News Forza Motorsport 6 to Get Licensed NASCAR Expansion Pack
Card appears in UK stores
News WB Games Own Magazine Leaks Batman: Return to Arkham for Xbox One
And it might be here sooner than you think
News - May, 2016
Saturday28th May 2016
Review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan (Xbox One)
The wait for a great TMNT game continues...
We've reviewed three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games in Pure Xbox's lifetime, and the highest any of those games scored was a 3/10. That's pretty dire, huh? Not since TMNT: Turtles in Time landed on the Super Nintendo back in 1992 have fans received a genuinely great game based on this timeless...
Friday27th May 2016
News Fallout 4 Mods Come to Xbox One on May 31st
Back to the wilderness
Bethesda have confirmed that they'll be rolling out Fallout 4's mod system on May 31st for Xbox One. The company have noted that for the time being, mods will be limited to 2GB each, although that may increase in the future depending on demand. Players should take note that when you activate a mod, your game save gets moved...
Thursday26th May 2016
Hurt me plenty
Making a game that's due to be a part of one of gaming's most cherished franchises must be an absolute nightmare for developers. Remastering something that came out a few years ago so that it has shinier graphics and tweaks but still retains the feel of the original must be difficult enough, but to take a game that's so well thought...
Tuesday24th May 2016
News Deals With Gold: Mammoth List of Discounts Now Live
There goes the money...
This week's Deals With Gold are now live, and there's something for everyone in the absolutely mammoth list of offers. On Xbox One, there's everything from soup to nuts and in something Microsoft is dubbing the "Xbox 360 Super Sale" there's even more to be found. You don't need any more of an introduction than that, really,...
Monday23rd May 2016
Rumour New Wave of Backward Compatible Titles Coming During E3
Retailer spills the beans
There are plenty of rumours revolving around the Xbox One backward compatibility feature at the moment. The main one revolves around EA Access, with a recent rumour suggesting that more B/C titles - including Mass Efffect - are heading to their service as part of the Vault. Now though, Amazon US have added a bunch of new...
Review Not a Hero: Super Snazzy Edition (Xbox One)
Get snazzy, ya clown!
Not A Hero is a side-scrolling 2D cover-based shooter where you're employed by a pink rabbit who wants to be the mayor but who needs to show his ability to clean up the town so that people will vote for him. To do this, he's hired you, playing as one of several anti-heros, to pretty much go in and blow away bad guys in order to...
Review OlliOlli2: XL Edition (Xbox One)
Skate or Die
It took over a year for OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood to make its way onto Xbox One, but now it's here and is packed with bonus content. The delay isn't surprising, as the original OlliOlli didn't come to Microsoft's home console until after the sequel had released elsewhere, but it was disappointing nonetheless. Was the wait worth it...
Saturday21st May 2016
Not Today, Geoff...
Battleborn is - as you probably already know and as the box art trumpets - is from Gearbox, the same people who made Borderlands. The question is, can this new game make the same kind of splash that Borderlands did? Mixing seemingly disparate elements from the world of FPS, RPG and MOBA, does it blend into a delicious smoothie,...
Tuesday17th May 2016
News Deals With Gold: Over 60 Xbox Offers Thrown Into The Mix
Lara Croft, Call of Duty...they're lining up
There's a whole host of offers this week as part of Microsoft's Deals With Gold, with a publishers sale from Square Enix loading the list with bargains. Not to mention a somewhat eye-opening amount of Call of Duty titles suddenly getting trimmed, especially on Xbox 360. Wink. If Black Ops does appear via...
Monday16th May 2016
Review Super Night Riders (Xbox One)
Burnt rubber
They say that you can't judge a book by its cover. The same could be said of videogames and trailers. In the case of Super Night Riders though, you can throw all the sayings out of the window. We had our reservations about the retro motorcycle racer when we first clapped eyes on the announcement trailer but – as we have to - gave it...
Saturday14th May 2016
Review Grand Prix Rock 'n Racing (Xbox One)
The Pits
Fast forward seven months from EnjoyUp's first Xbox One release – the dire Rock 'N Racing Off Road DX - and the developer is back again with a slightly more ambitious title. Grand Prix Rock 'N Racing is another almost-top-down racer, but this time we're looking at F1-style cars racing around much larger tracks with a helicopter-based...
Thursday12th May 2016
Review Blues and Bullets - Episode 2 (Xbox One)
Eight months later...
What's most difficult about investing in an episodic adventure series is the agonizing long wait between episodes. Having launched its debut episode on Xbox One nearly eight months ago, Blues and Bullets may just be the worst offender for this. It's disappointing, nonetheless, that Episode 2 doesn't land all of its punches. It...
Review Hitman: Episode 2 - Sapienza (Xbox One)
Time to kill...
The second episode of the Hitman (Xbox One) content sees the titular assassin leaving the bright lights of Paris and heading to the idyllic Amalfi coast in Italy. The peaceful town of Sapienza hides a dark secret, as a troubled genius has set up home in a mansion in the town, and is busily creating a devastating bio weapon in the en...
Tuesday10th May 2016
News Deals With Gold: Call of Duty Slashed on Xbox One and Xbox 360
Sure to be a popular move...
This week's Deals With Gold have been announced and the list is sure to set the cat amongst the pigeons. In a week where Activision are under fire for any number of reasons over the announcement of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, they've decided to have a bit of a sale, chopping prices on a fair percentage of the Call...
Monday9th May 2016
News Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Trailer Hits 1 Million Dislikes
Thumbs slamming down
Call of Duty fans don't appear to be happy with the creative direction of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare as its reveal trailer has received over 1 million "Dislikes" on YouTube. Released only a week ago on May 2, the Infinite Warfare reveal trailer is currently the 7th most disliked video on YouTube and still climbing. In...
Feature The Weird World of Awful Xbox Hardware Ripoffs
Attack of the clones
When it comes to console hardware design, Microsoft have always gotten a bit of a bad rap. The original Xbox was the size of a tank (and about as heavy as one) and the follow-up Xbox 360 wasn't designed well enough to stop boards from warping and giving millions of people the infamous "Red Ring of Death" error. The Xbox 360...
Saturday7th May 2016
News Forza Motorsport 6 to Get Licensed NASCAR Expansion Pack
Card appears in UK stores
It appears that Forza Motorsport 6 is about to get a licensed NASCAR expansion pack. Eagle-eyed Reddit user smarkel101 spied a new card at his local retailer that advertises the new pack and suggests that it'll cost £15.99 in the UK. The reverse of the card reveals that the expansion will contain a NASCAR World Tour...
News WB Games Own Magazine Leaks Batman: Return to Arkham for Xbox One
And it might be here sooner than you think
Update: WB Games have now confirmed that Batman: Return to Arkham is indeed on the way, containing remastered versions of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City. It will launch on July 29th, 2016, with a retail price of £39.99 on Xbox One. An announcement trailer follows:- Original Story:...
Friday6th May 2016
Review Coffin Dodgers (Xbox One)
Over the hill
It's been a while since we were in the era of a new licenced kart racer turning up every week. On the back of Super Mario Kart's success, pretty much every publisher decided that games of that type were easy to make and ship, most of them overlooking the things that made Nintendo's evergreen champion just as good as it was and still...
Tuesday3rd May 2016
News Deals With Gold: Over 80 Discounts Take the Stage
An even spread
This week's Deals With Gold have been announced and there surely has to be something for everyone as Microsoft have pulled out over 80 discounts across Xbox One and Xbox 360, with a good selection of the Xbox 360 titles being playable on Xbox One. There's also two freebies in store for Battlefield fans, with the Dragon's Teeth DLC...
Monday2nd May 2016
You are not in control.
When SUPERHOT made its debut on the E3 stage back in 2015, the trailer raised more questions than it answered. Originally created as part of a game jam event, the developer – also called SUPERHOT – managed to raise over $250,000 through crowdfunding to bring the strange FPS to life. Fast forward to the present day and the...
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