Xbox console games are suddenly showing up inside the Xbox PC app

One thing unusual is occurring with Microsoft’s Xbox app on Home windows. Over the previous few days, the Xbox PC app has began exhibiting 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 in the event you personal it as a part of the “My PC Video games” record contained in the Xbox PC app.

I don’t imagine this can be a easy bug, however extra the results of Microsoft’s plans to extra intently mix its Xbox and Home windows shops. I wrote about this effort in March, when I revealed in Notepad that Microsoft is working with Asus on a Venture Kennan handheld. “It’s half of a bigger effort from Microsoft to unify Home windows and Xbox in direction of a common library of Xbox and PC video games,” I wrote on the time.

This effort additionally includes enabling Steam and Epic Video games Retailer video games to be seen within the Xbox PC app library. Microsoft accidentally revealed mockup images exhibiting Steam video games within the Xbox PC library earlier this 12 months, and on the time sources acquainted with the corporate’s plans instructed me Microsoft was engaged on an Xbox app replace that may present each recreation you’ve put in in your PC.

Microsoft has additionally been engaged on making the Xbox app the home of PC gaming over the previous 12 months, and it has lately began referring to its Xbox PC app as merely “Xbox PC.” This new branding first confirmed up in Microsoft’s announcement of Gears of Struggle: Reloaded, and a brand new gameplay trailer for MIO: Recollections In Orbit additionally reveals off the Xbox PC branding and emblem that we’re going to see every time Microsoft desires to let PC gamers know the sport is out there on its Microsoft Retailer.

All of those Xbox PC modifications and the hand-held work means we’re in all probability near seeing precisely how Microsoft lists extra video games within the Xbox PC app. The large query can be whether or not Xbox console video games will truly be playable on PC, and Microsoft might must leverage its cloud infrastructure for that except it has an emulation breakthrough able to lastly make the dream of enjoying outdated Xbox video games on PC a actuality.