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News Major Back 4 Blood Expansion Arrives Today With All-New PvE Levels
Tunnels of Terror
As Back 4 Blood hits its six-month anniversary, developer Turtle Rock Studios is delivering the game's first major expansion. The Tunnels of Terror add-on launches today, April 12th, and there's quite a bit to go at in here. The big thing is a new feature dubbed 'Ridden Hives'. These new "PvE areas" are sort of like mini-dungeons,...
Deals Another 60+ Games Added To This Week's Xbox Sales (April 12-19)
Deals with Gold and Spotlight offers
It's time for another set of weekly Xbox deals! For obvious reasons, the list is much smaller than usual this week due to the ongoing Xbox Spring Sale 2022, but we've still got another 60+ games to take advantage of over the next few days. We've included all of this week's Deals with Gold and Spotlight offers in...
News 'Hell Is Us' Is A New Unreal Engine 5 Adventure Coming To Xbox Series X|S
Hellish
Developers seem to be going all in on Unreal Engine 5 for this generation, with multiple studios moving over to Epic Games' new technology. However, we've not actually seen many real games running on the new engine, until now. Nacon has revealed Hell is Us, a new action adventure game running on UE5. It's being developed by Rogue Factor,...
News Three Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (April 12)
True colours
We're being treated to another Game Pass drop today, April 12th, and the headlining game is a big one. Life is Strange: True Colors enters the library today, along with two new PC additions: Panzer Corps 2 and The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos. Here are the new titles you can download today with Xbox Game Pass (April 12):...
News Halo: MCC Receives A Huge New Update, Flood Firefight Now Live
"We’ve got some unfinished business..."
Following on from last week's teaser, 343 has now updated Halo: The Master Chief Collection with Flood Firefight, Halo 3 & Halo ODST co-op crossplay and full custom browser support. There are various other changes included in this latest update such as UI improvements, updates to the Forge and Mod...
News Shadowrun Trilogy Listing Hints At Series' Return To Xbox
Dragonfall
Shadowrun Returns, Shadowrun: Dragonfall – Director’s Cut, and Shadowrun: Hong Kong – Extended Edition have all been rated in Taiwan for various systems, including Xbox platforms, hinting at an upcoming release. The trilogy of titles was already announced last year, but at the time, only for Nintendo Switch. These ports do exist...
News Certain Affinity Is Looking For Xbox Devs To Work On 'New Original IP'
The team is rumoured to be making a 'Monster Hunter-style' Xbox exclusive
Back in January, we reported on talk of a Monster Hunter-style game being worked on as an Xbox exclusive. Those reports tagged Certain Affinity as the developer, and well, a new job listing further hints at Xbox development. The Austin, Texas-based team has listed a new job,...
News Cyberpunk 2077 Expansions And Other Updates Are Coming, Says CDPR
"We are working on expansions, we're working on stuff"
Since Cyberpunk 2077's next-gen update finally landed, attention has quickly turned to expansions. Developer CD Projekt Red confirmed the existence of DLC plans before the game even came out, and it looks like those plans are still being worked on. Recently, Cyberpunk 2077 quest designer Paweł...
News Xbox Has Created This Elaborate Controller Stand For LEGO Star Wars
Chonker
We've seen, and used, our fair share of controller stands over the years. Sometimes they work as docking stations, other times as mere plastic stands but they usually have one thing in common: their size. However, this limited edition LEGO Star Wars stand is a bit... different, shall we say. Kinda Funny's Greg Miller posted the behemoth on...
Feature These 10+ Games Are Coming To Xbox This Week (April 11-15)
Including some big Game Pass titles
We've got another 10+ games releasing on Xbox this week, including some big additions such as the Back 4 Blood: Tunnels of Terror DLC and the Nintendo Switch hit Road 96, along with four Xbox Game Pass titles highlighted by the brilliant Life is Strange: True Colors and
News Microsoft Reportedly Working On Smaller, More Power Efficient Series X Chip
Revision number one?
The Xbox Series X is a pretty beefy machine, not only in power but also in size. It'd make sense then, that a year and a half after launch, revisions may well be underway for a more efficient version of the console. According to a new report, that much is already happening. Journalist Brad Sams discussed the topic on a recent...
News Xbox Series X|S UK Sales Have Surpassed The Nintendo GameCube
It happened a few months ago
This next generation of consoles has been defined by stock issues thus far, but even so, Microsoft has reportedly sold more Xbox Series X and S systems in the UK than Nintendo managed with the GameCube throughout its entire lifespan. This is according to GamesIndustry's Chris Dring, who pointed out that the milestone...
News 343 Teases 'Something New' For Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Could The Flood be coming to Firefight?
Although Halo Infinite is still the primary focus for 343 Industries at the moment, it's still showing some love for Halo: The Master Chief Collection. In an update on social media, the official Halo account has teased that "something new" is coming to the collection game very soon, and it's a picture of The...
Feature Xbox Series X|S Games To Look Forward To In 2022
Updated for May!
Update: Welcome to May! We've moved a few things around, deleted April's entries and added a few more games to the list to look forward to in 2022. Expect this list to get even more stacked throughout the year! Original story: Well that was 2021, and what a year it was for Xbox gamers. We saw the return of Master Chief in the...
News Halo Infinite 'Lone Wolves' Trailer Gives Us A First Taste Of Season 2
Prepare to join the hunt, Spartans
Following on from the batch of details we've received about Halo Infinite Season 2 recently, 343 Industries has unveiled an announce trailer for the season, which will officially be called "Lone Wolves", beginning on May 3rd. The studio has promised "fresh content" for the season "including new maps, modes, themed...
News Xbox Is Getting Another New Star Trek Game Later This Year
Likely targeted at young audiences
We found out back at The Game Awards 2021 that new studio Dramatic Labs (made up of ex-Telltale Games employees) was working on Star Trek Resurgence, coming to Xbox in Spring 2022, and now we've got word of another Star Trek game said to be "coming soon" in the form of Star Trek: Prodigy - Supernova. The reveal...
News Multiple Games Reduced By 85-95% In The Xbox Spring Sale 2022
From as low as £1.34
The Xbox Spring Sale 2022 has arrived, and as you'd expect, it includes a whole bunch of bargains! Some of these games are reduced by up to 95% off their RRP, and we've collected the biggest discounts in the tables below. So, let's go over some of the highlights. The XCOM2 Collection has the biggest discount at 95%, which puts...
Deals Xbox Spring Sale 2022 Now Live, 500+ Games Discounted
Hope you've been saving up for Easter!
It's time for the Xbox Spring Sale 2022! This year's selection has kicked off with a list of over 500 discounted games, many of which are major AAA titles (including plenty of recent releases), so there's loads to choose from. Below, we've included just some of the highlights from this year's Xbox Spring Sale...
News Halo Infinite's Multiplayer 'Live Team' Reveal More Updates For Season 2
Here's what you can expect
Update: 343 Industries has also released a new Halo Infinite Season 2 trailer today, which you can watch above. Original story: 343 Industries has published a new Halo Infinite 'Season 1 Outcomes Report' - continuing on from last week's report. This week's report is focused o
News New Xbox Feature Allows You To Mute System Sound Effects
Like the guide and the dashboard
Yesterday, Microsoft treated us to a new feature in the form of the ability to switch TV inputs by pressing the Xbox button on the controller, and the update also included another new feature - the ability to mute system sound effects. Xbox's Eden Marie has been detailing this today over on Twitter, explaining that...
News Rogue Legacy 2 Arrives As An Xbox Console Exclusive This Month
"Rogue Legacy is back!"
We've got a nice surprise arriving later this month on Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S in the form of Rogue Legacy 2, and for now at least, it's actually an Xbox console exclusive. It launches on Thursday, April 28th. It follows the 2013 original, described as a "genealogical rogue-LITE," which means "it has all...
News 2022's Need For Speed Is Reportedly Current-Gen Only
Last-gen consoles seemingly no longer family
It seems as though the next chapter in EA's long-running Need For Speed street racing franchise may be set to release on current-gen consoles only. As reported by the fine folk over at VGC, Venturebeat's Jeff Grubb, speaking on his GiantBomb show Grubbsnax, remarked that the latest in the bombastic r
News Free Play Days: Try These Xbox Games For Free (April 7-10)
Including this "breathtaking world-crafting sandbox"
It's time for another batch of Free Play Days titles! Two more games are available to play for free this weekend for Xbox Live Gold members, and they're ready to download right now. So, what's included in the batch this week? The biggest of the two is Football Manager 2022 Xbox Edition, which is...
News 1 New Game, 3 New Cloud Titles Are Available On Xbox Game Pass Today
"Every choice will affect the world around you..."
It's Game Pass day! We've got one brand-new release arriving on the service today in the form of Chinatown Detective Agency, while EA Play is also bringing three new cloud additions to the Ultimate version of Game Pass. Here are the games you can download with Game Pass today: Chinatown...
News Halo Infinite 'Last Spartan Standing' Mode New Details Leak
Could it be like a Battle Royale mode?
It seems a Halo Infinite leak may have potentially shed some light on the new 'Last Spartan Standing' mode coming to Season 2. According to Halo Infinite's custom game offline menu (as verified by GameSpot), this new mode has one 12 minut
News You Can Now Switch Your TV's Input Using Your Xbox Controller
Feature rolling out to everyone today
We've got a new feature arriving for everyone specifically on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S today, which allows you to switch your TV's input signal simply by pressing the Xbox button on your controller. A cool little addition! This feature has been available to some Insiders for quite some time now, but...
Video Bethesda Introduces Us To Starfield's Robot Companion, VASCO
Your favourite new companion
Bethesda is still trickling out little bits of information about the highly-anticipated Starfield, and the latest is a video looking at one of the game's companion characters, VASCO, described as "Constellation’s expeditionary robot." The video gives us an idea of what to expect from the "primarily peaceful" robot,...
News LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Seems To Be Selling Incredibly Well So Far
It's smashing records already
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has been a hit with both the critics and the fans so far, and it looks like the immense ambition that went into it has translated into superb sales, at least according to the early Steam data. We don't know anything about console sales just yet, but over on Steam for PC, the game has...
Review Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands - A Borderlands Fantasy Spin-Off Worth A Look
Borderlands x D&D
The latest Borderlands game Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands has had an incredibly low-key launch compared to previous “mainline” entries in the series and a lot of other games this year. While it’s technically a spin-off – acting as a follow-up to the Borderlands 2 DLC, Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep, Wonderlands breathes...
News Xbox Series X|S Outsold PS5 And Nintendo Switch In The UK Last Month
Thanks to the Series X stock increase
We've already mentioned today how the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S have enjoyed stock increases in the UK over the past few months, and this resulted in the two consoles selling better than the PS5 and Nintendo Switch in March. According to GamesIndustry.biz's Chris Dring, this was due to the arrival of more...
Rumour Microsoft Paid For 'Chip Priority' To Increase Xbox Series X|S Stock
"Money was the reason"
We've been seeing stock of Xbox Series S and particularly Xbox Series X consoles continue to become more plentiful over the past six months or so, mostly at the back end of 2021, and it seems there's a good reason for that. According to the folks on the XboxEra podcast, Microsoft actually did a deal to get "chip priority" for...
News Epic Games Announces Unreal Engine 5 Is Now Officially Available
The future is now
It's been almost two years since Epic Games unveiled the next edition of Unreal Engine (Unreal Engine 5) with a stunning tech demo running on a PS5 devkit, and now the engine is officially available to all developers as of today. It's been in early access for the past year, but this is the official launch — we already know that...
News Another Six Games Will Leave Xbox Game Pass Soon (April 11-18)
The latest list of departures
Update: Microsoft has confirmed the dates for these departures, which we've added to the table below. Destiny 2 is still scheduled to leave PC Game Pass on April 11th, but was not included in the recent list over at Xbox Wire. Original story: Microsoft has revealed the next set of six games that will be removed from...
News These 10 Games Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass (April 5-14)
Update: Now official!
Update: The leak was correct! Microsoft has officially confirmed that these games will be heading to Xbox Game Pass soon, and we've updated the table below with all the official dates and platforms for each title. Original story: The latest batch of Xbox Game Pass titles appears to have leaked early once again, courtesy of...
News Tales Of Arise Dev Explains Why It Won't Be Getting A Direct Sequel
And reveals why Scarlet Nexus was a "rival"
Bandai Namco's Tales of Arise was (in our opinion) one of the low-key best games of 2021 on Xbox, but it won't be getting a direct sequel, and Producer Yusuke Tomiwaza has explained why in an interview with Edge magazine (via GamesRadar). The game's sales proved to be a success, serving as the...
News Two Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (April 5)
Play ball!
It's Game Pass day! The big addition today is undoubtedly Sony's MLB The Show 22, which arrives on the service at launch for the second year in a row, while Cricket 22 has also surprisingly been added to today's selection as well. Here are the games you can download with Game Pass today: Cric
Deals 100+ Games Are On Sale This Week On Xbox (April 5-11)
Update: The Xbox Spring Sale is also now live!
Update: You'll find the original Deals With Gold, Spotlight and Best Rated Hits deals in the table below, but the massive Xbox Spring Sale 2022 is also now live, which we've rounded up elsewhere on Pure Xbox. Original story: It's time for another set of weekly Xbox deals! The list is looking a lot...
Roundup Here's What The Critics Are Saying About LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Are they on the light side or the dark side?
It's finally almost here! After five years of development and many, many delays, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga drops on Xbox this Tuesday, April 5th. We've been going hands-on with the full game here at Pure Xbox for the past few days, as have many other critics, and those reviews have been going...
Feature These 10+ Games Are Coming To Xbox This Week (April 4-8)
Revisit the Saga
This week isn't stacked with lots of new releases, but there are plenty of major games to talk about. Arguably the two biggest are LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and MLB The Show 22, with the latter also joining Xbox Game Pass at launch, but we've also got the highly-anticipated
News Five More Starfield In-Game Images Have Leaked Online
Based on a 2018 build of the game
Update: How about a few more?! Here's another fresh set of leaked images (still from a few years ago): Original story: Although Starfield is arriving later this year, Bethesda still hasn't really shown all that much of it in the lead up the release. While we're expecting to get additional details and footage...
News Everyone's 'Moving To New Zealand' Again For LEGO Star Wars On Xbox
Getting a head start
Here we go again! That old trick where you can "move to New Zealand" in order to play games early has cropped up once again for LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, with lots of people talking about it on social media right now. This is because the game is seemingly launching midnight local time in New Zealand, which lines up as...
Hardware Review PowerA Duo Charging Station For Xbox Series X|S
Featuring support for Xbox One controllers as well
There was a lot of controversy when it was revealed that Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S controllers would still utilise removable AA batteries back in 2020. Even if you weren't happy with that decision though, it does come with a plus side in that you can get all sorts of battery solutions now,...
News Get Ready, The Xbox Spring Sale 2022 Is Right Around The Corner
It should be with us very soon
The Xbox Spring Sale 2022 is almost upon us, during which a significant number of Xbox digital titles are expected to be discounted for a period of around ten days to two weeks. The official date of the sale hasn't been announced at the time of writing, but we've provided some educated guesses below as to when we think...
News 343 Details Season 2 Updates For Halo Infinite
Here's what you can expect
343 Industries has published a new Halo Infinite 'Season 1 Outcomes Report' - highlighting all the feedback and steps taken to address fan concerns. While most of this blog update is focused on Season 1, the team has also shared another breakdown of what to expect from Season 2. Here's the TL;DR version of some of the...
News Job Listing Suggests Tactical FPS Valorant Is On Its Way To Xbox
Precise gunplay meets unique agent abilities
You've probably heard of Valorant at this point, a free-to-play tactical FPS on PC that's developed and published by Riot Games, and first launched back in 2020. It could be coming to Xbox soon as well, at least according to a job listing. Riot Games has begun hiring for a "Senior Game Designer,...
News SnowRunner Brings Its Free Next-Gen Upgrade To Xbox This May
Hopefully as part of Game Pass
We've got another free next-gen upgrade arriving soon in the form of SnowRunner, which is heading to Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S on May 31st, 2022. With any luck, the game will hopefully still be part of Game Pass by then. Details are pretty limited on what to expect at the moment, but we do know that the update...
Guide How To Claim 2000+ Bonus Microsoft Points On Xbox In April 2022
Your Monthly Bonus Round instructions
It's that time again! We're big fans of the Microsoft Rewards program here at Pure Xbox, which allows you to complete tasks in order to earn redeemable points which can be spent on gift cards, donations and much more. April 2022's "Monthly Bonus Round" challenge has just begun, and by satisfying a few easy...
News Halo Infinite Dev Admits 'Difficult Situation' In Response To Fan Unrest
"We understand the community is simply out of patience..."
Halo Infinite got off to a great start last year, but there's been a lot of much-talked about disgruntlement from fans in recent months over the lack of communication and meaningful content additions to the game since then. 343 has a Season 1 Outcomes blog coming out soon (update: out...
News The First Two Of April 2022's Xbox Games With Gold Are Now Available
Step into this surreal fantasy adventure
You can now begin downloading the first batch of April 2022's Xbox Games With Gold titles (one day early!), which are the Xbox One game Another Sight and Xbox 360 game Outpost Kaloki X. Both titles are available right now from the Microsoft Store (links at the bottom of the page) or by searching manually on...
News Ray Tracing Was Accidentally Added To Minecraft On Xbox, Says Mojang
It was early prototype code
Mojang Studios got all of our hopes up when the Minecraft Preview on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S added ray tracing support earlier this week, but unfortunately it's being taken away again due to an unexpected error. The team has revealed that this was prototype code that was never actually supposed to be added to the...
