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News Xbox Winter Demo Event 2022 Now Live, 22 Games Available
Update: Officially extended to December 31st!
Update (Fri 16th Dec, 2022): This Xbox Winter Demo event was originally supposed to end on December 12th, but has now been extended a couple more weeks until December 31st. Enjoy! Don't forget this event includes a demo for Inkulinati, which is now coming to Xbox Game Pass in January 2023. Here's what...
News Xbox Winter Demo Event 2022 Announced, Will Feature 20+ Games
Play a bunch of ID@Xbox demos for free next week!
Xbox has announced today that the ID@Xbox Winter Demo Event 2022 will be taking place from December 6th to December 12th, allowing you to check out a bunch of upcoming Xbox indie games. The demos for these games will be available to download from the Xbox dashboard for a week before they disappear,...
News Return To Monkey Island Gets Xbox Game Pass Trailer Ahead Of Launch
Guybrush Threepwood is back!
It's a new month, and that means plenty of new titles for Xbox Game Pass. One we're particularly excited about here at Pure Xbox is Return to Monkey Island. Guybrush Threepwood is back in a brand new adventure that continues on from the story in the original two games. Ahead of the game's Xbox launch on 8th November,...
News Here's Everything That Was Revealed At The ID@Xbox Fall Showcase 2022
Missed the event? Here's a recap
Missed the ID@Xbox Fall Showcase earlier today? No worries! You can always go back and watch the on-demand version for yourself, and we've also detailed all the important reveals in this article. The following list is everything that was revealed during the stream: Eville, a multiplayer social deduction game,...
News Eight Games Announced For Game Pass At ID@Xbox Fall Showcase 2022
TWD, a Valheim date & more!
As usual, today's ID@Xbox Fall Showcase treated us to a bunch of new Xbox Game Pass reveals, including some particularly noteworthy additions such as Valheim and the excellent The Walking Dead: The Final Season! Here's a rundown about each of the games that were revealed in the show today: Amazing Cultivation...
Poll How Would You Grade The ID@Xbox Fall Showcase 2022?
Give us your verdict
The dust is now beginning to settle on the ID@Xbox Fall Showcase for 2022! If you haven't had a chance to watch it yet, you can catch the full thing over at our live coverage page, and we've also provided a separate recap of everything that happened as part of the show. Read More: Here's Everything That Was Revealed At The...
Live Watch The ID@Xbox Fall Showcase 2022 Here
Hopefully with some Game Pass reveals!
Update: The show is now over, but we've provided a full roundup of all the announcements here at Pure Xbox! You can also watch the video-on-demand version above. Original story: Hello, and welcome to the ID@Xbox Fall Showcase 2022! Microsoft will be using this event to showcase "updates and new...
News Fingers Crossed, We're Getting Multiple Xbox Game Pass Reveals This Week
Update: We ended up getting over 15 of them!
Update (Thu 15th Sep, 2022): Well, this definitely came true! - Rare treated us to the massive announcement that GoldenEye 007 is coming to Xbox Game Pass soon, eight games were revealed for the service at the ID@Xbox Fall Showcase 2022, and another eight games including Deathloop and Assassin's Creed...
Guide Five Xbox-Related Events To Watch Over The Next Few Days
Some big surprises on the way?
Well, Gamescom might be done and dusted for another year, but we've still got a whole bunch of publisher-focused livestreams and major showcases on the way in the near future, particularly over the next few days! With that in mind, we've picked out a handful of events you might want to keep an eye on, including the...
News Xbox Details September ID@Xbox Showcase Featuring Game Pass Announcements
On a particular anniversary...
Showcase season is continuing well into September this year it seems! Xbox's Tokyo Games Show livestream takes place later this month, and literally a day before that, Microsoft is now delivering a fresh ID@Xbox showcase for us all. The team's ID@Xbox fall show goes ahead on September 14th, at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm...
News Xbox Summer Demo Event 2022 Announced, Will Feature 30+ Games
Begins next week
The third annual ID@Xbox Summer Game Fest Demo Event is returning to Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S next week on Tuesday, June 21st, bringing over 30 demos of upcoming games for Xbox owners to try for free! The full list has yet to be announced, but it will at least include the following: Batora: Lost Haven: The...
Video Xbox Highlights 15 Indie Games In Development Around The World
A small sample of what's to come
If you were watching the Xbox Games Showcase Extended 2022 show yesterday, you may have seen a segment in which Xbox highlighted 15 ID@Xbox games in development around the world right now. It was a bit of a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, so we've included the trailer at the top of this article for you to watch...
News Xbox Announces Involvement With Upcoming Japanese Indie Showcase
The event takes place this weekend
Xbox Wire has revealed a little more info about the Indie Live Expo 2022, and the platform's involvement in the showcase. To mark the occasion, Xbox is hosting an Indie Live Expo sale, which is currently ongoing as part of this week's Xbox deals. The post also details what the showcase will deliver, and we're...
News ID@Xbox Has Now Generated More Than $2.5B In Revenue For Indie Devs
Program partners "doubled" over the past 3 years
More positive news coming out of Xbox today - with the games division of Microsoft announcing its ID@Xbox program has now generated more than $2.5 billion in revenue for indie developers since launching in 2013. Xbox in that time frame has attracted all sorts of developers to the program - from...
News ID@Xbox March Showcase Will Detail Upcoming Indies On Xbox Game Pass
It's showcase season
After banging on about Xbox having no showcases as of late, it looks like they've listened! The company has announced an ID@Xbox show for next week, March 16th, and it'll give us a good look at some upcoming indie titles. The announcement name drops Shredders as one of the show's biggest games, and we're definitely looking...
Guide Here's The Full List Of 35+ Demos In The Xbox Winter Game Fest
Available to download starting today
In case you missed it, Xbox announced last week that it was bringing us the ID@Xbox Winter Game Fest Demo Event from December 7th to December 21st, and we've now got the full list of all 37 playable demos included as part of it. All of these are available to download from the Xbox Store starting today. They are...
Live Watch Today's ID@Xbox Indie Showcase Event Here
Reveals, Game Pass news & more
Update: The show has now finished, and we've recapped all of it in our roundup here at Pure Xbox! Original story: Welcome! Today marks the return of the Xbox Indie Showcase event for a second time, set to feature "tons of independent titles" including brand new game announcements, as well as Xbox Game Pass news...
News ID@Xbox Exec Departs From Microsoft After 'Seven Amazing Years'
"I am leaving proud of what we have achieved"
Agostino Simonetta, who is commonly known for being the director of global partnership management for ID@Xbox, has announced his departure from the company after "seven amazing years." Simonetta dropped the news on Twitter, confirming his new appointment at Thunderful Group as chief strategy and...
Video ID@Xbox Montage Highlights 17 Games Coming To Game Pass
Including a few we didn't know about
The Xbox team has released a brand-new ID@Xbox Game Pass montage as part of today's 'Xbox Games Showcase Extended' event, revealing a few upcoming indie additions to the service we didn't previously know about. The first of these is Medieval Dynasty, available today with PC and coming to console in the future,...
News You'll Get A Chance To Try Tunic For The First Time On Xbox Next Week
A brand-new, never-been-played demo
There was a lot of news flying around yesterday as part of Summer Game Fest 2021's 'Kickoff Live!' event, so you may have missed that Xbox will be hosting a special demo event next week starring the highly-anticipated Tunic. According to the developer, this is a "brand-new, never-been-played demo" (which means...
News Xbox Is Getting 40+ Free Demos Next Week As Part Of Summer Game Fest
Including the much-anticipated Tunic
Like free demos? Then you're in luck! Microsoft has announced that last year's Summer Game Fest Demo event is returning for 2021 on Xbox, bringing over 40 free demos to consoles from Tuesday, June 15 to Monday, June 21. As part of this, we'll get a chance to try the much-anticipated Tunic for the first time on...
Video Watch The Xbox Indie Showcase Livestream Here!
Reveals, Game Pass news & more!
Update: The show is now over, but you can see the full roundup here at Pure Xbox! Original story: Welcome! Today's special Xbox Indie Showcase is being presented in partnership with Twitch, and will feature over 100 games from independent developers, including new trailers and gameplay for more than 25 games. You...
News Devolver Digital Teases New Game Reveal For Xbox's Indie Showcase
What could it be?
Tomorrow, Xbox is airing a special indie event in conjunction with Twitch, where it will showcase more than 100 games from independent developers around the world. One of the many publishers involved is Devolver Digital - known for Fall Guys and much more. As part of the event, it's now teased a brand new game reveal on social...
News Xbox Indie Showcase Event To Feature Over 100 Games Next Week
Including game reveals and Game Pass announcements
Get your calendar out! Microsoft has confirmed it will be hosting an Xbox Indie Showcase next week in conjunction with Twitch, set to feature over 100 games from independent developers based all over the world. The event will feature brand-new game announcements, new trailers and gameplay footage,...
Video Here Are 15 Indie Games Coming To Xbox Series X
All optimized for the system
Microsoft gave us a very brief taste of some ID@Xbox games on the way to Xbox Series X as part of yesterday's Xbox Games Showcase, but it has since released a longer video with more titles. All of the games featured in the trailer above will be "Optimized for Xbox Series X", and you'll be able to play them first on...
Video Microsoft Highlights 30+ Indie Games Coming To Xbox
New Summer Spotlight series
Microsoft has put out a new article on Xbox Wire showcasing over 30 independently developed games coming to Xbox platforms "soon" as part of its Summer Spotlight series. You can check out all the new videos (six in total) below, which feature gameplay and developer insights from the likes of Everspace 2, Call of the Sea,...
News Microsoft: Players Have Spent Over $1.4 Billion On ID@Xbox Games
Huge figures
ID@Xbox regional lead Agostino Simonetta recently appeared at the GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit, and revealed some key statistics about the self-publishing program. As pointed out by True Achievements, Simonetta noted that Xbox One players have spent over $1.4 billion on games coming from the indie program since it began in 2014:...
Video See Footage Of Over 35 Upcoming ID@Xbox Games
Part of a new Spotlight series
The ID@Xbox program has revealed footage of 36 upcoming indie Xbox games as part of a new Spotlight YouTube series, complete with comments from the developers themselves. The move comes as a result of GDC being cancelled back in February, with Sr. Director of ID@Xbox Chris Charla commenting that "given the global...
News ID@Xbox Shows Off Retro-Inspired 2020 Skate Deck
It's very old-school
The Independent Developers program at Xbox (ID@Xbox) has been giving out custom-made skate decks to participating developers and lucky Xbox fans for some years now, and has just unveiled its latest design for 2020. As you can see, it's a gorgeous design reminiscent of the 80s and early 90s gaming era. We're not sure exactly...
No Rubik in sight
The puzzle genre is not the most fondly tended in the gaming universe. Standout titles such as Portal, The Witness or Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut are often differentiated from the narrow pack because they offer something more than mere puzzling. This is sadly not the case with Cubikolor which, at it's most basic, is a simplistic...
Shine on
In a world where top-down shooters aren't exactly thin on the ground, it takes a brave developer to release one these days and hope that it draws money. With Neon Chrome though, developer 10tons have mixed things up somewhat. Rather than dealing in the sort of relatively throwaway fun the likes of Crimsonland and Polychromatic (amongst many...
Review Azkend 2: The World Beneath (Xbox One)
Not a love match.
Azkend 2: The World Beneath is the latest assault on the Xbox market from the prolific guys over at 10tons Ltd and unsurprisingly, its another match-3 (or more) puzzle game. Much like their last two attempts to crack the puzzle fanbase, Sparkle Unleashed and Sparkle 2, this is a relatively simple puzzler that is unlikely to stretch...
Review Not a Hero: Super Snazzy Edition (Xbox One)
Get snazzy, ya clown!
Not A Hero is a side-scrolling 2D cover-based shooter where you're employed by a pink rabbit who wants to be the mayor but who needs to show his ability to clean up the town so that people will vote for him. To do this, he's hired you, playing as one of several anti-heros, to pretty much go in and blow away bad guys in order to...
Review Super Night Riders (Xbox One)
Burnt rubber
They say that you can't judge a book by its cover. The same could be said of videogames and trailers. In the case of Super Night Riders though, you can throw all the sayings out of the window. We had our reservations about the retro motorcycle racer when we first clapped eyes on the announcement trailer but – as we have to - gave it...
Review Grand Prix Rock 'n Racing (Xbox One)
The Pits
Fast forward seven months from EnjoyUp's first Xbox One release – the dire Rock 'N Racing Off Road DX - and the developer is back again with a slightly more ambitious title. Grand Prix Rock 'N Racing is another almost-top-down racer, but this time we're looking at F1-style cars racing around much larger tracks with a helicopter-based...
Review Blues and Bullets - Episode 2 (Xbox One)
Eight months later...
What's most difficult about investing in an episodic adventure series is the agonizing long wait between episodes. Having launched its debut episode on Xbox One nearly eight months ago, Blues and Bullets may just be the worst offender for this. It's disappointing, nonetheless, that Episode 2 doesn't land all of its punches. It...
Review Cel Damage HD (Xbox One)
Racing back in time
Back in 2001, Cel Damage was released for the original Xbox. Offering a cartoony, cel shaded take on the then popular vehicular combat genre, it was an immediate hit and many people still have a soft spot for it today. Fast forward to 2016, and Frontline Games have produced an HD remake of the game, but has time been kind, or...
Review Blast 'Em Bunnies (Xbox One)
Blast 'em into the sun
When it comes to game concepts, the one supplied by Blast 'Em Bunnies couldn't be much simpler. You play a bunny, manning (bunnying?) a rotating gun turret. Other rabbits of various types – grenadiers, paratroopers, burrowers, walkers, etc. - are trying to get to you so that they can knock you out and take your stuff. You...
News Motorcycle Combat Rolls Onto Xbox One With Road Rage
We know what you're thinking...
Indeed, we know what you're thinking from the headline, but this isn't a Road Rash remake. Maximum Games have confirmed that Road Rage - a new motorcycle-combat IP - will be launching on Xbox One later this year. The game is set in the dangerous town of Ashen and you play as Ace, the newest member of an outlaw...
In space, it takes two to tandem
From Portal to Q.U.B.E, when physics-based puzzle games are done well, they stay in your memory and earn a valued spot in your games collection. TACs Games Factotum 90 is a likely contender to this club, taking a unique premise and making you feel like a genius while keeping the gameplay simple and engaging. Set...
News H1Z1 Splits Into Two Games, Both Coming to Xbox One
A new approach
Daybreak's super-popular PC survival title H1Z1 is finally coming to consoles, but not in the way that you'd expect. Instead of a straight port, the entire game's development has been split up into two new products, entitled H1Z1: Just Survive and H1Z1: King of the Kill. All formats will follow the same path, so the PC title will be...
Preview Compulsion Confirms We Happy Few Will Launch on Xbox One via Game Preview in 2016
Very happy many
Via a new year round up blog post, Compulsion Games have confirmed that their intriguing We Happy Few will indeed launch via Xbox Game Preview in mid-2016. The game was first announced in February 2015, and Microsoft showed the game during their Gamescom press briefing. It was initially rumoured by a couple of outlets that the game...
News Pineview Drive Set to Bring More Horror to Xbox One
Keep the lights on
This news is coming via the German ratings authority USK, who have today certified the PC horror title Pineview Drive for an Xbox One release. As far as we're aware, the game hasn't been confirmed as coming to the platform until now, and there's very little information available regarding the port. As in, there isn't any...
Review Guns, Gore and Cannoli (Xbox One)
Disorganized crime
In Guns, Gore & Cannoli, players fill the shoes of Vinnie Cannoli, an enforcer for the mob in the 1920s. When Vinnie is sent into Thugtown to locate a person of interest for his employer, he soon finds that circumstances are dire. Zombies and rival gang members are everywhere, and the city is in disarray. With an arsenal of...
Review No Time To Explain (Xbox One)
Not worth the time
Originally released in 2011 as a browser game on Newgrounds, No Time To Explain on Xbox One doesn't really add a whole lot of "new" aside from a smoother visual presentation and soundtrack. The cold hard truth though is that No Time To Explain wasn't a great game back then, and all of the problems associated with it are still...
A case of perspective
Here at Pure Xbox we pretty much always write articles from the third person perspective. It allows us to present a more professional tone, we feel. From time to time, the Editor (hey there!) will pen an Editor's Opinion piece from his own point of view but other than that, the third person perspective is the order of the day...
Gamescom 2015 Train Simulator Rolling Onto Xbox One
Portly Controller not included
Train Simulator 2015 developed by Dovetail Games is set to come to Xbox One via ID@Xbox, as announced by program director Chris Charla at Microsoft's Gamescom presser. Dovetail Games' website states: Train Simulator delivers everything you love about trains with the exhilaration of speed, stunning graphics, a...
Feature Editor's Opinion: Indie Game Promotion on Xbox One Has to Change
Evolution required
Back in the Xbox 360's heyday, Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade was a stellar way to bring new titles to gamers. A platform within a platform, it appeared to have the full backing of the console manufacturer, with regular arcade-focused promotions and a dedicated area on the dashboard for people to find out about what was available...
News Police 10-13 Set to Bust Perps on Xbox One
Been doing a little drinking tonight, sir?
Wingman Games are currently working on a "police simulator" title for PC and Xbox One, by the name of Police 10-13. The game has been a part of Steam's "Greenlight" program for a little while, where it has indeed been greenlit by the community, and Wingman appears to have a long list of features that they...
Out Today Neverwinter (Xbox One)
...is coming
The Xbox One doesn't have a lot of MMO's (Japan got Onigiri) but Neverwinter is looking like it's ready to fill that void. It's been out on PC for a long time, and today Xbox One owners can try their hands at it for no cost whatsoever. We're not the biggest MMO fans here at pX, but this one definitely has us intrigued. Let us know in...
