Official Microsoft Has Announced EDGE Game Assist, A Way To Assist Players While Playing

[LIONT4MER]

Described as a “seamless, full-featured in-game browser”, Game Assist lets players bring up a bespoke version of the Edge browser as part of the Game Bar overlay.

The browser is game-aware, meaning if the player has a compatible game running the browser will automatically suggest tips and guides for that particular game.

Although Game Assist can be used to bring up an Edge browser while playing any game, at launch it has game-aware support for nine titles – Baldur’s Gate 3, Diablo IV, Fortnite, Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga, League of Legends, Minecraft, Overwatch 2, Roblox and Valorant.

 

[inbulbus_]

An overlay browser was really useful for me back in the olden days when I only had one monitor and the games were allergic to alt-tabbing, conjuring all sorts of issues when they did and sometimes just straight up crashing.

I suspect it can still be useful for people who for one reason or another can't or won't get the second monitor, but for those of us who do have one, and considering pretty much all relatively modern games support borderless windowed or at least seamless alt-tabbing, this is not going to do anything useful.

 

[Sibella]

The only reason Microsoft would do this is to scrape your personal data. What a coincidence that Edge is one of the browsers that adopt Manifest V3, crippling ad and tracking blockers.

It working in all games is a curse, not a blessing.