Tag: Exclusives
Xbox console exclusive games you can enjoy in 2025
What are the best Xbox exclusives you can play in 2025? The Xbox ecosystem has been home to some truly stellar Xbox exclusives over the years, top-notch titles that you'll only find on Microsoft's family of consoles and PC. What's more, the vast majority of these titles are now available via Xbox...
News Reporter Suggests Console Exclusives Will Soon Be 'Obsolete', Especially For Third-Party Devs
Reacting to "fantastic" PC sales for FF7 Rebirth
As we all know by now, Microsoft has well and truly moved into new times with its multiplatform push in recent years; involving Nintendo and Sony systems in its plan to put Xbox games everywhere. While this is proving to be a bold new step for Team Green, it does seem to be a trend that's taking hold...
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...
News Xbox Appears To Be Getting More Ex-PlayStation Exclusives In 2025
Death Stranding has been a clear hit
We've heard a lot this year about Xbox games jumping over to PlayStation, but we've also seen a fair few ex-PlayStation exclusives arriving on Xbox as well - two particularly notable examples being Death Stranding and Genshin Impact. And, according to Windows Central, this trend is set to continue in 2025. The...
News Copa City Dev 'Certainly Interested' In Bringing New Football Game To Xbox Game Pass
Sign it up, Microsoft!
Last week, we published our exclusive interview here at Pure Xbox with the narrative lead behind upcoming football (or "soccer") tycoon game Copa City, and it got us excited about the possibility of an Xbox Game Pass release! We straight-up asked if the "football event simulator" could make its way to Xbox's subscrip
News Here's The Complete List Of Xbox 360 Exclusives Disappearing This July
They'll never (?) be purchasable again
We're getting closer and closer to the end of the Xbox 360 store this July, and when that happens, lots of digital-only Xbox 360 games are set to be permanently delisted - completely inaccessible unless you've already bought them. <related ids="154212"> It's been well documented that around 200...
News PS5 Survey Lists Top 10 'Most Wanted' Xbox Franchises On PlayStation
Based on around 12,000 votes
You may have seen earlier this week that our sister site Push Square began running a survey to discover the top 10 most-wanted Xbox franchises on PS5, with the results being listed in real-time over the past few days. That poll has now come to an end, with around 12,000 votes being cast in all, and it makes for some...
News God Of War Creator Suggests New Exclusive Strategy Could Be 'Desirable' For Xbox
"They don't care about losing console sales if Game Pass grows"
As the discussion rages on about whether Xbox might be planning a new strategy for first-party exclusives in the future, the former God of War director David Jaffe has been debating it quite heavily with his followers on social media. Jaffe has a controversial viewpoint on it as well,...
News Xbox Boss Reiterates Platform Exclusives Will Be Determined On A 'Case-By-Case Basis'
"It's really about giving players choice"
Bethesda's brand-new space exploration RPG Starfield officially launched last week and it really is exclusive to Xbox and PC platforms - there's no definitely no sign of it ever coming to PlayStation or Nintendo. If this has got you wondering about the future of certain Xbox game releases going forward,...
News In One Week's Time, We'll Be Losing This Xbox Exclusive Forever
Game over
The story of CrossfireX is a sad one. At one point, it seemed like the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S exclusive shooter was going to be a major hit on the platform, but a poor launch saw the game crowned the worst Xbox release of 2022 (according to Metacritic), and that was followed up by an apparently rapid loss of players following its...
News Microsoft Causes Confusion With Statement About Sony 'Excluding' Games From Xbox
Is it timed or permanent?
Earlier this week, we pointed out that Xbox fans wanted to know what was going on with Square Enix in 2023, and that article ended up being shared far and wide, creating an entirely new story of its own! Xbox News for Koreans on Twitter responded to the article by sharing a Microsoft response to the
News High On Life Runtime Revealed Ahead Of Xbox Game Pass Launch
As part of our exclusive interview!
Of all the Xbox Game Pass games left to release in 2022, High on Life is definitely the most highly anticipated for us here at Pure Xbox. The game generated massive hype over the summer, and it looks a total blast to play. In our exclusive interview with Mike Fridley (Studio Director, Squanch Games), we asked him...
News High On Life Dev: Xbox Has Been 'An Absolute Dream' To Work With
"Game Pass is a perfect fit for us"
We at Pure Xbox recently had a chance to conduct an exclusive interview with Mike Fridley (Studio Director, Squanch Games) about all things High on Life ahead of its launch this December, and Fridley had some particularly nice things to say about the team's partnership with Xbox throughout the development process...
News Footage Revealed Of 'Long-Lost' Xbox Exclusive That Phil Spencer Was Forced To Cancel
From the studio behind Star Wars: X-Wing
We've been treated to details on a "long-lost" Xbox exclusive courtesy of Axios and Totally Games, and it just so happens that cancelling the game was apparently Phil Spencer's first assignment on the Xbox gaming team. The game was known as Knights of Decayden, but it had a working title of Archipelago, and...
News Xbox Doesn't Want To Turn 'Big Community' PS4, PS5 Games Into Exclusives
They'll remain on other platforms
As a complement to today's massive set of Xbox announcements, we've been treated to a few comments from Head of Xbox Game Studios Matt Booty, who has spoken a little more about plans for exclusives on the Xbox platform. As highlighted by IGN, Booty tried to calm fears about big multi-platform games going exclusive...
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:...
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 Microsoft to Release Limited Edition Star Wars 360 Console with Kinect
Special R2-D2 themed model in the works to coincide with the release of Kinect Star Wars
We've just heard from one of our close sources in the retail sector that Microsoft is prepping a limited edition R2-D2 Xbox 360 console — complete with Kinect sensor — set to launch alongside the forthcoming Kinect Star Wars. According to our reports, the...
