Xbox Series X - Timeline
Tuesday23rd Apr 2024
News Atlus Reveals Gameplay Of 'Metaphor: ReFantazio' Ahead Of October Xbox Launch
"We have a launch date to share!"
Back at the Xbox Games Showcase in 2023, one of the big announcements was a new game from Atlus that was promising to be the studio's first ever "full-scale fantasy RPG" in the form of Metaphor: Refantazio. Flash forward almost a year, and we've now got a date for it! Metaphor: ReFantazio will officially launch for...
News Xbox Game Pass Adds A 'Day One' RPG Today, Plus Three New Titles For Core Members
Another busy day for XGP!
Today marks the arrival of another big Xbox Game Pass addition for April 2024, plus three new Core titles! The new JRPG that's available on all versions of Xbox Game Pass aside from "Core" is Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, which we just gave a "Great" 8/10 to in our Pure Xbox review earlier this week. The game isn't...
Monday22nd Apr 2024
Hands On XDefiant - Ubisoft's Server Test Has Us Hooked For The Full Release
Working out the kinks
Well, another XDefiant 'beta' of sorts has come and gone - with Ubisoft's server test session wrapping up this past weekend on Xbox. As the name suggests, this pre-release test was put out there mainly to stress the servers, but the game's return has done more than that - it's made us crave the full release thanks to its...
News EA's Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Is Heading To Xbox Game Pass This Week
As part of the EA Play lineup
Update: It's now been confirmed! Star Wars Jedi: Survivor joins Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on Thursday, April 25th as part of the EA Play lineup. The game will also be included with PC Game Pass on the same day. <related ids="163723"> Original story: We might be in for an exciting new Xbox Game Pass Ultimate...
News Sea Of Thieves On PS5 Has Slight Edge Over Xbox Series X, Notes Digital Foundry
In two key areas
Over the weekend, the folks at Digital Foundry posted some interesting findings about Sea Of Thieves on PlayStation 5, following its recent beta test on the Sony console. We'll put the video version of their analysis up above, but the gist of it is that PS5 has a few advantages despite being very similar to the Series X version...
Review TopSpin 2K25 (Xbox) - A Worthy Sequel To A Legendary Tennis Game
13 years later, it's finally returned!
When it comes to tennis games on Xbox, it's been a pretty rough decade on the whole. The likes of AO Tennis 2 and Matchpoint: Tennis Championships have tried to fill in the void left by Top Spin and Virtua Tennis back in the Xbox 360 era, but the reality is that none of them have managed to replicate the...
News XDefiant Producer Will 'Share More' About Recent Xbox Server Test Soon
"Thank you to everyone who played"
Ubisoft's free-to-play shooter XDefiant has just undergone a major server test on Xbox, and we should learn more about the test's findings pretty soon - ahead of the full game's impending launch. Following a small extension, the game's stress test came to a close on Sunday evening, and the team is now "going...
News Embracer Group Is Splitting Into Three Companies Following Recent Layoffs
"This is the start of a new chapter"
Embracer Group has today announced its intention to split into three separate companies - 'Asmodee Group', 'Coffee Stain & Friends' and 'Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends'. The three companies will handle different aspects of Embracer's operations, as explained in a new blog post from the huge gaming ent
Sunday21st Apr 2024
Murayama-san's final game makes for a fine farewell
As you boot up Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes for the first time, it briefly displays a simple message of appreciation "to all JRPG fans". It's nothing out of the ordinary, just a nice touch, indicative of the warm and welcoming RPG adventure you're about to embark on, but it's also got us...
Saturday20th Apr 2024
News Lots Of Xbox Games Are Reduced By 90-95% For The Rest Of April
Bag yourself a bargain this weekend
Looking for some cheap Xbox games in this week's Xbox sales? Well, we've got plenty of 90% and 95% discounts to talk about this week, including massive discounts for the likes of Back 4 Blood, Cars 3: Driven to Win and Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood. There's also a "Lucid Dreamer Bundle" that includes the...
Feature These 10+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (April 22-26)
Including four Xbox Game Pass titles!
Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for April 22-26! We've got a busy few days ahead with some big releases such as TopSpin 2K25 and Sand Land, as well as four Xbox Game Pass additions including the Fallout 4 next-gen
Friday19th Apr 2024
Talking Point Are You Excited For Remedy's Max Payne 1+2 Remake?
Development is advancing on the remade classics
Remedy has really been hitting its stride in recent years with titles like Control and Alan Wake 2, and one of its currently in-development projects is a full remake of the first two Max Payne titles. The Finnish team is combining these classics into one release for the remake, and we're wanting to...
News Bethesda's Todd Howard Says 'Really Good Updates' Are Coming For Starfield
"That are going to get announced soon"
It might be Fallout hype season over at Bethesda HQ thanks to the Amazon Prime TV show, but plenty of focus is still on the company's other games and IP at the moment. The Elder Scrolls 6 is the next biggie in the pipeline, but Starfield is still being worked on
News Cities: Skylines 2 Console Edition Delays Its Xbox Game Pass Launch
"We want to address the pending Console release"
Cities: Skylines 2 made its PC Game Pass debut last October, with the promise of a console release to come in Spring 2024. Well, we're now in Spring 2024, and the team at Paradox Interactive has an update for us regarding Cities: Skylines 2 on Xbox Series X|S. In short, the team is delaying its...
News Hades 2's Hands-On Previews Are Getting Us Even More Excited For Its Xbox Release
It IS coming to Xbox... right?
It was all the way back in 2021 that Metacritic crowned Hades as the Xbox Game of the Year, with the hugely popular roguelike dungeon crawler racking up a massive average score of 93/100 based on the critics' reviews. On reflection, that seems like a very fair score! Hades is absolutely one of the best games of the...
News Digital Foundry Impressed By 'Stunning Visual Design' In Ori Dev's New Game
Are we surprised?
Since wrapping up development on Ori and the Will of the Wisps back in 2020, Moon Studios has been hard at work on its action RPG No Rest for the Wicked, and tech outlet Digital Foundry has decided to take a look at th
News Xbox Fans Seem Divided Over The New 'Happening Now' Social Feature
Some love it, some hate it
You may have seen recently that Xbox has begun rolling out a new social feature in the "Friends" tab that's known as "Happening Now", and over the past 24 hours, we've seen a lot of people sharing their opinions on this latest addition. As you can see from the image above, the idea is to make you aware of all the active...
News Xbox's Latest BOGOF Sale Includes Some Best-Ever Deals On Rockstar Classics
This is more like it!
Xbox has just set some new digital deals live as the annual Spring Sale comes to an end, and one particular promotion is standing out to us this week. The team has a new 'BOGOF' sale going on right now, focusing on a bunch of backwards compatible Xbox classics. The selection here is quite mixed, but we're noticing some good...
News 'Gray Zone Warfare' Developer Talks Plans For Possible Xbox Version
PC previews are impressing so far
Gray Zone Warfare is another extraction shooter that's gaining lots of attention in early PC previews, and we're quite interested to see where the game goes from here. Its Unreal Engine 5 visuals are striking to say the least, and the game's attention to detail is setting itself apart from other efforts in the...
News PlayStation Exclusive 'Kena: Bridge Of Spirits' Rated For Xbox Series X|S
An Xbox launch is coming
There's been plenty of news about Xbox games moving over to PlayStation recently, but how about one coming the other way? Well, 2021's Kena: Bridge of Spirits has just been ESRB rated for an upcoming Xbox Series X|S release. There's no release da
News Two New Xbox Sales Are Now Live, 250+ Games Discounted Until Late April
Publisher Spotlight & Game Pass Saver sales!
The Xbox Spring Sale is officially done and dusted for another year, but that doesn't mean the Xbox sales are slowing down! In fact, we've got two major new sales that have gone live today in the form of "Publisher Spotlight" and "Game Pass Saver" promotions. Looking at the list, a lot of these games...
News It's Official! Fallout Is Getting A Second Season
"See you back in the Wasteland"
Following last week's premiere of the Fallout series, Amazon's Prime Video service has now officially confirmed a second season is on the way. This information was shared by the Fallout account on social media. No specific release date has obviously been shared at this stage, as the first season has only just been...
Thursday18th Apr 2024
News Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Brings Its 'Unforgettable' Adventure To Xbox In 2024
A tale of love and revenge
Warhorse Studios has announced a major new release for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S today in the form of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, which will be arriving at some point later this year - and it looks fantastic so far! In Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, you'll play as Henry of Skalitz - an ordinary man who finds himself...
News Turtle Beach Announces New Xbox Headsets To Launch Next Month
"We’re thrilled to debut our new lineup"
Gaming accessory manufacturer Turtle Beach has today announced a new lineup of hardware, with some fresh Xbox headsets thrown into the mix, for release in May 2024. The popular headset maker will launch new versions of its 'Stealth 500' and 'Stealth 600' wireless headsets next month - said to bring "newly...
News World Of Warcraft For Xbox Is Still Discussed Internally At Blizzard
"Of course we still talk about it"
Can you believe that World of Warcraft is 20 years-old this year? Nah, us neither, and as it turns out - new versions of the title are still a hot topic over at developer Blizzard. Yep, two decades later the team still ponders a console release, and whether it's something worth pursuing. Talking to VGC, the...
News 'Braid, Anniversary Edition' Gets May 2024 Release Date For Xbox
It's been a long time coming!
Update (Thu 18th Apr, 2024): The date has changed! It's now been confirmed that Braid, Anniversary Edition will be launching for Xbox on May 15th, 2024, which bizarrely falls one day after the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, PC and Netflix version. Here's a bit more information on the latest release date: "Thekla, Inc...
News Here Are All The Xbox Reveals From April's Nintendo Indie World Showcase
Yes, there were plenty of them!
In case you missed it, Nintendo held a new Indie World Showcase for April yesterday, and following the event, plenty of the games were also confirmed for Xbox - including three of them for Xbox Game Pass! We've already mentioned about those Game Pass games here at Pure Xbox, including SteamWorld Heist 2: <related...
News Larian Teases Four Major New Features Coming To Baldur's Gate 3
"We still have a few tricks up our sleeve"
The incredible Baldur's Gate 3 has pushed out a large number of patches since its Xbox release back in December of last year, and it's definitely not done yet! Looking ahead, there are four particularly major new features on the way. In a Steam blog update today, Larian Studios confirmed that Patch 7 is...
News Blizzard Says It's Already 'Benefitting' From From Being A Part Of Xbox
"If anything, it’s just been helpful"
It's no doubt a pretty huge task to incorporate a team like Blizzard into your organisation - we've already seen evidence of this back in January when a studio shakeup resulted in a cancelled Blizzard project. However, things seem to have settled down since, and a new comment from one Blizzard dev suggests...
Guide New Xbox Games Release Dates In 2024
2024's upcoming Xbox launch dates
What new Xbox games release dates in 2024 are coming up? If you're looking for a list of 2024 Xbox release dates, including for Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, you've come to the right place. 2024 is shaping up to be a massive year for the platform when it comes to new releases and Xbox Game Pass, with...
