Celebrating 25 Years of Play: New Neighborhood Designs, XBOX Updates, FanFest Tour Dates, and More

25 years in the past, XBOX got down to deliver gamers collectively by way of the video games and worlds they love, and in the present day, that mission continues to be what drives every little thing we do.  

Today, we’re sharing a couple of extra methods we’re celebrating 25 years of play together with, the newest XBOX updates, community-created designs for gamerpics, backgrounds, and themes, curated Game Pass collections, the complete FanFest Tour schedule and sweepstakes particulars, and extra. 

From left: Wallpaper by Klobrille and Gamer Profile by Ben Kenobi. 

Over the years, a lot of you will have shared your XBOX-inspired designs with us. We proceed to be humbled by the response and impressed by your creativity and expertise. To assist mark 25 years of XBOX, we’re partnering with a pair of creators from the XBOX neighborhood, Klobrille and Ben Kenobi, to publish a set of gamerpics, backgrounds, and a dynamic theme for XBOX consoles: by the neighborhood, for the neighborhood, and out there in the present day. 

These designs replicate what XBOX has at all times been about, the connection between gamers, creators, and the video games that deliver us collectively. To be taught extra about what impressed the designs, observe Klobrille and Ben Kenobi.  

Here’s the way to make these designs your individual: 

• Console — Gamerpic & Theme: Settings › Profile › Customize profile, then select your favourite. 

• Console — Dynamic background: Settings › General › Personalization › My background › Dynamic background. 

• XBOX app on PC — Gamerpic: Open View Profile and choose the pencil icon over your present Gamerpic. 

• XBOX app on PC — Theme: Open View Profile › Customize profile and select your Theme. 

If considered one of these designs sparks one thing for you, we’d like to see it. Share your individual creations and tag @XBOX utilizing #XBOX25.

XBOX 25^th Anniversary Badge 

Beginning in the present day, gamers who register to their XBOX account on console, PC, or the XBOX cell app will obtain the XBOX twenty fifth Anniversary profile badge, forward of XBOX’s twenty fifth anniversary on November 15.

The badge will likely be out there by way of the tip of 2026, and may be displayed in your profile.

XBOX Game Pass Collections

To mark 25 years of unforgettable video games, we’re bringing a specifically curated celebration of XBOX historical past to XBOX Game Pass. These curated Game Pass collections will deliver collectively memorable video games from legendary franchises that outlined every era of XBOX, playable on console and/or PC.

Relive, or expertise for the primary time, the classics from the unique XBOX, and hold the enjoyable going as you journey by way of different favorites throughout XBOX 360, XBOX One, and XBOX Series X|S. Enjoy beloved titles like Fable Anniversary, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Fallout 4, Psychonauts 2, and rather more on this particular tribute to the video games that form XBOX’s 25 yr legacy.

XBOX FanFest Tour Dates

The XBOX FanFest Tour is a worldwide, multi-city run of fan-first occasions constructed round connection, local people, and the video games we love. We kicked issues off in Los Angeles on the XBOX Games Showcase, advised you we had been headed to gamescom subsequent, and in the present day we’re sharing the remainder of the stops.

Here’s the place the tour is headed:

• Cologne, Germany — August 26, at gamescom
• Tokyo, Japan — September 17, throughout Tokyo Game Show
• London, U.Ok. — September 26
• Mexico City, Mexico — October 17
• Sydney, Australia — October 17
• Toronto, Canada — November 6
• Seattle, U.S. — More data coming quickly!

Ready to affix the XBOX FanFest Tour?

Tickets for each cease will likely be awarded by way of city-specific sweepstakes, giving followers world wide an opportunity to be a part of the expertise.

Visit the XBOX.com FanFest page to enter, discover upcoming stops, and keep updated on all issues FanFest. Wherever you be part of us, FanFest is about one factor: bringing gamers collectively to have fun the enjoyment of play.

Explore the twenty fifth Anniversary Hub

We will proceed to have extra methods for followers to have fun, join, and play collectively. Visit the XBOX.com 25th Anniversary hub to remain up-to-date on the newest anniversary updates, unique experiences, merchandise, information, and extra as we have fun 25 years of play.