1 week Ago By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft Edge Game Assist is an in-game web browser designed to help gamers with the title they’re currently playing. The latest update is now available with new features and support for additional games. “Game Assist (Preview) is a special version of Microsoft Edge that’s optimized for PC gaming and can appear on top of your game in Game Bar,” the Microsoft Support website explains.
“It’s regularly updated with new and improved features.” Sign up for our new free newsletter to get three time-saving tips each Friday — get free copies of Paul Thurrott's Windows 11 and Windows 10 Field Guides (normally $9.99) as a special welcome gift! For April 2025, key new features include: Game Assist now offers enhanced support for , , , , and .
Game Assist now displays the desktop version of a website by default, instead of the mobile version, as before. Game Assist now supports Edge sidebar apps in addition to browser tabs. New tabs now open in the foreground, but you can open a background tab with Ctrl + Click.
You can also close tabs by clicking the mouse scroll wheel. , and Microsoft also documents some new Edge Game Assist features that are available now if you’re using the Canary or Dev versions of Microsoft Edge. Paul Thurrott is an award-winning technology journalist and blogger with 30 years of industry experience and the author of 30 books.
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