Review Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 (Xbox One)
A game of two halves
You couldn't make it up. No, wait...someone just did!
News Warframe: Echoes of the Sentient Live on Xbox One - MASSIVE Code Giveaway Here!
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News - September, 2015
Wednesday30th Sep 2015
Review Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart (Xbox One)
Walking the plank.
Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart comes to Xbox One during an extremely odd phase in digital game publishing on the platform. Developers looking to make a quick buck can now seemingly easily publish their quickly-ported games on the Xbox Store and see them get front page coverage upon release. This doesn't always work all...
Monday28th Sep 2015
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 The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 (Xbox One)
Pen to paper
It's no secret that there has been a resurgence in the popularity of point-and-click adventure games in recent years, with titles such as Life is Strange receiving both critical and player acclaim and Telltale Games gaining similar plaudits for the likes of The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us. The genre is ripe for the plucking and...
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...
Tuesday22nd Sep 2015
Psycho Circus
Penarium is a 2D arcade-style game about survival. When a boy named Willy is tricked into joining the circus, he quickly finds out it's not what he expected. The man running things, referred to as the Director, imprisons Willy and forces him to endure one of the most inhumane big-top shows of all time. With simple pick-up-and-play...
Monday21st Sep 2015
News This is How Easy It is to Stream Xbox One Games to the Oculus Rift
Game-changing?
When the Oculus Rift comes out in Q1 of next year, the consumer version will come bundled with an Xbox One controller and the ability to stream games from the console to the virtual reality headset itself. Even more interesting, is just how simple it is to make this work. In a recent Eurogamer interview with Palmer Luckey, the Oculus...
Review Blues and Bullets - Episode 1 (Xbox One)
Seeing red
It's a wonderful time to be a fan of the adventure game genre. Whether you prefer traditional point-and-click puzzle solving (King's Quest, Broken Age) or more recently, the flurry of choice-based narrative stories (Life is Strange and anything from Telltale), it's becoming increasingly clear that this once-ignored genre is most...
Sunday20th Sep 2015
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 –...
Saturday19th Sep 2015
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...
Wednesday16th Sep 2015
Rumour New Xbox One Dashboard May Begin Rolling Out to Preview Program Users This Week
Keep rolling, rolling, rolling
Microsoft's Xbox Engineering team have been hard at work preparing the new Xbox One Dashboard since officially unveiling it at E3 this year. Xbox One owners who have been part of the Xbox Preview Program have been patiently waiting to hear when they can get their hands all over the new OS to put it through its paces...
Tuesday15th Sep 2015
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 Toy Soldiers: War Chest (Xbox One)
The sum of its parts
Toy Soldiers: War Chest comes to Xbox One on the back of two successful iterations in the form of Toy Soldiers and Toy Soldiers: Cold War for Xbox 360. This, coupled with the addition of popular toy licenses makes this new entry an exciting proposition. Excitement for the game, however, may be short lived upon noticing how War...
Monday14th Sep 2015
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...
Saturday12th Sep 2015
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...
Friday11th Sep 2015
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...
Thursday10th Sep 2015
Review Leo's Fortune (Xbox One)
Great Balls of Fluff
Leo's Fortune started out life as a mobile platformer, released on the Apple Store and for Android in 2014. Even back then it was clear that 1337 & Senri LLC had a little gem on their hands and fans immediately begged for it to be brought to their next-gen console, so that they could spend more time with protagonist Leo...
Tuesday8th Sep 2015
Maximum carnage
With the critical and commercial success of Mad Max: Fury Road, it's no wonder that the video game adaptation of the Mad Max universe has been so highly anticipated. Then, when you consider the fact that publisher WB Interactive has also had a rockin' year of releases – Batman: Arkham Knight, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and Mortal...
Friday4th Sep 2015
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...
Review Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition (Xbox One)
To Infinity...and beyond?
Everyone in the world has heard of Disney Infinity by now. Well, at least those of us with children certainly have! The Disney take on the formula started by the Skylanders has always had a different slant, with much more emphasis being placed on community-created content. The Toy Box mode allows whole games and worlds to...
Tuesday1st Sep 2015
Review Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse (Xbox One)
A Tale of Two Snakes
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse comes to the Xbox One with a pedigree built up over its many years as a premium point-and-click adventure series. It had a slightly different development trajectory along the way when compared to other titles in the series and as a result, it seems a little confused at times as to what it...
Review Magnetic: Cage Closed (Xbox One)
Push and Pull
Magnetic: Cage Closed is a first-person physics-based puzzle game set within a grimy prison that harbours a dark and sinister secret in the basement. The player takes on the role of Rachel Randall (better known throughout proceedings as Prisoner XE-47623), an inmate on death row, as she is escorted on a gurney into the lower levels of...
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