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Or, when the notification appears (lower right of your screen) to tell you the recording was
successful, click or tap it.

Broadcasting Your Games

These days, games aren’t just fun for the person playing them. Millions of

people find it just as entertaining to watch other people play. Mostly, they
do that at Twitch.com, the world headquarters for watching and
commenting on live, streaming games.

But Microsoft now offers its own, super-simple version of the same thing
on a site called Mixer.com. (It’s what was called Beam when Microsoft
bought it in 2016.) Not only is Mixer free and easy to use, but the tools you

need to broadcast your own game-playing sessions are also built right into
Windows. If your streams become popular enough, you can even make
money through a Mixer “partnership.” (Note, though, that Mixer is newer

and much smaller than Twitch or YouTube Gaming, so there may be fewer
sponsorship dollars to go around.)

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For most people, the factory settings work fine. But if you’d like to fiddle with the details of your
broadcast—frame rate, audio quality, microphone volume, and so on—visit → → Gaming
→ Broadcasting.

When it’s showtime, fire up the game you want to broadcast—any kind, any

brand. Open the Game Bar by pressing +G. Then, when you’re ready,

press +Alt+B, or hit the button.