Microsoft reminds Windows gamers that Game Bar exists with quirky new angel ad

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Published onSeptember 5, 2019

published onSeptember 5, 2019

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The Game Bar is a pretty coolWindows 10feature that can streamline multitasking while gaming on PC but it’s also something that most casual users likely don’t use or are even completely unaware of.

Microsoft is hoping to remind Windows 10 users of the feature with a new ad that it launched this morning on the official Xbox YouTube account. It’s a bit of a convoluted ad featuring two women in a sauna talking about how pressing theWin+Gkeyboard shortcut on a laptop gives an angel its wings. It’s kind of a bizarre play on the popular phrase from It’s A Wonderful Life.

Short of a two second screen of the Game Bar windows, the ad doesn’t really make an effort to educate the viewer on what exactly the feature does. Instead, its main focus seems to be on helping the viewer to remember the keyboard shortcut to activate it by repeating “Win + G” numerous times.

The shortcut itself is actually one of the easiest Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts to remember, though, as it’s just the Windows key and the first letter of Game. However, the ad seems to be going for the wing pun. As in, when you addGto the end ofWinyou getwing.

To be honest, this pun is something that didn’t even occur to me until I saw someone else point it out in the YouTube comments so it will be interesting to see if many others pick up on it.

What do you think about this ad? Do you like it? Do you think it’s effective? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below and thenfollow us on Pinterest for more Xbox gaming content.

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).

For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.

Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.

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