Xbox testing new 'badges' for games
July 26, 2022 by Tom Whiting
If you're a member of the Alpha, or Alpha Skip Ahead releases (pre-testing releases) for Xbox, you may notice some subtle changes to some of your games. Xbox is testing new 'badges' for these. Specifically, these are for unplayable games.
Games that are pre-release, and require a disk are now identified as such when you see the game icon, whether on the dashboard, or in the game list
Usually, I would argue that Sony has been catching up to Microsoft, but it appears that this time, Microsoft is catching up to Sony. This is , however, a welcome addition to the console, as these should have been there from day one
This will also be handy in detecting what games that you installed via Game Pass, which are not available any longer.
As usual, this is just a 'preview' release feature now, however, give it a few weeks, and it'll make it's way through to the normal cycle of Xbox releases!
