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Tuesday4th Nov 2025
News Two Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (November 4)
Both day one releases!
Welcome to your latest Xbox Game Pass roundup! We're kicking things off today with our first November additions to the library - including Football Manager 26 on both Xbox and PC. It's worth noting that FM26 won't be available until later today, and it'll be arriving in two different versions - the normal release for PC, and...
Monday3rd Nov 2025
News Delisted Xbox 360 Games Are Apparently Reappearing As 'Coming Soon' In Certain Regions
Left 4 Dead, Batman and more appear
Xbox backwards compatibility is pretty amazing, especially the Xbox 360 library which is quite extensive considering it was retroactively introduced to modern Xbox consoles in 2015. However, not all 360 games — or even all of the titles that were added to the program back in 2015 — are available digitally...
News Gears Of War's Art Director Likes How E-Day Is Returning To The Series 'Horror Game' Roots
"If Gears 1 was Alien, the rest of the franchise was Aliens"
With Gears: Reloaded and Gears: E-Day, Microsoft is making a bet on returning to the series' roots right now - and original Gears of War art director Jerry O’Flaherty, for one, seems quite happy with this new direction from Xbox HQ. Speaking in a new interview with
News Epic Details Exactly When Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Players Can Access Fortnite Crew
"A perk for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers"
Back at the start of October, Microsoft announced that Epic's Fortnite Crew subscription would soon be included in the overhauled Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription - and now the Fortnite developer has given us an exact date of when the bonus service can be access
News Xbox Exclusive Contraband Sees Screenshots Leak Shortly After Microsoft Cancellation
It was first announced in 2021
Back in August, it was confirmed that Microsoft and Avalanche Studios had officially stopped development on Xbox exclusive Contraband, four years after the game was first revealed. In that four years, we'd seen practically nothing on what the game would actually look like - but now, some early screenshots have leaked...
Friday31st Oct 2025
News Microsoft Shares Initial List Of ROG Xbox Ally Games That Support Advanced Shader Delivery
"Launch faster, play smoother, game smarter"
With ROG Xbox Ally now out in the wild, Microsoft is bringing its PC and console gaming tech closer together - and as part of the team's October 2025 Update, an initial list of ROG Xbox Ally games that support 'Advanced Shader Delivery' has been shared. If you keep up with PC gaming at all (we admit that...
News 14 Titles Added To Xbox Stream Your Own Game, Including Some Brand-New Releases
Another batch of games have been added
As part of its big October 2025 update, Microsoft has named 14 more titles that have been added to the Xbox Stream Your Own Game service - including brand-new releases such as ARC Raiders and Jurass
Rumour Halo 2 & 3 Remakes Are Supposedly Coming After Halo: Campaign Evolved
No multiplayer though
With Halo: Campaign Evolved's announcement now out in the wild, it's only natural to think about what else Halo Studios is cooking up as part of its new multi-game plan - and a new rumour suggests that the team could be moving onto more Halo remakes. As shared by social media account Halo Leaks — which has got certain...
Thursday30th Oct 2025
News Microsoft Highlights 50+ Xbox Play Anywhere Titles Added To The Program Last Month
Hollow Knight: Silksong, Silent Hill F and lots more!
As part of the Xbox October 2025 Update, Microsoft has highlighted more than 50 Xbox Play Anywhere titles added to the program last month - including major games such as Hollow Knight: Silksong, Silent Hill F,
News Free Play Days: Try These Xbox Games For Free (October 30 - November 2)
A new batch of free titles
Xbox Free Play Days has arrived! As we roll into November, Microsoft has added seven games to the program this week - including a longer trial of its 2024 shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. Here's your full list of Free Play Days titles this weekend: Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Catan Dead by Daylight
News Here's What's Included In The Xbox October 2025 Update
"We continue our quest to add improved innovation..."
The Xbox October 2025 update has just been highlighted by the folks over at Team Xbox, with ROG Xbox Ally, the Handheld Compatibility Program and fresh PC and Console updates making up the full list of new features. We're going to gather up everything included in the Xbox October 2025 update...
PSA The Next Few Months Could Be Very Busy With Xbox-Related Showcases
Showcases for six months straight? Why not!
If it feels like we're getting Xbox showcases pretty much every month at the minute, that's because, well... we basically are! Aside from July (which makes sense given June's Xbox Games Showcase), we've had monthly showcases in the back half of 2025 so far - including August's Gamescom Opening Night Live,...
Wednesday29th Oct 2025
News Xbox Content & Services Revenue Sees Slight Increase In Q1 2026, Hardware Drops Almost 30%
Microsoft's latest fiscal report is in
Microsoft has released its financial results for Q1 of the 2026 fiscal year - and just like recent quarters, content and services are on the up, but hardware sales are drastically down. The Xbox owner says that its content and services revenue increased by 1% year-over-year, while its hardware sales dropped...
News Is Xbox Down? Huge Azure Server Outage Causes Issues Across Microsoft Services
Update: things are slowly returning to normal
We're seeing reports online that a huge Microsoft Azure server outage is causing issues across Xbox, Windows and other Microsoft services that are connected to the web. As shared by The Verge, Microsoft has confirmed Azure Portal issues on the service's status page, while Microsoft 365 has addressed the...
News Xbox Confirms Its First Two Game Pass Titles For December 2025, And They Both Look Brilliant
We could be in for a strong end to the year!
Prior to yesterday's Xbox indie showcase, Microsoft hadn't confirmed any Game Pass titles for December 2025, and while 12 XGP additions were shown off in total during the event - we want to focus on the first two games now confirmed for the service in December. Arriving first — on December 4th — is
News Microsoft CEO Says Xbox 'Wants To Innovate' With Its Next-Gen Console
"We want to do innovative work..."
Another Xbox exec has been out chatting about next-gen gaming this week - with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella the latest to chime in on the company's plans for gaming post-ROG Xbox Ally. In an interview with tech show
Tuesday28th Oct 2025
News Xbox Announces 12 Titles Coming To Game Pass At October's Indie Showcase
Including some big additions for this year!
Today's Xbox Indie Showcase treated us to a bunch of new reveals for upcoming Xbox Game Pass titles, including Darkwood 2, Planet of Lana 2, Aphelion, Routine and loads more be
Roundup All The Reveals From October 2025's Xbox Indie Showcase
Missed the event? Here's a recap
Weren't able to catch October 2025's Xbox Indie Showcase earlier today? No worries! You can always go back and watch the on-demand version for yourself, which you'll find elsewhere on Pure Xbox. If you don't want to watch it all the way through, we've also detailed all the important reveals in this article - with...
News Four Games Are Available This Week With Xbox Game Pass (October 28-31)
One being a huge first-party release!
Welcome to your latest Xbox Game Pass roundup! We're gathering up everything coming to XGP this week, including Xbox's big new release in The Outer Worlds 2. Here's everything coming to Xbox Game Pass from October 28th-31st: Halls of Torment (Series X|S, PC, Cloud) - PC, Premium, Ultimate (October 28):
Monday27th Oct 2025
News Digital Foundry Impressed By Halo: Campaign Evolved, But Worried About Unreal Engine 5
"Some unfortunate Unreal Engine 5 issues..."
In its latest weekly podcast episode, the folks over at Digital Foundry have discussed last week's Halo: Campaign Evolved reveal - and the team's thoughts are mixed on the title despite being impressed by Halo Studios' vision thus far. The gist of DF's discussion revolves around two main things: Halo...
News Microsoft Reportedly Still Has Plans To Make Its Own Xbox Handheld
After shelving it to develop ROG Xbox Ally
This afternoon, we shared a huge report from Windows Central that breaks down a bunch of what Microsoft is working on for the next-generation of Xbox - and in that report, we've spotted a little tidbit that hints Team Green still has plans to make its own handheld console at some stage. That's right,...
News Huge Xbox Report Details 'Ambitious' Next-Gen Console With Free Online Play
Microsoft seemingly has big plans for next-gen
Chatter about Microsoft's next-gen console has been on the rise recently, with multiple execs — including Xbox president Sarah Bond — coming out and talking about future plans as of late. Now though, Windows Central has put out a huge report giving us fresh details and crucia
News Xbox Journalist Says Microsoft Has Another Showcase Planned For November 2025
Following this week's indie event
This week, we have an ID@Xbox showcase confirmed for Tuesday, October 28th - but that may not be the final Xbox showcase for 2025, looking at a new report. According to Windows Central's Jez Corden, Microsoft has an Xbox Partner Preview event in line for next month. Corden says that the show is planned for...
Sunday26th Oct 2025
News Xbox Has More Competition From TikTok Than PlayStation, Claims Microsoft Exec
"Our biggest competition isn’t another console"
In the wake of Microsoft's announcement of Halo: Campaign Evolved heading over to PS5 next year, Xbox executive Matt Booty reckons that the platform has more competition from the likes of TikTok than another gaming console these days. Speaking in a new interview with The New York Times, Booty talked...
Friday24th Oct 2025
News Xbox Details All Of The New Content Packed Into Its Halo: Campaign Evolved Remake
There's a lot of new stuff!
Halo: Campaign Evolved has been announced as a major remake of the first Halo game coming in 2026, which of course means that the bulk of this Halo experience will be overhauled content from the OG release. However, Halo Studios is using the opportunity to also add a bunch of new content to the first Halo - and it's...
News Halo: Campaign Evolved Officially Announced, Coming To Xbox In 2026
"A faithful yet modernized remake"
It's official, a Halo: Combat Evolved remake is coming in 2026! Yep, as part of today's Halo World Championship event, the newly-rebranded Halo Studios has announced its first project - titled Halo: Campaign Evolved. Halo: Campaign Evolved is a "faithful yet modernized remake of Halo: Combat Evolved’s campaign",...
News Black Ops 7 Season 01 Revealed Before The Game's Even Out, And It's Absolutely Stacked
10 maps confirmed for Season 01
Black Ops 7's Xbox launch is exactly three weeks away, with the latest Call of Duty title set to grace Xbox Game Pass on November 14th. However, fans aren't even being given time to digest what's in the base game right now - as Activision reveals an absolute shedload of content coming to the game as part of
News Phil Spencer Addresses AI & Developer Creativity At Xbox Game Studios
"I really leave it up to the teams..."
In a new panel at the Paley International Council Summit, Phil Spencer sat down with Double Fine Studio Head Tim Schafer to discuss a whole host of gaming-related topics - and the Xbox boss had some interesting things to say about AI use and developer creativity over at Microsoft's gaming division. Despite the...
News Two Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (October 24)
Featuring a shadow drop!
Welcome to your latest Xbox Game Pass roundup! Initially, today was going to just be a one game update - but we got an awesome shadow drop late last night in the form of driving survival game Pacific Drive - so we're going to include that one in today's roundup as well. Without further ado, here's what's new on Xbox Game...
Thursday23rd Oct 2025
News The Outer Worlds 2 Comparison Shows Difference Between Xbox Series X And Series S
Here's how both Xbox versions stack up
Following our hands-on impressions of The Outer Worlds 2 earlier today, we thought you might be interested in how the game is shaping up across both Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S! Fuzion Xbox Testing has become our go-to for stuff like this - we're not affiliated with the channel whatsoever, but it's a great...
