Xbox One News (Page 6)
News The Witcher 3 Special Edition Xbox Controllers Now Available To Buy
Exclusive to the Microsoft Store
We've got another shadow drop announcement today, as Xbox has unveiled a set of The Witcher 3 Special Edition Xbox controllers that are exclusive to the Microsoft Store, and you can literally buy them right now if you want to. The standard "The Witcher 3 10th Anniversary Special Edition Xbox Controller" comes in at...
News After Eight Years, Star Wars Battlefront 2 Is Suddenly Exploding In Popularity Again
"The community is louder than ever."
What a crazy ride it's been for Star Wars Battlefront 2. Remember all the controversy surrounding its lootboxes back at launch? There was a time when it seemed like Battlefront 2 was going to be the most poorly received video game ever made, and yet eight years later, it's still being played by a massive number...
News Free Play Days Features Eight Xbox Games This Weekend (May 22-25)
Huge Warhammer promotion included!
Welcome to your latest Xbox Free Play Days lineup! This weekend's selection features eight Warhammer titles as part of a massive promotion for the franchise, so there's plenty to go at on Xbox with FPD this week. Here's the full list of Warhammer titles now live on Xbox Free Play Days: Blood Bowl 3 Warhammer...
News One Of The Worst Xbox Games Of All Time Has Dropped To $2.99
Still not worth it?
Every year here at Pure Xbox, we highlight the best and worst games of the past 12 months according to Metacritic's rankings, and nobody seemed overly surprised when The Lord of the Rings: Gollum took the "worst" award in 2023. This was a game that had a lot of hype behind it pre-launch, but clearly was suffering from...
17 of the top Xbox racers you can enjoy in 2025
If you're looking for the best Xbox racing games, the good news is that you're pretty spoilt for choice on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S! Whether you're a simulation purist or you prefer the more arcade-oriented racers on the market, there's definitely something for you in this list. Remember, all of...
Feature Best Xbox Horror Games
Enough to scare the bones off ya
Looking to scare yourself silly on Xbox? The good news is that there are plenty of fantastic horror games on the platform, including a bunch that reside in the Xbox Game Pass library. Horror is quite a hard gaming genre to pinpoint, because there are so many different styles you can go for. From third-person...
News Xbox 'Critically Acclaimed' Sale Now Live, Amazing Bargains Available This Week
Don't overlook this week's Xbox offers
Tuesday has arrived, and so has the weekly refresh of deals on the Xbox Store! The highlight for many will probably be the "Critically Acclaimed" Xbox sale that's just gone live, although there's also an amazing Nacon Publisher sale, the usual batch of Xbox Game Pass exclusive discounts, and loads of sales...
News Two Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (May 20)
Sim city
Welcome to another Xbox Game Pass update! Today, we have a pair of fresh titles entering the library, and if you're into your simulators - you're in luck! Here's what's new to Xbox Game Pass today, May 20. Firefighting Simulator: The Squad (Console, PC, Cloud): "Firefighting Simulator lets you experience what it means
Feature These 30+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (May 19-23)
Including two new Xbox Game Pass titles!
Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for May 19-23! We've got plenty of exciting new releases on the way including the Stalker trilogy's Enhanced Edition, Fantasy Life i,
News Xbox Is Adding Three New Ways To Personalise Your Console's Home Screen
Rolling out now to some Xbox Insiders
It's been announced today that your Xbox console's home screen is getting three new personalisation options in the near future, and two of them are actually rolling out to Alpha and Alpha Skip-Ahead Xbox Insiders this week. Team Xbox says it's responding to direct feedback with this update: "We’ve heard...
News Multiple Xbox-Related Showcases Officially Confirmed For Next Month
Get ready for a busy SGF 2025
It's almost that time of the year again! The Xbox Games Showcase 2025 is just around the corner, and it's set to be joined by a barrage of other showcases at the same time - many of which will feature Xbox-related reveals as well. This is all part of Summer Game Fest season, previously known as E3 season, with pretty...
News 8BitDo Unveils 'Paper Thin' All-Button Arcade Controller For Xbox
They Call Me 'Captain Combos'
We are big fans of 8Bitdo's various controllers and accessories for Xbox consoles here at PX HQ, and they've just gone and released another one! Yep, the peripheral wizards have just issued details of their upcoming, and very swish-looking, 8BitDo Arcade Controller for Xbox. With a 'paper thin' design, according to the...
Roundup Here's What The Reviews Are Saying About Capcom Fighting Collection 2
Bring the fight to Xbox
This week marks the launch of the Capcom Fighting Collection 2 on multiple platforms and this latest one has thankfully arrived at the same time on Xbox. Obviously, there was a delay with the previous Marvel vs. Capcom release. The reviews are now beginning to roll in, so we've put together the first lot of impressions so...
News Everyone's Going Nuts For 'Cookie Clicker' As Xbox Port Gets Announced
We'd nutever heard of it!
Okay, forgive us for a moment but the majority of folks here at Pure Xbox HQ had never heard of Cookie Clicker until two hours ago - but large swathes of the internet seem to be going mad at its newly-announced console version. This basic 'cookie clicking sim' was first released as a browser game back in 2013, and has also...
News The Witcher 3 Drops To 'Lowest Price Ever' In Unbelievable Xbox Deal
If you haven't bought it yet, now's the time
The Witcher 3 is arguably one of the greatest games we've ever seen on Xbox, but if you've yet to play it for whatever reason, now's surely the time - it's dropped to its lowest price ever as part of an incredible new Xbox deal. Included via this week's new batch of mid-May Xbox sales, The Witcher 3 is...
News All 30+ Backwards Compatible Games In Xbox's Mid-May 2025 Sales
A great selection of Xbox classics!
This week, Xbox has dropped another batch of digital deals across multiple mid-May promotions - and we actually have quite a good selection of backwards compatible offers tucked in here this time around. So, we thought we'd share with you all of the Xbox back compat deals for this week, May 13-20. Here's your...
News Xbox Discounts Over 500 Games Across Multiple New Mid-May Sales
Including an Xbox Game Studios sale!
Welcome to Tuesday, and welcome to another batch of Xbox sales! We've got multiple new sales for the mid-May period on the Xbox Store, including for Xbox Game Studios, ID@Xbox Simulator titles and the usual Game Pass weeklies. There's actually supposed to be another Xbox sale that's just started as well (a...
News Three Games Are Available This Week With Xbox Game Pass (May 13-16)
Including a massive first-party release
Welcome to another Xbox Game Pass update! Today, we're covering all of this week's new XGP additions arriving between now and Friday, including id Software's massive new shooter DOOM: The Dark Ages. Let's take a look at the full Xbox Game Pass lineup for this week (May 13-16): Warhammer: Vermintide 2...
News Four Games Are Confirmed For Xbox Game Pass In June 2025 So Far
An early look at what's ahead
As we always do around this time of the month, we're taking a look today at what's ahead for June 2025's Xbox Game Pass selection, with four games having been confirmed for Game Pass next month at the time of writing. All of these are brand-new Xbox releases as well, including Remedy Entertainment's FBC: Firebreak and...
Feature These 30+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (May 12-16)
Including three new Xbox Game Pass titles!
Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for May 12-16! We've got a very busy week ahead of us, highlighted by the massive Xbox first-party release of DOOM: The Dark Ages! Elsewhere, keep an eye on the likes of The Precinct, Palia, Capcom Fighting Collection 2, Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo, and various other...
News Lots Of Xbox Games Have Suddenly Been Delisted In Some Countries
With more still being discovered
It's not uncommon for Xbox games to get delisted on the Microsoft Store from time to time, but it is uncommon for a huge batch to suddenly disappear overnight - and that's what's happened in some European countries. Earlier this week, Xbox fans started posting on the likes of Reddit to report games such as Kena:...
News New Game Boy Advance Title Jumps To Xbox Consoles This Summer
20 years in the making
Forgive us if you already knew about this, but we came across an announcement last night that mentioned Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution was released for the Game Boy Advance back in April of this year(!). That's absolutely crazy when you consider it first started development back in 2002 (albeit being left on the shelf for...
News Minecraft's New Graphics Upgrade Is Now Available On Xbox
Vibrant Visuals arrives as an experimental update
Mojang this week rolled out a new update for Minecraft and while it put all the focus on its new "flat world presets" it's also quietly released one rather big and highly anticipated experimental feature. It's tied to the previous 'Vibrant Visuals' graphics upgrade announcement that plans to...
News Free Play Days: Try These Xbox Games For Free (May 8-11)
Included with Xbox Game Pass
Free Play Days is BACK, and we have another pair of recently-released Xbox titles to jump into for free this weekend - including The Chinese Room's fantastic horror effort Still Wakes The Deep <related ids="167069"> Here's what you can play with Xbox Free Play Days over the coming weekend: PAC-MAN Mega Tunnel...
News Two Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (May 8)
Including another day one release!
We have another Xbox Game Pass refresh coming today, folks, with two more titles entering the library on May 8th. We're particularly excited about XGP's next day one launch here - Revenge of the Savage Planet brings some light-hearted co-
News Halo Infinite Summer 2025 Update Adds 'Linear Firefight Experience' On Xbox & PC
Operation Last Stand is a-go!
Halo Infinite's Summer 2025 update is now live on Xbox and PC, and it brings a whole host of additions and changes to Microsoft's 2021 FPS - including the latest in-game event in the form of 'Operation Last Stand'. Operation Last Stand introduces a brand-new weapon — the Mutilator — which combines the series'...
News Xbox Game Pass Gets Four Additions Today (May 7)
One Ultimate, three Standard
Welcome to your latest Xbox Game Pass update! Today, we have four games joining various different XGP tiers - with one new title in the main Game Pass Ultimate library and three titles moving over to Xbox Game Pass Standard. Here's some more information on today's Xbox Game Pass re
News These 11 Games Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass (May 7-20)
Microsoft announces a new batch
Microsoft has announced a new batch of Xbox Game Pass titles today, and it includes some previously confirmed titles such as DOOM: The Dark Ages, as well as some surprises such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed, Warhammer: Vermintide 2 and Police Simulator: Patrol Officers! Don't forget about DREDGE
News Xbox Adds Multiple New Sales, Including One Focused Around RPGs
The great deals continue!
Xbox isn't slowing down with these sales as we dive deeper into the new month, as today has brought us a bunch of additional promotions on top of what we saw last week, including one that's focused entirely around RPG games. Specifically, we've spotted a new Xbox Game Pass RPG sale, a Mafia: The Old Country sale, a Dark...
News Indie Hit DREDGE Is Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (May 6)
Live now in the XGP library!
Welcome to your latest Xbox Game Pass update! Today, 2023 indie hit DREDGE has docked into the Game Pass Ultimate library - and we've been waiting ages to see this one arrive on XGP. So, here's a bit more information on new Game Pass title DREDGE - which took the world by storm a few years back (it has over 36k reviews...
Feature These 20+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (May 5-9)
Including two new Xbox Game Pass titles!
Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for May 5-9! The big highlight of the next few days is the two Xbox Game Pass additions, which are the fantastic fishing adventure DREDGE and brand-new release of Revenge of the Savage Planet! Beyond those, there are some great-looking indies to keep an eye out for as well...
News Two More Xbox Game Pass Indies Confirmed For May & June 2025
Busy months get even busier!
We're always keeping our eyes peeled for new Xbox Game Pass announcements, and we've spotted two of them over the past few days - one that's a bit further out in June, and another that'll be with us very soon in May. The May game is Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo, and this was revealed a very long time ago as an Xbox...
News Xbox 'Beyond' Spring Sale Now Live, Hundreds Of New Discounts Available
Mostly for DLC, but also for some full games
The Xbox Spring Sale is just about to finish up for another year, but Xbox is still keeping the momentum going with a "Beyond" Spring Sale that's just gone live, alongside two other brand-new sales promotions on the Microsoft Store. Xbox's Beyond Spring Sale is packed with DLC discounts for things like...
News Two Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (May 1)
Kicking off the month in style!
Welcome to your first Xbox Game Pass update for May 2025! Today, we have a couple of new additions to the XGP library, including more Call of Duty as Microsoft slowly brings the ActiBlizz back catalogue to the service. Here's what's new to Xbox Game Pass on May 1st: Anno 180
News Two Xbox Games Are Shutting Down Their Servers In May 2025
Both of them free-to-play titles
It's always around the start of the month that we bring you some upcoming server closures, and as things stand, we know of two Xbox games that are shutting down their servers in May 2025. The first of these is MultiVersus, which was announced back in January to be shutting down on May 30th. This game will still...
Talking Point Xbox Fans, How Do You Find Time For All These Amazing 2025 Games?
There's so much good stuff to juggle right now
So, I was having a look around in the Pure Xbox archives today and discovered a Talking Point from a couple of years ago where we asked how everyone was able to find the time for all of those amazing 2023 games. Considering how incredible April 2025 has been, particularly on Xbox Game Pass, I feel like...
News Two Xbox Game Pass Titles Are Available This Week To Finish Off April 2025
Microsoft's April lineup comes to a close
Welcome to your latest Xbox Game Pass update - and the final one for April 2025! We have two more titles coming to the library this month; starting today with a new first-party title from Microsoft launching in Xbox Game Preview. So, let's take a look at today's brand-new addition, alongside our final drop...
Feature These 20+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (April 28 - May 2)
Including four big Xbox Game Pass titles!
Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for April 28 - May 2! We've got a bunch of cool releases on the way over the next few days including the popular free-to-play shooter FragPunk, while Xbox Game Pass is treating us to no less than four brand-new additions, including the Xbox first-party title Towerborne...
News Free Play Days: Try These Xbox Games For Free (April 24-27)
Included with Xbox Game Pass
Xbox Free Play Days is officially here, and we have one very spooky effort leading the charge this week. SEGA's Alien: Isolation is the big inclusion this weekend - and it's a must-play horror experience if you've never tried it before! We've got three titles in total this week though, so here's your full Xbox Free Play...
Feature These 20+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (April 21-25)
Including a massive new Game Pass title!
Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for April 21-25! The big release of next week is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (included with Game Pass), but there's plenty more to look out for including Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves! Here's what's coming to Xbox next week: New Xbox Releases (April 21-25):
Feature 10 Discounted Games You Should Buy In The Xbox Spring Sale 2025
A curated list of bangers
After a few weeks of eager anticipation, Xbox's big Spring Sale is now live for 2025, and there's over 1,000 games discounted in total - across pretty much every generation of Xbox. <related ids="180534"> Naturally, then, it's going to take some good scouring and browsing to see what games you might like to pick up...
News Free Play Days: Try These Xbox Games For Free (April 17-20)
Included with Xbox Game Pass
Xbox Free Play Days has officially washed ashore for the coming weekend, with Ubisoft's 2024 pirate adventure Skull and Bones leading the charge on Xbox Series X and S. Here are your pair of Xbox Free Play Days titles this week: NBA 2K25 Skull and Bones You'll need a subscription to Xbox Game Pass Core,
News Two Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (April 17)
A pair of brand-new additions!
We have another Xbox Game Pass update for you today, folks! Two new titles are heading to the library on April 17th, and they're both brand-new arrivals for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass players. Here's what's new to Xbox Game Pass today, alongside a quick introduction to each title: Crime Scene Cleaner...
News Xbox Spring Sale 2025 Now Live In Full, 1000+ Games Discounted
Let the party begin!
It's time for the Xbox Spring Sale 2025! This year's selection has begun with a list of over 1000 discounted games, plenty of which are major AAA titles (even including some 2025 releases), so there's some great stuff to choose from. This is a bigger selection than the Xbox Spring Sale "Sneak Preview" that went live for Xbox...
News Two Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (April 16)
One for Ultimate, one for Standard
Welcome to another Xbox Game Pass update, folks! Today, we have a couple of new arrivals across different XGP tiers - with one title making its debut on Game Pass Ultimate and Standard alongside another title solely being bumped over to the Xbox Game Pass Standard tier. Here are those two titles, alongside a quick...
Feature Far Cry 4's Open World Playground Will Be A Great Addition To Xbox Game Pass
And it's 60FPS on Series X and S!
With today's fresh Xbox Game Pass update delivering 10 games for the service over the next few weeks, it's looking like we'll all have plenty to enjoy as XGP subscribers for the rest of the month - including some day one releases. But, it's worth taking note of one decade-old addition that'll still be an absolute...
News These 10 Games Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass (April 16 - May 6)
Your latest batch of new titles
Microsoft has today revealed its latest batch of Xbox Game Pass titles for late April into early May, and we have some major additions in here - including more Call of Duty heading to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. That's coming in the form of 2022's Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which follows the recent additions of...
News Two Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (April 15)
Rockstar returns
Welcome to your latest Xbox Game Pass update! Today, we have two new additions to the library, including the returning Grand Theft Auto 5 which only tends to stick around for a few months or so whenever it enters Game Pass. Rockstar says that all console versions of GTA 5 will be available on the service —
News Metro 2033 Redux Gets 100% Discount On Xbox To Celebrate Anniversary
Update: The team is still working to make it free
To celebrate the 15-year anniversary of Metro 2033, developer 4A Games has announced that the Xbox One 'Redux' version of the title will be completely free to claim for the next two days. At the time of posting, the discount isn't quite live on Xbox (as it is on Steam), but any minute now, Metro 2033...
News Four Games Are Confirmed For Xbox Game Pass In May 2025 So Far
An early look at what's ahead
We're getting ever-closer to May 2025's Xbox Game Pass selection, so as we always do around this time of the month, we're taking an early look at what's a bit further ahead for the service. As usual, it's looking pretty great so far! DOOM: The Dark Ages will steal the spotlight in May without a doubt, but don't ignore...
