You'll Soon Be Able To Hide Games From Your Xbox Achievements List

Microsoft is testing giving users much power complete what games look successful their Xbox achievements and tweaking really achievements look erstwhile they're earned. The changes are being introduced via nan company's free-to-join Xbox Insiders program, and will presumably rotation retired to each Xbox owners astatine immoderate constituent successful nan future.

Coming later successful April, prime Xbox Insiders will beryllium capable to hide games from their accomplishment list, whether they've completed them aliases not. Hidden games will still count towards users' Gamerscore, but nan action should service arsenic different measurement to curate your nationalist profile. Microsoft is besides experimenting pinch changing really it displays achievements. Xbox Insiders will person redesigned achievements pinch caller animations and notifications that lucifer nan civilization colour they've chosen for their Xbox interface. Games wherever Insiders person earned 100 percent of nan achievements will besides beryllium highlighted successful their achievements list, and insiders will beryllium capable to select their database to only position nan games they've afloat completed.

Being capable to hide games from nan accomplishment database has been "one of nan astir requested features" from Xbox Insiders, according to Microsoft. The company's March update that allowed users to selectively exclude games from nan Xbox's Quick Resume characteristic was likewise long-requested.  It would apt beryllium incorrect to qualify these changes arsenic being downstream of caller Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma's stated desire to "recommit" to nan Xbox, but they don't wounded erstwhile it comes to winning complete fans — particularly if nan company's continued beingness successful nan console abstraction ends up hinging connected an costly container that plays PC and Xbox games.