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Home > News > Windows 10 Gaming Announcements Bridge Win10 PCs and XBox One
Windows 10 Start Screen

Windows 10 Gaming Announcements Bridge Win10 PCs and XBox One

January 21, 2015 by giovanni

Windows 10 Start Screen
Microsoft’s Windows 10 coverage included a generous heap of announcements about their gaming plans for the platform. The core of the XBox experience is now a cross-platform app. This XBox app will be available for Windows 10 PCs and Tablets. It brings My Games, Messages, Friends, Activity Feed, cross-platform gameplay & voice and text chat to all of your larger Windows 10 devices. Windows game players will start gaining XBox achievements for game play.

The XBox app also includes a feature called Game DVR that allows you to capture clips of gameplay on any Windows 10 gaming device. The DVR functionality automatically buffers the last 30 seconds of play so you can capture unexpected events after the fact. You can like, comment on, share, etc., clips that you and others create. This works for all games, even ones from Steam that predate Windows 10 itself.

DirectX 12, with an emphasis on power consumption, runs games at half the power consumption as on DX11 for the same scene complexity. CPU-bound games see up to a 50% performance improvement. Unreal Engine 4 and Unity3D have both adopted DirectX 12.

Windows 10 will enable players to stream Xbox One games to Windows 10 PCs and tablets. The player pairs the tablet or computer to the console and can the play all of their console games, even platform exclusive ones, using a controller through the PC. The game executes on the console, so even Windows 10 devices that don’t have the power to handle the game will play them just fine.

Today’s announcement brings some genuinely exciting news for XBox fans in particular because this greatly opens up the playing field for XBox titles. Microsoft is showing off an array of features that competing platforms like the PlayStation 4 just can’t touch. As a PC gamer myself, it’s good to see Microsoft’s commitment to gaming on the Windows platform in all of its incarnations.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: console, gaming, Microsoft, PC, xbox, xbox one

About giovanni

giovanni is an ad age, emmy, telly, & webby award-winning search engine optimization and social media strategist from texas who works with brands in entertainment, fashion, food & beverage, sports, and technology.

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Comments

  1. JP says

    January 21, 2015 at 10:06 pm

    So correct me if I’m wrong, but does this mean Windows 10 – through the Xbox app – will offer features similar to what Nvidia owners have had through GeForce Experience and Nvidia Shield Portable/Tablet for a year now? I’m speaking specifically about the 30-second DVR (ala Shadowplay) and streaming to tablets (ala Gamestream).

  2. Xbox says

    January 21, 2015 at 2:23 pm

    I believe Microsoft spells it Xbox, not XBox.

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