Talking Point: So, Are You Buying Mafia: The Old Country On Xbox At Its $50 Price Point?
A reasonably priced affair
- by Ben Kerry
The Mafia series makes its grand return this week in the form of Mafia: The Old Country; Hangar 13’s upcoming prequel…
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Karma: The Dark World Crosses From PS5 To Xbox This September
With an Xbox-exclusive filter!
We’ve been waiting a little while for KARMA: The Dark World to make its Xbox debut, having originally released for PC and PS5 back in March, but we’ve finally got a release date – it hits Series X and Series S…
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Reminder: Nightdive Studios Has Something ‘Big’ To Announce At QuakeCon This Week
What’s it going to be?
Just in case you’d forgotten, Nightdive Studios apparently has its “next big thing” to announce at QuakeCon 2025 later this week! The company mentioned this during…
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Turn-Based TMNT Game Announced For Xbox, Releases Next Week
“The first-ever turn-based Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game”
You can never have too many Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games, right…?
We’re getting another one on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S next week, as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown has just received a…
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A Month After Xbox Layoffs, Call Of Duty Dev Raven Software Officially Unionises
It took nearly 3 years of negotiation
- by Ben Kerry
Raven Software, the team behind the campaign portion of last year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, is this week celebrating a fresh…
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Pick One: What Was Your Favourite Xbox Game Pass Addition In July 2025?
RoboCop? Grounded 2? Tony Hawk? Share your pick!
- penned by Fraser Gilbert
With August 2025’s Xbox Game Pass slate on the verge of kick-off, now’s our final moment to glance back at…
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Guide: Battlefield 6 Beta: Start Date, Access Times & Preload Details On Xbox
EA’s recent Battlefield 6 reveal event brought news of a pre-launch beta coming this month – across two full weekends on Xbox, PC and PS5. So, how do you download and play this Battlefield 6 beta? And can you get…
Xbox Adds New Dynamic Background & Gamerpics For Rare’s 40th Birthday
Rare’s big day
- by Ben Kerry
As we just unveiled elsewhere on Pure Xbox, we have some goodies being announced today to celebrate the 40th anniversary of developer Rare – and those goodies also include…
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8BitDo Unveils Its First Xbox Wireless Controller To Celebrate Rare’s 40th Anniversary
Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage Hits Xbox In October, Price & Beta Details Revealed
We’ve got a release date!
Following its announcement for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S back in May, SEGA has revealed today that Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage will release for the two Xbox consoles on October 30th, 2025.
Pre-orders have officially begun…
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Mafia: The Old Country Gets 60FPS Mode On Xbox Series X, Series S Seemingly Misses Out
Hangar 13 Drops the Details
- written by Ben Kerry
Well, it’s now officially Mafia: The Old Country month, as Hangar 13’s fresh chapter in the Mafia franchise is…
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Three Big Xbox Sales Are Kicking Off August 2025, Including A ‘Deepest Discounts’ Sale
Now that the Summer Sale has wrapped up
The Xbox Summer Sale has closed its doors for another season, yet Xbox is keeping the momentum going! To usher in August 2025, three fresh promotional events…
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100 New Games Added To Xbox ‘Stream Your Own Game’ For August
Momentum is reaching break-neck speed!
Keeping tabs on the Xbox “Stream Your Own Game” catalogue has turned into an endurance run—Microsoft stays tight-lipped, and titles are dropping faster than we can…
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Rumour: Sony Is Planning To Bring More PS5 Games To Xbox
Yet we remain in the dark about which ones
- from Ben Kerry
These are odd, topsy-turvy days, everybody. Just after a Sony career post surfaced asking for a manager to oversee PlayStation’s multi-device catalogue…
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Three Games Are Leaving Xbox Game Pass In Early August 2025
The first wave of departures this month
- penned by Fraser Gilbert
Microsoft has today unveiled the opening set of titles dropping out of Xbox Game Pass during August 2025, confirming three games are scheduled to exit on August 15th — mostly across console, PC and cloud.
Check…
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Talking Point: What Are Your First Impressions Of Grounded 2 On Xbox Game Pass?
How are you finding Obsidian’s new sequel?
Obsidian is having some year, eh? After the release of Avowed back in February, the team has now delivered Grounded 2 here on Xbox Game Pass – before its sci-fi sequel The Outer Worlds 2 then lands in October. So, what do…
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Lots Of Games Are Discounted By 90% In The Xbox Deepest Discounts Sale 2025
HUGE discounts for great games!
Looking for some cheap Xbox games during the Xbox Deepest Discounts Sale 2025?
As we highlighted earlier this week, this is a special new sale on the Microsoft Store that’s dedicated entirely to…
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Feature: These 30+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (August 4-8)
Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for August 4-8! The next few days are looking very busy for new indie releases, while we’ve also got the major arrivals of Mafia: The Old Country and Madden 26’s free trial on Game Pass Ultimate! Here’s what’s coming to Xbox next week:New Xbox Releases…
Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 2-3)
Hopping into your digital gardens?
Welcome to another weekend! We’re now officially into August 2025, which means the early access release of Obsidian’s Grounded 2 has come and gone – day one on Xbox Game Pass of course. We’d…
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Here’s Everything That Was Revealed At The THQ Nordic Showcase 2025
All the Xbox games we saw
Today marked the 2025 version of the THQ Nordic Showcase, which treated us to a whole bunch of trailers and game announcements for the likes of SpongeBob…
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Square Enix Announces Two Brand-New RPGs For Xbox Series X|S
A fresh Octopath Traveler joins the parade!
- Authored by Fraser Gilbert
Nintendo capped its July 2025 Direct today with word of two unseen RPGs from Square Enix, and both have already been locked in…
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PvZ: Replanted Is A ‘Definitive Remaster’ Of The Xbox 360 Original, Releasing This October
“We’re returning to the place the journey started”
- penned by Fraser Gilbert
A mere six days ago, murmurs hinted that Plants Vs. Zombies: Replanted would sprout on Xbox come October 23rd, 2025; that whisper has now been confirmed during the July 2025 Nintendo Direct showcase.
Per an…
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Cyberpunk 2077 Analysis For Switch 2 Highlights How Great The Xbox Series S Version Is
“Series S keeps a 60fps pace, only slowing now and then.”
Tech analysts at Digital Foundry have spent the past week poring over the Nintendo Switch 2 build of Cyberpunk 2077, lining it up against several other console editions—including the Xbox Series S.
The budget-friendly Xbox is the standout point of…
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Talking Point: Battlefield 6 Or Black Ops 7, Which Xbox FPS Are You Looking Forward To Most?
The lads have swaggered back onto the streets
- penned by Ben Kerry
Honestly, what calendar year are we even in?! It’s been quite some time since Battlefield last tussled…
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Report: Starfield PS5 Port Planned For Spring 2026 Alongside New Expansion
Still, steer clear of hopes for a stealth launch.
- written by Ben Kerry
Xbox Quietly Adds New Release To August 2025 Game Pass Lineup
It has quietly appeared in the “Coming Soon” area
We’re still anticipating Microsoft’s official reveal of the first wave of August 2025 Xbox Game Pass additions (most likely early next week at this point), yet one future launch has already edged its way onto the “Coming Soon” list.
The title in question…
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Opinion: This Month On Xbox Is Stacked, Including A Few First-Party Treats
A peaceful August? No way!
We’ve officially slipped into August 2025; once upon a time that would’ve signalled the last “quiet” gap ahead of when the videogame timetable revved up for the year-end blitz. These days, fresh titles…
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Baldur’s Gate 3’s Latest Update Targets Various Xbox-Specific Issues
“Remedies for certain game crashes that had been bothering everyone” We rarely spotlight individual Baldur’s Gate 3 patches nowadays over at Pure Xbox, yet this freshly-dropped hotfix is worth highlighting since several…
Hideo Kojima Says We’re Either Going To Love Or Hate His Xbox-Published Game ‘OD’
Its identity remains a mystery to us
- from Fraser Gilbert
Roundup: Here’s What The Previews Say About Xbox Horror Title Cronos: The New Dawn
Update: Now dated for September 2025!
- by Ben Kerry
Update : Following today’s Nintendo Direct for July 2025, it’s been announced that Cronos: The New Dawn will be coming to Xbox Series X and Xbox Series…
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