Microsoft revamps its Windows Game Bar

Mar 27, 2025 05:18 AM - 1 month ago 36791

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Microsoft is sharing respective caller Xbox gaming updates for March that see a caller look for Game Bar connected PC, a caller Cloud Gaming feature, and caller benefits for playing immoderate free-to-play games done Game Pass.

Game Bar connected PC, which gives you the expertise to quickly motorboat games, power audio mixes, and show crippled performance, now comes pinch a cleaner UI. The Home Bar and widgets, including Capture, Performance, Resource, and the Widget Store, now look much lightweight pinch less lines and colors, giving them little of an Adobe Photoshop devices vibe. Microsoft says this is only the opening of the ocular changes rolling retired this week.

The update happened the aforesaid week Discord changed its UI pinch improved spacing betwixt sections successful the app and support for a afloat acheronian mode overlay. Both Game Bar and Discord fto you position widgets while playing a game.

As for the Xbox Cloud Gaming update, there’s now a measurement to displacement betwixt games without having to jump retired and return to the Home page. For now, it only useful pinch respective Assassin’s Creed titles, but Xbox promises it will activity pinch different unreality games soon. Also, Cloud Gaming is expanding much titles that support Stream Your Own Game.

Finally, Xbox is expanding in-game benefits to include much free-to-play titles specified arsenic Heroes successful the Storm and, successful April, Call of Duty: Warzone. It lets you get cosmetics, characters, in-game currency, and much successful games for illustration Overwatch 2 and Valorant.

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