Xbox Adding New Feature for Achievement Hunters

Xbox is adding a caller Gamerscore-tracking diagnostic for your console, allowing you to amusement disconnected your achievement-hunting prowess to others.

A new, tiered Gamerscore badge volition beryllium displayed successful the Guide and connected your profile, with much elaborate designs unlocked arsenic you advancement your beingness Gamerscore total.

What's your people to date? Achievements were added to Xbox with the motorboat of Xbox 360 backmost successful 2005, meaning your full present reflects much than 2 decades of Xbox (and PC, and smartphone) gaming. Special badges volition beryllium displayed whether you person 1,000 Gamerscore oregon implicit 5 million.

There's adjacent a 10 cardinal Gamerscore badge for the astir dedicated cheevo hunters to yet unlock (the contention to 10 cardinal has present reached 8.5 million, with 3 players globally each wrong a mates of 100 1000 points of each other.)

New Gamerscore badges are rolling out. Image credit: Microsoft.

Gamerscore badges are rolling retired contiguous to Xbox Insiders first, earlier becoming disposable to each Xbox users successful the adjacent future. Today's update besides refreshes Xbox consoles with the recently-unveiled caller Xbox bootup logo and sound, which you tin besides present prime arsenic a gamerpic oregon dynamic background.

Finally, there's a caller acceptable of filters to benignant done the games successful your room you person downloaded that you whitethorn nary longer person entree to (if they've rotated retired of Game Pass, for example). Handy!

Today's acceptable of changes is the 2nd batch of caller features successful arsenic galore months, pursuing a propulsion from newly-installed Xbox person Asha Sharma to enactment up the existent Xbox Series X/S consoles portion Microsoft builds its adjacent procreation gaming machine, codenamed Project Helix.

Sharma began her reign astatine Xbox successful precocious February and has moved rapidly to greenlight long-requested features for existent consoles, treble down connected Microsoft's committedness to a next-gen Xbox console, ditch the division's erstwhile Microsoft Gaming sanction (as good arsenic the unpopular "This is an Xbox" selling campaign), and chopped the terms of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (while booting caller Call of Duty games from the subscription connected time one).

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social