A whimsical wordsmith at Game Rant, crafting pixelated odysseys from a lifelong love for gaming and a diet of 1UP mushrooms. Xbox owners have dedicated gamertags that allow them to separate themselves ...

Last year Microsoft shrunk the character limit for Gamertags from 15 down to 12, but recently players discovered that limit doesn’t apply on Xbox 360. In a post shared yesterday on Reddit, user Talers ...

Your Xbox gamertag is your online "name" — how other players identify you in-game. When you set up your Xbox, it sets a gamertag for you. This is why you are allowed one free gamertag choice; the ...

If you’ve been eyeing that one particular Gamertag on Xbox for years, Microsoft has some fantastic news for you. The company just announced that they’ll be freeing almost one million defunct Gamertags ...

Having had two separate eBay auctions to sell his rare Xbox Live gamertag yanked off the site for apparent terms of service violations, a New York State man is now ...

Xbox rolled out a new update today that allows you to change your gamertag to any name you want – even if it's already taken. In the past, if someone already had the Gamertag you wanted, your only ...

These days, people usually equate "online identity" with things like avatars or bitmojis. At the most basic level, however, an online user is almost always identified by their online handles or ...

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking here. You want a profile that locally has one name and over the network has a different name, or do you want to change your gamertag, or do you want people to ...

Four months after allowing Rockstar to launch "The Ballad of Gay Tony" (a downloadable add-on for Grand Theft Auto IV) on Xbox 360, Microsoft has tweaked the "Code of Conduct" for its online Xbox Live ...

Microsoft is revoking its own version of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy when it comes to Xbox Live. The Xbox 360 maker today updated the terms of use and code of ...

Xbox is revamping its gamertag functionality to allow Xbox gamers to truly be able to express themselves in a way that matches their identity and gamers can also now choose any gamertag, even if it is ...