(Yes, you can access the full PC games library via the Store tab.) It’s simple and clean, which is possible when you only have to deal with the roughly 100 games that are available via Xbox Game Pass and not the many, many thousands available via the broader Xbox Store.
It looks a lot like the Epic Games app to me, and that’s a compliment. It will still provide the social (friends lists, messaging) and store functionality from what is now called the Xbox Console Companion, but it will also provide gamers with a front-end to the new Xbox Game Pass for PC subscription. More important, at least to Xbox fans, the new Xbox app has a new purpose. Just in case you didn’t get the memo about UWP being dead. It’s not a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) or Store app, it’s a web application, just like a PWA, that is downloaded from the web. With that rebranding, Microsoft has also announced a new Xbox app, and it’s available now in beta form. It’s now rebranded as Xbox Console Companion in a bid, I think, to more clearly identify what it is and what it does. But it was kind of a confusing mess, and still is. Yes, they were updated over time, or at least the Xbox app was. But the Xbox gaming apps, Xbox and Xbox One SmartGlass, simply continued forward. The entertainment titles, Xbox Music and Xbox Video, were rebranded as Groove Music and Microsoft Movies & TV, respectively. As Windows 8 morphed into Windows 10, Microsoft rethought the Xbox apps that it bundled with the operating system.
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