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.