Opera GX Archives

Opera GX launches GX Profiles and Video Pickup to enhance streaming and stream watching experiences for users

March 31, 2022

Today, Opera GX launches two new features, GX Profiles and Video Pickup. GX Profiles let users create several “copies” of Opera GX to separate and customize the browser they use to stream or to study from the one they use for other private activities by customizing each of these experiences. Video Pickup allows people to start watching Twitch or a video from another popular streaming platform on their PC and to continue on their phone right where they left off.

Opera GX integrates Logitech G LIGHTSYNC RGB to make gamers’ RGB-enabled set-ups shine when browsing

March 8, 2022

Create customizable lighting effects and animations to bring your gaming set-up to life in full polychromatic beauty when browsing with Opera GX March 8, 2022, Oslo, Norway – Opera GX has integrated Logitech G’s popular lighting technology, LIGHTSYNC RGB, to transform the browsing experience into a full-spectrum lighting experience, featuring over 16.8 million colors. Gamers, […]

Opera GX – the world’s only browser for gamers – debuts on the Epic Games Store

January 27, 2022

Opera GX [NASDAQ: OPRA] joins the Epic Games Store, becoming the first web browser for gamers available in the store.

Opera opens up for faster, easier and free publishing of new games from GameMaker Studio to Opera GX users

September 30, 2021

Opera is launching a new self publishing platform named GXC. GXC will provide game creators with faster feedback for early stage games as well as with 1-click publishing from GameMaker Studio, to Opera GX’s growing gaming community. Game creators can join an early bird competition with a $45K prize pool for the best submitted games.

Create an offline game for Opera GX to never get bored when your WiFi is out

July 22, 2021

Dinosaurs are long extinct and surfing is better with the internet up – this is GX’s response to offline games in other browsers Opera GX is calling on artists and game creators to make a game for the browser’s ‘No Internet’ page that displays when your WiFi is out Creators of the best three games […]

Opera Acquires YoYo Games, Launches Opera Gaming

January 20, 2021

Opera (NASDAQ: OPRA), the browser developer and consumer internet brand, today announced its acquisition of YoYo Games, creator of the world’s leading 2D game engine, GameMaker Studio 2, for approximately $10 million. The tuck-in acquisition represents the second building block in the foundation of Opera Gaming, a new division within Opera with global ambitions and follows the creation and rapid growth of Opera’s innovative Opera GX browser, the world’s first browser built specifically for gamers.

Opera GX adds dynamic Razer Chroma™ RGB Lighting Effects to accompany your browsing

December 2, 2020

The world’s first gaming browser ups its game from basic Chroma integration by introducing lighting effects that allow Razer Chroma-enabled devices to dynamically respond to your browsing. Opening a tab, receiving a message or downloading a file has never looked better.

Opera GX becomes the world’s first browser with dynamic background music

September 16, 2020

Oslo – Opera GX, the world’s first browser designed for people who love PC gaming, is releasing a major new feature still unknown to other browsers: adaptive background music. The new functionality aims to bring an immersive sound experience known from gaming to web browsing.

World’s first gaming browser Opera GX adds Discord support in major 1st birthday release

June 19, 2020

Oslo, Norway – Opera GX, the world’s first gaming browser, is introducing new features including Discord support and a Hot tabs killer. It can also force brightly-designed pages to become dark to stop that nighttime glare. Opera believes that the more than one billion PC gamers around the world deserve a browsing experience tailored to […]

World’s first gaming browser Opera GX gets built-in Instagram support and other unique Opera browser features

May 19, 2020

Instagram now built into the world’s first gaming browser Opera GX gets Workspaces, a tool for tab-grouping according to context GX has doubled monthly users since the beginning of the year to more than 3 million Upcoming 1-year celebration of GX with new release Oslo, Norway – Opera GX is the world’s first gaming browser, […]