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Xbox shovelware devs pump out 300 spam updates in 10 days, breaking Gamerscore record

Shovelware developers continue to exploit the achievements system by adding over 300,000 Gamerscore to the Xbox ecosystem via easy title updates over the past 10 days.

Now that we're halfway through the year, Microsoft's semi-annual cap on adding new achievements and Gamerscore to games has reset, and as always, developers pumping out low-effort shovelware titles have wasted no time in firing out hundreds of spam title updates with easy Gamerscore. After crunching the numbers, we've found that 305 shovelware games were all updated with easy 1,000G title updates since June 29.

Microsoft's Xbox achievement policy allows developers to add up to 100 new achievements, worth a maximum of 1,000 Gamerscore, to a game over a six-month period, with resets occurring at the start of January and July. With July now here, shovelware developers have started rolling out title updates that, for the most part, add no meaningful content and exist solely to introduce more easy achievements and make their games more attractive to players looking to inflate their Gamerscore totals.

From June 29 (a couple of days before the cap reset) to July 7, shovelware developers injected a staggering 305,000G into the Xbox ecosystem through these updates alone — the most came from Jolly Lobster Interactive, which pumped out 71 updates. On July 1, the day the cap reset, the record for the most Gamerscore added in a single day was shattered, with 156 updates going live, totaling 156,000G. The record was previously set on January 2, 2026, when 70 title updates totaling 70,000 Gamerscore were rolled out, so this has been beaten by more than double.

*Trueachievements.