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Monday3rd Feb 2025
News Xbox Exec Congratulates Lonely Mountains Dev On 'Unbelievable' Game Pass Launch
Half a million players reached
One of the biggest Xbox Game Pass surprises last month was Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders after the game was quietly inserted into the January lineup - and it seems that the development team has been enjoying a rather successful launch as a result. Late last week, the Snow Riders team logged onto social media to reve
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Roundup Here's What The Early Reviews Are Saying About Civilization VII
Heading to Xbox next week!
The latest in 2K's Civilization series comes to Xbox next week in the form of Civ 7, and some early reviews are now hitting the web for Firaxis Games' new strategy title. We're happy to say that things are looking pretty good so far! How good? Well, down below are summaries of some of the early reviews for Sid Meier's...
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- Round Up
- Civilization VII
- Xbox Series X
- Xbox Series S
News EA Says Need For Speed Is On Ice As Team Wraps Up Development On NFS Unbound
"We plan to bring the franchise back"
EA has put out a new statement (via Eurogamer) on the future of its Need for Speed series, as it ends support for 2022's Need for Speed Unbound. The last NFS entry had an extended life cycle, where EA went on to "use their feedback to create content for Unbound", but developer Criterion Games is now fully...
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- NFS Unbound
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News Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Is An Early Xbox GOTY Contender For 2025
The reviews have been impressively strong so far
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 officially makes its way to Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S tomorrow (February 4th), and based on the reviews we're seeing so far - including ours here at Pure Xbox - it's an early Game of the Year contender! The Metacritic and
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News Fallout: New Vegas Writer Rejoins Xbox's Obsidian As Creative Director
No, he's not making New Vegas 2
Over the weekend, industry veteran John Gonzalez rejoined Xbox studio Obsidian Entertainment, after almost 15 years away from the team. Back in the day, Gonzalez was the lead writer on Fallout: New Vegas, and now rejoins the team as Creative Director on a different project. Bethesda's 2010 Fallout spinoff has such...
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- Obsidian Entertainment
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- Fallout New Vegas
Sunday2nd Feb 2025
News Seven Games Will Leave Xbox Game Pass In Early February 2025
Including this epic action RPG from 2021
Microsoft has today pulled back the curtain on the next seven games that are set to leave Xbox Game Pass in early February 2025, which includes the likes of Tales of Arise, EA Sports UFC 3 and a whole bunch of great indie titles. At least six of these will be removed from Xbox Game Pass on the 15th of...
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- Leaving Soon
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Review Ninja Gaiden 2 Black (Xbox) - A UE5 Appetiser Ahead Of The Fourth Outing
You're looking sharper than ever, Ryu
Hearken back to the original Xbox lineup and one game you might remember is the notoriously difficult ‘exclusive’ Ninja Gaiden, leading to the ‘Black’ rework during the same generation. Now, decades on, Ninja Gaiden 2 Black follows in the footsteps of not only the Xbox 360 sequel but also the more recent...
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- Ninja Gaiden 2 Black
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Saturday1st Feb 2025
Feature These 20+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (February 3-7)
Including a couple of huge titles
Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for February 3-7! The big release of the next few days is undoubtedly Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 which arrives on Tuesday, but don't forget about Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator as well - and we've also got the exciting addition of Far Cry New Dawn
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- Weekly Roundup
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Poll What Do You Think Of Eternal Strands On Xbox Game Pass?
Are you vibing with it so far?
It's been a great few days for new additions on Xbox Game Pass, and the one that was getting a lot of attention during the early part of the week was Eternal Strands, which is the first ever release from developer Yellow Brick Games. We've been playing it just like a lot of other Game Pass members recently, and we...
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News Xbox's Phil Spencer Checks On Dev 'Progress' Of Gears Of War: E-Day
We're ready when you are
Gears of War: E-Day is already one of the most anticipated titles on the way to the Xbox in the future and it seems Microsoft's Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has recently checked in with developer The Coalition to get a status update. In a post on social media to kick off the month of February, Spencer revealed how he had spent...
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- Gears of War
- The Coalition
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News Far Cry New Dawn Getting 60FPS Patch Ahead Of Its Arrival On Xbox Game Pass
For Xbox Series X and S
Ubisoft has announced that its 2019 shooter Far Cry New Dawn will be getting a 60FPS update in the coming days. Previously a part of Microsoft's FPS Boost program, that option has now been disabled as the team prepares a native performance patch for the title on current-gen platforms. It appears that this announcement was...
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- Far Cry New Dawn
- 60FPS
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Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (February 1-2)
It's been a busy week for Game Pass!
The weekend begins! There's loads of check out on Xbox over the next couple of days, including multiple Xbox Game Pass additions, some brilliant Free Play Days titles, and even a few playtests via the Xbox Insider Hub. Here's what we're playing this wee
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Friday31st Jan 2025
News Former PlayStation Exec Says 'The Game Is Changing' As Xbox Goes Multiplatform
"They were Blockbuster, they became Netflix"
With the announcement of Forza Horizon 5 moving over to PS5, Xbox has planted another flag in its new multiplatform landscape, which started to take shape around a year ago. Things are definitely moving forward as we head into 2025 though, which is causing lots of industry folk to chime in on the matter -...
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- PlayStation
- Multiplatform
- Industry
News Xbox Leaker Believes Gears Collection Is Real, Will Launch On PS5 Day One
The Cole Train ain't stoppin'
After what's been years and years of rumour and speculation, we might just have our strongest evidence of a Gears of War remaster collection yet. Well-known Xbox leaker eXtas1s has posted a new video that breaks down a bunch of
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- Gears of War
- Marcus Fenix Collection
- Microsoft
- PS5
News These Are The Top-Selling Games In The Xbox Lunar New Year Sale 2025
The hottest deals right now
We've got just under a week left until the end of the massive Xbox Lunar New Year Sale 2025, so it's time to bring you our final roundup! With time running out, this is an opportunity to look at what's selling the best on the Xbox Store. We're going to focus on the UK version of the Xbox Store for this list, and we'll...
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- Deals
- Xbox Lunar New Year Sale 2025
- Round Up
Soapbox As A Huge Forza Fan, I'm Fine With Horizon 5 Going To PS5
But I might feel differently about a day one release
Well, we've officially moved into the territory where one of the big three Xbox franchises (Halo, Gears, Forza) will no longer be console exclusive - as Horizon 5 plans its PS5 course this spring. I've been preparing myself for this moment for a while now, especially with all of the rumours going...
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- Forza Horizon 5
- PS5
- Features
News Halo PS5 Rumours Resurface Following Forza Horizon 5 Announcement
"But we'll see"
It's been another massive week in the world of Xbox, and after ongoing rumours, it's now been officially confirmed that Forza Horizon 5 will be arriving on PlayStation 5 this spring. If you are wondering what the plan might be for PS5 beyond this point, it seems Xbox's main mascot could be one of the next ones up with Halo: The...
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- Halo
- PS5
- Microsoft
News MultiVersus Is Shutting Down, Less Than A Year Since Its Relaunch
A sad end for the free-to-play brawler
There was so much potential behind Warner Bros. MultiVersus when it was first unveiled a few years ago, and even though the game turned out to be pretty good, it's unfortunately not performed well enough to justify a longer lifespan. Today, it's been confirmed that MultiVersus will go offline on May 30th,...
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- MultiVersus
- Warner Bros
- Free To Play
News Xbox Highlights Six 'Must-Play' Indie Games That Launched In 2024
One year of 'Indie Selects'
A year ago, Xbox introduced its 'Indie Selects' program as a way to highlight a batch of indie titles each and every month - and at the program's one-year anniversary, the team has picked out six must-play indies from 2024. Team Xbox says that this selection showcases "six top Indie Selects titles from 2024 that we...
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- Indie Selects
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- Xbox One
- Xbox Series X
Roundup Citizen Sleeper 2 Is Getting Fantastic Reviews Ahead Of Its Xbox Game Pass Launch
Coming to the library TODAY!
As we close out a pretty packed January for Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft has one more 'day one' launch to bring to the service - Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector. While we haven't had time to try this one out here at Pure Xbox HQ yet, reviews are starting to hit the web for this new sci-fi sequel. So, with that in mind,...
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- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
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- Xbox Series X
Poll How Would You Grade The First Month Of Xbox Game Pass In 2025?
Have you enjoyed the new additions?
January's Xbox Game Pass lineup is now officially complete with today's launch of Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector - and although it's unlikely you'll have had time to play that one just yet, we want to know how you feel about the first month of XGP in 2025. We've had some big Game Pass releases lined up in...
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Thursday30th Jan 2025
News Xbox Glitch Sees Alan Wake Remastered Get 100% Discount
Update: Microsoft appears to have removed it
Earlier this week, we highlighted a fantastic Alan Wake 2 deal that bundled in Alan Wake Remastered as a free bonus game - and now Xbox users appear to have found a glitch with the system that allows them to claim the remaster without making a purchase at all. Thanks to Alan Wa
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- Alan Wake Remastered
- Alan Wake 2
- Microsoft
Roundup Here's What Critics Think Of New Game Pass Title Sniper Elite: Resistance
Available now on Xbox Game Pass!
As we covered in our reminder post earlier today, Sniper Elite: Resistance is now available on Xbox Game Pass, which means it might be worth knowing what folks think of the game now that it can be downloaded on Microsoft's subscription service. <related ids="177499"> Of course, we posted our
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News Forza Horizon 5 Officially Announced For PS5, Drifts Over In Spring 2025
New horizons on PS5
Xbox developer Playground Games has announced that Forza Horizon 5 is officially launching on PlayStation 5, with the open-world racer set to move over in Spring 2025. First released in late 2021 for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC, Forza Horizon 5 took players to Horizon Mexico in the series' fifth open-world outing on Xbox...
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- PS5
- Microsoft
News Xbox Free Play Days Includes One Of 2023's Highest-Rated Games
Jump into a free trial right now!
Welcome to your latest Xbox Free Play Days lineup - and this one is quite a biggie. Headlining the selection this week is Alan Wake 2, with Remedy bringing a free trial to Microsoft's FPD program this weekend. Here's your full Xbox Free Play Days lineup this week: Alan Wake 2 (3-hour free trial) Sword Art Online...
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- Free Play Days
- Xbox Game Pass
- Microsoft
News GTA 6 Unlikely To Run At 60FPS On Xbox, Says Former Rockstar Dev
"I think they're gonna be shooting for 30fps"
We've said it before and we'll say it again, GTA 6 could be the star of the Xbox Series X|S generation, especially considering how long we've all been waiting for it to release. However, that could also mean that it'll be quite taxing on current-gen hardware, and a former Rockstar dev has now come out...
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- GTA 6
- Xbox Series X
- Xbox Series S
- Rockstar Games
News 'Mariostro Strikers' Goes Viral As Ridiculous Rip-Off Appears On Xbox
Who needs a Switch, eh?!
Every now and again, the Xbox Store plays host to various rip-off titles that are clearly inspired by other projects (sometimes they're just straight ports), but we have to admit, this specific one is a very entertaining example. Yes, Mariostro Strikers: Soccer League is available to purchase on Xbox right now, and it...
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- Random
News January's Final Two Xbox Game Pass Titles Arrive This Week (January 30-31)
A hot month for XGP
Welcome to your final Xbox Game Pass roundup for January 2025! We have two more titles coming to the library this week, including Sniper Elite: Resistance which we just reviewed here at Pure Xbox. <related ids="177309"> Anyway, here's a closer look at your last two
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- Citizen Sleeper 2
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News Microsoft CEO Chimes In As Indiana Jones Surpasses Four Million Players On Xbox & PC
Satya seems pleased!
It's been almost a couple of months now since Indiana Jones and the Great Circle launched on Xbox and PC, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has revealed that the game has surpassed four million players on those systems so far. Nadella was speaking as part of the earnings results that were announced last night, where he used the...
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News Game Pass Sets New Quarterly Revenue Record, Grows PC Subs 'By Over 30%'
Microsoft CEO: Black Ops 6 and Indiana Jones played a huge part
Microsoft's latest earnings report is in and although its gaming division's hardware business has suffered another decline, Xbox's "content and services" are up. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has now gone into a bit more detail, revealing how Game Pass has set a new quarterly record in...
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- Call of Duty
News Xbox Cloud Gaming's Strong Momentum Continues With 'Record' Hours Streamed
Racking up 140 million hours in the latest quarter
Another positive to come out of Xbox's latest earnings report was regarding the "strong momentum" of its cloud gaming services. Alongside his comments about Game Pass's new quarterly revenue record, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed how
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- Xbox Cloud Gaming
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Talking Point A Year Later, What Do You Think Of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League?
Yes, it's been that long!
Time flies! It's been one year since Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League arrived on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S (along with other platforms), and the game has certainly gone through quite a journey over the past 12 months. There's no getting away from the fact that KTJL was a disappointment in terms of its financial...
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- Features
News BioWare's 'Core Team' Working On Mass Effect 5 While Some Devs Move To Other EA Studios
"We are turning towards the future"
BioWare, the developer behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age, has posted a new studio update as the team looks ahead to its next title. With development on The Veilguard now complete, and no DLC currently in the works, the studio h
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- BioWare
- Mass Effect
- Dragon Age
Wednesday29th Jan 2025
Feature All New Xbox Games Coming Out In February 2025
Avowed, Monster Hunter, Like a Dragon & more!
Welcome to our roundup of all new Xbox games coming out in February 2025! Below, we've listed every Xbox game with an February 2025 release date, including all confirmed Xbox Game Pass releases so far. As you can see below, it's a really busy month as well! The likes of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, L
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- Xbox Series X
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- February 2025
News Ninja Gaiden 2 Black Updated On Xbox, Second Update Arriving Next Month
Here's what you can expect...
The big surprise of last week (apart from Ninja Gaiden 4) was the shadow drop of Ninja Gaiden 2 Black. Team Ninja has announced the first patch (Version 1.0.6.0) has today gone live, but there's also another interesting update. Apart from a patch for the Microsoft Store version of the game "to fix the issue where...
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- Xbox Game Pass
- Ninja Gaiden
- Xbox Series X
- Xbox Series S
News These 50+ Games Are Cheaper Than Ever In The Xbox Lunar New Year Sale 2025
The best "Lowest Price Ever" deals
The Xbox Lunar New Year Sale for 2025 has been live for a little while now, and we've been spending plenty of time looking through the selection for the best deals - and there are so many for us to highlight here at Pure Xbox! So, just like we did during Black Friday, we thought we'd pick out 50 games that have...
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- Deals
- Xbox Lunar New Year Sale
- Lowest Price Ever
- Round Up
News Xbox's Multiplatform Releases Made Microsoft The Top Game Publisher In The World Last Month
Trouncing EA in the process
Data firm Ampere has released some interesting stats about the month of December in gaming - stats that name Microsoft as the top publisher in the world for the final month of 2024. According to the analyst group, $465 million was spent on Xbox games last month, making Microsoft the biggest publisher across Xbox,...
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- Xbox Series X
- Xbox Series S
- PS5
Talking Point Capcom, It's Time To Get Dino Crisis On Xbox
Don't leave us out, please
Today, the company that once produced Dino Crisis games but decided to stop bothering in the early 2000s (Capcom), has randomly dropped the first two games onto PC platform GOG. Yep, Dino Crisis 1+2 are now available to buy over there - complete with new features like enhanced DirectX rendering, 4K resolution support, new...
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News Xbox Hardware Declines But 'Content & Services' Grows In FY25 Q2 Earnings Report
Microsoft calls the latter a "Business Highlight"
Microsoft has released its earnings report for the quarter ending December 31st, 2024 today (FY25 Q2), which highlights how the business performed during that quarter compared to the same period the year before. In terms of Xbox, Microsoft mentions that a "business highlight" is the 2% increase in...
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News No Man's Sky 'Worlds Part 2' Brings New Biomes, Planets & Graphics To Xbox Game Pass
Hello, games that keep evolving
Six months or so after it first introduced the initial Worlds update for No Man's Sky, Hello Games is back again with another huge overhaul for its Xbox Game Pass adventure. No Man's Sky: Worlds Part 2 is out now on Xbox, and again, it's another big old update from Hello Games here. Player
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News Phil Spencer's Recent Gears Activity Has Nothing To Do With Rumoured Remasters
He's simply been training the rook
A week or so ago, Gears fans with a keen eye spotted Xbox boss Phil Spencer revisiting the old Xbox 360 games for the first time in over a decade - prompting fresh discussion about a potential 'Marcus Fenix Collection', as has long been rumoured. While the boss has neither confirmed nor de
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- Gears of War
- Marcus Fenix Collection
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News Split Fiction Goes Gold & Gets New Co-Op Trailer Ahead Of Xbox Launch This March
Soon to be reality
Hazelight Studios, the now-famous team behind the likes of A Way Out and It Takes Two, has revealed that its upcoming game Split Fiction has officially gone gold. The studio has wrapped up core development on the co-op Xbox title, and is now laser-focused on the game's launch in March 2025. To accompany this announcement, we also...
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- Split Fiction
- Hazelight Studios
- Xbox Series X
- Xbox Series S
Talking Point Will DOOM: The Dark Ages Become id's Best Modern DOOM Game?
Do you think it has what it takes?
Xbox has planted a major AAA flag in early 2025 with its May release date for DOOM: The Dark Ages, and after that amazing Developer Direct showcase, we're now wondering how far id Software can go with its next title. Ever since Bethesda's FPS experts rebooted the DOOM franchise back in 2016, we've absolutely loved...
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- Features
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- DOOM The Dark Ages
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News Baldur's Gate 3 Adding Split-Screen On Xbox Series S, More Than A Year After Release
Who remembers this drama?
Just over a year ago, Xbox was embroiled in Series S drama relating to mega-popular RPG Baldur's Gate 3 - developer Larian Studios just couldn't get split-screen running on the less-powerful machine. Well, a year on from Microsoft granting them the option to omit the feature, Larian has got split-screen co-op working on X
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- Baldur's Gate 3
- Xbox Series S
- Xbox Series X
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Tuesday28th Jan 2025
News Three Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (January 28)
Including two 'day one' launches!
This week is a busy one for Xbox Game Pass, and we're kicking things off with three brand-new additions to the service today! Two of these are actually 'day one' launches as well, meaning they've never been released before now. Eternal Strands is the one that's been getting the most attention in recent weeks, and...
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- Xbox Game Pass
- Round Up
- Xbox Series X
- Xbox Series S
Feature Xbox Game Studios: All Microsoft First-Party Developers & What They're Working On
Including Bethesda & Activision Blizzard
At this stage, Microsoft has lots of in-house development studios making Xbox games, including all those teams across Xbox Game Studios, Bethesda and Activision Blizzard. So, as we begin another year of Xbox, we thought we'd gather up every Microsoft first-party developer and what they're working on right...
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- Activision Blizzard
- Bethesda
Deals Xbox 'Indie Selects' Sale Includes A Bunch Of Big Releases From 2024
A Game of the Year contender, even
The Tuesday refresh of the Xbox Store has taken place, and in addition to the massive Xbox Lunar New Year Sale that's ongoing right now, we've got a very interesting Xbox "Indie Selects Anniversary" Sale that's just gone live! You'll find discounts on some great 2024 titles in here, including the beloved GOTY...
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- Deals
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News MLB The Show 25 Is Surprisingly Not Coming To Xbox Game Pass This Year
For the first time in the series' Xbox history
Sony has unveiled the latest entry in the beloved MLB The Show series today, and the surprising reveal from an Xbox perspective is that MLB The Show 25 will not be part of Xbox Game Pass when it launches on March 18, 2025. The company simply says that the game "will not be on platform subscription...
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- Xbox Series X
- Xbox Series S
News Xbox Appears To Have Mistakenly Teased World Of Warcraft For Console
Update: Xbox says the "Game Pass" mention was incorrect
We hate to quell anyone's excitement around World of Warcraft potentially coming to console, but if you end up seeing a newsletter that suggests its on its way at some point, we're assuming it's a mistake on Xbox's part. You can see an example of the email that's being sent out to Xbox fans...
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News Xbox Has 'Right Approach' To Exclusives & PlayStation May Follow, Suggests Ori Dev
"Not supporting all these devices makes no sense"
There's obviously been a whole lot of discussion surrounding Phil Spencer's comments about Xbox exclusives this week, and how essentially there's no red line anymore about which games could appear on other platforms as well. We've seen mixed opinions on this, but someone who is definitely in favour...
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- Exclusives
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- Ori
- Moon Studios
