Microsoft is updating the Xbox cellular app on iOS and Android to allow you to share your recreation moments within the type of Snapchat-style Stories, the company has announced. Gameplay clips, screenshots, and achievements are all appropriate with the brand new sharing format, which is accessible by tapping the “+” button subsequent to your gamertag on the Xbox app’s house display. Content will then be proven in your profile for 72 hours. There are additionally new community administration options coming to Xbox.

Stories had been all the fashion a few years in the past, with everybody from Instagram, to LinkedIn and Spotify imitating the format of their respective apps. Although the development appears to have abated just lately with the main target shifting to TikTok-style scrolling feeds, I can see how the Stories format is smart right here — Video video games are a visible medium and Stories are a pleasant manner of exhibiting full-screen imagery. That stated, it’s slightly awkward seeing a panorama video taking over such a small sliver of a portrait cellphone display in Microsoft’s imagery above.

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Alongside the brand new Xbox app function, Microsoft has additionally introduced a brand new Quality of Service (QoS) tagging function on Xbox consoles. It’s designed to prioritize site visitors that’s delicate to community congestion like multiplayer gaming or get together chat, and is accessible within the Advanced part of the Network settings menu. However, Microsoft’s support page says the function will should be supported by your property router or ISP community, and cautions that it’d trigger points with some networks.

Microsoft’s announcement put up says that the Stories function is dwell now in Australia, and is because of come to extra areas “soon.”