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Release notes and announcements from XCT.live — new features, data drops and what changed this week.
- The XCT Ambassador Program is open: carry XCT.live and get XCT Pro free (2026-10-06) — Put XCT.live on your XBOX profile and wear the XCT server tag on Discord, and you get XCT Pro, VIP and the green Ambassador chip for free, for as long as you keep them there. Open to every member today.
- The Smrnov 1 Million Gamerscore XBOX 360 Challenge is live (2026-10-06) — Can you earn 1,000,000 Gamerscore from XBOX 360 games only? The Smrnov Challenge is live for every member: enter free, track your race, plan your games and earn your place in the Hall of Fame.
- RealScore is now the same for everyone, and RealScore has its own page (2026-10-04) — RealScore is now the same for every member who unlocks the same achievement. See what that means for Completion of the Day, and the new RealScore page with the daily biggest movers.
- Your Mythic count now matches Xbox exactly (2026-09-30) — Your Mythic count on XCT is now Xbox's own number. We recalibrated 12,745 profiles: 5,605 counts changed, 4,557 of them went up.
- Mythic Achievements are here — live on your profile (2026-09-29) — Mythic Achievements are official. XCT now shows your Mythics, Mythic+ and Full Mythic on every profile, and frames each Mythic game.
- Your hidden games now stay hidden on XCT (2026-09-24) — A game you hide on Xbox now stays hidden on your public XCT pages too. Two new settings in Privacy let you choose where.
- Trending now: the games XCT members are playing right now (2026-09-24) — See the 5 games XCT members are playing right now, live on the Feed, updated every 5 minutes.
- The Mythic Vault is open to every member (2026-09-23) — Mythic achievements are coming to Xbox. Your Mythic Vault is open now, free for every member: every game you finished to the last base-game achievement, with stats, a leaderboard, a share card and the Mythical deck card.
- Xbox Disc to Digital: what 1,929 tracked games tell us so far (2026-09-01) — The first 1,929 Xbox One and Series games in XCT's community database reveal 701 working conversions, 264 failures and one crucial lesson: the exact disc edition matters.
- TargetScan — you pick, we scan (2026-08-28) — Re-scan the games you know are wrong. TargetScan re-checks one game end to end against Xbox — achievements, gamerscore, unlock timestamps and play time — and tells you what it found.
- XCT Pro: pay by card or on Ko-fi — annual billing and a launch price (2026-08-26)
- Badge Number Auction — one retired member number a day, highest bid wins (2026-08-25)
- Radar — one sweep across your Xbox world (2026-08-23)
- SuperSearch — supercharge your search, your way (2026-08-21)
- Leaderboards reimagined — gamerpic rows, XCT Core gems and a cleaner look (2026-06-24)
- Introducing Referrals & XCT Core — invite friends, build your Deck, earn currency (2026-06-21)
- What’s new: achievement pages reimagined — pack tagging & colours, unlock times, smarter search (2026-06-20)
- What’s new: Art Manager, the Games feed, the Achievements directory & rarity (2026-06-13)
- Microsoft fixes the Windows 8 Xbox sign-in bug — and XCT's Win8 Bridge helped get it there (2026-06-05)
- Retro Xbox 360 gamercard on the Summary tab (2026-05-16)
- Tenure leaderboard (2026-05-15)
- Leaderboards toolbar: switcher, filter, search + 5 new boards (2026-05-15)
- Richer per-achievement detail (2026-05-15)
- Games Played leaderboard back on the index (2026-05-08)
- Tracked gamertags now appear on custom leaderboards (2026-05-08)
- Custom leaderboards now support editors (2026-05-08)
- Tile images for custom leaderboards (2026-05-08)
- Leaderboards moved to the top ribbon (2026-05-08)