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Master web developer by trade, Ken guided Pure Xbox through its first incarnation around the time of the Xbox One. Nowadays, you'll find him selling a wealth of retro goodness via SuperChallenge.
News Xbox One Finally Gets Ability To Purchase Backward Compatible Games From the Console
About time
Microsoft have announced details of their upcoming dashboard update for the Xbox One, and the main highlight is the ability to purchase Xbox 360 games from the Xbox One store. Apparently, fans have spent more than 30,000,000 hours playing Xbox 360 games on Xbox One so far, and with the next system update, you'll be able to purchase Xbox...
News Motorcycle Combat Rolls Onto Xbox One With Road Rage
We know what you're thinking...
Indeed, we know what you're thinking from the headline, but this isn't a Road Rash remake. Maximum Games have confirmed that Road Rage - a new motorcycle-combat IP - will be launching on Xbox One later this year. The game is set in the dangerous town of Ashen and you play as Ace, the newest member of an outlaw...
News Shmup Action On The Way as Xbox One Exclusive Raiden V Heads West
Blasting off
Top-down shooter Raiden V has released in Japan for Xbox One and the development team have confirmed that the game will be breaking out of that territory and heading to North America and Europe. In an interview with Inside Games (Japanese), MOSS CEO Toshinobu Komazawa stated:- "Raiden is always made for worldwide, is an important...
News March's Xbox Games With Gold Revealed
Elementary...
Next month's Xbox Games With Gold have been revealed, and there's a varied selection of titles to be had. Xbox Spain leaked the information via a YouTube video that details the titles. On Xbox One, you'll be able to get Lords of the Fallen and Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments, while Xbox 360 owners will be able to get...
Review Rocket League (Xbox One)
Blast off
When it comes to surprise success stories, there are none more surprising in recent memory than Psyonix's Rocket League. 2008's downloadable PlayStation 3 title Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle Cars which, while decent fun, was generally forgotten about or passed over by most, was hardly the most likely title to spawn a game that...
News Big Ant Attempts to Revive Dirt Track Racing Franchise
Down and dirty
If you're a fan of motorsport, you may remember titles such as Sprint Cars: Road to Knoxville and Sprint Cars 2: Showdown at Eldora for PlayStation 2. Closer to home, World of Outlaws: Sprint Cars on Xbox 360 might have been on your radar. Well, Australian sporting specialists Big Ant (Don Bradman Cricket) developed all of those...
Editor's Opinion Give Me A Quantum Break
Bellowing at a stratocumulus
Help me, pX Community, for I am confused. I've been trying to work out why Xbox fans would boycott a video game that they want (not that they actually will, given that it's all talk and standard internet rage and we LOVE looking for things to be outraged about now) because it's coming out on another platform as well as...
Review This War of Mine: The Little Ones (Xbox One)
War is hell
Inspired by the 1992 – 1996 Seige of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, This War of Mine is a bleak and desolate game. The entire thing is rendered pretty much entirely in a monochrome pencil drawing style, with only the minimum level of highlighting in place to show off things that you can select. It sounds bland, but that's far from...
Review Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: Russia (Xbox One)
A Hard Day's Nyet
When Ubisoft debuted their alternative take on the Assassin's Creed world with Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China back in 2015, announcing that it was the first of a three-part trilogy, there was hope in our hearts. Hope that starting from the promising base that the first title provided, the development team would listen to...
News H1Z1 Splits Into Two Games, Both Coming to Xbox One
A new approach
Daybreak's super-popular PC survival title H1Z1 is finally coming to consoles, but not in the way that you'd expect. Instead of a straight port, the entire game's development has been split up into two new products, entitled H1Z1: Just Survive and H1Z1: King of the Kill. All formats will follow the same path, so the PC title will be...
Review Amazing Princess Sarah (Xbox One)
Busting out all over
That Amazing Princess Sarah is quite entertaining, is proof positive that you can't judge a book by its cover. The key art featuring the painfully-proportioned Sarah gazing out of the screen suggests that the game will be nothing but a teenage boy's fantasy presented in videogame form. In fact, some will pass over it altogether...
News Battalion 1944 Set to Bring Classic WW2 FPS Gameplay Back to Xbox One
Back to the beaches
Indie developer Bulkhead Interactive have launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new Unreal Engine 4-powered World War 2 multiplayer FPS by the name of Battalion 1944. The team behind the game consists of ex-AAA developers and ex-modders, and their core vision certainly appears to be a good one. They say that they want to...
News February Games With Gold Deals a Hand Of Fate
Well, this isn't going to be popular
February's upcoming Xbox One and Xbox 360 Games With Gold have been announced, and there's a fair chance that rightly or wrongly, a riot will be on the cards. If you can call people firing shots back and forth on messageboards because the commonly-available-for-$10-Ryse still hasn't been given away as a GwG title...
Review Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink (Xbox One)
Short stories
If there's one type of game that's massively oversaturated on mobile, PC, and handheld, it's the "hidden object" game. The reason for this is simply that those types of games are incredibly easy to make and suitable for the absolute most casual of gamers. Artifex Mundi are leading the charge to console in the hidden object genre and...
Under arresting
When it comes to top-down twin-stick shooters, the Xbox One is not exactly running short of options. We've got the outstanding Geometry Wars 3 heading up the pack, with a host of alternatives in the shape of We Are Doomed, Polychromatic, Crimsonland, Ultratron, and Sixty Second Shooter Prime all available if you fancy a change. With
Review Level 22: Gary's Misadventures (Xbox One)
Office head
It isn't often that a videogame features a plot about trying to save the main character's humdrum office job, but the premise of Level 22: Gary's Misadventures indeed revolves around that very goal. After a raucous birthday party the night before, hugely bespectacled Gary is late for work and given that this is far from his first...
News Compulsion Confirms We Happy Few Will Launch on Xbox One via Game Preview in 2016
Very happy many
Via a new year round up blog post, Compulsion Games have confirmed that their intriguing We Happy Few will indeed launch via Xbox Game Preview in mid-2016. The game was first announced in February 2015, and Microsoft showed the game during their Gamescom press briefing. It was initially rumoured by a couple of outlets that the game...
We'll avoid the obvious tagline
Oxenfree is an unsettling game. The word "unsettling" can be used to imply many things though, so we can't just leave the review there. Nonetheless, that doesn't mean that we'll come up with a more fitting descriptor by the time we reach the conclusion. In order to bolster our attempt though, we'd best provide an...
Review The Banner Saga (Xbox One)
Juno it makes sense
When Stoic first pitched the concept of The Banner Saga to potential Kickstarter backers in 2012, it was clear that they had potentially struck gold from the get-go. With a $100,000 target, the company managed to raise over seven times that much to bring their tactical RPG to life. Now, just a day or two over two years since the...
A fistful of snapshots
For as long as the franchise has been alive, the world has been waiting for a truly excellent game based on Eastman & Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Well, Activision and Platinum seem to have the best shot at it yet, and details are starting to leak out about their take on things. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:...
Review Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India (Xbox One)
Rough before the smooth?
When the first of the Assassin's Creed Chronicles trilogy was released, there was genuine hope that it would evolve from the "decent-but-flawed" category and that by the third iteration, would have made it all the way up to the top deck. With (at least) two more games due, it was a safe assumption that the developer would...
News Xbox Countdown Sale Kicks Off With 134 Discounts on Xbox One and Xbox 360 Titles
Tons of savings to be had
The Xbox Countdown sale has kicked off, and there are absolutely STACKS of titles discounted. As usual, Xbox Live Gold members get a larger discount than those who don't have a subscription, and discounts range up to 85% off! Indeed, there are some highlights to be found if you check though the list, with 75% off the...
News Microsoft Adds Halo Reach and 15 More Games to Xbox One Backward Compatibility List
Hydro Thunder Hurricane!
Microsoft has added 16 new Xbox 360 titles to the Xbox One backwards compatibility list, it has been announced today. From now (or maybe a little later today), you should be able to take on four retail titles and twelve arcade releases on your Xbox One. The full list is as follows, and contains Hydro Thunder Hurricane so...
Review Super Party Sports: Football (Xbox One)
Off your head
Indie titles are coming across to the Xbox One thick and fast and while some publishers are trying to port any old mobile game to the platform, that approach isn't necessarily going to work as gamers are getting wary. Fortunately though, some titles work just as well on console as they do on mobile. Super Party Sports: Football is one...
