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Friday12th Dec 2025
Talking Point What Do You Hope To See From Xbox Developer Direct Next Month?
Announced yesterday by Xbox!
Yesterday, in and amongst all of The Game Awards madness, Microsoft's Matt Booty came out and quietly announced Xbox Developer Direct 2026 - featuring Fable and Forza Horizon 6 developer Playground Games. We certainly expected this event to go ahead next mo
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Thursday11th Dec 2025
News Xbox Launches New $1 Game Pass Ultimate Offer For The Holidays
Perfect if you're not a subscriber already
It's no secret that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is getting more and more expensive as the years roll on, but today we've seen the return of the $1 offer that's proved so popular in the past — an entire month of access for less than a coffee! You can get this by going to the "Join Xbox Game Pass" page on the...
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- Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
- Deals
Guide The Game Awards 2025: Date, Start Times & Everything You Need To Know
Update: Taking place today!
Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards always provides a nice opportunity for publishers and developers to show off what's coming next, alongside giving the games and the talent behind them their due praise of course. With that being said, here's exactly when The Game Awards 2025 goes down - and some of what we can expect to...
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- 2025
News Halo 3 Wins 'Game Of The Year' As GameStop Reveals Its Full Set Of Awards For 2025
Yes, this is a thing that happened
Of all the games we expected to see winning a "Game of the Year" award for 2025, Halo 3 wasn't one of them! Nevertheless, the classic 2007 Xbox shooter has just been awarded that title by none other than GameStop. In a six-minute video, it's revealed that Battlefield 6, Donkey Kong Bonanza, Ghost of Yotei and Halo...
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- GameStop
- Game Of The Year
- Halo 3
News The Outer Worlds 2 Gets Huge Xbox Patch, Including New FOV Slider For Third-Person Mode
Here's what's included
Xbox dev Obsidian has just dropped an absolutely gargantuan patch for The Outer Worlds 2, bringing with it brand-new features, quest changes, bug fixes and lots more besides. As noted in our headline here, new field-of-view options for third-person mode are a welcome addition - as are the fixes for quests, combat tweaks,...
- Xbox
- The Outer Worlds 2
- Obsidian Entertainment
- Xbox Game Pass
- Xbox Series X
News Digital Foundry Analysis Showcases 60FPS Versions Of Red Dead Redemption On Xbox
Parity, finally!
Red Dead Redemption for Xbox Series X|S is finally here, and now that most of you should have gotten your free upgrade if you were eligible, we're sure plenty of Xbox fans have been enjoying this Rockstar classic at 60FPS. Well, the folks at Digital Foundry are here as well to d
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- Red Dead Redemption
- Digital Foundry
- Xbox Series X
- Xbox Series S
News Multiple Games Are Reduced By 90-95% In The Xbox Game Awards Sale 2025
HUGE discounts for great games!
Looking for some cheap Xbox games during the Xbox Game Awards Sale 2025? This brand-new sale went live on the Xbox Store earlier today, and in addition to a bunch of recent releases that are only slightly discounted, there are so many other great games that are reduced by up to 95%. So, let's highlight some of those...
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- Deals
- Discounts
- The Game Awards
News The Game Awards Sale 2025 Now Live On Xbox, 150+ Major Games Discounted
AAA titles galore!
With The Game Awards 2025 officially taking place later today, Xbox has unveiled its special "The Game Awards Sale" on the Xbox Store featuring discounts for over 150 major games, available for the next week. There's some seriously big stuff in here like Split Fiction, Monster Hunter Wilds, EA Sports FC 26 and
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- The Game Awards
- Deals
News Movie-Like Horror Adventure Game 'Fort Solis' Crosses From PS5 To Xbox Next Week
It's been a PS5 console exclusive for over two years
Back in August of 2023, horror adventure game Fort Solis made its debut on PS5 and PC as an ambitious Unreal Engine 5 title starring voice actors Roger Clark (Red Dead Redemption) and Troy Baker (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle), but it unfortunately released to some pretty lukewarm reviews...
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- Fort Solis
- Xbox Series X
- Xbox Series S
News Free Play Days: Try These Xbox Games For Free (December 11-14)
Three games to play for free this weekend!
As expected, Xbox Free Play Days has returned for the next few days! We've got three games in the mix this week, one of which requires a Game Pass membership (The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos) with the other two being completely free for everyone on Xbox to try. Here are the Xbox Free Play...
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- Xbox Game Pass
News Deus Ex Remastered No Longer Releasing In February 2026 Due To Negative Feedback
Update: "We've listened to what you had to say"
Well here's a nice surprise from the September 2025 State of Play event! Aspyr has announced that it's remastering the original Deus Ex from 2000 in the form of Deus Ex Remastered, and it's bringing a bunch of visual improvements including new lighting, dynamic shadows, upscaled textures and more...
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- Deus Ex Remastered
- Xbox Series X
- Xbox Series S
News The Game Awards Trailer Prices Range From 'Free' To Over '1 Million' USD, Claims Report
"According to two sources familiar with this year’s show"
With The Game Awards taking place later today, an interesting report has come out of Kotaku detailing the inner workings of the event, with a couple of sources even highlighting how much trailers apparently cost for the show. The outlet says that according to "two sources familiar with...
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- The Game Awards
News Call Of Duty Is The #1 Franchise On Xbox Game Pass For 'Total Players & Hours' In 2025
Well, duh
Everyone, act surprised! Xbox has announced today that Call of Duty is the #1 franchise on Xbox Game Pass for total players and hours in 2025, in addition to being #1 in November (for the Black Ops 7 launch). It obviously makes sense that one of the world's biggest gaming IPs would command so much attention on Xbox's service, especially...
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- Call of Duty
- Xbox Game Pass
Live Watch The Game Awards 2025 Here
The final major gaming event of the year
Here we go! It's time for The Game Awards 2025, which marks the final major gaming showcase of the year. We're expecting plenty of big announcements over the next few hours, and many of those will relate to Xbox as well. "Celebrate the best and see what's next in video games at The Game Awards 2025, live...
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- The Game Awards
Poll What Do You Think Of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage On Xbox Game Pass?
Have you had a chance to try it yet?
It's been just over a week now since Lost Records: Bloom & Rage arrived on Xbox Game Pass following its initial release back in February of this year, and we're keen to hear how you've been getting on with it so far. This is one of those strange examples where nobody on the Pure Xbox team has managed to spend...
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- Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
- Polls
- Features
Wednesday10th Dec 2025
News Xbox Announces New Fallout Pip-Boy Controllers, And They're Available To Buy Now
Either standalone or through Xbox Design Lab
We've got another new Xbox controller variant today in the form of the "Fallout Pip-Boy Edition", and there are three different versions in all - available to purchase today on the Microsoft Store. The standalone one features the same basic design as the other two, but with a bright green d-pad, black...
- Xbox
- Controllers
- Fallout
- Xbox Design Lab
News These Two Games Are Your Final Xbox Game Pass Additions For 2025 (December 10-11)
2026 is upon us!
Welcome to your latest Xbox Game Pass update! Today, NetherRealm's Mortal Kombat 1 joins the XGP library - playable for Series X|S, PC and Cloud players across the PC Game Pass, Premium and Ultimate tiers. We also have one more addition for tomorrow at the time of writing; that being Bratz: Rhythm & Style. So, we're going to round...
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- Xbox Game Pass
- Mortal Kombat 1
- Bratz: Rhythm & Style
- Xbox Series X
News Xbox's New Buy One, Get One Free Sale Includes A Selection Of Indie Titles
Live for the next week
Xbox has just set a new edition of its Buy One, Get One Free sales live on the Microsoft Store today - with this particular promotion revolving around a pretty slim selection of indie titles all-told. Yep, as these deals usually go, this isn't the most inspired list from Xbox here, but there are some standouts such as the...
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- Microsoft
- Deals
- Xbox Series X
- Xbox Series S
News Xbox Working 'Very Closely' With AMD To Improve Ray Tracing & Other FSR Features In Games
As part of the new AMD Redstone technology
AMD has today unveiled its new "AMD FSR Redstone" technology, which combines the company's upscaling technology with "new machine learning (ML)-powered advancements" in FSR Frame Generation, FSR Ray Regeneration, and FSR Radiance Caching. The video above goes into detail on all of these features, such as...
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- AMD
- FSR Redstone
News PlayStation Highlights Halo: Campaign Evolved As One Of Its 'Must-Play' Games For 2026
We're living in strange times
PlayStation has just dropped an overview trailer for what's coming to PS5 in 2026, and while we certainly wouldn't normally cover that here at Pure Xbox, one certain big green inclusion has made us reconsider. Sony is directly advertising Halo: Campaign Evolved as one of its "must-play games coming soon to PS5". We...
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- PlayStation
- Halo: Campaign Evolved
- Microsoft
- Sony
News Netflix Didn't 'Attribute Any Value' To Warner Bros. Games As Part Of WB Takeover Bid
"They're relatively minor compared to the grand scheme of things"
Last week, we heard how Netflix was attempting to purchase Warner Bros. in a stunning $82.7 billion deal, before Paramount ended up fighting back with a deal of their own — we'll see how this all unfolds in the coming months. One of the big questions at the time of the Netflix...
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- Netflix
- Warner Bros
News Romero Games Has Taken Its Cancelled Xbox Shooter And Made Something New With It
"We have a lot of stuff we can put in the game"
Since Microsoft pulled funding for its unannounced game back in the summer, Romero Games has been trying to salvage the project for a future release - and now it sounds as though the DOOM co-creator has managed that feat, but not in the way you might expect. Talking in a new p
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- DOOM
- Romero Games
- Microsoft
News Bethesda Boss Hints At Fallout Remasters, Says The Team Is 'Working On A Bunch Of Stuff'
"We're thoughtful about how we approach that"
In a new interview leading up to Season 2 of the TV show, Bethesda legend Todd Howard was pressed about the likelihood of fans getting some Fallout remakes and remasters - and while somewhat reserved, the Bethesda Game Studios boss did have some interesting things to say about the team's plans. When...
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- Bethesda
- Fallout 3
- Fallout New Vegas
- Todd Howard
News Japan-Exclusive PS1 Game Finally Released In English After 26 Years, And It's On Xbox Too
Say hello to Milano’s Odd Job Collection
We're totally expecting this game to go under the radar following its release on Xbox this week, but there's an interesting story behind it! Milano's Odd Job Collection is the English version of a PS1 game that released exclusively in Japan back in 1999, and it just so happens to be making its Xbox debut in...
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- PS1
- Milano's Odd Job Collection
News New GTA Online Cutscene Leads To Speculation Over Returning Character In GTA 6
"Is this a hint?"
Last week, we mentioned how GTA 5's Michael De Santa would be returning in a new update for GTA Online called "A Safehouse in the Hills", and that update has gone live today on Xbox - you can go and check it out right now. As you can see from the "Michael Returns" video, De Santa and his wife Amanda make a fairly lengthy...
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- GTA Online
- GTA 6
News Geoff Keighley Talks The Game Awards & His 'Balancing Act' Of Pleasing Everyone
"Every year is different"
The Game Awards is upon us, with the 2025 edition of the event going ahead on Thursday, December 11th. TGA is always a big celebration of the industry, both in terms of what's come out over the past year and what's to come in future - and this week, host Geoff Keighley has been talking about that very balancing act in a...
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- Xbox
- Geoff Keighley
- Industry
Tuesday9th Dec 2025
News Xbox & Activision Issue Statement On The Future Of Call Of Duty Following Black Ops 7 Backlash
"A message from the Call of Duty team..."
After what sounds like a disappointing launch for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Xbox's Activision team has put out a frank and surprisingly open message about the future of the franchise moving forward. In an address to series fans, Activision has announced that it will no longer release back-to-back Black Ops...
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- Call of Duty
- Black Ops 7
- Microsoft
- Activision
News Xbox Winter Demo Fest Now Live, 30+ Games Available To Play For Free
Update: More titles revealed, all live until December 31st
The Xbox Winter Demo Fest for 2025 (otherwise known as the Indie Selects Demo Fest) has now kicked off, allowing you to play over 20 games for free. It's not officially being promoted at the time of writing, but we've done some sleuthing and discovered these 20+ titles that are part of it...
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- Xbox Demo Fest
- ID@Xbox
- Indie Selects
- Xbox Series X
News Two Major AAA Games Have Just Been Added To Xbox Play Anywhere
Love to see older titles getting the treatment!
It's always great to see brand-new releases being included as part of the Xbox Play Anywhere program, but it's even more exciting when older titles suddenly join it as well, especially when they're major AAA favourites. That's exactly what's happened today, with both Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake...
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- Xbox Play Anywhere
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
- Mortal Kombat 1
News Four Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (December 9)
One of the biggest drops of the month!
Welcome to your latest Xbox Game Pass update! Today, we have four titles joining the main Game Pass Ultimate library - three across console and PC, and one PC-only addition. Here's all the info you need on today's Xbox Game Pass titles (December 9): A Game About Digging A
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- Xbox Series X
- Xbox Series S
News Ex-Forza Dev Says Horizon 5 Was Impacted By COVID, New Game Is 'In A League Of Its Own'
"I didn’t leave Playground to build another Horizon"
In a new interview with Traxion, former Forza Horizon developer Gavin Raeburn has talked about their new racing game being built over at Lighthouse Games, whilst also touching on 2021's Forza Horizon 5 and how the Xbox title was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. First off, let's look at FH5...
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- Forza Horizon 5
- Playground Games
- Lighthouse Games
- Gavin Raeburn
Rumour Xbox 'Hopes' To Bring Backwards Compatibility Program To ROG Ally & Windows PC
"There is an effort being made"
It was only yesterday that we were talking about how much value backwards compatibility still brings to the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S in 2025, and I've personally really missed being able to play those games on the ROG Xbox Ally. Well, it sounds like Team Xbox "hopes" to bring those classic original Xbox and...
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- Backwards Compatibility
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- Original Xbox
- Rumours
News Xbox Exec Teases 'Exciting' Plans For 2026 When Asked About OG Xbox Titles & Game Pass
"I can't confirm or deny what you're asking"
We've already heard about how Xbox is planning to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the brand in a big way next year, and Xbox architect Jason Ronald has been discussing this more in a new interview with the BBC in the UK. Ronald's interview was mainly about the ROG Xbox Ally
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- Original Xbox
- Jason Ronald
- Xbox Game Pass
News Resident Evil Legend Leon Kennedy Confirmed For Requiem Thanks To Store Page Reveal
Thanks, PSN
Ever since Resident Evil Requiem was revealed earlier this year, it's been rumoured that series stalwart Leon S. Kennedy would star in some role - despite Grace Ashcroft being the centre of attention in marketing materials so far. Well, thanks to the ever-reliable source that is a PlayStation St
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- Resident Evil Requiem
- Leon Kennedy
- Capcom
- Xbox Series X
News Xbox & Bethesda Shadow Drop Another Switch 2 Game, And You'll Never Guess What It Is
How many times?!
Those of us who are enjoying Switch 2 right now are pretty intrigued to see which games Xbox brings to the platform in the near future; the team has plenty of recent games to move over, right?! Wrong, current-gen Nintendo players are being treated to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim once again. Yep, Xbox's Bethesda team has today shadow...
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- Skyrim
- Bethesda
- Nintendo
- Nintendo Switch 2
News More Xbox Players Are Starting To See Success With The Free Red Dead Redemption Upgrade
"Finally got the RDR free upgrade..."
Yesterday, we posted an article about folks still not receiving their free upgrades for Red Dead Redemption on Xbox, and it looks as though Rockstar has seen the outcry and implemented a new fix. Heading over to the Xbox subreddit today, we're seeing lots of folks finally say that RDR's free Xbox Series X|S...
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- Red Dead Redemption
- Free Upgrade
- Rockstar Games
- Xbox Series X
News 'Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced' Gets PEGI Rating Ahead Of The Game Awards 2025
Here comes the remake / remaster!
There's been a lot of talk about an Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake (or remaster) over the past few years, and now it looks like it's about to show up very soon as it's just appeared on the PEGI website with an "18" rat
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- Xbox
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag
- Remakes
- Remasters
News Here's Your First Look At The Xbox Bowl In EA Sports College Football 26
Ahead of the real thing next week
Last week, we mentioned how ESPN and Microsoft had joined forces to host the first ever "Xbox Bowl" in Texas on December 18th, and now it's actually been added to EA Sports College Football 26 across all platforms including PS5! You can access the Xbox Bowl through Exhibition mode, and it includes some pretty neat...
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- Xbox Bowl
- EA Sports College Football 26
News Xbox Up For 'Best Game' At The BAFTA Awards 2026, But There's A Long Road Ahead
This is just the Longlist
Awards season continues! BAFTA has revealed its official Longlists for the BAFTA Games Awards 2026 today, which includes one Xbox title in the "Best Game" category - that being Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. These Longlists have been compiled by over 1,700 BAFTA members (made up of "experienced games professionals...
- Xbox
- Game of the Year
- BAFTA Games Awards
News Take-Two Hires Former Perfect Dark Leads To Spin Up A Brand-New Project
A second take
Following Perfect Dark's cancellation back in July, we heard reports that GTA maker Take-Two had tried to take over the project before talks collapsed, but it sounds as though the mega publisher liked what it saw. The same so
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- Perfect Dark
- Take-Two
- 2K Games
- Microsoft
News Xbox Is Bringing Age Of Empires Mobile To PC Game Pass In Early 2026
The mobile version of the PC game, coming to PCGP. Got it?
The teams behind the Age of Empires and Age of Mythology series' have been sharing their plans for 2026 today, which includes a new PC release for Age of Empires Mobile - a game that's proved a hit on Android and iOS. This version will be available on PC Game Pass at launch, as well as...
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- Age of Empires
- Mobile
- PC
Monday8th Dec 2025
Guide Xbox Adds More Perks For Game Pass Members (December 2025)
Update: Few more added to the list
The Xbox Game Pass Perks program is continuing to add a bunch of freebies for Game Pass members throughout December 2025, including for the likes of Fortnite, The Crew Motorfest, Delta Force and so many other games. We expect many more to come over the next few weeks, and we'll update this guide when we spot them...
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- Xbox Game Pass
- Perks
- Guides
- Xbox Series X
News Seven More Games Set To Be Delisted On Xbox In December 2025
Update: The OG Yakuza 0 is disappearing as well
As the final month of 2025 draws closer, it's time to take a quick look at what's being removed from the Xbox Store before the year is out, with six games currently set to be delisted in December 2025. Four of these are from publisher Outright Games, although only the Steam versions are confirmed to...
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- Delisting
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- Xbox One
- Xbox Series X
News Red Dead Redemption Free Upgrade Still Not Working For Some As Players Voice Frustrations
Will Rockstar respond?
If you were around the gaming world last week, you may have seen the drama surrounding Red Dead Redemption - where Rockstar's free Xbox upgrade wasn't working for most people on the launch of its new current-gen release. Well, the team fixed the issue for lots of players pretty quickly, but now a week later, some owne
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- Red Dead Redemption
- Rockstar Games
- Xbox Series X
- Xbox Series S
Opinion Backwards Compatibility Still Adds So Much Value To Xbox Series X|S In 2025
10 years after back compat was first announced!
I've just been doing a little storage space cleanup on my Xbox Series S today, removing some bits and pieces I just don't have the time for at the moment and installing one or two older titles that I fancy dipping back into sometime this week. And, once again it struck me that backwards compatibility...
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- Features
- Backwards Compatibility
- Xbox 360
- Xbox Series X
News Xbox Series X|S Had No Black Friday Deals, So They Lost To A Console We've Never Heard Of (US)
Struggled in the UK too
There's been an unfortunate narrative doing the rounds on social media this weekend about Xbox consoles, and it's all to do with some new Black Friday 2025 data that suggests the Series X and Series S sold poorly during BF week. Specifically, Mat Piscatella of the analysis group "Circana" took to Bluesky on Sunday to share...
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- Black Friday
- Xbox Series X
- Xbox Series S
- NEX Playground
News Paramount Fights Back Against Netflix With 'Superior All-Cash Offer' For Warner Bros.
It's not over yet!
Last week, it was announced by Netflix that the company was buying Warner Bros. in a deal worth over $82 billion, but now Paramount has launched an all-cash tender offer to acquire all of Warner Bros. Discovery's outstanding shares for $30 per-share (in cash). In a statement released today, Paramount chairman David Ellison...
- Industry
- Warner Bros.
- Netflix
- Paramount
Talking Point Four Years On, Did Halo Infinite Ever Live Up To Expectations?
With major updates done, what's your final verdict?
Xbox has reminded us that Halo Infinite launched four years ago today (the full campaign version anyway), so we want to check in with the Pure Xbox community on your feelings about this particular series entry almost half a decade later, especially with the game's major updates now wrapping up...
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- Features
- Talking Point
- Halo Infinite
Roundup All The Xbox Reveals From The 11 Bit Studios Digital Showcase 2025
Nothing too crazy, but some nice updates all the same!
Today marked the first ever 11 Bit Studios Digital Showcase, which was only a small event highlighting a few titles from the Polish developer / publisher's portfolio including the likes of Frostpunk and The Alters. There were no brand-new game announcements here, but some titles have received...
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- 11 Bit Studios
- Showcase
- Round Up
News Four Xbox First-Party Releases Mentioned In GamesRadar's Top 25 Games Of 2025
And guess what was number 1?
As we get closer and closer to the voting for Pure Xbox's Game of the Year 2025 (look out for it this Saturday!), we've got more "Best Of" roundups to highlight from across the internet, with this latest one coming from GamesRadar. Those folks have picked out their top 25 games of the year, with four Xbox first-party...
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- Xbox Game Studios
- GamesRadar
- First-Party
