One thing unusual is occurring with Microsoft’s Xbox app on Home windows. Over the previous few days, the Xbox PC app has began displaying Xbox console video games contained in the library. When you can’t set up video games like the unique Alan Wake for Xbox 360, it reveals up should you personal it as a part of the “My PC Video games” record contained in the Xbox PC app.
I don’t consider it is a easy bug, however extra the results of Microsoft’s plans to extra carefully mix its Xbox and Home windows shops. I wrote about this effort in March, after I revealed in Notepad that Microsoft is working with Asus on a Challenge Kennan handheld. “It’s half of a bigger effort from Microsoft to unify Home windows and Xbox in the direction of a common library of Xbox and PC video games,” I wrote on the time.
This effort additionally entails enabling Steam and Epic Video games Retailer video games to be seen within the Xbox PC app library. Microsoft unintentionally revealed mockup photographs displaying Steam video games within the Xbox PC library earlier this 12 months, and on the time sources aware of the corporate’s plans advised me Microsoft was engaged on an Xbox app replace that may present each sport you might have put in in your PC.
Microsoft has additionally been engaged on making the Xbox app the house of PC gaming over the previous 12 months, and it has not too long ago began referring to its Xbox PC app as merely “Xbox PC.” This new branding first confirmed up in Microsoft’s announcement of Gears of Battle: Reloaded, and a brand new gameplay trailer for MIO: Reminiscences In Orbit additionally reveals off the Xbox PC branding and emblem that we’re going to see at any time when Microsoft desires to let PC gamers know the sport is accessible on its Microsoft Retailer.
All of those Xbox PC adjustments and the hand-held work means we’re most likely near seeing precisely how Microsoft lists extra video games within the Xbox PC app. The massive query can be whether or not Xbox console video games will really be playable on PC, and Microsoft might have to leverage its cloud infrastructure for that until it has an emulation breakthrough able to lastly make the dream of taking part in outdated Xbox video games on PC a actuality.
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