Latest Interviews
August2021
Interview Our Cutting-Edge Chat With The Lead Producer Of Lawn Mowing Simulator
"We’ve been blown away by the positive sentiment..."
Brace yourself folks, it's the big one! Lawn Mowing Simulator will be with us in less than a week on Tuesday, August 10, and we've had a chance to track down the game's lead producer for a chat ahead of launch. The game has been receiving loads of attention in recent weeks following a very...
July2021
Interview The Ascent Dev Talks Cyberpunk Adventures And The Joys Of Xbox Game Pass
"We jumped on the opportunity to be part of Game Pass"
Update (Thu 29th Jul, 2021 02:00 BST): The Ascent is dropping on Xbox Game Pass later today (Thursday, June 29), and so we're re-sharing this interview in case you missed it the first time around. Enjoy! Original story (Tue 15th Jun, 2021 19:45 BST): We've got a busy few months coming up for...
February2021
Interview Immortals Fenyx Rising Director Talks Reviews, DLC And The Xbox Series X
"Being able to push the visual quality that far was very rewarding"
We'll admit that we were pleasantly surprised back in December at just how good Ubisoft's Immortals Fenyx Rising turned out to be, serving as one of the true highlights of the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S launch lineup. Now, a few months on, the game has just released its first...
October2020
Interview Getting Musical With Ori And The Will Of The Wisps Composer Gareth Coker
The mastermind behind the award-winning soundtrack
It's been a huge year for Moon Studios' Ori series, celebrating the fifth anniversary of the wildly successful Ori and the Blind Forest back in March, and following it up that same month with a critically-acclaimed sequel which Microsoft recently crowned as the highest-rated game it's published in...
August2020
Interview Crystal Dynamics Tells Us About War Zones And The Future Of Marvel's Avengers
"We want to keep telling stories in this world"
It's been three long years since Marvel's Avengers was first announced, but it's finally here - next week marks its official release on Xbox One, with an Xbox Series X version to follow later this year. In collaboration with Virgin Media, which is headline sponsor of the game in the UK, we had the...
Interview The Gunk Dev Talks Slimy Substances, Exploration And The Xbox Series X
"We’ve never been early adopters of Xbox before"
It was back at the Xbox Games Showcase in July that Thunderful Group revealed The Gunk - a new Xbox exclusive developed by the makers of the popular SteamWorld series (Image & Form), set to release in 2021. Earlier this week, we had a chance to speak to game director Ulf Hartelius about the The...
March2020
Introducing Fraser Gilbert, Pure Xbox News Editor
Forza Fraser
It's been two weeks since we relaunched Pure Xbox, it's fair to say we've been pretty busy bringing you countless news stories, talking points and a few reviews as well. But who, I hear you ask, is this guy "Fraser" that appears to be posting the majority of the content? Let's find out together after we recently sat down with our...
April2014
Interview Beenox Spins a Web of Details About The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Building on the foundation of its predecessor
Canadian developer Beenox is no stranger when it comes to Spider-Man. To web-rush you up to speed, they're responsible for three games starring the friendly-neighborhood superhero, with another just days away from launch. That's right, next week The Amazing Spider-Man 2 swings onto the Xbox 360, just in...