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Wednesday30th Aug 2023
News 'Rise Of The Triad: Ludicrous Edition' Is The Next '90s FPS Making Its Way To Xbox
From the team behind Quake 2 Remastered!
Nightdive Studios is very busy at the moment! Yep, the team that helped bring Quake 2 to modern platforms last month has also been heads down working on Rise Of The Triad: Ludicrous Edition - another '90s FPS coming to Xbox. The newly-enhanced port hits Xbox platforms on September 29th, and it sounds like...
News Starfield 'Children Of The Sky' Music Video Is Here, And It's Giving Us The Chills
We're imagining dragons
We didn't see this collaboration coming! As part of Xbox's big marketing push for Starfield, the team at Bethesda has partnered with music outfit Imagine Dragons to launch 'Children of the Sky' - a brand-new song to coincide with Starfield's launch. We're not hugely familiar with Imagine Dragons' catalogue of tunes...
News Lots Of Games Reduced By 90% In This Week's Xbox Super Saver Sale
HUGE discounts for great games!
Looking for some cheap Xbox games in this week's big selection of Xbox sales? We've already highlighted the huge "End of Summer" sale that's live on Xbox at the moment, and as part of that, we've also got an "Xbox Super Saver Sale" that includes a whole bunch of games discounted to as low as 90% right now. There are...
News A New King Kong Game Is Coming To Xbox Consoles This October
Welcome back to Skull Island
Update (Wed 30th Aug, 2023): We now have a date for this one! It's coming to Xbox on October 17th, 2023. The standard version will retail at $39.99, while the "Colossal Edition" featuring eight exclusive film grains along with a "boss rush mode" and a few other bonus features will retail at $49.99. You can check out the...
Talking Point Would You Like A 'Fully Open World' Gears 6?
Recent rumours hint at the possibility
Xbox developer The Coalition sprinkled more 'open' campaign levels throughout Gears 5 - the team's last release barring the excellent Hivebusters expansion for the same title. The 2019 Xbox exclusive wasn't open world as such, but it contained some vast level design that strayed fairly far from the linear...
News Xbox Fan Sparks Huge Debate After Receiving First 'Strike' For Bad Language
"This account violated the Community Standards"
It's been a couple of weeks now since Xbox announced plans to introduce a new "strike" based enforcement system, and the community still seems divided over whether it's been implemented effectively so far or not. There's actually been a lot of debate about it in the Xbox Series X Reddit community over...
News Lies Of P Preload Now Live Ahead Of Xbox Game Pass Launch
Get ready for release!
There's another major title heading to Xbox Game Pass next month, folks - it's not all about Starfield! Lies of P lies just beyond Bethesda's RPG; the upcoming Soulslike hits the Game Pass library on September 19th. And, if you want to be fully prepared for the game's arrival, Lies of P is now ready to preload on Xbox! Yep,...
News Sony Veteran Becomes Xbox's New Director Of Partnerships In Japan
"Opening up a new chapter"
Back in December of last year, we noted how Xbox was looking for a "Director of Japan Game Creator Partnerships", and it looks like that role has now been filled by former Sony executive Mena Sato Kato. Sony Interactive Entertainment's ex-vice president of mobile business took to LinkedIn earlier this week to share the...
News Halo Infinite's 'Husky Raid' Mode Introduces Eight New Small-Scale Forge Maps
All wrapped up in "everyone’s favorite linear CTF mode"
Developer 343 Industries has introduced another new game mode to Halo Infinite - this time a returning classic that debuted in the team's very first outing, Halo 4. 'Husky Raid' is a tighter spin on Capture the Flag, where Spartans duke it out on small, narrow maps that funnel players right...
News 'Call Of The Wild: The Angler' Is Today's Surprise Addition To Xbox Game Pass (August 30)
The console version arrives today
Just when we thought Xbox Game Pass was done for the month of August, Microsoft squeezes in one more addition to the service. Call Of The Wild: The Angler is coming to the library today as developer Expansive Worlds brings its open world fishing sim to consoles. Here's a brief intro to this new Xbox Game Pass...
Tuesday29th Aug 2023
News Shadow Gambit Has Five-Star Reviews On Xbox, But The Developer Is Shutting Down
"We'll be slowly ramping down the studio"
A few weeks ago, we highlighted how Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew was getting a fantastic reception following its August 17th release on Xbox, but now the studio behind it has announced plans to officially close its doors. That studio is the Shadow Tactics and Desperados 3
News Here's A First Look At Terminator: Resistance's Xbox Series X Upgrade
Return to battle
Back in late July, it was announced that 2019's Terminator: Resistance would be getting an upgrade for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S - firstly in the form of a free upgrade on September 27th for the base game and Infiltrator Mode, and then in the form of a (paid) "Complete Edition" featuring all previously released content on...
News Jagged Alliance 3 Is Bringing Its Highly-Rated Tactical RPG To Xbox
"Fight in tactically deep turn-based combat"
When Jagged Alliance 3 arrived on PC back in July, it marked the first mainline entry in the tactical RPG series since 1999, and it somehow managed to live up to the hype - racking up an impressive 81 score on Metacritic at the time. Now, the game is finally about to make its Xbox debut, although we...
Soapbox Go Buy The Best Console Version Of Far Cry 3 While It's Cheap On Xbox
The 360 version is on sale again!
Update (Tue 29th Aug, 2023): We first ran this story a few months ago, and now Far Cry 3 for Xbox 360 is on sale again! Therefore, we're giving it a little bump so you can decide whether it's something you're interested in purchasing. Original story (Sun 21st May, 2023): Over the last few months I've somehow...
News This Week's Xbox Sales Include Some Rarely Seen Backwards Compatible Games
From the Xbox 360 era
This week's massive "End of Summer" Xbox sale brings with it over 50 backwards compatible classics from the original Xbox and Xbox 360 eras, and the most exciting bit is that we've got a few games that are rarely discounted if ever! Some examples of these include Braid, Flashback, From Dust, Monday Night Combat and many...
News 10+ Xbox Game Pass Titles Received New Announcements At Gamescom 2023
The full roundup of reveals and release dates
The big annual Gamescom event is done and dusted for another year, and Xbox showed up in a big way! That also includes Xbox Game Pass, which received new announcements for 10 titles in all. We did go through all of these last week, but they were broken up into a large number of individual articles, so...
News Under The Waves Is A 'Love Letter To The Oceans', And It's Available Now On Xbox
"Dive into a gorgeous underwater world"
Although the new Xbox Game Pass release of Sea of Stars might be hogging the spotlight today, we still wanted to bring another new launch to your attention in the form of Under The Waves, which is being published by Quantic Dream of Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls and Detroit: Become Human fame. Under The Waves...
News Xbox 'End Of Summer' Sale Now Live, Almost 1000 Games Discounted
It's another HUGE set of reductions!
Welcome to the Xbox "End of Summer" sale 2023! Microsoft has just put almost 1000 great games on sale for the next week-or-so, including the likes of Hogwarts Legacy, Dead Space, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and much more. The "End of Summer" part is the highlight here, although we've also got Super Saver, Summer of...
News Major Starfield Patch Arrives On Xbox Ahead Of This Week's Launch
Make sure you're ready to go!
You may have noticed yesterday that Starfield received a new update on Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and PC, which means if you haven't got automatic updates turned on, you'll need to start the update manually as soon as possible! The size is 15.48GB on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, whereas the PC version is slightly...
Monday28th Aug 2023
News Xbox Game Pass Title 'Sea Of Stars' Is Getting Absolutely Incredible Reviews
Including a Pure Xbox 10/10!
Sea of Stars goes live for all Xbox Game Pass players tomorrow, August 29, and ahead of launch the critics seem hugely impressed with this upcoming addition to the service. In fact, our very own PJ O'Reilly has granted the game a coveted 10/10 score here at Pure Xbox, and lots of other outlets are attaching similarly...
News Immortals Of Aveum On Unreal Engine 5 Is 'Cutting Edge', But Overall Xbox Visuals Suffer
"It's also clear Immortals has technical issues that need solving"
The team at Digital Foundry has taken a good look at EA's new Immortals of Aveum, and the results here are somewhat surprising, at least on a technical level. The overall sentiment is that the game has lots of new-gen cutting edge tech under the hood, but that tech doesn't always...
Review Sea of Stars - An Instant Indie Classic Magics Its Way Onto Xbox Game Pass
Total eclipse of our hearts
If you've played Sabotage Studio's rather excellent 2018 effort, The Messenger, you'll know this is a dev team that's a dab hand at revisiting retro classics - in this case the likes of Ninja Gaiden - and updating them into slick and entirely modern-feeling experiences that keep the old-school vibes alive whilst providing...
Mobile Suit Gundaaayum!
There has, understandably, been a whole heap of interest leading into the release of Armored Core VI: Fires Of Rubicon, and certainly a great deal more hype from a much wider range of gamers than is usually the case with this long-running, and rather niche, mech shooter series. Of course that's all down to how FromSoftware's...
News Quake 2 Remastered Dev Wants To Work On Xbox 360 Classic 'The Darkness'
"It's on the list"
It's fair to say that developer Nightdive Studios knows a thing or two about bringing back a classic - the team just worked on Quake 2 Remastered with Bethesda alongside a host of other projects like the System Shock remake. Well, it appears that the team now has another old school FPS in its sights. The company's CEO Stephen...
News Microsoft Pulls Xbox Game Pass Trial Ahead Of Starfield Release
You can no longer try out the service for $1
About three weeks ago Microsoft reintroduced its new, shorter Xbox Game Pass trial after pulling the $1 for a month offer back in March, but it seems that all of a sudden the company isn't feeling so generous. As we speedily approach Starfield's launch on the service, Xbox has decided to remove any sort...
News Xbox Is Working With Larian To Bring Split-Screen To Baldur's Gate 3 'Post Launch'
The Series S version won't ship with local co-op
There's been plenty of discussion surrounding Baldur's Gate 3's delayed Xbox launch as of late, with the team recently confirming a 2023 arrival for the Xbox Series X and S version. The new launch window confirmation comes as Microsoft allows the developer to drop local co-op support on Series S,...
Saturday26th Aug 2023
Review Immortals Of Aveum - EA's Spellbinding Shooter Packs A Punch
Story ain't this one's strong suit
The scale of EA's 'Originals' program has certainly grown this year with the arrival of Wild Hearts and Immortals of Aveum - two full-priced titles aimed squarely at the AAA gaming market. We've spent this week playing through the latter — EA's brand new magic-based shooter — and have come away largely...
Talking Point Have You Ever Bought An Xbox For One Specific Game?
Halo? Starfield? Tell us!
We're obviously now on the verge of Starfield's release, and we've been seeing a fair bit of discussion in the game's community about whether that one game alone is worth buying a new Xbox Series X or Series S console for. Ultimately, if you don't have access to a good gaming PC or a reliable Xbox Cloud Gaming connection,...
Feature These 20+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (August 28 - September 1)
Including the biggest Xbox launch of 2023!
Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for August 28th to September 1st! We've got a bunch of great games on the way over the next few days including Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Under the Waves,
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 26-27)
How about some Armored Core?
Welcome to the weekend! If you're looking for ways to stay busy on Xbox over the next few days, we've got more recent Game Pass titles, multiple Free Play Days games, some big new releases including Immortals of Aveum and Armored Core 6, and over 500 d
