{"id":91421,"date":"2019-04-04T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/340203"},"modified":"2019-04-04T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T23:08:00","slug":"microsofts-new-windows-10-game-bar-update-takes-cues-from-nvidia-discord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/04\/microsofts-new-windows-10-game-bar-update-takes-cues-from-nvidia-discord\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s new Windows 10 Game Bar update takes cues from Nvidia, Discord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2019\/04\/04\/spotify-chat-and-more-coming-to-game-bar-on-windows-10\/\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;it&#8217;s beta-testing a bunch of new features for its Game Bar overlay on Windows 10, including video capture\/sharing, cross-platform chat with Xbox players, and new volume and performance controls.<\/p>\n<p>With these new features Windows 10 itself now seems capable of efficiently handling more of the play-adjacent activities (like voice chatting with friends or clipping exciting moments) that many PC game players offload to&nbsp;third-party tools like Discord or Nvidia&#8217;s ShadowPlay.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The bit about cross-platform communication is especially notable, since it ties PC game players more deeply into&nbsp;the Xbox Live community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That community is now set to stretch across not just across Windows and Xbox consoles but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/338695\/Microsoft_is_bringing_Xbox_Live_to_iOS_and_Android.php\">also iOS and Android<\/a>, and it all seems to be roughly in line with the promise Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made in 2015 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/247100\/Games_are_key_to_Microsofts_broader_vision_for_Windows_says_CEO.php\">games are key<\/a> to Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;broader vision for Windows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will pursue our gaming ambition as part of this broader vision for Windows and increase its appeal to consumers,&#8221; Nadella wrote at the time. &#8220;We will bring Xbox Live and our first-party gaming efforts across PC, console, mobile and new categories like HoloLens into one integrated play.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Microsoft announced&nbsp;it&#8217;s beta-testing a bunch of new features for its Game Bar overlay on Windows 10, including video capture\/sharing, cross-platform chat with Xbox players, and new volume and performance controls. With these new features Windows 10 itself now seems capable of efficiently handling more of the play-adjacent activities (like voice chatting with friends or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}