{"id":52243,"date":"2026-05-14T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=52243"},"modified":"2026-05-14T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:22:36","slug":"xboxs-new-filters-aim-to-make-sense-of-disorganized-game-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=52243","title":{"rendered":"Xbox&#8217;s New Filters Aim To Make Sense Of Disorganized Game Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"news-post\">&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-article\">\n<div class=\"slide-key image-holder gallery-image-holder credit-image-wrap lead-image-holder\" data-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2172273\/xbox-new-filters-aim-to-make-sense-of-disorganized-game-libraries\/\" data-post-title=\"Xbox's new filters aim to make sense of disorganized game libraries\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-post-id=\"2172273\">\n<picture id=\"pfddd14f5447c9557660197594b9b21a5\">&#13;<source media=\"(min-width: 429px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/xboxs-new-filters-aim-to-make-sense-of-disorganized-game-libraries\/intro-1778697410.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\">&#13;<source media=\"(max-width: 428px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/xboxs-new-filters-aim-to-make-sense-of-disorganized-game-libraries\/intro-1778697410.sm.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\">&#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/xboxs-new-filters-aim-to-make-sense-of-disorganized-game-libraries\/intro-1778697410.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2172273\/xbox-new-filters-aim-to-make-sense-of-disorganized-game-libraries\/\" data-post-id=\"2172273\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-slide-title=\"Xbox's new filters aim to make sense of disorganized game libraries: \" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"The Xbox Series X console with its controller.\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n                    <\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Aaron Souppouris for Engadget<\/span>\n                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"columns-holder \">\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t take long to start clogging up your collection of Xbox games. It&#8217;s sometimes tough to choose between titles you&#8217;ve actually purchased, those shared with you and others you can play via a Game Pass subscription.\u00a0Microsoft&#8217;s solution? Filters.\u00a0Today, the company has begun rolling out a new Xbox Insider update that will finally let you sort out what&#8217;s in your library, so you can easily know what you can actually play.\u00a0(And perhaps also to serve as a reminder that you need to buy a title you sunk dozens of hours into over Game Pass, but subsequently forgot about.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-holder embedded gallery-image-holder credit-image-wrap\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/uploads\/embed\/it-0xPIoD-1778696249.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Microsoft<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sure, this is clearly a feature that should have been available on Xbox systems years ago, but it&#8217;ll still be useful for the poor souls still dedicated to Microsoft&#8217;s beleaguered console. Additionally, this Xbox Insider update also adds a new boot up sequence with revamped sound and animation (yay?), as well as tiered Gamerscore badges to make hardcore players appear even more obnoxious.\u00a0(Again, why is this just happening now?)<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-holder embedded gallery-image-holder credit-image-wrap\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" alt=\"Xbox's new tiered Gamerscore badges\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/uploads\/embed\/it-To3YJw-1778696367.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Microsoft<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>As usual, Microsoft slowly rolls out new updates to Insiders, so there&#8217;s no guarantee when they&#8217;ll actually see the update. If you&#8217;re interested, though, you can sign up for the program right from your console. Just be prepared to deal with instability and quirks that can come from unfinished software. Microsoft hasn&#8217;t announced when these new features will reach regular Xbox players, but judging from history, it typically takes a few months.<\/p>\n<p>This Xbox Insider update comes just a few days after <em>Forza Horizon 6<\/em>, one of the platform&#8217;s few major exclusives, was leaked onto the internet. Xbox has also made some surprising moves recently:\u00a0the\u00a0division&#8217;s new CEO, Asha Sharma, just announced that Xbox will be moving away from Microsoft&#8217;s trouble Copilot AI entirely. That doesn&#8217;t mean we won&#8217;t see\u00a0<em>any<\/em> AI capabilities on Xbox down the line, but for now the platform is wisely separating itself from\u00a0Copilot, something that Microsoft is also pulling back on in\u00a0WIndows 11.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n<\/article>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2172273\/xbox-new-filters-aim-to-make-sense-of-disorganized-game-libraries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13;&#13;&#13; &#13; Aaron Souppouris for Engadget It doesn&#8217;t take long to start clogging up your collection of Xbox games&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[8362,22643,22642,258,6810,3738,6728],"class_list":["post-52243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-aim","tag-disorganized","tag-filters","tag-game","tag-libraries","tag-sense","tag-xboxs","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}