Switching between enjoying video games on completely different Xbox gadgets is about to get a little bit simpler, as Microsoft has launched a brand new Play Historical past function that makes it easy to see what video games you have performed throughout any Xbox system.
As detailed in an Xbox blog post, the brand new function will begin rolling out in the present day for Xbox Insiders. On the Xbox system’s homescreen, a brand new checklist titled “Leap Again in” will seem with video games which were performed lately in your present system. That is principally the way it already works on consoles, with the tiles displaying lately used video games and apps, however is new to the Xbox PC app.
New to each consoles and PC gadgets is the “Play Historical past” button. On the finish of the Leap Again in checklist (or on the far proper facet of the recently-played video games and apps checklist on console) is a whole Play Historical past class that can present video games performed throughout all gadgets. For many who bounce between console, PC, or a Home windows handheld, the function ought to make it sooner to dive again right into a sport beforehand performed on one other system.
Xbox with this newest Insider replace has additionally added the power to filter video games by “cloud playable” on the Xbox PC app, making it simpler to see what video games might be performed straight from the cloud with out the necessity to obtain them.
To affix the Insider program and get updates and different new options early, you simply must obtain the Xbox Insider app on console or by the Microsoft Retailer on PC and opt-in to both the Xbox Replace Preview or the PC Gaming preview, relying on what platform you might be on.
Xbox has made a giant multi-device push within the final 12 months, with a advertising marketing campaign that declares Xbox is greater than only a console and that any Home windows system might be an “Xbox”. Earlier this summer season, Microsoft revealed an Xbox branded PC handheld, the ROG Xbox Ally, that’s slated to reach later this 12 months.
Microsoft introduced main layoffs that resulted in round 9,000 folks dropping their jobs earlier this month, together with many who labored at Xbox studios, leading to cancellation of video games like Excellent Darkish and Uncommon’s Everwild.