Poll How Much Did You Pay For Your Xbox Series X|S Console?
Did you bag a great deal?
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News Here's How The New Xbox Prices Compare To PS5, Switch 2 & Steam Machine
Going live as of August 2026
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News Xbox Announces Worldwide Price Increases For Series X|S Consoles
2TB model also being sunsetted
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News Xbox Play Anywhere Deserves Serious Praise After Passing 2,000 Supported Games
An incredible program that continues to flourish
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- Xbox Play Anywhere
PSA Xbox Rewards Allows You To Reduce The Price Of GTA 6
You've got plenty of time between now and November
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News GTA 6 Is Highlighting A Flaw With The Review System On Xbox
It already has over 2000 reviews on there!
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TodayFri, 26th Jun 2026
Poll How Much Did You Pay For Your Xbox Series X|S Console?
Did you bag a great deal?
Xbox console prices are obviously in the news at the moment, with Microsoft announcing some severe price increases yesterday that are expected to occur worldwide - although nothing is changing until August 1st of this year. There's also a report doing the rounds today that due to console price increases, both Xbox and...
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- Xbox Series X
- Xbox Series S
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News Xbox Play Anywhere Deserves Serious Praise After Passing 2,000 Supported Games
An incredible program that continues to flourish
It's really quite hard to keep track of new Xbox Play Anywhere titles. Although Microsoft does have a filter for them, it's sometimes unreliable and doesn't tell the full picture - multiple games release every week with Xbox Play Anywhere integration, and you quite often don't know about them until...
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- Xbox Play Anywhere
News GTA 6 Is Highlighting A Flaw With The Review System On Xbox
It already has over 2000 reviews on there!
We've seen some amazing console features being implemented by Team Xbox over the past few months since Asha Sharma took over, and at least in our opinion, we feel like the user review system should get some attention as well. GTA 6, in particular, is highlighting a flaw with the review system on Xbox right
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News 'Hooked Me From Minute One' - Beast Of Reincarnation Could Be A Must-Play On Xbox Game Pass
From the developer behind the Pokémon games
Game Freak's Beast of Reincarnation is a title we've been hearing about for some time now — it even played a major role in the Xbox Developer Direct showcase back in January — and it's almost ready to release on August 4th, 2026. With just a few weeks to go,
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Roundup All The Xbox Reveals From The June 2026 Capcom Showcase
Dark Arisen, Monster Hunter, Onimusha!
Earlier this week, we mentioned that Capcom was hosting a showcase on Thursday night featuring the likes of Onimusha: Way of the Sword and Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen, so we thought we'd share all the Xbox-related reveals with you today! There wasn't anything too crazy in here (as expected), but we did get a...
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- Xbox Series X
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News Three More Games Have Been Suddenly Delisted On Xbox In Recent Weeks
To go with the other titles we mentioned earlier this month
It's been a while since we last highlighted the delisted games for Xbox in June 2026, but at the time we only thought we'd be getting a few of them - Horizon Chase Turbo, Rec Room and Call of Duty: Warzone for Xbox One. All of those have now
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News Clutch Revealed As Xbox Play Anywhere Title, Dev Shows Off 60 Minutes Of Gameplay
The highly-anticipated new racer from Maverick Games
The new racer from Maverick Games known as Clutch has been getting a lot of attention this month, and the developer has followed up on that by sharing 60 minutes of new gameplay as part of a YouTube livestream. In addition to this, it was confirmed last night that Clutch will be an
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News Here's How The New Xbox Prices Compare To PS5, Switch 2 & Steam Machine
Going live as of August 2026
Yesterday unfortunately brought us yet another round of console price increases, as Xbox admitted that due to the issues around component shortages, they've been left with no choice but to bump the cost of the Series X and S. We still only know about the US price increases at the time of writing, with all 512GB Xbox...
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YesterdayThu, 25th Jun 2026
News Xbox Announces Worldwide Price Increases For Series X|S Consoles
2TB model also being sunsetted
Xbox has officially announced today that the price of the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S will be increasing worldwide as of August 1st, 2026. The increase will be US$100 for 512GB models and US$150 for 1TB models. Microsoft says the component shortage crisis is leaving them with no choice but to make this decision:...
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News Free Play Days: Try These Xbox Games For Free (June 25-28)
Your latest set of FPD freebies for the weekend
It's Thursday, so it's time once again for a new batch of Xbox Free Play Days titles! There are at least three games in the lineup, and we'll let you know if any others get added to the list later today. All of these are interesting additions, including a great racing title in Assetto Corsa...
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- Xbox Game Pass
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- Xbox Series X
PSA Xbox Rewards Allows You To Reduce The Price Of GTA 6
You've got plenty of time between now and November
Today's the day for GTA 6 pre-orders across Xbox and PS5, and as we covered yesterday, the base game is $79.99 in the US and the Ultimate Edition is $99.99 - pretty much what we expected, but certainly not cheap by any stretch! There's a great way to reduce the price of GTA 6 through the Xbox...
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News Abyssus Is Available Today With Xbox Game Pass, And Here's What The Reviews Are Saying
The latest day one release on XGP!
It's been a quiet week for Xbox Game Pass, but we've got a brand-new addition on the service today! This game is called Abyssus, and even though it's been on PC for a year now, today marks its first ever appearance on Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and PS5. It also lands alongside a major 1.3 update as shown off in...
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News Xbox Layoffs Seemingly Begin As Devs Reveal They're 'Open To Work'
Multiple Compulsion Games employees have left the studio
Back in the middle of June, there were countless reports and rumours doing the rounds about upcoming Xbox layoffs and potential studio closures, and we're expecting a lot more concrete news on this in the coming days. Compulsion Games (developer of We Happy Few and South of Midnight) was...
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News Sony Issues Statement Announcing 'Significant' Job Cuts At Bungie
The Destiny 2 and Marathon developer
We hate to keep bringing you news on layoffs, but it feels like it's happening all the time at the moment. This latest story is about former Halo developer and current Destiny and Marathon developer Bungie, which is owned these days by Sony and PlayStation Studios. In a couple of statements, it's been revealed...
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News Two Fighting Games Have Just Released On Xbox, Including A '90s Tekken Surprise
DoA has a new version too
Back on Saturday, one of the games we highlighted in our "Games Coming To Xbox Next Week" roundup was DEAD OR ALIVE 6 Last Round, which is officially available today on Xbox in a couple of forms. However, we didn't know at the time that the original Tekken would be coming to Xbox as well, so we thought we'd lump them both...
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- Fighting Games
- Tekken
- Dead or Alive
- Xbox Series X
Wednesday24th Jun 2026
News Eek, GTA 6's 'Physical Edition' Is A Download Code In A Box
Hey Siri, define 'Physical'
Grand Theft Auto VI feels like the most anticipated game in the history of games (well, for as long as I've been alive, anyway) so it's understandable if fans are foaming at the mouth to get their hands on the game. The only problem is, there isn't actually a disc to get your hands on. In an article on Business Wire, we...
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- GTA 6
- Rockstar Games
- Grand Theft Auto
- Physical Game
Feature Four New Console Features Begin Rolling Out Today For Xbox Insiders (June 24)
Alterations to gamertags, Game Hubs & more!
It's time for another four new Xbox console features! All of these are rolling out to select members of the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring in the Xbox Insider program today (June 24th), and they'll continue rolling out to more members over time before an eventual public release - most likely in July. There are a...
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- Xbox Series X
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News 'Scottish Dynasty Warriors' Tears Of Metal Is Marching To Xbox Game Pass Next Month
Ocht, it's near time tae fecht for freedom!
Paper Cult has announced that Tears of Metal, its upcoming hack-and-slash roguelike, will launch into Early Access on July 22 via Xbox Game Pass for PC, Steam, and the Microsoft Store. Here's what the developer has to say about the game: Tears of Metal is a medieval hack-and-slash co-op roguelike. Carve...
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- Xbox Game Pass
- PC
Round Up The Previews Are In For Star Wars: Galactic Racer
Now this is *checks notes* PODRACING!
In a galaxy not too far from where we're based in the UK, multiple outlets were treated to an exclusive first preview of Star Wars: Galactic Racer. For those unaware of the upcoming podracer from Fuse Games, it's described as a "high-stakes reinvention of racing" featuring a story-driven campaign and PvP...
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- Star Wars Galactic Racer
- Xbox Series X
- Xbox Series S
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News GTA 6 Costs $80, Described As A 'Single-Player Experience'
Pre-orders begin at 'midnight local time.'
Rockstar Games has finally announced the price of GTA 6, ahead of pre-orders commencing at midnight local time. Grand Theft Auto VI will cost $79.99 on both Xbox Series X|S and PS5, with The Ultimate Edition at $99.99. The game will feature a 'single-player experience', with no mention as of yet about a...
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Round Up The Previews Are In For Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy
We've got new gameplay, too!
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy was announced during last year's Xbox Games Showcase, and now, thanks to an early preview, we've got the first word on what the game is actually like to sit down and play. If you're unfamiliar with the series, Resonance is a prequel story to the generally favourable A Plague Tale:...
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- Xbox Series S
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News Arkane Is "Doing A Really, Really Great Job" - Todd Howard's Hopeful Update On Blade
"I saw some stuff just yesterday"
There's plenty of chatter around the restructuring of Xbox Game Studios, with reports that multiple development teams could be at risk of closure ahead of the proposed Xbox Reset. Confidence that it won't be a bloodbath isn't exactly great, leading to an increasing concern for one particularly quiet studio, Arkane...
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News Lords Of The Fallen 2 Escapes A Stacked September Release Date, Skulks Into 2027
Fallen off the calendar
Sorry, grimdark fans – Lords of the Fallen II will no longer release this year. The game is now set for an early 2027 release window. As it stood, the dark fantasy RPG was aiming for a September release, but following a development update on X from CI Games CEO Marek Tyminski, the decision to delay appears to be strategic:...
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- CI Games
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Tuesday23rd Jun 2026
"All of them said the same thing"
Hideo Kojima probably doesn't need an introduction at this point, but the Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding creator recently appeared on Entertainment Weekly to share a new
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Preview 5 Things That Surprised Me Playing Star Wars: Galactic Racer on PS5
Push Square Now THIS is podracing
Last week, I travelled to a galaxy far, far away to play Star Wars: Galactic Racer on the PS5 – well it was just Fuse Games’ head office in sunny Guildford, actually, but I needed an exciting intro. If you don’t know about the UK games industry, Guildford – just outside of London – is a bit of a hotspot of talent. I...
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Exclusive Fable Dev's Beloved Life Sim 'Kynseed' Blooms On Consoles This August
Nintendo Life No Kydding
Back in 2022, a group of former Fable devs came together to launch Kynseed on PC. The cute pixel art life sim has pulled in its fair share of fans in the years since, and in just a few months, it'll also arrive on Switch 1 (plus PS4/5 and Xbox Series X|S). Developer PixelCount today shared with us that Kynseed will sprout on our Nintendo...
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News What Does A $1049 Steam Machine Mean For Xbox's Project Helix?
Do you think Project Helix will cost more?
Oh boy, reviews are in for Valve's Steam Machine with its biggest talking point being, as expected, how much the device costs – and subsequently what it could mean for Xbox's next "Project Helix" console. Technically speaking, the Steam Machine is more of an entry-level PC than it is a video game...
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News 'Sea of Thieves' Movie Joins 'Gears Of War' In Xbox's Hollywood Push
Set sail for the silver screen
Xbox is making a push for more of its IP to land on the silver screen. Microsoft's decision to chase multiple live-action movies could be somewhat influenced by the recent success of movie adaptations of video games, with the likes of Backrooms and Iron Lung both scoring favourable reviews with critics and fans alike...
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- Gears of War
- Sea of Thieves
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News Xbox Game Pass Title To Be Spotlighted At THQ Nordic Showcase This August
Tune in August 7th
If, by some miracle you manage to have a bit of free time during another busy summer of gaming, then try to squeeze in the next annual THQ Nordic's Digital Showcase, on August 7th 2026. The AA publisher promises plenty for Xbox fans to get excited about, from long-awaited reveals and new looks. In terms of games, we're keen to...
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News Senior EA Exec Credits Generative AI For A "Real Rise In Creativity"
"I want to be a hero to our studio developers and help create career-defining experiences"
Senior EA exec Laura Miele has voiced her support for controversial Generative AI tools within the gaming industry, as she claims to have seen a "real rise in creativity" across the publisher's studios. Earlier this month, Miele spoke at Game Business Live...
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News There's A Capcom Showcase Happening This Week
A look at Onimusha, Dragon's Dogma 2 DLC, and Monster Hunter Stories 3
June continues to be a busy month for showcases, with Capcom settling on Thursday 25th June to host its Capcom Spotlight. The showcase will being at 2pm PDT / 5pm EDT / 10pm BST / 11pm CEST and is expected to run for around 30 minutes. Of course, It makes sense for Onimusha:...
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Monday22nd Jun 2026
Review Steam Machine: Beautiful Hardware, Console Performance - At A Price
Buy Valve or build your own - the choice is yours.
Steam Machine: the Digital Foundry video verdict. How much is it? How powerful is it? Are you better off building your own PC? We've been hands-on with Steam Machine for just under a couple of weeks now and finally have some answers. However, while this is a PC built from existing AMD parts and...
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Mahler also claims Game Pass "is a little like Communism"
Xbox has this uncanny habit of locating the nearest pot of boiling water and intermittently plopping its butt in and out of it. With Xbox Boss Asha Sharma chanting "we're so back" in one ear, and in the other, we're listening to reports on Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and multiple other Xbox...
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News Xbox DLC Price Drop Ahead Of Call Of Duty: Black Ops 1 & 2 PS5 Ports
Captain Overpriced
It seems that PlayStation owners aren't keen on having to fork over $40 for a 16-year-old Call of Duty game without all the bells and whistles. Treyarch announced earlier this month that both Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2 were finally being porte
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News Microsoft Adds "Xbox Handheld" Logo To Xbox Store Pages, But What Does It Mean?
Could this hint at an official Xbox Handheld?
Microsoft has begun adding an "Xbox Handheld" label to games like Gears of War: E-Day, Halo: Campaign Evolved, and more. The new graphic can be found by meandering down to the "Ways To Play" section. Of course, this indicates whether specific titles are optimised for handheld play, similar to Steam Deck...
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News Gears of War: E-Day's 4-Player Co-Op Will Feel "Like Band Of Brothers Or Saving Private Ryan"
"Our stories are almost always about a four-person squad, right?"
It's been a long time since a Gears campaign supported four-player co-op. Fifteen years, in fact, with Gears of War 3 remaining the first and last entry in the series to offer it. Recently, the team at
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News "It's Time To Begin A New Adventure" - After 31 Years, Microsoft Veteran Retires
Over in the Blinx of an eye
Earnest Yuen, a seasoned veteran of the gaming industry and one of Microsoft's longest tenured staff, recently took to LinkedIn to announce his retirement, sharing some appropriately earnest thoughts from his time spent at Microsoft: "After 31 years at Microsoft, I’ve decided it’s time to begin a new adventure:...
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Sunday21st Jun 2026
News Titanfall-Inspired Shooter 'EMPULSE' Makes Its Xbox Debut Next Week
Launching in early access
If you're like us and you've been waiting ten million years for Titanfall 3, you might be pleased to hear that we're getting a new game inspired by Respawn's classic FPS series on Xbox next week in the form of EMPULSE. This one's actually being made by the team behind Splitgate (1047 Games), and it's not a free-to-play...
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- Empulse
- Titanfall
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News Xbox Summer Sale 2026 Set To Begin Soon, Here's What You Need To Know
The next major sale on the Xbox Store
The Xbox Summer Sale 2026 is set to begin soon, during which a large number of digital Xbox games are expected to be discounted for around two weeks. The official date of the sale hasn't been announced at the time of writing, but we've provided some educated guesses below as to when we think it might be...
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Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (June 21st 2026)
Time Extension The Commodore phone! Sonic the Comic! Earthbound!
Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run each and every weekend which rounds up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one place. After "Nineteen-ish Years Of Development", The Original 'Mother' Has Been Remade As A Patch For Earthbound SNES: We have some...
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News These Are The 10 Most Popular Games In The Xbox Demo Fest 2026
A couple of new demos have since been added as well
It's been two weeks now since the Xbox Demo Fest began back on June 4th, and this gives us a chance to look at the most popular demos and see which of the 40+ games have been resonating the most with Xbox owners so far. Xbox actually sorts its demo section as "most popular" by default these days,...
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Saturday20th Jun 2026
Talking Point How Well Do You Expect GTA 6 To Run On Xbox Series X|S?
It's got to be 30FPS, right?
The past few days have been exciting for fans of the GTA series, as Rockstar Games has officially confirmed that pre-orders for GTA 6 will start next week across Xbox and PS5, with the exact date set as June 25th. We probably still won't know much at that point aside from pricing details (and hopefully a third trailer...
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Feature These 20+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (June 22-26)
Including two new Game Pass titles!
Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for June 22-26! We've got a couple of particularly notable releases next week in the form of Dead or Alive 6 Last Round and EMPULSE (the game in the lead image for this article), and there are two new Xbox Game Pass titles highlighted by Abyssus! Here's what's coming to Xbox
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News Halo: Campaign Evolved Has Some Weird Xbox Account Requirements For Local Co-Op
Update: No PS Plus required on PS5
Looking around the world of Xbox today, the topic that seems to be trending the most is in regards to Halo: Campaign Evolved and its requirements for co-op - something that was detailed by Halo Waypoint in a Q&A last night. For anyone on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, it's mostly self-explanatory. If you want to...
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Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (June 20-21)
Anything specific in mind?
Welcome to the weekend! As usual, we've got a bunch of new Xbox Game Pass titles that are waiting for you to try, along with a Free Play Days selection, and there are plenty of great new releases to check out along the way! Here's what we're playing on Xbox this weekend: Fraser Gilbert, Editor: I'm still in the World...
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Friday19th Jun 2026
News No Law Aims For 'Quality Over Quantity' With Its Cyberpunk Open World On Xbox Series X|S
"We didn't want the largest world, but the densest"
No Law is an ambitious title to behold. A cyberpunk shooter that prioritises "density over scale" when it comes to building its sci-fi open world. We were treated to six minutes of all new footage during a recent State of Unreal appearance, which highlighted the ways in which the Swedish developer...
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News Halo Studios Unveils Six Hours Of Footage From Campaign Evolved's Main Menu
It's a beauty!
We're now just over a month away from the release of Halo: Campaign Evolved in late July, and if you were curious about what the game's main menu might look like, Halo Studios has just unveiled six hours of footage from it! This is obviously just on a continuous loop, but it gives us a chance to marvel at how beautiful it all looks,...
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News Forza Horizon 6 Removes Two Major Exploits In Latest Xbox & PC Update
They're still investigating the saving issues as well
We've got another new Forza Horizon 6 update! The latest one arrived last night (June 18th), and it's a hotfix that's intended to address two major exploits that Playground Games clearly isn't happy about. The first of these exploits was mentioned in our previous FH6 update article here at Pure...
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News ROG Xbox Ally X20 Marks The 'Opportunity Of A Lifetime', But Expect A High Price
ROG’s Director of Product shares a little more of what to expect
It was back on the 1st of June that ASUS revealed the ROG Xbox Ally X20, serving as an upgraded version of the ROG Xbox Ally X with a bigger display, OLED screen, TMR joysticks and various other enhancements. We haven't really heard about it much ever since, but the folks over at...
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News Three New Indie Games Are Charting Ridiculously High In The Xbox Charts
Escape the Backrooms is in the #1 spot!
As you know, we occasionally browse the "Top Paid" charts on the Xbox Store to see what's been performing well in recent weeks, and we've been surprised to find three indies charting surprisingly high on there right now! The most incredible performer is Escape the Backrooms, which is literally #1 as things...
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- Escape The Backrooms
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