Microsoft is testing a brand new in-game browser

Microsoft has introduced that Microsoft Edge Recreation Help, a brand new Edge-powered in-game browser overlay, is out there for beta testing in Home windows 11. The “game-aware” overlay lives within the Microsoft Recreation Bar and is designed to routinely discover and present you hyperlinks to ideas and guides for the sport you’re taking part in, utilizing the Edge browser.

Recreation Help makes use of the profile you’re logged into in Edge, so it’ll offer you entry to your information, like cookies, autofill, and favorites, so “you don’t must log into websites once more.” Like different Recreation Bar widgets, you’ll be able to pin it above your sport as you play. Recreation Help is at the moment obtainable in English, and also you’ll must decide into the preview and set Microsoft Edge Beta 132 as your default browser to make use of it.

Right here’s a video of the characteristic in motion:

You’ll have to seek out content material your self for many video games for now, however the game-aware a part of Recreation Help will floor data routinely for a couple of video games, together with Baldur’s Gate 3, Diablo IV, and Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga. Microsoft says it’ll be including assist for others “all through the preview and over time.”

In a second video, Microsoft reveals how the overlay seems when used to comply with together with video guides:

Microsoft says it’s gathering suggestions in a couple of methods:

You possibly can share your suggestions in Recreation Help by going to Settings and extra (“…”) > Ship suggestions. You may as well vote on which options you need to see added to Recreation Help utilizing the brand new Recreation Help Group suggestions portal, and we’ll be monitoring suggestions on r/MicrosoftEdge, X, and different social channels as effectively.

Recreation Help solely helps mouse and keyboard enter for the second, however Microsoft writes it’s including assist for handhelds and gamepads sooner or later. Compact Mode assist can be coming later, the corporate says.

Beneath are Microsoft’s directions for getting began with Recreation Help.