Microsoft Edge just became every gamer’s browser

digitaltrends.com:

Microsoft just turned its Edge browser into a gaming powerhouse with a suite of new features, including a gaming home feed, crisper graphics for cloud gaming, and a buffet of casual online games.

The update to Edge began rolling out to Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices this morning, and certainly makes it stand out among the tight competition for the best web browsers.

“Microsoft is all in on gaming,” Microsoft’s vice-president, Liat Ben-Zur, said. “And as we recently announced, we’re building a platform for the next 20 years that offers the games players want on any device they want to play.”

Microsoft recently teased a Game Pass widget and optimization for cloud gaming at the Xbox & Bethesda Showcase on June 12, so today’s Edge update wasn’t completely unexpected.

The first thing gamers will notice is a new gaming homepage on their Edge browser. Users signed into Edge with their Xbox account will see their gaming library and gaming-related news as soon as they launch the browser, rather than the news and weather. Users with a Game Pass Ultimate subscription can launch and play Xbox cloud games directly from the browser.

The gaming homepage can be accessed by launching Edge and clicking on the new “Gaming” header at the top of the screen.

The new Edge also brings a bevy of features to help improve gameplay. Clarity Boost helps make streaming games look sharper and clearer by scaling visuals on the client side. Microsoft claims this will make games streamed via the cloud as crisp as games downloaded to a console. Clarity Boost will work on any supported device, whether you play on a high-end PC or a tablet.

Clarity Boost is not turned on by default. You’ll need to first launch a game, then click on the (…) menu found in