will run on your PC earlier than you obtain it with the sport efficiency match indicator, and we partnered with HowLongToBeat to be able to view estimates for a way lengthy it should take you to finish a sport for many PC Game Pass video games.
We’ve additionally made updates to make it simpler to search out your subsequent sport. Trailers, screenshots, and sport descriptions can be found at a look proper on the prime of the Game Details pages and additionally present information from builders for many video games. We modified the format of the Xbox app on PC to make it simpler to search out new video games, together with extra collections to discover, video games entrance and middle on the prime of the tab, and improved accuracy of search. We additionally rolled out navigation enhancements to search out extra video games to play. All navigation is on the sidebar and the queue helps you simply observe sport installations so you’ll be able to leap proper in and play.
Thank you from our workforce for one more nice yr of gaming. Please preserve sharing your feedback in the Feedback Hub, through Twitter, or the Xbox Insiders Reddit.
Discussion about this post