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Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (March 6th)
Trying something new on Game Pass?
We’ve got that Saturday feeling again! And by the feeling, we mean sitting in our dressing gowns playing video games all weekend. There’s a massive amount to choose from, too. We have an array of sports games available on Xbox Game Pass, some fantastic indies on Free Play Days, and a
News Everwild’s Lead Designer Says Its ‘Something The World Hasn’t Seen Before’
Sounds big!
Rare announced Everwild during an Xbox presentation last year, and details about the game have been slim since. But according to the game’s lead designer, “something unique is brewing at Rare”, and we can’t wait to hear more. As spotted by Twitter user Idle Sloth, Everwild’s lead designer, James Blackhawk, shared a post on...
News Microsoft Is ‘Actively’ Working To Fix The Xbox Series X Controller Unresponsive Buttons Issue
“Our teams are actively working on a solution”
Since the Xbox Series X has launched, many gamers have grown to quickly love the updated controller. But others have also been plagued with issues, such as frequent unresponsive buttons on the peripheral. Some players have reported problems with their controllers since launch, and with more...
News NBA 2K21 Developer Believes Consumers Are ‘Ready’ For $70 Games
Games will be judged on a “title-by-title” basis
Take-Two has been known for rising their prices of games, after being one of the first to announce a hike of $70 on some of their games. It seems this is a trend their set to continue as they’ve claimed that gamers are “ready for it”. Speaking during the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media...
News The Coalition Is Hiring For Multiple Roles That Will ‘Forge The Future’ Of Gears
Wonder what the next project could be?
The Coalition, the team behind the most recent Gears game since the Xbox One era, is hiring multiple roles for what seems to be the next step in the franchise. One of the studio’s cinematic producers shared the job listings on Twitter, which leads to a variety of roles, including engineers and community...
News Finding Marvel’s Avengers Too Much Of A Grind? It’s About To Get A Lot Worse
Get in quick to avoid the issue!
Marvel’s Avengers has had a rocky release, with a buggy launch and many fans disappointed in the lack of post-launch support. Well, Square Enix appear to be trying a new method to keep people playing longer, and it might not go down too well. In a recent update on Square Enix’s site, changes to Marvel’s...
News Industry Insider Hints At Watch Dogs: Legion Coming To Xbox Game Pass
Game Pass could be getting a slice of British culture
Industry insider and XboxEra podcast co-host, Shpeshal Ed, has heavily implied that Watch Dogs: Legion could be making its way to Xbox Game Pass soon. In a recent tweet, Ed shared a fairly vague comments, but emphasised three words: Game, Passes, and Legion. This has sparked many commenters to...
News Rare Celebrates Conker’s 20th Anniversary Today
Maybe one day he’ll return
Conker has hit the big two-zero today, as the iconic platformer celebrates its 20th anniversary. It seems Rare didn’t want to miss out on the celebration, as they’ve shared a 20th anniversary post on Twitter, reminiscing on the cute, foul-mouthed squirrel’s past. They’ve even added some brand new Conker merch to...
Random Halo Infinite’s Artwork Reimagined As Combat Evolved Is Stunning
We want it on our wall!
The Halo community is continuously working on fan projects that look to celebrate the franchise. As a result, the Halo Waypoint team often share a bunch of creations made by its following that show the cultural impact the series has had, and the latest one may just be one of the best yet. Twitter user FletchUH has...
News Destroy All Humans Remake Now Has Xbox Series X Enhancements, New Skins Available
Possibly another teaser for a sequel remake?
Destroy All Humans Remake has had a new update, which is set to bring new Xbox Series X enhancements and a variety of new skins. The patch notes (thanks, Twisted Voxel), highlight everything new in the patch, which brings new cosmetics, difficulty tweaks, and next-gen enhancements - all available for...
News Don't Worry, The Xbox Design Lab Will Be Back This Year
"We'll keep you posted"
Although the Xbox Series X|S was launched last November, Microsoft's console teams are still in the phase of transitioning everything across to the next generation. This includes the Xbox Design Lab, which was temporarily suspended last October. At the time, it was mentioned how the Lab was "preparing for its next...
News Ubisoft Is Looking Into Uno Crashes On Xbox Series X
It’s been a long running issue
Many users are reporting being hit with severe crashing issues regarding Uno on the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, which Ubisoft has now said it is looking into. The issue has been plaguing players for what seems like months, as numerous Reddit threads have cropped up with users claiming the game is unplayable due...
Random Xbox Exec Reminisces Over The Amazing Sea Of Thieves Prototype
We want to play it!
Have you ever seen images or footage of the brilliant Sea of Thieves prototype? The game looked like a low budget animation, and we kind of want to play it. Microsoft’s director of product management, Jason Ronald, had a brief trip down memory lane this week over the much loved prototype pics. As the Xbox community looked back...
News Call Of Duty: Warzone's Season 2 Launch Broke A Virgin Media Record In The UK
They received some serious traffic!
Call of Duty has been known for introducing some hefty downloads over the past few years, but it seems the latest Warzone update to bring it to Season 2 has made a bit of an impact, especially with some internet providers. As reported by Eurogamer, the game’s update dropped on February 25 and weighed in at...
Deals The Best Bargains In Xbox's Huge Ubisoft Publisher Sale
Fantastic games at low prices!
As we highlighted earlier this week on Pure Xbox, Ubisoft is currently running a massive Publisher Sale across Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, and as you'd expect, there are plenty of bargains to be had! We've highlighted some of the best and most notable bargains with huge discounts in the Ubisoft sale...
News Away: The Survival Series Glides Onto Xbox One This Year
"Immerse yourself in nature and embark on a journey"
Ever fancied taking the role of a tiny sugar glider as you soar across misty chasms, leap from tree to tree, and climb to the top of the forest canopy, all while a narrator describes your every move? Then have we got the game for you! Away: The Survival Series is officially coming to Xbox One at...
Video Marvel’s Avengers Xbox Series X Upgrade Looks Good Enough To Make Hulk Smile
A smashing good time?
Square Enix has dropped a new trailer for Marvel’s Avengers, which highlights many of the next-gen features coming to Xbox Series X|S. Arriving on March 18th, the free upgrade will push Marvel’s Avengers even further with higher resolutions, faster loading times, increased frame rates and cross-gen multiplayer. It looks...
Video Here's 25 Minutes Of Gameplay From Aliens: Fireteam
This summer's co-op survival shooter
The announcement of Aliens: Fireteam drew a lot of excited attention earlier this week, and now courtesy of IGN, we're able to get a look at a whole 25 minutes of raw gameplay from the upcoming co-op survival shooter. The footage features 25 minutes of early mission gameplay that cuts between the perspectives of...
News Walmart Will Be Restocking The Xbox Series X This Afternoon
Here we go again!
We've got some more restock news to share! As highlighted by Wario64 on Twitter, Walmart will have the Xbox Series X back in stock again this afternoon at 2:30PM ET, along with the Xbox Series S. Be sure to head over to the Walmart website at exactly that time to try and get one. <products id="13758"> <products...
News The Future Games Show Returns This Month, Featuring World Premieres
Hosted by the stars of Resident Evil 3
Yes, we're getting the return of a proper event this month! The Future Games Show is coming back with a Spring Showcase on March 25th, profiling over 40 games from over 30 different publishers and developers. The show will be hosted by Resident Evil 3 stars Jeff Schine (Carlos Oliveira) and Nicole Tompkins...
News Over 310,000 Xbox Series Consoles Were Sold In The UK Last Year
With over 600,000 Xbox systems sold in total
They may have only launched in November, but the Xbox Series X|S has had a strong start, as a new report claims over 310,000 units were shifted in the UK alone last year. According to a report from GamesIndustry.biz, the information comes from the Entertainment Retailers Association. It’s said that...
News Square Enix Has 'High Expectations' For Future Unannounced Titles
The next 12 months could be interesting
Square Enix has recently published its Q&A for its third quarter earnings of this fiscal year, which showed some steady profits for the company. But one of the more interesting comments made was about the company’s future titles, and the positive feeling it has for its upcoming selection in the next...
News Team Xbox Wants To Know What Products You Want In The Future
Following the Xbox Wireless Headset announcement
The all-new Xbox Wireless Headset was officially unveiled back in mid-February and quickly sold out on the Microsoft Store due to its popularity, and now Team Xbox wants to know what else you'd like to see in the future. Taking to Twitter, the senior director of Xbox's hardware business strategy,...
News Card Game Signs Of The Sojourner Comes To Xbox Later This Month
Make friends through additive card battles
Signs of the Sojourner is a narrative card game coming to Xbox One on March 19th, with a 20% launch discount. Having released on PC last year, the game received positive reviews for its gorgeous art style and emotional story. Through your cards, you’ll form and create friendships with many people across...
News Pringles Now Have Their Own Halo Themed Flavour, Because Why Not?
“Our latest shipments from Reach have arrived”
Halo Infinite may be a while off, but that hasn’t stopped Master Chief from making the rounds, as our favourite Spartan is now partnering with Pringles for a special Moa Burger flavour for an unspecified limited time. As announced by the official Halo Twitter account, the limited-edition Pringles...
News Free Play Days: Try These Xbox Games For Free (March 4-7)
"Not all heroes get paychecks"
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 on offer? This week, you can check out Team17's satirical dungeon crawler Going Under, as well as the popular Xbox Game Pass...
News Rockstar Owner: We Don't Want Our Remasters To Be 'Simple Ports'
“We don’t just port titles over”
Take-Two has spoken about the strategy behind remastering games and how it doesn’t want to deliver “simple ports”, but instead wishes to “take the time to do the very best job” on reimagining their back catalogue. As discovered by Video Games Chronicle, Take-Two’s boss, Strauss Zelnick, spoke...
News Three More Games Are Now Available With Xbox Game Pass (March 4)
Ready for the tip-off?
It's Xbox Game Pass time! We've got another three games joining the service today, two of which are actually variants of the same thing (Football Manager), although one is the full fat PC version, while the other is the slightly less in-depth Xbox version, which just so happens to work on PC as well. Confusing! Here are the...
News Need For Speed Analysis Highlights Hot Pursuit Issue On Xbox Series X
This is a bizarre one
EA's Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered received a next-gen boost for Xbox Series X last week, but compared to PS5, it seems to be suffering a bizarre, albeit fairly minor software issue in one area of the map. As highlighted by Eurog
Talking Point Is Xbox Being Too Quiet So Far This Year?
We're missing those Xbox events
We’re a few months into 2021 and we’re getting more announcements for new games and release dates every week, but it seems Microsoft is being pretty quiet on the Xbox front. The past few weeks have given us a Nintendo Direct and a Sony State of Play, both of which delivered news for the next few months on Nintendo...
News Dynasty Warriors 9 Empires Will No Longer Release Early 2021
“We apologize for the delay”
Dynasty Warriors 9 Empires will no longer be releasing in the early half of this year, Omega Force has announced. The news was announced in a Twitter post, in which a new date was not confirmed. It was said “the team is still working hard on delivering the best game possible”, but wanted to let fans know “the...
News Another Five Games Will Leave Xbox Game Pass Soon (March 15)
Toss a final coin to your Witcher
Microsoft has unveiled the next set of five games that will be removed from Xbox Game Pass in the middle part of March, with the most notable of the bunch easily being CDPR's beloved The Witcher 3. Here's the full list of games currently set to leave in mid-March: Date Game Platform March 15 Alvastia...
News These Six Games Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass Soon (March & April 2021)
The latest batch of titles
Update: We've now got a date for Squadrons! It'll arrive via EA Play on March 18th. Original story: The latest batch of Xbox Game Pass titles has arrived! Microsoft has today unveiled another six games coming to the service soon - five of which are arriving in March, although we already knew about some of them...
News Social Game Publisher Zynga Has Acquired The Torchlight 3 Developer
To work on bringing iconic IPs from mobile to consoles and PC
Zynga, the company behind many online and mobile games, has acquired Torchlight 3 developer, Echtra Games. According to a report by GamesIndustry.biz, details of the deal have not been announced, but Zynga CEO, Frank Gibeau, has said the plan is to bring more games across from mobile to...
News Call Of Duty: Warzone Adds New High Resolution Pack On Xbox Series X
Dropping in hot and heavy
A new texture pack for Call of Duty: Warzone has gone live, which is said to add “the most detailed textures for weapons and Operators” for Xbox One X and Xbox Series X players. Weighting in at 7.9GB, High Resolution Pack 3 is a new optional update that sets out to improve the game’s visuals even further. This makes...
News The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope Now Has A Limited Time Friend's Pass
The Curator’s Cut is also out now
Bandai Namco has released a Friend's Pass for The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope, allowing players to download a trial version of the game and join their buddy who owns the full retail release. The offer is only available for one month from initial release, and can only be used once. Players who own the...
News Alexa For Xbox App Quietly Appears On The Microsoft Store
Bringing a selection of new features
Amazon Alexa support has been available on the Xbox for a while now, but a brand new app has appeared and seems to be introducing a selection of new features. The application has been spotted on the Microsoft Store by known leaker WalkingCat. Under the name Alexa for Xbox, the store listing delves into a few...
News Free Trial Of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 Now Available On The Xbox Store
Playable until 12th March
Last week, we found out Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 would be kickflipping onto the Xbox Series X|S on 26th March. Activision's official Twitter account for the game has now announced a free "limited-time" trial is now available on the
News Rock Band 4 Is Adding The Ultimate Tony Hawk DLC Track This Week
Pretending I'm a Superman
Rock Band 4 is one of the hardest games to get into these days on Xbox due to the lack of new instruments being produced for it, but if you already have them, there's loads of DLC to choose from. In fact, Harmonix hasn't stopped producing DLC for the game ever since it was released back in 2015, and this latest DLC is a...
News Hogwarts Legacy Will Reportedly Allow Players To Create Transgender Characters
"There was resistance from management at first"
Bloomberg is reporting today that the upcoming Hogwarts Legacy, which was recently delayed, will feature the ability to create transgender characters when the game finally arrives sometime in 2022. The report states that some team members "have fought to make the game as inclusive as possible" in...
News MLB The Show 21 Runs At 4K, 60FPS On Xbox Series X, Features All-New Stadium Creator
It's shaping up nicely
The latest news drop has arrived for the upcoming release of MLB The Show 21 on Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S this April, and this time it's focused specifically on the next-gen versions of the game. As highlighted in the video above, MLB The Show 21 for Xbox Series X will run at an expected 4K resolution with 60...
News The Xbox Research Team Wants Feedback From d/Deaf Gamers
To ensure Microsoft "can better understand its players"
Team Xbox is asking for feedback from d/Deaf gamers in a survey, aiming to use the results for further studies. Anna Waismeyer, an accessibility user researcher at Xbox, has taken to Twitter asking d/Deaf gamers if they would take part in a survey for The Xbox Research Accessibility Team. The...
News Former Journalist Seth Schiesel Joins Xbox As Director Of Executive Communications
“Together, we will continue to extend the joy and community of gaming"
Seth Schiesel, a former journalist at The New York Times, has joined Xbox as its director of executive communications. Announcing the news in a tweet, Schiesel revealed he would be transitioning from journalism to join the team over at Xbox. His hope is to “continue to...
News Madden NFL 21 Is Now Available With Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
Run it in for a touchdown
It's a great day to be an NFL fan on Xbox! The latest entry in EA's Madden series, Madden NFL 21, has today been added to EA Play, which means it's also available at no extra charge with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. The game is available for Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S users, and keep in mind that EA introduced a...
News Epic Games Is Buying Fall Guys Developer Mediatonic
Don't worry, it's still coming to Xbox
Fall Guys developer Mediatonic and its parent company Tonic Games Group have announced today that they have "joined the Epic Games family", having been purchased by Epic for an undisclosed sum. According to the Tonic Games Group, the gameplay of Fall Guys - which is still planned to be brought to Xbox - won't...
News Samsung QLED Announced As Xbox Series X's Official TV Partner In The US & Canada
Their TVs are described as a phenomenal companion to the Xbox Series X
Xbox has announced that it will continue its partnership with Samsung as the official TV partner in the US & Canada. The two companies are said to “push the boundaries of next-gen gaming”. One of the ways Samsung is doing this is via a partnership with AMD to develop the...
News Gears 5 Operation 6 Is Now Live With A Wave Of New Content
With more content promised in the future
The Coalition has dropped Operation 6 for Gears 5, offering a new wave of multiplayer content and challenges for players to tackle over the coming months. As outlined last week, the new content drop brings with it a new map called Speyer, a new King of the Hill variant known as Control, and many character...
News Outriders Devs Reveal Why The Game Has Those Annoying Loading Cutscenes
"We understand it's not the best"
If you’ve dived into the Outriders demo recently, you’re more than likely to have noticed numerous instances of loading that are disguised by obvious cutscenes. We’re talking about jumping small gaps, for example, but being hit with a multi-second cutscene. It can be frustrating, and the developer has...
News Aliens: Fireteam Brings Co-Op Survival Action To Xbox This Summer
Survive the hive
20th Century Studios and developer Cold Iron have today announced Aliens: Fireteam; a "next-gen, cooperative third-person survival shooter" coming to Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and Xbox One this summer! The game will drop your fireteam of hardened marines into a desperate fight to contain the Xenomorph threat, featuring over 20...
News NACON Is Releasing A Wired Xbox Pro Controller Later This Month
Packing a huge number of features
Gaming accessory creator, NACON, is releasing a wired Xbox Pro Compact Controller, which is designed for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC, coming on March 15th for €49.90. Available in white or black, it can be used as a standard Xbox controller, or equipped with its own Advanced Mode, which brings across a host...
