How lengthy is your PC sport? The Home windows Xbox app can inform you

The subsequent time you go digging by your PC’s Xbox app for a sport to play, you might discover one thing fascinating: an estimate of how lengthy the sport will take to finish.

Microsoft has partnered with HowLongtoBeat to offer estimates of how lengthy it’ll usually take a participant to finish every sport. The estimate will seem on the backside of the display screen, offering a time (in hours) of how lengthy the primary sport will take to finish, however any further DLC content material. There’s even an estimate on how lengthy it’ll take to finish the whole lot within the sport, also referred to as “100%” or “completionist,” which is what HowLongtoBeat makes use of.

To date, this function seems to be solely a part of the Xbox app for the Home windows PC, quite than the Xbox console.

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The Xbox app is Microsoft’s gateway into its gaming ecosystem for the PC, competing with Steam, Epic, GoG Galaxy, and different gaming libraries. It’s additionally the entry level for Recreation Cross and Recreation Cross Final, a month-to-month subscription that acts as a “Netflix for video games” by offering rotating entry to a big library of PC video games. (Although Microsoft expenses $14.99 per 30 days for Recreation Cross Final, there’s a trick to enroll in it that permits a implausible low cost.)

Microsoft additionally stated it had up to date the pace and reliability of the Xbox app itself.

“We’re dedicated to persevering with to enhance the efficiency and reliability of the app,” Jason Beaumont, associate director of product administration, participant experiences and platform, wrote in a weblog submit. “With the newest replace, the app now launches as much as 15 p.c sooner, and we’ve additionally made some fixes for general higher responsiveness if you work together with key experiences within the app. We’ve seen crash-free periods enhance to 99.9 p.c, and participant experiences of video games that didn’t obtain or didn’t set up efficiently diminished by practically half. We’ve additionally centered on elevated relevance for search outcomes, and getting outcomes again is now as much as 20 p.c sooner.”