2022 has been an unbelievable 12 months for PC gaming. We now have been so lucky to have companions bringing superb video games to PC Sport Go like A Plague Story: Requiem (on day one!), Persona 5 Royal, and rolling out the total recreation launch of Grounded. All these video games and tons of extra are within the Xbox app on PC, and I’m excited to share our last replace for the Xbox app on PC because the 12 months involves a detailed.
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 Out there with Xbox Sport Go
As we shared earlier as we speak, unique advantages for Riot Video games at the moment are obtainable for all Xbox Sport Go members. You could find Valorant, League of Legends, Teamfight Ways, and Legends of Runeterra within the Xbox app on PC. To get began, decide which recreation to obtain and play, then comply with the prompts to hyperlink your Sport Go and Riot accounts. We’re excited members can begin taking part in Riot video games along with your Sport Go advantages on PC!
Delivering a Sooner and Extra Responsive App
This 12 months, we continued to enhance the efficiency and reliability of the Xbox app. With current updates, the app now launches as much as 40% sooner. We now have additionally made fixes to the Sport Go tab in order that it hundreds as much as 30% sooner and is extra responsive as you browse video games.
Sport Set up and Administration Options
In February, we launched a sequence of options to make putting in PC Sport Go video games higher to fulfill the expectations of PC gamers. This contains options like accessing native recreation recordsdata, putting in to any listing, shifting video games between drives, simpler means to mod video games, and verifying and repairing installs.
In June, we rolled out the PC Bootstrapper, which gives a constant and easy method for builders to combine capabilities like Xbox companies and recreation saves, in addition to talk recreation launch standing, make sure the put in recreation is updated, and extra. This helps ship one of the best experiences for gamers.
We’re additionally dedicated to bettering 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 almost 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 Companies updates are required in order that the app will all the time be recent for one of the 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’ll be able to 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 in an effort to view estimates for a way lengthy it is going to take you to finish a recreation for many PC Sport Go 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 prime of the Sport 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 prime 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 observe recreation installations so you’ll be able to bounce proper in and play.
Thanks from our workforce for an additional nice 12 months of gaming. Please maintain sharing your feedback within the Suggestions Hub, by way of Twitter, or the Xbox Insiders Reddit.
