Xbox may finally be giving Game Pass the overhaul it badly needs

The planned overhaul could let players pay for individual Game Pass features instead of relying entirely on fixed subscription tiers.

Microsoft has spent years treating Game Pass as the centerpiece of Xbox, but the subscription service has become something of a problem for the company. Subscriber growth has fallen far short of internal expectations, while putting expensive first-party games on the service from day one has reportedly hurt the full-price sales Microsoft still relies on.

According to Fortune, Sharma is planning a major Game Pass overhaul that would let players choose some features à la carte, including add-ons for console-only games, cloud gaming, and multiplayer, while keeping a tiered subscription structure.

AMD drops FSR 4.1 on five-year-old Radeon graphics cards, and Xbox is next

AMD just breathed new life into RX 6000 cards months ahead of schedule

AMD gave RX 6000 users some good news earlier this year, but followed it up by making them wait till 2027. But now, Team Red seems to be moving ahead of schedule. FSR Upscaling 4.1 is now officially available on Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards, with support arriving through the new Adrenalin 26.10.1 driver.

It is still several months earlier than AMD's previous early-2027 target and brings its machine-learning upscaler to a GPU family that first appeared all the way back in 2020. AMD's Jack Huynh confirmed that support stretches from the RX 6900 series down to the RX 6400 class, with the company retuning the model and optimizing its execution for the older architecture.

The new EU Nintendo Switch 2 model lets you swap its battery, but don’t rush to upgrade

You can finally replace the battery yourself, but everything else feels very familiar.

Nintendo has started selling a new version of the Switch 2 in Europe, and its headline feature is one gamers have wanted for a long time: you can now swap out the console’s battery on your own.

If you have ever owned a handheld that could barely last an hour after a few years of use, you will appreciate this change. But does the new model bring anything else to the table? Not really, if a teardown shared by modyfikatorcasper on X is anything to go by.