2026-08-28

TargetScan — you pick, we scan

New feature
TargetScan
You pick, we scan.
Re-scan the games you know are wrong — one, or two hundred.
Open TargetScan
You can now point the scanner at individual games. Pick the ones that look wrong, press once, and their achievements, play time and score are re-checked against Xbox — without waiting for them to come round again.

Why a game goes wrong in the first place
Your library is re-checked when something changes, or when a game goes a week stale. That is the right rule for keeping thousands of titles current, and it is also why a game can sit quietly wrong for days. Four ways it happens:
🎯 The achievement total does not match the individual unlocks.
🎯 0G Xbox 360 achievements never got picked up.
🎯 Play time froze at the moment you stopped unlocking.
🎯 The score never recomputed.

All four are fixed by re-checking that one game: the achievements are refetched, your earned count and gamerscore are rebuilt from those unlock rows, your first and last unlock dates and the span between them are rewritten, and a fresh play-time reading is taken from Xbox.

We have seen this first hand
New members signing up to XCT have had achievements in DayZ, Surviving Mars, Blind Postman and PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS come unstuck on their first proper scan — achievements Xbox had been sitting on quietly appearing as unlocked. At the time it caused a lot of confusion, and more than one accusation of a hacked gamertag, when all that had actually happened was that the achievements were finally being read properly. This is the same machinery, pointed where you want it.

One game
Open any game page and look at your progress panel: it now tells you when that game was last scanned — “yesterday”, “3 days ago”, or “never fully scanned” — with a Request scanner update link beside it. Press it and the scan usually starts within seconds, because pressing it kicks the scanner rather than waiting for your next one. Requested games jump the queue.Last scanned and the TargetScan button on a game page
The game page — in your progress panel, under the bars.

Whichever way you start it, the same panel opens and shows you what it is doing — and, at the end, what it actually found:

Or two hundred
One at a time is fine when one game is wrong. What actually happens is that a run of them goes wrong together — a bad scan window, a gamertag switch, a batch of 360 titles whose achievements never landed. So turn on Select in the Games list, tick the games (or hit Select all matching filter), and press ◎ TargetScan. The whole selection is queued at once and the bar counts it down — “38 games left to scan…” — until it says complete.The select bar with TargetScan and the drain readout
Select mode in the Games list — tick, press once, watch it drain.


Find what needs it
The Games list has a new Last scanned column (Columns ▾ → Your status). It sorts, which is the point: bring the most out-of-date games in your library to the top, select them, and TargetScan the lot.The Last scanned column in the Games list
The Last scanned column — sortable, with its own button on every row.
Last scanned in the game details popup
And in the game popup, under the title ids.


Or start from Settings
Every route above starts from a game you are already looking at. If you arrive with the other question — which of my games looks wrong? — there is now a TargetScan panel in Settings, under the force-update scans. Type any part of a name and it searches the games on your own profile, showing each one’s unlock count, gamerscore and when it was last fully scanned, so you can see which are stale before you spend anything. It tells you how many scans you have left today, too.The TargetScan panel in Settings, searching the games on your profile
Settings → TargetScan: search your own games, scan the one that looks wrong.


The questions people always ask
Is this just play time, or everything? Everything for that game: the individual achievements, your earned count and gamerscore rebuilt from those unlock rows, your first and last unlock dates and the span between them, and a fresh play-time reading.

Does it wait for my next scan? No. Asking for it also starts the scanner, so it is normally seconds. Ask for ten games and all ten go in the same pass.

Can I just do all my completed games? On Pro, yes — that is what TargetScan is for. It is one queue drained in order, and the whole batch counts as a single TargetScan, not one per game.

How many do I get? Free accounts get 1 TargetScan a day, one game at a time. XCT Pro gets 10 a day, with any number of games in each — so sweeping two hundred completed games costs one of the ten. Both buttons draw on the same allowance, and the select bar shows what is left before you press.
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2026-08-26

XCT Pro: pay by card or on Ko-fi — annual billing and a launch price

Pro can now be paid annually for the first time, and there is now a second way to pay for it. Card checkout has been added on Stripe, alongside the Ko-fi membership that has always run XCT Pro. Both are first-class — same $3.99 a month, same Pro — so pick whichever suits you. Already on Ko-fi? Nothing you need to do.

Annual, at a launch price
📅 $34.99 for a year until 26 September, then $39.99.
💵 Monthly stays $3.99.
🧮 Paying monthly for a whole year comes to $47.88 — so the launch annual price saves you $12.89, a little over three months free.

Card checkout needs no link code
Stripe carries your account id through checkout itself, so Pro switches on the moment the payment clears — nothing to copy, nothing to wait for. On Ko-fi you add your XCT-XXXXX code to the membership message and we match it to your account; if it ever misses, message us and we will link it by hand in a minute.

Billing you can change yourself
💳 Change your card, switch between monthly and annual, or cancel — all from the billing portal on the Pro page, no message to us required.
🏷️ Promo codes work at checkout.
🔒 We never see or store your card details — payment happens on Stripe's own checkout page.

Ko-fi is still a full option.
The Ko-fi membership is not going anywhere and it is not a lesser way to pay: same price, same Pro, and if you are already subscribed there your access carries on exactly as it is. Plenty of people would rather support through Ko-fi, and that is genuinely welcome. The only things card billing adds are the yearly plan and the self-serve billing portal.

If you do want to switch: subscribe on the Pro page, then cancel your Ko-fi membership. Do it in that order and there is no gap — Ko-fi Pro stays live for 33 days after your last payment, so the two simply overlap for a few days. There is no need to time it carefully, and nothing to ask us for.

Any trouble at all, message us and we will sort it out. 👋
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2026-08-25

Badge Number Auction — one retired member number a day, highest bid wins

Badge Number Auction
Your XCT member number is the badge you wear everywhere — profile, feed cards, leaderboards, member lists. New members always take the next number up, so a low one has been out of reach since the day it was issued. From today there is exactly one way to get one: win it at the Badge Number Auction.

Where the numbers come from
When a member wipes their account, or an old one is removed, their number goes back into a pool instead of being reissued. There are 64 retired numbers in it right now — some from the founding gold tier — and every future wipe adds another.

One number a day, 24 hours
At 00:00 UTC a number is drawn at random and goes on the block until the next midnight, with a live countdown on the auction page and at the top of the community feed. Tomorrow's number is always shown in advance so you can plan your Core. The first one is up now: #1219, closing tonight at 00:00 UTC.

How bidding works
🔨 Open ascending bids in XCT Core, like eBay — opening bid 50, raise by 10 or more, and you can raise your own bid any time.
🔒 You can only bid what your balance covers, and nothing is taken until you win: your Core stays put while the auction runs. When it closes the highest bidder is charged their bid; if they have spent it elsewhere in the meantime, the next-highest wins instead.
🔄 Winning swaps your badge number. The number you win replaces your current member number everywhere on the site, and your old number drops back into the pool for a future auction. No number yet? The won number becomes yours.

Earning Core
Every member earns Core, free or Pro — invite friends with your referral link, unlock deck cards, hit milestones, ship a roadmap idea. Spend it on a number worth showing off.

Find it under Community › Badge Auction. Good luck at the hammer. 🔨
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2026-08-23

Radar — one sweep across your Xbox world

Radar — one sweep across your Xbox world
First: thank you. XCT.live just passed 1,000 signups. The best way we know to celebrate a milestone is to ship something — so meet Radar.

One page that watches everything
There is a lot going on across XCT — half a million store listings, your collection, 458,000 tracked achievements, and the leaderboards. Radar puts the pulse of all of it on one page. Every card is a filter with a live count, wearing the cover art of a game inside it. Tap one and you land in that database with the filter already applied.

What's on the sweep
🎮 Unclaimed Free DLC — free, released add-ons for games you own that you never claimed, counted and waiting.
💸 On sale with achievements — everything discounted that earns Gamerscore, biggest saving first.
🆕 Today's releases — what dropped today, counted the moment you open the page.
🏆 Your leaderboards — star any board (★) and Radar shows the top three and exactly where you stand.

Your filters become tiles
Every filter you save in the Store sidebar joins Radar as a card of its own, marked Mine, with its live count beside the XCT presets. The achievement database is on the sweep too — rarest first, secret only, biggest Gamerscore, and the rarest you have unlocked — and every slice is a shareable link now.

Nothing to set up
Presets work for everyone; sign in and your saved filters and favourite boards light up too. Find Radar next to Feed in the nav, or go straight to xct.live/radar.

Here's to the next thousand. 📡
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2026-08-21

SuperSearch — supercharge your search, your way

SuperSearch — supercharge your search, your way
Search used to find two things: games with an achievement list, and gamertags. Everything else in the catalogue was invisible to it — DLC, bundles, alternate editions, community guides, hardware, studios. Not any more.

Nine kinds of result, in one search
Type once and SuperSearch answers with released games, unreleased games, DLC, bundles, editions, guides, hardware, companies and gamertags. Each one gets its own block on the results page, with a count, a collapse arrow, and its own click-sortable columns — sorting Bundles never disturbs Games.
SuperSearch results for AC — the abbreviation banner, an open Games block with sortable columns, and collapsed DLC, Bundles, Editions, Guides, Hardware and Companies blocks

It speaks abbreviation
AC finds Assassin's Creed. COD finds Call of Duty. RDR2 goes straight to Red Dead Redemption 2. We seeded 304 curated abbreviations and checked every single one against the live catalogue first.
It handles sequels on its own, too — ac2, me2, gta3, re4, bo6 all work without us storing a row for each. Franchises number their sequels inconsistently (it's Assassin's Creed II but Mass Effect 2), so SuperSearch quietly tries both.
Expansion is additive: a game genuinely called “AC” is still in the list. And when an abbreviation fires, the results page tells you so.

Abbreviations show on the game page
Every game now wears the shortcuts that find it, right under its name — in the same place as translated and renamed titles.
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey on XCT.live with AC, ACO and ACOD abbreviation chips under the title

Ask it a question, not just a name
SuperSearch understands variables — type a thing, a comparison and a value straight into the search box:

achievements < 30   gamerscore > 1000   genre = rpg   owned = no

Five variables — achievements, gamerscore, playtime, genre and owned — with the operators you would expect (< > <= >= = !=). Stack them, and mix them with ordinary text.
Playtime is in hours, and a game you have never played counts as zero. So the one everybody wants:

genre = rpg playtime = 0 — every RPG you own and have never started.
SuperSearch filtering by genre = rpg and playtime = 0, showing the variable chips, the parsed filter pills and 79 unplayed role-playing games

The chips under the search bar drop a variable in for you, and SuperSearch says back exactly what it understood — so a typo shows up as a missing pill instead of quietly doing nothing. Short names work too: ach, gs, hours, own.

Your search, your way
The cog beside the search box opens 13 switches. Turn off what you never want to see and it disappears — and because a category that is off runs no query at all, narrowing SuperSearch makes it faster, not just tidier.
Settings are saved to your account, so they follow you to every device you sign in on.
The SuperSearch settings panel — 13 switches covering released and unreleased games, DLC, bundles, editions, guides, hardware, companies, gamertags, abbreviations, XCT sections, recently viewed pages and recent searches

It remembers where you have been
Click into an empty search box and you get your recent searches and the pages you viewed last — how many of each is yours to set, and either can be cleared or switched off. That history stays in your browser and never leaves it.
The XCT.live search box open on an empty query, listing recent searches and recently viewed pages

Also new
A wide search bar now sits at the top of the results page, so searching again never means going back to the sidebar. And the results page finally titles its own browser tab.

Missing an abbreviation you use? Tell us and we'll add it.
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2026-06-24

Leaderboards reimagined — gamerpic rows, XCT Core gems and a cleaner look

The leaderboards just got a big visual refresh — and a few new boards to climb.

A fresh look on every board
Each member's row now wears their gamerpic as a soft, blown-up background, so the board feels personal at a glance. Names are pulled into the centre, ranks are clean plain numbers, and the old clutter — medals, VIP/Founder/Admin badges and xbox.com links — is gone. A floating XCT Core gem now sits beside every score, and the whole top toolbar is finished in our signature green liquid glass.
The redesigned XCT.live leaderboard — gamerpic-backed rows, centred names and a floating XCT Core gem beside each score

Card view, the XCT way
Switch to the grid view and every member becomes an XCT-style card — a smaller round gamerpic up top with a big, bold gamertag below.
The leaderboard grid view as XCT-style cards — circular gamerpics with large gamertags

New boards to climb
Three new contributor boards sit at the top — XCT Core, Referrals and Cards — and the tenure and contributor boards now include every registered member. Open the leaderboards to find your row.

Also new this week
• Feed Rewind rebuilds your achievements, gamerscore, games started and purchases over any date range as real feed cards — save the whole recap as an image.
• Cleaner share cards export a dedicated layout with big poster art and your stats beside it.
• A feed settings cog lets you toggle card types and switch on a compact mode, and you can now disable likes/comments on your own cards.
• Streak timezone is now its own setting, separate from your display timezone.
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2026-06-21

Introducing Referrals & XCT Core — invite friends, build your Deck, earn currency

Two big new features land today: Referrals and XCT Core. Invite your friends, collect a deck of reward cards, and start banking XCT — our brand-new currency.

Referrals & your Deck
Every member now has a personal invite link (and a short code) under Community → Referrals. Share it to X, Bluesky, Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, Reddit, LinkedIn or email — and when a friend joins with it, they’re automatically added as your XCT friend.

As your referrals add up you unlock a Deck of 11 collectible reward cards — from Welcomed (for joining through a friend) and Spark (your first referral) all the way up to Visionary at 100 referrals. Locked cards sit greyscale; unlocked ones light up in full colour, with a progress bar counting down to your next tier. Click any card to view it full-screen.
The XCT.live Referrals dashboard — invite link, social sharing and the reward-card Deck

Joined before referrals existed? No problem — there’s a “Who referred you?” box to credit the member who introduced you (one-time), and your unlocked cards show off on your public profile under the new Deck tab.

XCT Core — a brand-new currency
Referrals now pay out in XCT Core. You earn 100 Core for every completed referral, plus a one-time badge bonus each time you reach a new card tier (+100 for Spark, scaling all the way to +15,000 for Visionary), and +100 for your Welcomed card. The floating gem in the top bar always shows your balance.

Open the XCT Core dashboard to claim your rewards — every reward has its own claim button, and claiming plays a little animation as the Core ticks up into your balance. You’ll find a full “how to earn” breakdown and your complete earning history there too.
The XCT Core dashboard — gem balance, claimable rewards and the how-to-earn breakdown

What’s next? XCT Core is racking up right now so you’ve got a head start — spendable rewards are coming soon. Start sharing your link today and build that Deck.
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2026-06-20

What’s new: achievement pages reimagined — pack tagging & colours, unlock times, smarter search

A huge update to the achievement game pages.

🏷️ Community pack tagging & colours — Tag every achievement to its DLC or Title Update pack (admin-moderated). The whole page is now colour-coded by pack: the progress bars split by pack, the pills match, and a new legend lists each pack’s gamerscore and achievement count.
Colour-coded DLC and Title Update pack tagging on a game's achievement list

⏱️ Unlock dates & times — See exactly when you unlocked each achievement, in your own timezone (e.g. “18:11 GMT”, milliseconds on hover), with a new date-format setting and a country flag on your profile.

⚑ Full flag set — A complete achievement flag taxonomy with emoji (Missable, Stackable, Online, Difficulty-specific and ~30 more), plus flag moderators.

🔎 Smarter search — Finds games whatever the word order (“batman lego 3” finds LEGO Batman 3), copes with ®/™ symbols, honours admin renames, and drops DLC and demos so you get the game you searched for.

🏆 A complete achievements directory — /achievements now lists every game that has achievements (~15,700, up from ~14,500), including ones whose list isn’t scraped yet.
The xct.live achievements directory

🎆 Feed sparkle — A subtle firework on Pro / VIP / Founder / Admin upgrade and game-completion cards.

📱 Mobile & app — A new mobile menu and layout, an accessibility pass, and XCT is now an installable app (PWA).

➕ More DLC, automatically — A new scanner fills in DLC nobody owns straight from the Store, so add-ons show up in every game’s tag picker.

See the full list on the Changelog tab.
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2026-06-13

What’s new: Art Manager, the Games feed, the Achievements directory & rarity

A big couple of days on XCT.live — here’s everything that landed.

🎨 Art Manager — Every game’s artwork (square icons and box-art) now comes from a single curated source of truth, so the right art shows up everywhere — your Collection, the Store, Achievements and your profile — instead of the odd random DLC thumbnail. There’s a full admin tool to review, replace, upload, paste or pull fresh art per title, a browsable gallery with zoom, and an automatic “broken art” scanner that flags rotted Microsoft image links so they can be fixed.

📰 Games feed — A new Community → Games feed tracks store and achievement activity across Xbox: brand-new games, DLC, editions and bundles, delistings, price changes, and newly-added achievement lists (including title-update achievements). Filter it by card type.

🏆 Achievements directory — /achievements is now a site-wide directory of every game we have an achievement list for — including hidden and pre-release titles other trackers don’t show. It carries the full Store filters and views, shows each game’s achievement count and total gamerscore, lists one row per unique game, and lets you expand any game to see its individual achievements.

✨ Achievement rarity — Every achievement now shows its global rarity % (how many players have unlocked it), both on your profile and across the directory.

👤 Profile refresh — A cleaner, more compact layout; your Recently Played / Completed rows now use the curated art; pick square icon or full portrait box-art (shown uncropped) and choose how many games each row shows. Plus a native Compare tab to line your achievements up against another gamer’s.

💬 Messaging — Friends and messaging are now open to everyone signed in with Xbox (no longer subscriber-only), and your sent friend requests now show in the Requests folder so you can cancel them.

Under the hood: faster page loads and a couple of stability fixes to keep the site snappy. 💚
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2026-06-05

Microsoft fixes the Windows 8 Xbox sign-in bug — and XCT's Win8 Bridge helped get it there

For months, a wave of older Windows 8 / early-UWP Xbox games could no longer sign in to Xbox Live — breaking achievements across hundreds of titles. The cause: those games still used the deprecated XBL2.0 auth handshake that Microsoft's servers had stopped honouring.

We built the open-source XCT Win8 Bridge as a stop-gap: it sits between the game and Xbox Live and transparently swaps the legacy XBL2.0 token for a modern XBL3.0 one, restoring sign-in and achievement unlocks on affected titles (Reckless Racing was an early confirmed fix).

The problem — and the bridge — got picked up across the community: r/xbox, Pure Xbox (“might have solved how to fix hundreds of broken Windows games”).

Then came the best possible outcome: Microsoft fixed it at the source. An Xbox engineer confirmed that they’d pushed a server-side fix — “we pushed out a fix yesterday that we believe may fix the issues with Windows 8 sign-in and games unlocking achievements.”

Players are confirming it in the wild — the “Windows 8 games are being worked on / working again” thread on r/xbox is filling up with success reports.

That means many of those broken Windows games should now sign in and unlock achievements on their own — you may not even need the bridge anymore. It stays available for anything still affected, but the real win is the fix landing where it belongs: on Microsoft’s side. Huge thanks to everyone who tested, reported and shared. 💚

Next up: the Windows Phone devices are coming out of storage 👀Windows Phone Xbox Live games library
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2026-05-16

Retro Xbox 360 gamercard on the Summary tab

XCT gamercardSign in with your Xbox account and the Summary tab now leads with a retro Xbox 360 style gamercard: gamertag in the yellow stripe, your profile picture, a Rep row built from your rarest equipped badges (tenure, gamerscore tier, then up to three Initiative badges), total lifetime gamerscore, your picked Zone, and a strip of the five games you've played most recently. Pick your Zone from the dropdown below the card — Recreation, Pro, Family, Underground, or Cheater.
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2026-05-15

Tenure leaderboard

New built-in board ranks every tracked gamertag by years on Xbox Live, sourced from the profile tenure badge. The board auto-refreshes every November 15 (Xbox Live launch anniversary) so tenure year-counts roll over with Microsoft's clock.
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2026-05-15

Leaderboards toolbar: switcher, filter, search + 5 new boards

Jump between any leaderboard from the toolbar dropdown, filter to All / Members / Xbox Employees / Rare Gamertags, live-search by gamertag, and use Find Me to page-jump to your own row. New boards: Games Played (with achievement), Total Gamerscore, Games Completed, Gamer by Achievements Won, Gamer by Completion %.
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2026-05-15

Richer per-achievement detail

Achievement detail rows now show full millisecond-precision unlock timestamps, the rarity tier label (Rare / Common) alongside the percentage, a Secret chip on hidden achievements, in-progress progress bars ("73 / 100"), and a Challenge chip with the end date on time-limited seasonal achievements.
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2026-05-08

Games Played leaderboard back on the index

The Games Played leaderboard is now a built-in card alongside Baby Games. Tracked gamertags are ranked by total titles played across Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series, sourced via the Xbox API.
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2026-05-08

Tracked gamertags now appear on custom leaderboards

Custom leaderboards can now show tracked (non-registered) gamertags alongside registered xct.live users — their per-game gamerscore is fetched once and cached, so any leaderboard whose game list overlaps their library will surface them automatically.
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2026-05-08

Custom leaderboards now support editors

Leaderboard creators can grant edit access to other users via a user-search picker on the leaderboard detail page. Editors can add and remove games; only the owner can manage the editor roster or delete the leaderboard.
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2026-05-08

Tile images for custom leaderboards

Pick a tile image for your leaderboard from any game it tracks. Card thumbnails now render at the image's natural aspect ratio — no more cropping.
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2026-05-08

Leaderboards moved to the top ribbon

Leaderboards is now its own top-level tab right after Achievements, instead of being buried as a sub-view.
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Experimental achievement-tracking features, designed for XCT.

⚡ Preview — nothing here has shipped yet. These features are still being built, they run on your own data, and they can change or disappear. Where there is a vote, your pick decides what ships.

🗳️ "By platform" — pick the replacement

The breakdown on every public profile’s Stats tab is being rebuilt: it now reads the curated platform tree the Games filters use, so Xbox Cloud Gaming, XBLA, Kinect, Handheld and Web finally appear. Games played still means games you’ve won an achievement in. Three layouts render your real numbers below — vote for the one that ships.

Version 1 — Focused tree

One metric at a time, so there’s a single bar column instead of three. Groups collapse; bars scale against the biggest row at the same depth, so Xbox 360 stays readable next to Xbox One.

Version 2 — Platform cards

No table at all. One card per platform, grouped, with all three metrics at full size and sub-platforms as chips. The only one of the three that doesn’t side-scroll on a phone.

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The whole breakdown in three stacked bars, over a ranked table carrying value and share for every metric. Click a bar segment or a row to drill into its sub-platforms.

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The RealScore points curve across the entire games library — visualising the distribution and range of every game’s total RealScore.

⚡ Preview — only you can see this. Library-wide RealScore analytics, hidden from everyone else for now.

RealScore rewards rare-achievement skill over raw Gamerscore.

How is RealScore calculated? ▾
  • Each achievement earns a multiplier = √(100 ÷ its global Xbox unlock %), capped at ×100.
  • So an achievement only 1% of players have is worth ×10; a 10% one ×3.16; a 50% one ×1.41.
  • The multiplier belongs to the achievement, not the player — the same achievement is worth the same to everyone. One formula and one set of multipliers, site-wide.
  • A game’s RealScore is that sum across every achievement in the game.
  • Its RealScore ratio is RealScore ÷ Gamerscore — the average multiplier across the whole list, and the number the crown is judged on.
  • The ratio ignores size. Doubling a game’s Gamerscore doubles both halves, so a 1,000G game and a 5,000G game compete on equal terms — a tight brutal game can beat a sprawling easy one.
  • It uses Microsoft’s official whole-population unlock % — not a small tracked crowd — so genuinely hard achievements count for far more.
  • Read to two decimal places (down to 0.01%) for extra precision on ultra-rare achievements.
  • Achievements with no published unlock % count at face Gamerscore (×1).
  • To rank on ratio a game needs at least 10 achievements and 500 Gamerscore — a handful of achievements nobody bothered with is not the same as a hard game.
  • Updated daily.
RealScore = Σa GSa × ma
ma = min(100, √(100 / pa)) if pa is known, else 1
GSa = achievement a’s Gamerscore, pa = its global Xbox unlock % (2 dp)

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This board is how the community decides what XCT builds next. Submit it, rally the votes, and we ship it.

  • Submit anything — a feature idea, a bug, a suggestion or a change request.
  • Earn Core when your ticket ships — the reward lands once it’s implemented and live, first come, first served. Queuing or accepting a ticket awards nothing on its own; duplicates are marked dupe and earn nothing.
  • Write it to win — a clear title, the exact steps or a concrete example, screenshots and links. Sharp tickets ship faster.
  • Stay anonymous if you want — post anonymously (name hidden, you still earn Core) or hidden (only the XCT team sees it).
  • When your ticket ships, a reward lands for you to claim on the Core screen.
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Preservation Wiki

Why some owned Xbox games can no longer be installed anywhere — and the games it affects.

Hard delists: why an owned game can vanish completely

When Microsoft hard-delists a title it removes its catalogue entry entirely — not just the store page. Everything that resolves a game routes through that entry, so removing it breaks every install path at once:

  • Windows can’t install it. The Store’s own install pipeline (AppInstallManager) returns 0x80190194 — “no such product” — because there is nothing in the catalogue to resolve, even for an account that owns it.
  • No licence can be issued. The licensing service resolves through the same catalogue entry. Once it’s gone, no machine and no console can be granted a fresh licence — ownership is intact, but there is nothing left to redeem it against.
  • Delisting is not revocation. Your entitlement survives (a live licence still reads 9999-12-31). Microsoft keeps the receipt and deletes the shop.

UW9 games: why they can’t be sideloaded, and can’t run without a licence

A UW9 package is an Xbox console game captured from a drive — an encrypted .xvc container, not a PC app. Two hard limits apply:

Not a PC packageWindows can only Add-AppxPackage a plain/dev-signed package. A retail .xvc is encrypted, so a PC cannot install it — sideloading is not possible.
Needs a content keyDecrypting it needs the ClipSvc content key, which is only ever written when the title is installed on a machine or console while licensed. No install, no key.
Console needs the licenceAn Xbox in Dev Mode installs unencrypted/dev packages only. A retail .xvc installs on a console only if that console holds the licence — which, after a hard delist, can never be issued again.

So a UW9 game backed up from a drive is only re-installable on a console that already holds its licence (or already has the key). Once a title is hard-delisted, any copy whose key was never captured is unrecoverable — nobody can be licensed for it again.

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Talk Xbox — collecting, achievements, tech help, trading and more.

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Long-form posts by XCT members — collecting stories, completion write-ups, hardware projects and whatever else they felt like rambling about. Every member can write one.

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Completion of the Day

Every day, the hardest game anyone 100% completed takes the crown — and everyone who completed it that day (UTC) shares it. Hardest means the highest RealScore ratio: the average rarity of a game’s achievements, so a tight brutal game beats a sprawling easy one regardless of size. The ranking is frozen at 00:00 UTC and the day is taken from when you actually unlocked, not when you synced. Days before 5 August 2026 were judged on total RealScore — see the note further down. Every winner since we started, newest first.

👑 Most Completions of the Day

🥇 Top 10 hardest games by RealScore ratio

📐 How RealScore works

RealScore rewards rare-achievement skill over raw Gamerscore.

How is RealScore calculated? ▾
  • Each achievement earns a multiplier = √(100 ÷ its global Xbox unlock %), capped at ×100.
  • So an achievement only 1% of players have is worth ×10; a 10% one ×3.16; a 50% one ×1.41.
  • The multiplier belongs to the achievement, not the player — the same achievement is worth the same to everyone. One formula and one set of multipliers, site-wide.
  • A game’s RealScore is that sum across every achievement in the game.
  • Its RealScore ratio is RealScore ÷ Gamerscore — the average multiplier across the whole list, and the number the crown is judged on.
  • The ratio ignores size. Doubling a game’s Gamerscore doubles both halves, so a 1,000G game and a 5,000G game compete on equal terms — a tight brutal game can beat a sprawling easy one.
  • It uses Microsoft’s official whole-population unlock % — not a small tracked crowd — so genuinely hard achievements count for far more.
  • Read to two decimal places (down to 0.01%) for extra precision on ultra-rare achievements.
  • Achievements with no published unlock % count at face Gamerscore (×1).
  • To rank on ratio a game needs at least 10 achievements and 500 Gamerscore — a handful of achievements nobody bothered with is not the same as a hard game.
  • Updated daily.
RealScore = Σa GSa × ma
ratio = RealScore ÷ Σa GSa
ma = min(100, √(100 / pa)) if pa is known, else 1
GSa = achievement a’s Gamerscore, pa = its global Xbox unlock % (2 dp)
Worked example — Gears of War 4
The achievement “The Perfect Run” (50G) is unlocked by only 0.09% of players.
Multiplier = min(100, √(100 ÷ 0.09)) = √1111 = ×33.3.
It adds 50 × 33.3 ≈ 1,667 — vs just 50 for a common one.

The crown goes to whoever completes the highest-RealScore game each day — measured on the game’s full achievement list, so it can’t be inflated by how many people own it.

Indie Spotlight Race

One small game each week. First members to 100% it from the starting gun earn Core — 500 for the win, down to 5 for 100th. Every race we have run, newest first.

Completion cards

Every game you have finished, graded and ready to share. Pick one, choose a design, turn the numbers you want on or off, then export it as an image.

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Set a custom picture, a hidden or unreleased official gamerpic, or an upscaled Xbox 360 gamerpic from the Gallery. xbox.com only offers the presets; this uses the Xbox app’s own upload route, so Xbox reviews the picture before it goes live (a few minutes).
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Where the main navigation lives. Sidebar modes turn the menus into an expandable folder tree (great on superwide screens); Windows XCT mode gives you a bottom taskbar with a Start menu. Desktop only — phones keep the drawer.
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Re-scan your linked Xbox account on demand. Free accounts can run each scan once per 24 hours; PRO accounts are limited only to one scan every 5 minutes. New-gen-only accounts can skip the Xbox 360 scan.
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Manage Your Collection

Keep track of every game you own across Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox 360, and PC. See your full entitlements, purchase history, and play history in one place. Never lose track of a game again.

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We integrate your entitlements, purchase history, play history, and achievements directly into the store database. Easily filter out games you already own, highlight games you've played, and find the titles that matter most to you.

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  • Your vote decides which design ships. Where there is a vote in Labs, the winning layout is the one that goes live for everyone
  • Things that never make it out of Labs are yours to have used anyway
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  • Sort your library by Last scanned to find what is out of date, then target exactly those
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  • Downgrade Xbox One, Series X|S and Windows games to earlier versions — hidden developer and cheat menus, and achievements the latest version broke, unlocked
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