{"id":14854,"date":"2025-08-21T22:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14854\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T22:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:35:07","slug":"microsoft-is-bringing-pc-gaming-apps-and-stores-to-its-xbox-app-on-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14854\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u00a0is bringing PC gaming apps and stores to its\u00a0Xbox\u00a0app on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft has started testing another handheld-friendly addition to its Xbox app, allowing PC gamers to quickly install and launch third-party apps like browsers, gaming utilities, and even rival storefronts. A new \u201cMy apps\u201d feature is being tested in the Xbox app for Windows 11, and it looks like another way to avoid having to launch the main Microsoft Store or hunt for downloads online if you\u2019re on a gaming PC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cMy apps is a new tab within the Xbox PC app\u2019s library that allows players to locate, view, and download third-party applications and most commonly used storefronts,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2025\/08\/21\/available-for-xbox-insiders-get-to-the-games-faster-with-my-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">explains Devin Dhaliwal<\/a>, a product manager for Xbox experiences. \u201cBy consolidating gaming apps in one location, this feature supports the new aggregated gaming library, making it more straightforward to find, download, and launch games from multiple locations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft has already been adding Steam, Battle.net, Ubisoft Connect, and other PC games into to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/690967\/microsoft-xbox-app-windows-steam-games-aggregated-library-support-beta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unified library inside its Xbox app<\/a>, but this my apps view will be useful on a handheld PC where you want to avoid using the Windows desktop interface as much as possible. \u201cMy apps enables players on an ROG Xbox Ally or other Windows 11 handhelds to more easily navigate between applications from the Xbox full screen experience,\u201d says Dhaliwal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">I\u2019ve briefly tested the My apps view today and it lists Battle.net, Chrome, and GOG Galaxy. I have Chrome and Battle.net installed, so it simply launches these apps, but with GOG Galaxy it tries to download and install the app all within the Xbox UI. I say try because it failed to install during my testing, but this is a beta so there are bound to be bugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft has started testing another handheld-friendly addition to its Xbox app, allowing PC gamers to quickly install and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,7894,19,17,305,5,13535,753,82,13031],"class_list":{"0":"post-14854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-gaming","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-microsoft","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-pc-gaming","15":"tag-tech","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-xbox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}