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Friday12th Dec 2025
News Exodus Is Giving Us A Mix Of Mass Effect And Starfield Vibes, Hitting Xbox In 2027
Check out the new Game Awards trailer
Today's Game Awards showcase gave us a lengthy look at the new sci-fi action-adventure RPG Exodus that's being developed by Archetype Entertainment (Wizards of the Coast), and we're impressed by what we're seeing here! It's no surprise we're getting Mass Effect vibes considering the dev studio is made up of...
News John Carpenter's Toxic Commando Returns With New-Look Trailer, Hits Xbox In 2026
Update: We have a launch date!
It's been a while since we last heard anything about John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, but it's back today as part of Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025, and we know it's definitely coming to Xbox in early 2026. It's described as an "infectious co-op shooter" powered by the same engine behind the likes of Warhammer 40K:...
News Larian Studios Unveils 'Divinity', An RPG With 'Greater Breadth & Depth Than Ever Before'
Who needs Baldur's Gate 3 anyway?
The extremely talented folks over at Larian Studios have revealed their next project today in the form of Divinity, which is described as being "an RPG with greater breadth & depth than ever before". Those are extremely ambitious words considering Larian previously worked on Baldur's Gate 3 - not only one of the...
News Star Wars: Fate Of The Old Republic Sounds Incredible, And It's Likely Coming To Xbox
Led by the game director of the OG Star Wars: KOTOR
Well, well, well! The Game Awards 2025 was kicked off today with the reveal of Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, developed by the little-known Arcanaut Studios and currently in development for "PC and consoles". It's described as a spiritual successor to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic,...
News Xbox's South Of Midnight Is Heading To PS5 & Switch 2 In Early 2026
Xbox Game Studios' debut on Nintendo!
Xbox's next multiplatform port has been announced today; as Compulsion Games' deep-south adventure South of Midnight is being crafted for PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2. Seemingly revealed early ahead of the main The Game Awards showcase, The Verge's Tom Warren has shared the news on social media. Going off the art...
News Xbox Announces Developer Direct Showcase For January, Teases 'A Lot' Of Game Releases In 2026
Playground Games will definitely be part of Dev Direct
In the midst of everything happening at The Game Awards this evening, Variety has suddenly come out with a Matt Booty interview that reveals the Xbox Developer Direct showcase will officially be returning in January of 2026. Booty says there's way too much to fit into one show, but confirms...
News Capcom's Pragmata Launches Next April, And It's Getting A Free Demo On Xbox
New trailer to feast your eyes on!
As part of The Game Awards pre-show today, Capcom has finally revealed an official release date for its sci-fi action game Pragmata! The upcoming title will launch for Xbox Series X|S on April 24th, 2026 - and there's a free demo on the way as well. That free demo is live today on Steam, but unfortunately, console...
Thursday11th Dec 2025
News Deus Ex Remastered No Longer Releasing In February 2026 Due To Negative Feedback
Update: "We've listened to what you had to say"
Well here's a nice surprise from the September 2025 State of Play event! Aspyr has announced that it's remastering the original Deus Ex from 2000 in the form of Deus Ex Remastered, and it's bringing a bunch of visual improvements including new lighting, dynamic shadows, upscaled textures and more...
Live Watch The Game Awards 2025 Here
The final major gaming event of the year
Here we go! It's time for The Game Awards 2025, which marks the final major gaming showcase of the year. We're expecting plenty of big announcements over the next few hours, and many of those will relate to Xbox as well. "Celebrate the best and see what's next in video games at The Game Awards 2025, live...
Poll What Do You Think Of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage On Xbox Game Pass?
Have you had a chance to try it yet?
It's been just over a week now since Lost Records: Bloom & Rage arrived on Xbox Game Pass following its initial release back in February of this year, and we're keen to hear how you've been getting on with it so far. This is one of those strange examples where nobody on the Pure Xbox team has managed to spend...
News Movie-Like Horror Adventure Game 'Fort Solis' Crosses From PS5 To Xbox Next Week
It's been a PS5 console exclusive for over two years
Back in August of 2023, horror adventure game Fort Solis made its debut on PS5 and PC as an ambitious Unreal Engine 5 title starring voice actors Roger Clark (Red Dead Redemption) and Troy Baker (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle), but it unfortunately released to some pretty lukewarm reviews...
News Free Play Days: Try These Xbox Games For Free (December 11-14)
Three games to play for free this weekend!
As expected, Xbox Free Play Days has returned for the next few days! We've got three games in the mix this week, one of which requires a Game Pass membership (The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos) with the other two being completely free for everyone on Xbox to try. Here are the Xbox Free Play...
News Xbox Launches New $1 Game Pass Ultimate Offer For The Holidays
Perfect if you're not a subscriber already
It's no secret that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is getting more and more expensive as the years roll on, but today we've seen the return of the $1 offer that's proved so popular in the past — an entire month of access for less than a coffee! You can get this by going to the "Join Xbox Game Pass" page on the...
News Multiple Games Are Reduced By 90-95% In The Xbox Game Awards Sale 2025
HUGE discounts for great games!
Looking for some cheap Xbox games during the Xbox Game Awards Sale 2025? This brand-new sale went live on the Xbox Store earlier today, and in addition to a bunch of recent releases that are only slightly discounted, there are so many other great games that are reduced by up to 95%. So, let's highlight some of those...
News The Game Awards Trailer Prices Range From 'Free' To Over '1 Million' USD, Claims Report
"According to two sources familiar with this year’s show"
With The Game Awards taking place later today, an interesting report has come out of Kotaku detailing the inner workings of the event, with a couple of sources even highlighting how much trailers apparently cost for the show. The outlet says that according to "two sources familiar with...
News Halo 3 Wins 'Game Of The Year' As GameStop Reveals Its Full Set Of Awards For 2025
Yes, this is a thing that happened
Of all the games we expected to see winning a "Game of the Year" award for 2025, Halo 3 wasn't one of them! Nevertheless, the classic 2007 Xbox shooter has just been awarded that title by none other than GameStop. In a six-minute video, it's revealed that Battlefield 6, Donkey Kong Bonanza, Ghost of Yotei and Halo...
News The Outer Worlds 2 Gets Huge Xbox Patch, Including New FOV Slider For Third-Person Mode
Here's what's included
Xbox dev Obsidian has just dropped an absolutely gargantuan patch for The Outer Worlds 2, bringing with it brand-new features, quest changes, bug fixes and lots more besides. As noted in our headline here, new field-of-view options for third-person mode are a welcome addition - as are the fixes for quests, combat tweaks,...
News Digital Foundry Analysis Showcases 60FPS Versions Of Red Dead Redemption On Xbox
Parity, finally!
Red Dead Redemption for Xbox Series X|S is finally here, and now that most of you should have gotten your free upgrade if you were eligible, we're sure plenty of Xbox fans have been enjoying this Rockstar classic at 60FPS. Well, the folks at Digital Foundry are here as well to d
News The Game Awards Sale 2025 Now Live On Xbox, 150+ Major Games Discounted
AAA titles galore!
With The Game Awards 2025 officially taking place later today, Xbox has unveiled its special "The Game Awards Sale" on the Xbox Store featuring discounts for over 150 major games, available for the next week. There's some seriously big stuff in here like Split Fiction, Monster Hunter Wilds, EA Sports FC 26 and
Guide The Game Awards 2025: Date, Start Times & Everything You Need To Know
Update: Taking place today!
Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards always provides a nice opportunity for publishers and developers to show off what's coming next, alongside giving the games and the talent behind them their due praise of course. With that being said, here's exactly when The Game Awards 2025 goes down - and some of what we can expect to...
News Call Of Duty Is The #1 Franchise On Xbox Game Pass For 'Total Players & Hours' In 2025
Well, duh
Everyone, act surprised! Xbox has announced today that Call of Duty is the #1 franchise on Xbox Game Pass for total players and hours in 2025, in addition to being #1 in November (for the Black Ops 7 launch). It obviously makes sense that one of the world's biggest gaming IPs would command so much attention on Xbox's service, especially...
Wednesday10th Dec 2025
News Japan-Exclusive PS1 Game Finally Released In English After 26 Years, And It's On Xbox Too
Say hello to Milano’s Odd Job Collection
We're totally expecting this game to go under the radar following its release on Xbox this week, but there's an interesting story behind it! Milano's Odd Job Collection is the English version of a PS1 game that released exclusively in Japan back in 1999, and it just so happens to be making its Xbox debut in...
News Xbox's New Buy One, Get One Free Sale Includes A Selection Of Indie Titles
Live for the next week
Xbox has just set a new edition of its Buy One, Get One Free sales live on the Microsoft Store today - with this particular promotion revolving around a pretty slim selection of indie titles all-told. Yep, as these deals usually go, this isn't the most inspired list from Xbox here, but there are some standouts such as the...
News Xbox Working 'Very Closely' With AMD To Improve Ray Tracing & Other FSR Features In Games
As part of the new AMD Redstone technology
AMD has today unveiled its new "AMD FSR Redstone" technology, which combines the company's upscaling technology with "new machine learning (ML)-powered advancements" in FSR Frame Generation, FSR Ray Regeneration, and FSR Radiance Caching. The video above goes into detail on all of these features, such as...
News Bethesda Boss Hints At Fallout Remasters, Says The Team Is 'Working On A Bunch Of Stuff'
"We're thoughtful about how we approach that"
In a new interview leading up to Season 2 of the TV show, Bethesda legend Todd Howard was pressed about the likelihood of fans getting some Fallout remakes and remasters - and while somewhat reserved, the Bethesda Game Studios boss did have some interesting things to say about the team's plans. When...
News Geoff Keighley Talks The Game Awards & His 'Balancing Act' Of Pleasing Everyone
"Every year is different"
The Game Awards is upon us, with the 2025 edition of the event going ahead on Thursday, December 11th. TGA is always a big celebration of the industry, both in terms of what's come out over the past year and what's to come in future - and this week, host Geoff Keighley has been talking about that very balancing act in a...
News Xbox Announces New Fallout Pip-Boy Controllers, And They're Available To Buy Now
Either standalone or through Xbox Design Lab
We've got another new Xbox controller variant today in the form of the "Fallout Pip-Boy Edition", and there are three different versions in all - available to purchase today on the Microsoft Store. The standalone one features the same basic design as the other two, but with a bright green d-pad, black...
News New GTA Online Cutscene Leads To Speculation Over Returning Character In GTA 6
"Is this a hint?"
Last week, we mentioned how GTA 5's Michael De Santa would be returning in a new update for GTA Online called "A Safehouse in the Hills", and that update has gone live today on Xbox - you can go and check it out right now. As you can see from the "Michael Returns" video, De Santa and his wife Amanda make a fairly lengthy...
News Romero Games Has Taken Its Cancelled Xbox Shooter And Made Something New With It
"We have a lot of stuff we can put in the game"
Since Microsoft pulled funding for its unannounced game back in the summer, Romero Games has been trying to salvage the project for a future release - and now it sounds as though the DOOM co-creator has managed that feat, but not in the way you might expect. Talking in a new p
News Is 'Xbox Wrapped' Happening For 2025? Fans Clearly Want To See It
PlayStation has their Wrap-Up already
We're getting to that time of the year where people want to look back on their Xbox habits from the past 12 months and see how many games they've played, how many achievements they've unlocked, how many Microsoft Rewards points they've earned and a whole bunch of other statistics from 2025! In fact, we're...
News PlayStation Highlights Halo: Campaign Evolved As One Of Its 'Must-Play' Games For 2026
We're living in strange times
PlayStation has just dropped an overview trailer for what's coming to PS5 in 2026, and while we certainly wouldn't normally cover that here at Pure Xbox, one certain big green inclusion has made us reconsider. Sony is directly advertising Halo: Campaign Evolved as one of its "must-play games coming soon to PS5". We...
News Netflix Didn't 'Attribute Any Value' To Warner Bros. Games As Part Of WB Takeover Bid
"They're relatively minor compared to the grand scheme of things"
Last week, we heard how Netflix was attempting to purchase Warner Bros. in a stunning $82.7 billion deal, before Paramount ended up fighting back with a deal of their own — we'll see how this all unfolds in the coming months. One of the big questions at the time of the Netflix...
News These Two Games Are Your Final Xbox Game Pass Additions For 2025 (December 10-11)
2026 is upon us!
Welcome to your latest Xbox Game Pass update! Today, NetherRealm's Mortal Kombat 1 joins the XGP library - playable for Series X|S, PC and Cloud players across the PC Game Pass, Premium and Ultimate tiers. We also have one more addition for tomorrow at the time of writing; that being Bratz: Rhythm & Style. So, we're going to round...
Tuesday9th Dec 2025
News Xbox & Activision Issue Statement On The Future Of Call Of Duty Following Black Ops 7 Backlash
"A message from the Call of Duty team..."
After what sounds like a disappointing launch for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Xbox's Activision team has put out a frank and surprisingly open message about the future of the franchise moving forward. In an address to series fans, Activision has announced that it will no longer release back-to-back Black Ops...
News Xbox Is Bringing Age Of Empires Mobile To PC Game Pass In Early 2026
The mobile version of the PC game, coming to PCGP. Got it?
The teams behind the Age of Empires and Age of Mythology series' have been sharing their plans for 2026 today, which includes a new PC release for Age of Empires Mobile - a game that's proved a hit on Android and iOS. This version will be available on PC Game Pass at launch, as well as...
News Xbox Winter Demo Fest Now Live, 30+ Games Available To Play For Free
Update: More titles revealed, all live until December 31st
The Xbox Winter Demo Fest for 2025 (otherwise known as the Indie Selects Demo Fest) has now kicked off, allowing you to play over 20 games for free. It's not officially being promoted at the time of writing, but we've done some sleuthing and discovered these 20+ titles that are part of it...
News Here's Your First Look At The Xbox Bowl In EA Sports College Football 26
Ahead of the real thing next week
Last week, we mentioned how ESPN and Microsoft had joined forces to host the first ever "Xbox Bowl" in Texas on December 18th, and now it's actually been added to EA Sports College Football 26 across all platforms including PS5! You can access the Xbox Bowl through Exhibition mode, and it includes some pretty neat...
News Xbox Up For 'Best Game' At The BAFTA Awards 2026, But There's A Long Road Ahead
This is just the Longlist
Awards season continues! BAFTA has revealed its official Longlists for the BAFTA Games Awards 2026 today, which includes one Xbox title in the "Best Game" category - that being Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. These Longlists have been compiled by over 1,700 BAFTA members (made up of "experienced games professionals...
News Xbox & Bethesda Shadow Drop Another Switch 2 Game, And You'll Never Guess What It Is
How many times?!
Those of us who are enjoying Switch 2 right now are pretty intrigued to see which games Xbox brings to the platform in the near future; the team has plenty of recent games to move over, right?! Wrong, current-gen Nintendo players are being treated to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim once again. Yep, Xbox's Bethesda team has today shadow...
Rumour Xbox 'Hopes' To Bring Backwards Compatibility Program To ROG Ally & Windows PC
"There is an effort being made"
It was only yesterday that we were talking about how much value backwards compatibility still brings to the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S in 2025, and I've personally really missed being able to play those games on the ROG Xbox Ally. Well, it sounds like Team Xbox "hopes" to bring those classic original Xbox and...
News Ex-Forza Dev Says Horizon 5 Was Impacted By COVID, New Game Is 'In A League Of Its Own'
"I didn’t leave Playground to build another Horizon"
In a new interview with Traxion, former Forza Horizon developer Gavin Raeburn has talked about their new racing game being built over at Lighthouse Games, whilst also touching on 2021's Forza Horizon 5 and how the Xbox title was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. First off, let's look at FH5...
News 'Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced' Gets PEGI Rating Ahead Of The Game Awards 2025
Here comes the remake / remaster!
There's been a lot of talk about an Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake (or remaster) over the past few years, and now it looks like it's about to show up very soon as it's just appeared on the PEGI website with an "18" rat
News More Xbox Players Are Starting To See Success With The Free Red Dead Redemption Upgrade
"Finally got the RDR free upgrade..."
Yesterday, we posted an article about folks still not receiving their free upgrades for Red Dead Redemption on Xbox, and it looks as though Rockstar has seen the outcry and implemented a new fix. Heading over to the Xbox subreddit today, we're seeing lots of folks finally say that RDR's free Xbox Series X|S...
News Resident Evil Legend Leon Kennedy Confirmed For Requiem Thanks To Store Page Reveal
Thanks, PSN
Ever since Resident Evil Requiem was revealed earlier this year, it's been rumoured that series stalwart Leon S. Kennedy would star in some role - despite Grace Ashcroft being the centre of attention in marketing materials so far. Well, thanks to the ever-reliable source that is a PlayStation St
News Take-Two Hires Former Perfect Dark Leads To Spin Up A Brand-New Project
A second take
Following Perfect Dark's cancellation back in July, we heard reports that GTA maker Take-Two had tried to take over the project before talks collapsed, but it sounds as though the mega publisher liked what it saw. The same so
News Two Major AAA Games Have Just Been Added To Xbox Play Anywhere
Love to see older titles getting the treatment!
It's always great to see brand-new releases being included as part of the Xbox Play Anywhere program, but it's even more exciting when older titles suddenly join it as well, especially when they're major AAA favourites. That's exactly what's happened today, with both Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake...
News Xbox Exec Teases 'Exciting' Plans For 2026 When Asked About OG Xbox Titles & Game Pass
"I can't confirm or deny what you're asking"
We've already heard about how Xbox is planning to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the brand in a big way next year, and Xbox architect Jason Ronald has been discussing this more in a new interview with the BBC in the UK. Ronald's interview was mainly about the ROG Xbox Ally
News Four Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (December 9)
One of the biggest drops of the month!
Welcome to your latest Xbox Game Pass update! Today, we have four titles joining the main Game Pass Ultimate library - three across console and PC, and one PC-only addition. Here's all the info you need on today's Xbox Game Pass titles (December 9): A Game About Digging A
Monday8th Dec 2025
Roundup All The Xbox Reveals From The 11 Bit Studios Digital Showcase 2025
Nothing too crazy, but some nice updates all the same!
Today marked the first ever 11 Bit Studios Digital Showcase, which was only a small event highlighting a few titles from the Polish developer / publisher's portfolio including the likes of Frostpunk and The Alters. There were no brand-new game announcements here, but some titles have received...
News Paramount Fights Back Against Netflix With 'Superior All-Cash Offer' For Warner Bros.
It's not over yet!
Last week, it was announced by Netflix that the company was buying Warner Bros. in a deal worth over $82 billion, but now Paramount has launched an all-cash tender offer to acquire all of Warner Bros. Discovery's outstanding shares for $30 per-share (in cash). In a statement released today, Paramount chairman David Ellison...
