2022 has been an unimaginable yr for PC gaming. We now have been so lucky to have companions bringing wonderful video games to PC Recreation Go like A Plague Story: Requiem (on day one!), Persona 5 Royal, and rolling out the complete sport 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 yr involves an in depth.
Earlier than we get to what’s new, I need to thank everybody in our neighborhood 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 Video games Now Accessible with Xbox Recreation Go
As we shared earlier immediately, unique advantages for Riot Video games at the moment are accessible for all Xbox Recreation Go members. Yow will discover Valorant, League of Legends, Teamfight Techniques, and Legends of Runeterra within the Xbox app on PC. To get began, decide which sport to obtain and play, then observe the prompts to hyperlink your Recreation Go and Riot accounts. We’re excited members can begin taking part in Riot video games along with your Recreation Go advantages on PC!
Delivering a Sooner and Extra 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% sooner. We now have additionally made fixes to the Recreation Go 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 sequence of options to make putting in PC Recreation Go video games higher to satisfy the expectations of PC gamers. This contains options like accessing native sport recordsdata, 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 manner for builders to combine capabilities like Xbox companies and sport saves, in addition to talk sport launch standing, make sure the put in sport is updated, and extra. This helps ship one of the best 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 stories 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 at all times be recent for one of the best sport 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 sport will run in your PC earlier than you obtain it with the sport efficiency match indicator, and we partnered with HowLongToBeat with the intention to view estimates for a way lengthy it would take you to finish a sport for many PC Recreation Go 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 Recreation Particulars pages and likewise present information from builders for many video games. We modified the structure 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 heart 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 monitor sport installations so you’ll be able to soar proper in and play.
Thanks from our crew for one more nice yr of gaming. Please hold sharing your feedback within the Suggestions Hub, through Twitter, or the Xbox Insiders Reddit.