{"id":208002,"date":"2025-06-23T15:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208002\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T15:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:38:10","slug":"microsoft-adds-steam-games-to-its-xbox-pc-app-on-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208002\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft adds Steam games to its Xbox PC app on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft is starting to test its new aggregated gaming library in its Xbox PC app on Windows. Xbox Insiders will now be able to see their Steam and Battle.net games all within the Xbox app this week \u2014 making it a single launcher for most installed PC games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">This new consolidated library will roll out to the Xbox app later this year, as well as new devices like the ROG Xbox Ally handhelds. It\u2019s part of Microsoft\u2019s efforts to make the Xbox app on Windows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/12\/11\/24318799\/microsoft-xbox-app-new-games-homescreen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the home of PC gaming<\/a> and compete with Steam and SteamOS by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/682011\/microsoft-windows-xbox-pc-combination-features-rog-xbox-ally-devices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">combining Windows and Xbox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cWhen a player installs a game from a supported PC storefront, it will automatically appear in \u2018My library\u2019 within the Xbox PC app, as well as the \u2018Most recent\u2019 list of titles in the sidebar \u2014 making it easier than ever to jump back into your games,\u201c <a href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2025\/06\/23\/xbox-insiders-aggregated-gaming-library-is-coming-to-the-xbox-pc-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explains Manisha Oza<\/a>, product manager of the Xbox platform. Microsoft says support for additional PC storefronts will roll out over time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">If you want to try out the new aggregated library in the Xbox app on Windows, you can simply download the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.microsoft.com\/detail\/9PLDPG46G47Z?hl=en-us&amp;gl=GB&amp;ocid=pdpshare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xbox Insider Hub<\/a> on PC and join the PC gaming preview. You can also manage the visibility of games by hiding any PC storefront in the Library &amp; Extensions section of the Xbox app settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft is starting to test its new aggregated gaming library in its Xbox PC app on Windows. Xbox&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[77,1583,507,12,3282,326,53,16,15,27119,289],"class_list":{"0":"post-208002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gaming","10":"tag-microsoft","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pc-gaming","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-windows","18":"tag-xbox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114733430196704111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}