Windows 11's built-in Game Bar browser is now available to everyone

In November 2024, Microsoft announced Edge Game Assist, a special browser built into Windows 11's Game Bar. The goal was to give gamers a more convenient way to browse the internet when playing games and eliminate the need to Alt + Tab just to check something on the internet. Now, Microsoft Edge Game Assist is out of beta and publicly available.

With Microsoft Edge Game Assist, you can forget about alt-tabbing out of your game, which, in some cases, takes a lot of time and even causes issues with your game. Instead, hit Win + G to bring up the Game Bar, a gaming overlay with various useful features, and open Edge Game Assist while keeping the game running as usual.

Microsoft Edge Game Assist is part of the Edge browser, so it is fully compatible with the modern internet and offers some of its existing features, plus some gaming-focused stuff like tips and guides (it can detect what game you are playing and suggest relevant content) and quick access to Discord, Spotify, or Twitch. Game Assist also lets you have separate tabs from the main browser, keeping gaming-related tabs away from work and personal browsing.

During the testing period, Microsoft added support for over 80 various games (Game Assist works with any game, but it offers extra features for optimized and supported titles), keyboard shortcut support, a new Paste Game Title feature (the browser automatically pastes the name of the game when you open it), access to favorites, history, and extensions. However, there are still some limitations. At the moment, Game Assist is optimized for mouse and keyboard users, but Microsoft says it is working on "refining" controller support in future updates.

You can read more about Microsoft Edge Game Assist here. The full list of supported games is available here.

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