Xbox Introduces Cross-Device Play History Feature for Insiders

Microsoft is making one step further towards its goal to create a truly unified Xbox ecosystem across consoles, PCs, and handhelds. Today, the company is starting to test a new cross-device play history feature that will display recently played games on all Xbox devices.

The company is adding a new “Play History” tile on the Home screen of the Xbox dashboard and the Xbox app on PC. It will display all recently played games across any Xbox device: Console players will see Xbox-enabled PC games there, while PC players will see Xbox games that are also playable on PC.

The Xbox team emphasized that this Play History title “makes it easy to jump back into the games you’ve recently played within the Xbox ecosystem, so you can always pick up right where you left off.” This will be great for Xbox Play Anywhere games, which players can purchase once and play across Xbox consoles and PCs with all their gaming data saved in the cloud.

The Xbox app for PC, which now aggregates games from other PC stores like Steam, Battle.net, and the Epic Games Store, is also making cloud-playable Xbox games more visible. These games will now appear in the app’s play history and Library, with the latter also getting a “cloud playable” filter.

“Now, your entire cloud-playable library and play history are right at your fingertips in the Xbox PC app. That means less time searching and more time playing, with your games and friends always just a click away,” the Xbox team said today. These cross-device play history feature and PC library updates will be rolling out to select Xbox Insiders later today.