Leak: Next Xbox Could Cost $1,800, Game Pass Goes À La Carte, Fight Night Returns

Fortune reports Microsoft projects the next Xbox, Project Helix, at up to $1,800 without subsidy, Game Pass may split into paid extras and EA confirmed Fight Night is coming back. Everything that happened in the last 24 hours in games. 🎮 Project Helix: At $1,800 it would be the most expensive Xbox ever, double the price of a PS5 Pro. Fortune also reports a new Xbox handheld by the end of 2027, which leadership threatened to cancel amid fights between the Xbox and Windows teams. 🦾 Cyberpunk 2077: The patch drops the same day Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2 premieres on Netflix, with full details on a REDStreams broadcast on October 21 at 10am ET. 📦 Xbox trade-in: Best Buy reportedly pays up to $200 for a Series S, and Microsoft said in June the traded consoles would be refurbished and resold cheaper. 🥊 Fight Night: IGN thinks a brand new game is more likely than a remaster because of the licenses involved. In the meantime EA focused on its UFC series, with UFC 6 out this year. 💳 Xbox Game Pass: The overhaul is part of a plan to shrink Xbox in stages, with 3,200 job cuts through fiscal year 2027. Growth has stalled at around 35 million subscribers. 🧅 Shrek 2 Remastered: Aspyr Media is remaking the 2004 Activision co-op game, which lets up to four people play and switch between four characters. 🖥️ AMD FSR 4.1: It works like the hardware-accelerated upscaling Sony uses on PS5 and PS5 Pro, and there is still no release date. 🧛 ReVamp: PC Gamer says Claude Opus 5.5 reportedly sparked a wave of clones on Steam and Roblox. Closed Discord tests start with invites from October 29, and the game still launches on PC on March 25, 2027.