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                  If you click a game’s cover art here, you open the “game hub”—the game company’s own news
                  feed.










































                 Figure 8-40. The Xbox app is a wireless global companion for your Xbox console at home—and for
                  your universe of friends and rivals on the Xbox service. The Xbox app is a remote control for your
                   Xbox, which also makes it possible to play games on your laptop that physically run on the Xbox
                                                    elsewhere in the house.

                           Lower left. Featured games from the Microsoft Store—that is,
                           games the company dearly hopes you’ll buy.


                           Center column. This is your activity feed, exactly as it appears on
                           the Xbox. It shows what your friends have been doing in their
                           games and lets you comment on or “like” their achievements.


                           Right column. Here’s your list of friends and clubs—all of them,
                           whether they’re online at the moment or not. You can see what

                           they’re doing right now on their Xboxes (“Watching TV,” “Blu-ray
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