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News Battlefield 6 Multiplayer Is Free For A Week On Xbox, Starting Today
Jump into BF6 multiplayer for a limited time
The teams at EA and BF Studios have announced that Battlefield 6 will be free to try on all platforms, starting November 25th at 4am PT / 7am ET / 12pm GMT and running through December 2nd at those very same times. This free trial period will contain access to BF6 multiplayer, with three maps (Blackwell...
News EA Breaks Tradition And Turns F1 26 Into DLC, Next Game Will Now Launch On Xbox In 2027
Next year will bring an expansion instead
Codemasters' F1 series has been annualised for some time now, but the EA developer has today announced that it's essentially turning F1 26 into DLC - with the next franchise entry now landing in 2027 instead. In a surprising move, EA and Codemasters have revealed that a paid expansion will come to F1 25...
News Battlefield REDSEC Is Available Now As A Free-To-Play Battle Royale On Xbox
BIG shadow drop from EA!
Shadow drop time! Rumours have been swirling on this one for a few weeks now, but EA has just officially launched Battlefield REDSEC - a new battle royale spinoff to its recent FPS Battlefield 6. The best part? It's available now on Xbox Series X|S as a completely free-to-play title. Battlefield REDSEC Free Download (Xbox...
News Battlefield 6 Season 1 Brings Lots Of Free Content To Xbox, Starting This Month
More multiplayer mayhem
EA and Battlefield Studios have lifted the lid on Battlefield 6 Season 1, with plenty of additional content being added to the game over the coming weeks. The team is doing things a little differently with three separate updates making up Season 1 - with the first of those updates arriving on October 28th. Yep, that first...
Report Battlefield 6 Sells Over 6 Million Copies, And A Good Chunk Of Those Are On Xbox
A solid split for Series X|S!
It's no secret that Battlefield 6 has had some hype behind it after years of the series not quite hitting the mainstream mark - but an early sales report shows just how well the game is doing right now, including on Xbox Series X and S consoles. The folks over at Alinea Analytics are back again this week with a big...
News Battlefield 6 Boss: 'The Only Reason COD Exists Is Because EA Were D*cks'
Vince Zampella speaks openly
Call of Duty vs. Battlefield has been a long-standing rivalry in the gaming biz; two FPS titans that often trade blows as publishers Activision and EA hope to reign supreme. With BF6 out in the wild, veteran developer Vince Zampella has now had a major hand in both of these franchises - and in a new interview, h
Poll Are You Buying Battlefield 6 For Xbox On Launch Weekend?
All aboard the hype train?
Battlefield 6 is here - after years of waiting, EA's big FPS series has made its grand return on Xbox Series X and S. We've seen a lot of hype for this one in all corners of the internet already — including in the comments here at Pure Xbox — and we want to know if you've been bitten by the Battlefield bug and are...
Roundup Here's What The Reviews Are Saying About Battlefield 6
EA's new shooter launches tomorrow!
After four years of waiting, Battlefield is back, with the upcoming Battlefield 6 about to drop on Xbox consoles this Friday. Naturally, then, we've got some early reviews trickling in for this one - which we're going to round up down below for you to take a look at. Now, we are working on our own Battlefield 6...
News EA To Be Acquired By Consortium Of Investors For $55 Billion USD
"I am more energized than ever about the future we are building"
We've got some major acquisition news coming out of Electronic Arts today, with EA announcing that it's set to be acquired by a consortium of investors for approximately $55 billion USD. Those investors are PIF (the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia), Silver Lake (a...
News EA Debuts Battlefield 6 Campaign Footage Ahead Of Next Month's Xbox Release
"Campaign returns on a global scale"
There's a lot of hype behind Battlefield 6 right now as EA's big FPS makes its grand return next month, and now the team has just shown off what BF Studios is cooking up with the game's campaign. You can take a look at the debut of this Official Campaign Trailer up above, and we'll chuck EA's description of...
News Battlefield 6 Resolution & Performance Figures Revealed For Xbox Series X|S
Sounding pretty healthy!
Battlefield 6 is less than a month away, and as we near the game's upcoming launch on Xbox, developer Battlefield Studios continues to drop fresh details on the title. Among those details are all of the resolution and performance figures that the game is targeting across Xbox Series X and S. Yep, these were all discussed in...
News Battlefield 6 Keeps Xbox & PlayStation Players Together Even With Crossplay Switched Off
PC players separated
Cross-play has become a more controversial topic in recent years, with plenty of console players often left frustrated by being matched up in unfair scenarios with PC players. One way to combat that is to switch cross-play off of course, but Battlefield 6 is doing things a little differently - and it may help the player base in...
News Battlefield 6 Dev Says Working On Xbox Series S Improved The Entire Game
It made the "whole game better and more stable"
It's no secret that when it comes to current-gen console development, Xbox Series S tends to take a bit more optimisation, due to the more limited hardware packed into Microsoft's tiny console. We've heard it from lots of devs, and this week, Battlefield Studios has commented on the console - talking...
Talking Point Are You Going To Be Trying EA's Free Skate Reboot On Xbox Next Week?
It's gotta be worth a try, right?
Right, so, we don't want to scare any of y'all into thinking about how quickly time can fly by, but EA first announced 'Skate 4' more than five years ago. Yep, we covered that news right here at Pure Xbox in June 2020, with the mega-publisher then confirming plans to make a sequel to Skate 3. Of co
News Four Xbox 360 Racing Games Potentially Closing Their Servers In November 2025
Update: EA has moved the date
We always like to bring you news of server closures when we hear of them, and it looks like EA has just planned another four shutdowns for March 2026 - all of them racing games from the Xbox 360 era. This was pointed out by AnimeWanderer99 on Reddit, who advised that if you go to the "Online Services
News EA To Host 'Battlefield 6: Single-Player Live Showcase' Later This Month
Get an early look at the story campaign!
The recent Battlefield 6 beta has showed immense potential for the multiplayer portion of EA's upcoming Xbox FPS, and now the folks over at Battlefield Studios are getting ready to show off what single-player campaign content they've been cooking up for later this year as well. As revealed today, the...
News Battlefield 6 Dev Gives Reasoning Behind No Ray Tracing On Any Version, Including Xbox Series X
It all comes down to PC
When we played the Battlefield 6 beta on Xbox Series X|S, we deemed it "an Xbox showpiece" with its impressive visuals and rock solid frame rates - and it seems that the game's lack of ray tracing is partly why performance is very stable in the upcoming EA title. Speaking with ComicBook, Battlefield 6 developer Christian...
News Earn Free Battlefield 6 Cosmetics By Playing 2042's Latest Update On Xbox
"The road to Battlefield 6 begins here"
Lots of us have been having our fun with Battlefield 6 these past few weekends, and with the beta now wrapped up and all eyes on launch, the team has added a bunch of classic content to Battlefield 2042 to tie fans over - including a stone cold classic BF map. That map is the World War 2-themed Iwo Jima,...
News Battlefield 6 Smashes Steam Record As Early Beta Impressions Go Live
The most popular BF release yet
Well, weekend one of the Battlefield 6 Open Beta has officially wrapped up - and if you haven't read our positive early impressions of EA's upcoming FPS, you can do so here. All we can say is this is a bit of a stunner already on Xbox! <related ids="186265"> Of course, now that the general public have been...
News EA Rejected The Idea Of 'Dragon Age 1-3 Remastered'
"One of the things that we pitched at one point..."
Dragon Age: The Veilguard launched on Xbox late last year after a decade-long series hiatus, but it didn't have to be that long of a wait, according to former BioWare veteran Mark Darrah. In a new interview with MrMattyPlays, the former BioWare dev claimed that ideas of a Dragon Age remaster of...
News Battlefield 6 Servers Getting Hammered A Full Two Days Before Xbox Open Beta
Early Access is proving very popular
In the FPS scene, all eyes are on Battlefield 6 at the moment, with hype building fast following EA's recent multiplayer reveal event. That event closed out with the announcement of a few pre-launch beta periods coming up - and even the limited Early Access version is proving extremely popular already. As we...
News EA Is Working On 'A Few' Unannounced Games Based On Disney IP
Alongside Iron Man & Star Wars Jedi 3
For a while now, EA has been working with Disney to translate its big IP into AAA video games - mostly based on the Star Wars franchise. However, EA's Dead Space team is now working on an Iron Man game too, and a new interview confirms that more unannounced Disney projects are in the works as well. <related...
Guide Battlefield 6 Beta: Start Date, Access Times & Preload Details On Xbox
Everything you need to know about the BF6 beta
EA's recent Battlefield 6 reveal event brought news of a pre-launch beta coming this month - across two full weekends on Xbox, PC and PS5. So, how do you download and play this Battlefield 6 beta? And can you get early access on Xbox? Here's everything you need to know ahead of launch: Battlefield 6...
News Battlefield 6 FAQ Reveals Multiple Performance Modes On Xbox Series X|S
60FPS as a minimum!
We had to wait a while for concrete details on Battlefield 6, but they're well and truly here now as EA blows the doors off its upcoming AAA FPS. As part of that information blowout, we've got a big FAQ page to parse through now, including details on performance modes across Xbox Series X and S. According to EA and Battlefield...
News EA Insists No Price Increases Are Planned As Battlefield 6 Nears Xbox Launch
BF6 Should remain a $70 game
In a new EA earnings call covering Q1 of the current fiscal year (via VGC), CEO Andrew Wilson has addressed questions about game pricing, and whether the company plans to bump up prices anytime soon. Thankfully, Wilson says there are no such plans "at this stage", as it prepares to launch Battlefield 6 on Xbox pla
News Battlefield 6 Looks Very 'Modern Warfare', Multiplayer Reveal Coming This Month
Battlefield is back
Well, there we have it. EA has finally showcased some Battlefield 6 goodness after months of teasing and internal testing - and as you'd probably expect, it has a very 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare' look to it at this early stage. We must add that the team's debut trailer does say that this is "game engine footage" and "not...
News Battlefield 6 Price & Release Date Leak Ahead Of 2025 Xbox Launch
It could be coming sooner than you think!
Yesterday, EA revealed Battlefield 6 as it begins the hype cycle for its next big online FPS, and now the reliable folks over at Dealabs
News 'Battlefield 6' Confirmed As The Next Mainline Entry, Reveal Coming This Week
Prepare for war
EA has officially titled the next Battlefield game, and its full reveal is right around the corner. Yep, the mega-publisher is keeping things simple this time with 'Battlefield 6' - the upcoming mainline entry in DICE's popular military shooter. This one has been going through rounds of private testing for some time now
News Need For Speed Supposedly 'Shelved' As EA-Backed Fan Site Winds Down
No need
Earlier in the year, we brought news that Need for Speed was officially 'on ice' as Unbound developer Criterion moved over to work on Battlefield 6 - and the fresh discovery of an NFS fan site being closed down points towards a longer hiatus for EA's premiere racing seri
News EA Is Shutting Down Anthem, And It Won't Be Playable Offline Either
"Anthem was designed to be an online-only title"
EA and BioWare's Anthem has suffered a lot over the past few years, with development officially ending on the title back in 2021, and now it's been announced that the game will be going offline forever on January 12th, 2026. An "Anthem Game Update" on the official EA website confirms this, with the...
News 2K Promises To Rival EA's CBB Title, Calls Itself The 'Undisputed Home' Of Basketball Games
May the best team win
Yesterday, it was revealed that EA Sports is working on a college basketball game for some point in the future, although details are extremely thin on the ground right now - it was just a small teaser posted on social media. It's definitely attracted the attention of 2K though, posting their own teaser that "the campus has...
News Marvel's Black Panther Game Reportedly Cancelled As EA 'Sharpens Focus' On Its Lineup
Another studio closure looks imminent
A couple of years ago now, Marvel and EA announced that they were collaborating on a Black Panther game being crafted by new studio Cliffhanger Games, but that all looks to be coming to an end here in 2025 - with nothing to show for it. Per a new IGN report, EA has cancelled this Black Panther project and is...
News Test Drive Publisher Regains WRC License After EA Decided Against Codemasters Sequel
To start releasing games from 2027
Right at the start of the month, we brought news that EA had effectively given up on the WRC license, with developer Codemasters announcing that it was no longer working on the franchise. Well, just a few weeks later, ex-WRC publisher Nacon has announced that it's regained the license to work on future WRC titles...
News BF6 Release Window Update, Full Reveal Scheduled For 'Summer'
Ready up
EA has provided an update on the next Battlefield game release window, reconfirming it'll arrive by March 2026. Adding to this, fans can expect a full reveal of the game to take place at some point this summer. The company's CEO Andrew Wilson had the following to say in the latest financial report: "As we look to the future, we’re...
News EA Gives Up On WRC, Four Years After Buying Rally Game Experts Codemasters
Work that one out
Four years after its well-documented battle with 2K to acquire racing studio Codemasters, EA is shutting down plans to make future rally games; ending its partnership with WRC in the process. The EA Sports WRC team confirmed the news this week, via a 'Development Update' message posted to the EA website. The s
News EA Cuts Hundreds Of Jobs, Respawn Announces Two Cancelled Games
One was a Titanfall project
We've unfortunately got more news about job cuts to bring your way today, as a new report from Bloomberg is suggesting that around 300-400 jobs have been lost at EA, with around 100 of those being at Respawn Entertainment. Respawn has actually put out a statement confirming that two games have been cancelled internally,...
News Xbox Could Be Preparing To Add Two Big EA Releases To Game Pass
We're expecting NHL 25 soon as well
Anyone for another roundup of Xbox Game Pass rumours? The latest comes courtesy of EA, as it appears that both Dragon Age: The Veilguard and EA Sports FC 25 are being prepared for Xbox Game Pass at some point in the future. Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the most surprising one here, as the game's
News Battlefield 6 Extended Footage Appears Online Ahead Of Xbox Series X|S Release
Destruction is back, baby
About a month ago, EA finally lifted the lid on its grand old plan for Battlefield 6 - or whatever the team ends up naming its next mainline Battlefield game. Yep, despite not titling the game just yet,
News EA Reveals Xbox Series X|S Tech Specs For Upcoming Adventure Split Fiction
60FPS for everyone!
Ahead of the upcoming launch of Hazelight's newest game Split Fiction, EA has provided an overview of the game's tech specs - including some figures for how the game will run on Xbox Series X and S. The good news here is that both Xbox versions — all console versions, in fact — will run at 60 frames per-second. Xbox Series X...
News Xbox Sales Charts Dominated By EA & Microsoft In The US To Kick Off 2025
An interesting start to the year
Today, analyst firm Circana (formerly NPD), has revealed some interesting facts & figures about how the gaming industry is performing at the start of 2025 - and we thought Xbox's game sales chart for last month was quite interesting to look at. The top 10 best-selling games on Xbox last month were all published...
News EA Missed Out On Buying Blizzard & Some Big Activision Franchises, Says Former CCO
"EA saw all those first and passed"
Activision Blizzard has some absolutely massive game series' under its belt these days such as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, but they weren't always guaranteed to be ABK franchises. Speaking in a new interview on the Grit podcast, former Electronic Arts CCO Bing Gordon claimed that EA passed on some huge...
News Battlefield 6 Gets Xbox Release Window As FPS Prepares Its New-Gen Return
All hands on deck
As part of a new financial call this week, EA has given its new Battlefield game a more defined release window, as the publisher plots the series' Xbox return. Battlefield 6 is set to hit PC and current-gen consoles in "fiscal year 2026" - which is sometime between April 2025 and March 2026
News EA Seems To Think That Live Service Would Have Helped Xbox RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard
We're not so sure
Late last month, we heard from publisher EA that Dragon Age: The Veilguard had "underperformed", selling about half of what was expected during its launch quarter. Of course, this being a mega-publisher with investors to please, EA has to put the blame on something - and it sounds like the game being a contained single-player RPG...
News Classic Battlefield Content Will Be Returning To BF6 On Xbox Series X|S
Battlefield Portal is back
Yesterday's gameplay reveal for Battlefield 6 may have been light on actual gameplay, but we did get lots of other details about the upcoming EA title, including its new testing program Battlefield Labs. However, some additional details were also shared with journalists and content creators who attended an online presentat
News EA Says Need For Speed Is On Ice As Team Wraps Up Development On NFS Unbound
"We plan to bring the franchise back"
EA has put out a new statement (via Eurogamer) on the future of its Need for Speed series, as it ends support for 2022's Need for Speed Unbound. The last NFS entry had an extended life cycle, where EA went on to "use their feedback to create content for Unbound", but developer Criterion Games is now fully...
News Battlefield 6 Gameplay Revealed, Early Testing Program Coming To Xbox Series X|S
'Battlefield Labs' opens its doors
Four years on from Battlefield 2042, EA has finally showcased a sliver of gameplay from its next Battlefield title. Not officially Battlefield 6 just yet but certainly the next mainline release, the game is now in the pre-alpha stage and is welcoming public playtesters in the coming months. That public playtesting...
News BioWare's 'Core Team' Working On Mass Effect 5 While Some Devs Move To Other EA Studios
"We are turning towards the future"
BioWare, the developer behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age, has posted a new studio update as the team looks ahead to its next title. With development on The Veilguard now complete, and no DLC currently in the works, the studio h
News EA Says Two Of Its Major AAA Titles 'Underperformed' In 2024
Announces lower financial forecast as a result
Publisher and game maker EA has dropped a new financial report as it looks ahead to 2025, and the results aren't exactly rosy for the team's late 2024 releases. CEO Andrew Wilson says that "Dragon Age and EA SPORTS FC 25 underperformed" last year, while the company "expects a return to growth" in its...
News Xbox Free Play Days Features Eight EA Games This Week (January 16-19)
Jump in for free this weekend
Xbox Free Play Days has officially returned for the new year, and EA is helping kick things off with a bang. Starting today, the publisher is adding eight games in total to the program, including the likes of College Football 25, EA Sports WRC and more. Without further ado, here's your full Xbox Free Play Days lineup...
News EA's Latest 'Free' Xbox Game Is A Truly Incredible Shooter From 2016
Standby for Titanfall
EA is back with another free gift for us all! This time, it's Titanfall 2: Ultimate Edition that's being given away for free to all Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and EA Play members, accessible by searching for the game on the Xbox Store. The Ultimate Edition of Titanfall 2 includes all the Deluxe Edition content along with a few...
