Want to redeem that shiny new Xbox Gift Card code? Maybe an Xbox Game Pass time card code? Perhaps it's even a new game?!

It's never a good idea to spill your most intimate secrets to an AI chatbot, but there are ways to limit the type of data ChatGPT collects from your conversations.

Whether you're extracting text or doing a visual search, the Snipping Tool in Windows is a much more versatile and powerful tool than you might think.

If the Xbox Game Bar overlay is not enough for you, we recommend that you check out the Xbox Full Screen Experience. Even though it’s best suited for handheld, with some minor tweaks, you can enable ...

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TL;DR: Microsoft's new Xbox Fullscreen Experience app, designed for handheld Windows 11 25H2 gaming PCs, optimizes system resources by disabling non-gaming functions, freeing up about 1GB of RAM.

There's finally one gaming app to rule them all, or so Microsoft hopes, thanks to a new Xbox app update on Windows 11. From today, the Xbox app now shows you all of your installed games, no matter ...

In a move that others have tried and failed at before, Microsoft is looking to fold every other major gaming platform store into its Xbox app. The new Aggregated Gaming Library in the Xbox PC app will ...

Microsoft has released a new update for the Xbox PC app that adds a new aggregated gaming library that shows installed games from multiple PC storefront, including Steam, Epic Games Store, Xbox ...

Microsoft and Asus are bringing forth the new Asus ROG Xbox Ally handheld next month, and it’s kind of a big deal. Arguably the most noteworthy Xbox device to emerge in over a decade, it’s also ...

The Xbox app is now a launcher for all of your PC games. The Xbox app is now a launcher for all of your PC games. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, ...

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