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- Opera GX is a new alternative to the well-known browser. This time, it focuses on offering services and features for PC videogame players. Although this version shares its core with the standard version, it includes enough changes to be considered a totally different product.
Opera GX is a popular web browser designed specifically for gamers.It features an array of configuration options and tools that make gaming and browsing a breeze. This free program also includes various security features and an ad-free browsing experience.As an alternative web browser, the application lets users limit RAM and CPU power, play videos on a floating window, connect with other.
We’ve got some great news for the music fans in the room. Opera GX has adopted the new Player feature that was previously only available in the Opera desktop browser. Now you can log into Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music directly from the sidebar in Opera GX. Player lets you keep your favorite streaming services in one place, and has a few other neat tricks up its sleeve as well.
Auto-pause for browser audio
Music streaming is an integral part of our online lives, but juggling separate streaming apps gets annoying. That’s why we’ve created the Player feature. Not only does Player let you use all your favorite services in one place, it also makes sure that audio never conflicts in your browser. Whenever you start streaming video or audio in your browser tabs, Player automatically pauses, and then automatically resumes once the tab is finished.
Popout controls for easy playback
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The Player feature in Opera GX is right there on your sidebar, nestled between your messengers and Flow. Click the icon and Player’s panel pops out, letting you navigate your music services and library. There you can stay logged in on all three streaming platforms and alternate between them.
What’s even better – when playing music you can simply hover over the Player icon to get a mini popup with controls. This way you never have to switch apps or even click out of your current tab. You can also control Player with the standard playback buttons on your keyboard.
Seamless browsing and streaming with GX
This past year Opera GX integrated Instagram and Twitter, letting you chat with the comfort of a standard keyboard and display without leaving your browser. The new Player feature brings this seamless experience to all podcast and music lovers, meaning you can now stream and browse without having to manage multiple devices, tabs or apps.
Especially when working from home and spending a lot of time online, it’s important to surround yourself with the things you like. Opera GX lets you do that in your browser by giving you access to your favorite music and podcasts, Instagram accounts and social messengers.
More unique features in Opera GX
Opera GX is all about bringing the immersive gaming experience to browsing. Along with gaming themes, sound effects, adaptive background music, and Razer Chroma RGB Lighting Effects, GX includes CPU, RAM and Network Bandwidth limiters that make the browser less resource-hungry and leave more of your computer’s resources for gaming. GX also includes a Hot Tabs Killer feature, which lets you kill your most resource-draining tabs, and GX Cleaner to purge those old unwanted files. We also recently launched our own Discord server which now has more than 250,000 members.
The Opera GX browser is free and available for download from opera.com/gx. It works on both Windows and Mac.
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Web browser maker Opera has acquired YoYo Games, the maker of the GameMaker Studio 2 game engine, for $10 million, and it has also launched its Opera Gaming division.
The deal underscores Opera‘s efforts to differentiate its web browser, Opera GX, through a gaming community. Opera itself has more than 380 million people using its web browsers worldwide. Its new Opera GX gaming browser has seven million monthly active users as of December, up 350% from a year earlier.
Opera Gaming will focus on expanding Opera’s capabilities and monetization opportunities in the gaming, said Krystian Kolondra in an interview with GamesBeat. Publicly traded Opera is based in Oslo, Norway, while YoYo Games is based in Dundee, Scotland.
“A couple years ago, we made the decision to produce innovation and not have to compete with mass market in browsers,” Kolondra said. She is Opera’s executive vice president of browsers. “We focus on some segments that actually grow and are meaningful. So we decided to go after gaming.”
GameMaker Studio 2 found its niche as a tool for making 2D games, and it’s being used by people who have very little training in skills such as programming. Kolondra said the tech has hit a point where people are becoming just as interested in making their own games as playing them. Opera also has a built-in cryptocurrency wallet.
YoYo Games had more than 400,000 new registered users in 2020.
Above: GameMaker Studio 2
“It lowers the barrier to entry for anyone to start making their games,” Kolondra said.
The games can run across a wide range of web-supported platforms including PCs, mobile iOS/Android devices, and consoles.
YoYo Games general manager Stuart Poole will remain with the business alongside technical lead Russell Kay. YoYo Games has worked on the GameMaker engine for years, and it has been downloaded more than 10 million times since 2012.
Opera launched the Opera GX gaming browser in 2019. It features customization options, sound effects, background music, a gaming-inspired design, as well as CPU, memory, and network bandwidth limiters that make the browser less resource-hungry .
Some of the big hits made with GameMaker include Risk of Rain, Undertale, and Hyper Light Drifter. Those games have sold millions of copies. Kolondra said the company does not plan to make exclusive games that run only with the Opera GX browser, as the goal is to create a community around Opera GX users but also make GameMaker Pro 2 available to those who want to make cross-platform games.
Kolondra said that good browser performance is essential to even 2D gaming, and sustaining that performance across mobile devices and laptops as well as variable bandwidth and connectivity requires thinking outside of traditional application silos. The line between building good games and good browsers has been eroding for years — with gaming interactivity across internet connections ramping up and browsers growing more multi-function and sophisticated, he said.
Opera GX has been getting good reviews from players who don’t want to sacrifice performance just by having a web browser running, Kolondra said. It has more than a million ratings to date.
“For us, gaming is more like a community now,” Kolondra said. “This is going to accelerate our growth as it will be a very unique value proposition. GameMaker Studio makes it easy for people to create games.”
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