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Random Xbox Fan Shows Ridiculously Dusty Series X Console After 3 Years Of Use
Xbox Series Xscrement
Xbox Series X|S just passed three years on the market this month, which means all of our launch-era consoles have had plenty of time to get dirty, full of grime, and load up on huge stacks of dust. While one of our very own Series X consoles has gathered plenty of dust in just a couple of years (pictured up above is our Halo...
News Less Than 1% Of Xbox Players Own The Coveted 'Day One' Achievement
Are you one of them?
Hands up, who remembers the "Day One" Xbox achievement? This was a reward that you received for owning the Day One Edition of the Xbox One back at launch in 2013, accessible via a code inside the box. The achievement has seemingly been made private by Microsoft these days, so it's not easy to find even if you do own it. If...
Random Halo Infinite Fans Discover 'Golden Sandwich' Easter Egg In Season 5
Hidden within the new map Forbidden
Halo Infinite Season 5: Reckoning launched earlier this week on Xbox Series X|S, PC and Game Pass, and Spartans have already discovered one crazy secret hidden on the new arena map, Forbidden. This Easter Egg requires players to press a bunch of floor switches in a specific order and it then opens a secret door...
Random Seeing This Funky Text On Your Xbox? Here's What It Means
It's do with the Insider program
You may have noticed over the past few hours that your Xbox has begun to display a strange font on the dashboard and throughout the UI, and if that's the case, you're not alone! Fortunately, it's not something you need to worry about. This is what's known as "psuedo-loc", and it usually appears on text that has yet...
Random MEGA's Replica Xbox 360 Has A Cool Halo Easter Egg Inside it
"You found me"
Remember the replica 3:4 scale Xbox 360 building set that was announced by MEGA last month? Well, it's almost here and the first reviews are starting to roll in. While the system seems to be a standard assembly, there are some intricate details and features on it like glowing Xbox logos and joysticks that actually move. One other...
News Microsoft Unveils New 'Heritage Collection' Of Xbox 360 Merch
"We went back to 2007 and brought you something"
The Xbox social media team ended up causing a stir yesterday with the announcement of new Xbox 360 merchandise! This round of new clothing items are all specifically based on the console itself along with Halo 3. All of these items have been included in the "Heritage Collection" on the Xbox Gear...
Random Xbox's Phil Spencer Autographed A PS5 Cover At Tokyo Game Show 2023
"Is it OK to sign this?"
Xbox boss Phil Spencer made numerous appearances as part of Tokyo Game Show 2023 last week, including at an event hosted by IGN Japan where he reportedly autographed a PlayStation 5 cover following a fan request! This humorous revelation comes courtesy of Genki_JPN and a photo from gangsuit on Twitter, with Genki explaining...
News Starfield Has A New 'Phil Spencer' Mod, And It's Absolutely Ridiculous
His starring role
One of the benefits of playing Starfield on a Windows PC is that you can take advantage of the many user-created mods that are doing the rounds on the likes of Nexus Mods, and one of them even features Xbox boss Phil Spencer himself! As highlighted by The Verge's Tom Warren earlier today, there's a mod on that website called "Phil...
Random Xbox Fan Uploads Encounter With Phil Spencer In Fallout 76
"Heals are always welcome."
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has been incredibly busy in recent times, but despite this, he's still somehow able to find time to play games. It seems he was most recently hanging out with a fellow Vault dweller in Fallout 76. Phil actually needed some heals at the time, and a player known as 'MJ Hernández' on social media was...
Random Twitter's New 'X' Logo Is Getting The Attention Of Xbox Fans
"Who did it better?"
The big news in the social media world today is that Twitter has changed its logo to the letter "X" as part of a major rebranding effort, and the fact that it looks very similar to the Xbox Series X logo isn't lost on Xbox fans! The Series X logo isn't seen all too often in Xbox's marketing materials, but it is included as part...
Random Fake 'Halo 3 Remastered' Ads Appear On Times Square Billboard
This would be one way to announce it!
'Halo 3 Remastered' doesn't exist in any form right now — at least as far as we know publicly — but the small fact that it's not a real thing doesn't seem to be stopping some Halo fans from pretending to believe. As we've spotted over on the Halo subreddit, some fans of the series appear to be paying to...
Random DOOM Composer Mick Gordon Wants A Remaster Of 'The Simpsons: Hit & Run'
We do too, Mick, we do too
We've seen a lot of games get a lot of remasters over the past few years, but for whatever reason, the original Xbox classic The Simpsons: Hit & Run has remained untouched - at least in an official capacity. The latest person to lend their support for a Hit & Run remaster is none other than the legendary DOOM and...
Random Thanks To Some Dedicated Xbox Fans, Halo 3 LAN Parties Still Exist In 2023
"It was such a good time."
Remember the good old days of Halo 3 LAN parties on Xbox 360? Well, these parties do still exist if you look hard enough, as evidenced by a new photo that's been getting a ton of attention on Reddit over the past few days. The host of this particular party explained that he owned three Xbox 360 consoles that weren't being...
Random 'Killer Bean' Is Going Viral Once Again, And It's Apparently Coming To Xbox
"No two campaigns are the same"
Remember Killer Bean? This is a character that started out in YouTube shorts before eventually getting a movie called Killer Bean Forever in 2008, and now there's a game in development that is seemingly coming to Xbox. It was actually all the way back in 2021 when the Killer Bean game was first announced, and since...
Random Xbox 360 Dashboard Gets 'Modern Twist' In New Concept Art
"What if we went back to basics?"
We love sharing some fan-created Xbox dashboard designs every now and again, and this one based on an old Xbox 360 dashboard definitely caught our eye early this week, put together by an artist known as Ayeris. As you can see, it's a modern take on the "New Xbox Experience" dashboard that first debuted in 2008,...
News Xbox Users Are Finding More 'Just For You' Deals On The Store This Week
A slightly improved discount on a couple of titles
Xbox's new "Just For You" feature on the Microsoft Store has proved a hit so far, offering some good deals to certain users over the past few months - and it's just returned again with some nice discounts as part of this week's sales. From what we can see so far, most people seem to be getting Call...
Random Redfall Players Are Encountering Some Hilarious Glitches On Xbox
Vampires love a good T-pose
Redfall has just hit Xbox Game Pass this week, and admittedly, it hasn't released in the best state - with Xbox and PC players encountering crashes, bugs and all sorts of glitches so far. If you've not run into anything like this yourself just yet, here's a look at what you've potentially been missing out on. Some common...
Random Xbox Reminds Us Of The Time The Series X Was Caught Vaping
"Please do not blow vape smoke into your Xbox Series X"
The release of the Xbox Series X (and S) sparked all kinds of news stories back on November 10th, 2020, but one of the stories that we definitely didn't see coming was that the console was emitting large amounts of smoke out of its vent. This is something that drew a massive amount of...
Random Xbox Teams Up With Pringles To Create 'Suspicious Stew' Flavour
Sounds... tasty?
Minecraft Legends is about to launch on Xbox Game Pass, and that seems to have inspired the Pringles folks to develop a brand new flavour for its popular salty snack range. Yep, 'Suspicious Stew' flavoured Pringles are now a thing - plucked straight from the Minecraft universe (we cannot confirm nor deny whether Pringles are cannon...
News Xbox Fan Wins 'Game Pass For Life', But Shockingly Declines The Prize
"I wish the prize wasn’t for life..."
Every now and again, we see a competition cropping up as part of Microsoft Rewards that allows the winner to claim a "Lifetime Membership" to Xbox Game Pass - a prize which ultimately lasts for around 40 years. Earlier this week, a recent winner of this prize took to the
News Xbox Is Bringing Nine Bethesda Games To PlayStation Plus This Month
Interesting move
If you're a regular reader of our sister site Push Square, you may have noticed that 16 games were announced for the April 2023 PlayStation Plus lineup today, and nine of them are owned by Microsoft! Yes, a whole batch of Bethesda titles are being added to the Xbox Game Pass rival service, including the likes of DOOM Eternal,...
News Xbox Gets Tagged As Dino Crisis-Inspired Game Searches For A Publisher
"Please Xbox, look at this game"
This is a little bit of a random one, but we thought it was interesting anyway! Over the weekend a game called Primal Omen was getting a lot of attention on social media, described as a "modern survival horror game with Dinosaurs made by industry veterans". As you can see in the tweet below, the inspirations are...
Random What Happened To This Controller? Xbox Fans Are Trying To Figure It Out
"What could this be?"
If you sometimes find yourself browsing the various Xbox subreddits, you may have noticed a post that was getting a lot of attention over the weekend showing an Xbox Elite controller that had developed a very strange pattern. The person who uploaded the photo simply asked the question of "what could this be?", which ultimately...
Random Xbox's Phil Spencer Finds The Humour In Ridiculous Call Of Duty Meme
"Ok, that's pretty good"
We've seen Microsoft handing out a lot of 10-year deals to guarantee Activision Blizzard games (and particularly Call of Duty) on a variety of platforms in the future, so unsurprisingly there are plenty of memes cropping up! One of those memes actually caught the attention of Xbox boss Phil Spencer earlier this week, when...
News Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Achieves His Second 100% Completion Of 2023
We're not even three months in!
We all know that the Head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, is a massive gamer in his spare time, but it's very rare that he achieves a full completion when it comes to achievements - before this year, the last time he did it was back in 2018. That all changed a few weeks ago when Spencer finished off every single achievement...
Random The New 'Oreo Xbox Series S' Looks Absolutely Crazy In Person
You might be able to win one!
Oreo and Xbox are in the middle of a pretty busy partnership at the moment, and one of the prizes they're giving away to lucky Xbox fans is a custom Xbox Series S that looks absolutely ridiculous in person! The standard promo pic doesn't really give much away, but then when you see the unboxing images, it becomes clear...
News Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Achieves His First 100% Completion Of 2023
It's actually his first since 2018!
Phil Spencer, the Head of Xbox, conjured up quite a bit of attention over the weekend as he revealed that he'd just completed every single achievement in Vampire Survivors to date - his first 100% completion of 2023. At present, there are 162 achievements in Vampire Survivors if you include the Legacy of the...
Random The Xbox Walkman Is Real, And It Actually Plays Cassette Tapes
But of course you can't buy one
Update: If you're in the UK, a brand-new competition has opened up to win one of these via Twitter! Original story: Back in December, Xbox DACH generated a bit of attention by running a competition to win an Xbox Walkman based on the Xbox Series S, and the device is now slowly starting to go viral on social media...
News 'The Last Of Us' Ads Have Started Appearing On Xbox This Week
Hey, it's free real estate
HBO's 'The Last of Us' TV show is proving incredibly popular right now, as PlayStation brings its exclusive post-apocalyptic game series to the TV network. While we can't play the games themselves on Xbox, we can of course watch the show there, and Microsoft & HBO seem to be taking advantage of that fact. Adverts for...
Random Prince Harry Makes Headlines With Story About Diana Buying Him An Xbox
He says he has "no idea if it's true", and it can't be!
It's not often we find ourselves talking about Prince Harry and Xbox in the same sentence, but here we are! The British royal family member has published his memoir (called "Spare") this week, and he's making some headlines in the UK for a comment about receiving an Xbox in the late 90s. As...
Random Xbox & Bethesda Respond To Amazing Skyrim Creation In Halo Infinite
We kneed this
As if we all needed another excuse to play some form of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, a Halo Infinite player has now built the city of Whiterun directly in forge mode - and both Xbox and Bethesda have jokingly responded. Bethesda popped up with this pun first, relating to one of the Skyrim city's most notorious citizens. A few hours...
Random Halo Infinite Forge Mode Is Home To Some Wild 'Mario' Mashups
Mongoose Kart
Halo Infinite Forge mode finally arrived earlier this year, with 343 Industries delivering the series' most comprehensive set of custom game tools yet. While the mode has already enabled plenty of classic Halo content, like maps from previous games in the series, we weren't ready for what some of the community has started to come up...
Random High On Life Includes The Full Versions Of Four Classic Movies
From the 70s, 80s and 90s
If you've been playing High on Life on Xbox Game Pass this week, you may have noticed that the game includes some real-world movie content — in fact, it actually includes four feature-length films from the 70s, 80s and 90s! The one that's getting the most attention right now is Tammy and the T-Rex, which is a 1994 sci-fi...
Random Kid Gets Arrested After Invading Game Awards 2022 & Ranting About Bill Clinton
This was a bizarre moment
If you were watching The Game Awards 2022 last night, you may have noticed a bizarre moment at the end of the show in which an intruder made their way onto the stage and proceeded to talk about Bill Clinton. There was a bit of confusion at the time about who the person was and whether they were supposed to be part of the...
Random Xbox Is Now Selling Mini 'Hoodies' For Its Wireless Controllers
Snug
We've seen some weird and wonderful gaming merch over the years, but Microsoft might have just created the strangest Xbox accessory yet. In a surprising turn of events this week, the company has begun selling an incredibly useful Xbox accessory: mini hoodies for your controllers! Is that much-loved special edition pad of yours getting cold...
News Phil Spencer Shares Message With Xbox Fans For Thanksgiving 2022
"I just wanted to say thank you"
If you're celebrating it today, then happy Thanksgiving! As you may have noticed, team Xbox has been very quiet over the past 24 hours (we haven't even had any Free Play Days titles), and that's because Thanksgiving is taking priority. However, we have seen a few messages from various Xbox employees marking the...
News Mysterious 43GB Warner Bros. Game Discovered On The Xbox Store
Suicide Squad? Wonder Woman? Or something else?
We often find ourselves reporting on the Twitter account Aggiornamenti Lumia here at Pure Xbox, which scans the Microsoft Store for listings that aren't yet public, and it's found something mysterious related to Warner Bros. Games. A new title has been spotted on the Xbox Store under the codename of...
Random Xbox's Boss Has Set Up A Mastodon Account, Just In Case...
He's still active on Twitter, for now
One of the major ways Xbox communicates with fans is via the social media website Twitter. Now, as you might have heard, there's been some drama unfolding since the billionaire Elon Musk acquired the platform for roughly $44 billion. It seems many individuals are worried about the future of Twitter, and are now...
Random Xbox Accidentally Lowers Forza Horizon Bundle From $200 To Less Than $1
It's been selling at a 99% discount!
Update: Microsoft has now decided to refund and revoke this deal for anyone who took advantage. Original story: There's been a lot of excitement surrounding the Xbox Black Friday Sale 2022 over the past few hours, and Microsoft has definitely gone crazy with the sheer number of discounts this year, but...
Random Master Chief Voice Actor Teases Fans At Halo World Championship 2022
With Cortana also in attendance
Last weekend at the Halo World Championship finals, the voice of Master Chief, Steve Downes, got up to some mischief, teasing fans while they took pictures with a lifesize Spartan-117 statue. The official Halo YouTube and social channels have uploaded the short sketch, which features a guest cameo from Jen Taylor...
Random 'Sexy' Yakuza Screenshot Got Me Banned, Says Xbox User
"It's just a goofy picture..."
Have you ever been banned for uploading an "inappropriate" screenshot to Xbox Live? It appears to have happened on more than a few occasions, and this latest example comes courtesy of the brilliant Yakuza Kiwami 2. Taking to the Xbox Reddit earlier this week, a user by the name of ForFrayed revealed that their "goofy"...
Random Xbox Goes Viral With 'Masterful Tweet' About Social Media Trolls
"They won't stop repeating the same thing..."
We all know how popular Xbox can be on social media, and the brand has absolutely taken over Twitter over the past few hours with a viral PlayStation-based tweet that racked up 30,000 likes within just an hour. The tweet pokes fun at social media trolls who are often seen commenting on Xbox's posts that...
Random This New Nvidia Graphics Card Is 'Bigger' Than Xbox Series S
Big GPU or tiny console?
Ever since we first set eyes on Xbox Series S, we've been flabbergasted by how small the system is! Seriously, we know the Xbox Series X is large by normal console standards, but that doesn't take away from how tiny Microsoft's all-digital system actually proves. And yet, this new revelation doing the rounds on Twitter has...
Random Of Course Phil Spencer Has Been Playing Grounded
Version 1.0 launched last week
One person who has been a huge fan of Obsidian's latest release, Grounded, since the beginning of its existence back in 2020 is the Head of Xbox - Phil Spencer. Last week, Version 1.0 was officially released. Spencer mentioned at the time how he was "really proud" of the small and focused team at the studio that had...
Random Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Appears In Xbox Game Pass Library
Half baked
Okay, this isn't something we thought we'd see today, but here we are! A Reddit user spotted Ben & Jerry's appearing as an Xbox Game Pass title, yes, the ice cream brand. The app wasn't titled as such, but all the media related to Ben & Jerry's ice cream. After coming across the post we thought we best check for ourselves, and lo...
Random The Nostalgia Is Real For Doritos Crash Course On Xbox 360
"This game walked so Fall Guys could run"
Remember Doritos Crash Course? This was a free game released as part of the Xbox Live Arcade library on Xbox 360 in late 2010, and it ended up proving a massive hit, even going on to receive a sequel in the form of Crash Course 2. Every now and then, we see small pockets of Xbox fans popping up and talking...
News Fall Guys Goes Viral On Twitter With 'Big Surprise' For All Players
Free in your inventory right now
Fall Guys has been a massive hit since it arrived on Xbox last month as a free-to-play game, and if you're interested in adding a free skin to your collection, you'll be glad to know that all players have been treated to an extra special one. This was teased on Twitter yesterday with a very suggestive picture,...
Random Someone Made A Functioning Halo Rocket Launcher In Real Life
And fired it across a lake, because why not
You know when you pull off the perfect move in a video game and think 'that'd be badass to do in real life'? Well, there's not much that's as badass as landing the perfect rocket launcher shot in Halo, and someone's now taken it upon themselves to do just that in real life (minus the splattered enemies, of...
Random This Might Be The Most Realistic Xbox Cake We've Ever Seen
"Would I have fooled you with this cake?"
We've seen a few Xbox cakes in our time — including the official Xbox controller design — but this is on another level entirely! Created by Sugar High Score, it seems to be a stack of Xbox games, but it's actually a delicious-looking cake! You can watch the YouTuber explaining how she made this cake in...
Random There's A Version Of Halo With Multiplayer For Nintendo 3DS
It's a "Halo style Quake mod"
You've seen Halo games on Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. Maybe you've played one or two on PC, especially since Halo: Master Chief Collection arrived on the platform in 2019. However, you've probably not seen Halo on Nintendo 3DS, but did you know that it does exist? Reddit user deliciousprisms recently...
