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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 UK Xbox One Digital Game Prices Unexpectedly Rise
That's all we needed
It appears that the prices of some digital Xbox One games have taken a bit of a leap up over the weekend, without any sort of explanation as to why. Titles that were available for preorder on Friday for £44.99 - Halo 5: Guardians and Rise of the Tomb Raider most noticeably - are now at the £49.99 mark. In a world where the...
Review Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition (Xbox One)
Are you sitting comfortably?
To kick things off here, we'd like to address a bit of criticism that we've seen for Three Fourths Home across social media since it launched on Xbox One. The main critique – despite the game's description containing the words "visual short story" – seems to be that the product is not a game at all. Then again, we...
Review Rugby League Live 3 (Xbox One)
Play the ball
With two absolutely rancid rugby union titles already available for Xbox One (Rugby 15, Rugby World Cup 2015) it was with apprehension that we strode out onto the field to take on the competing code of rugby league in Big Ant's latest offering. Fortunately, the team is nothing to do with those godawful games, but is responsible for the...
Review Polychromatic (Xbox One)
Round and round
In a world where twin-stick shooters are becoming more and more popular, it takes an awful lot to even think of climbing the ladder to battle against the might of titles such as Geometry Wars 3. One way that smaller studios can attempt to take the big guns to task – aside from getting the gameplay down, of course – is by...
Pitching in
When the generally super-positive reviews of Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 started hitting the net, it was hard to see – given the relatively limited list of improvements that EA were touting – quite how FIFA 16 had any real chance of defeating Konami's franchise this time around. Despite impressing in some areas though, PES contained...
Review Rugby World Cup 2015 (Xbox One)
No try. In more ways than one.
When it was announced that HB Studios, the development team behind the diabolically bad Rugby 15, were developing the official game based on the 2015 Rugby World Cup and that it was due to be released just nine months after their first effort, alarm bells started to ring all over the show. Would the developer take on...
Review Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 (Xbox One)
A game of two halves
It isn't our policy to look at reviews from other publications before playing a game that we know we'll be reviewing here at PureXbox but this time around, we weren't sure whether or not we'd be reviewing Pro Evolution Soccer 2016, so we indulged in a little light reading. It appears that the game is universally loved and is –...
Pump it louder
In this world of games that are filled with tutorials, guides that hold your hand through half of the product, rewards for every little thing you do and achievements that rain down from the skies for going into an options menu, it's rare to see a title that bucks that trend. Pumped BMX+ is one such game and heavens, it's a refreshing...
News Contest: Neverwinter Super Rare Companion Giveaway!
Get your Harper Bard here
To celebrate the release of the Neverwinter: Elemental Evil expansion pack, Perfect World have sent over a bunch of absolutely crazy and super rare companion codes for use in the game! The Harper Bard is a super rare leader companion that you cannot earn or buy in game. You'll only be able to get one from winning a...
Review Forza Motorsport 6 (Xbox One)
Start your engines...
We reckon that we can do away with the preamble with this review, given that if you aren't aware of what the Forza series is by now, you probably never will be. With this sixth iteration (if you forget the Horizon interludes) being a pretty important title for Xbox One as a platform as it heads into the holiday season, let's...
You couldn't make it up. No, wait...someone just did!
Let's be clear. We're posting this as "rumour" because we have to. The chances of it being real are about as likely as Microsoft announcing that all games will be free from now on and that they'll be launching a new console at Christmas. In short, this is 99.9% fake. A Spanish Xbox site has...
Review Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (Xbox One)
Saving the world with love
When it comes to gaming, the word "innovative" is bandied about an awful lot, especially since the dawn of the indie game. The gun that you had in that Game X? Well in Derivative Game Y, it can fire grenades too! Innovative. Remember how difficult it was to tackle the striker in that soccer title? Well in this season's...
RPG fans rejoice!
During a recent Ustream event, the CEO of Experience In., Hajime Chikami, talked about two new titles that are in development by the company for Xbox One. Chikami mentioned that while it's difficult to release Xbox One exclusives in Japan (presumably due to the low install base), releasing digitally worldwide via the Xbox Games...
News Warframe: Echoes of the Sentient Live on Xbox One - MASSIVE Code Giveaway Here!
Seriously, we're drowning in codes
The Xbox One F2P title Warframe has seen a new release of content in the form of the Echoes of the Sentient expansion and to celebrate, we're giving away a whole stack of codes. Thousands of 'em, in fact! Echoes of the Sentient introduces a new Warframe by the name of Equinox, which has a switchable Day-form and...
Review Super Toy Cars (Xbox One)
Micro amounts of fun
When it comes to arcade racing, few can argue that the likes of the classic Micro Machines titles from the 90s or even the likes of Mashed from the 00s are right up there in the list of brilliantly fun experiences, especially when it comes to gathering a couple of players around the console for a few rounds. Super Toy Cars is...
News Microsoft Announces 1TB Xbox One Elite Bundle with Hybrid SSHD Drive
Well, that's unexpected
Microsoft has announced that they'll be releasing a new Xbox One console bundle on November 3rd in the US, which will come with an Xbox One Elite Controller and a 1TB Hybrid SSHD Drive. We know all about the Elite Controller of course, but the new drive will be - for the time being, at least - exclusively available in this...
Review Bridge Constructor (Xbox One)
A bridge too far
There's a bit of a lack of truly perplexing puzzle and strategy games on Xbox One and that's just one of the reasons we were excited to give Clockstone's Bridge Constructor a spin. Crossing the chasm from mobile devices and PC, the game comes complete with the SlopeMania expansion and given the decent reviews the whole package...
Review Mega Man Legacy Collection (Xbox One)
Cheap Man
When Capcom first announced that they'd be bringing a collection of Mega Man games to modern consoles, everyone was a little bit light-headed at the prospect of the sheer number of titles that the package would contain. Given that the core series debuted with the original Mega Man on the NES in 1987 and saw its last release in 2010 with...
Review Adventures of Pip (Xbox One)
Hip to be square
Another day, another retro-styled platformer hits the Xbox One via the ID@Xbox program. That's not necessarily a bad thing when the idea behind the game is as compelling as the one that features in Adventures of Pip, though. The evil Queen DeRezzia has kidnapped the Pixel Kingdom's princess and is hell bent on destroying the entire...
Rumour Microsoft Planning Disc-less Xbox One Mini Console
This one could go either way
We could barely believe what we were reading, but there's a decent rumour going around that Microsoft are planning to announce a new Xbox One console configuration in October. Chinese Windows Phone site WPDang are reporting that in October, Microsoft will hold a big event to announce the launch of the new Lumia 940 and...
Scratching the glitch
When it was confirmed a while ago that the sequel to 2012's Wii U exclusive ZombiU had been canned, most thought that the series was a goner. That would be a shame, given that the survival-horror title brought with it more innovation than people give it credit for. It wasn't just a straight-up gorefest that required you to scan...
News Turtle Beach Launches Firmware Update 2.0 for Elite 800X Headset
Improvements all over the show
Turtle Beach has released a new firmware update for their Elite 800X Wireless Headset for Xbox One which should alleviate a few of the common problems reported by early adopters. The new firmware brings with it a whole bunch of improvements, such as automatic gain control for the microphone, stability updates, a few...
News Warframe Infested Nightmares Bonus Weekend Goes Live - Massive Code Giveaway Here!
Boosts and bonuses going at Tenno to the dozen
The Xbox One F2P title Warframe is kicking off a special event - the Infested Nightmares Bonus Weekend - right now and on top of all the good stuff players will get as a part of that, we've also got a STACK of codes to give away for more goodies. The Infested Nightmares Bonus Weekend runs from August...
Review Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians (Xbox One)
Get down
In a period of time where pretty much any relatively average indie game ports are practically falling from the skies and on into the Xbox Store, it's nice to see that some of the more ingenious titles of the last few years haven't been neglected. Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians is very much one of those ingenious romps, blending puzzles...
