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Random Redfall Players Are Encountering Some Hilarious Glitches On Xbox
Vampires love a good T-pose
Redfall has just hit Xbox Game Pass this week, and admittedly, it hasn't released in the best state - with Xbox and PC players encountering crashes, bugs and all sorts of glitches so far. If you've not run into anything like this yourself just yet, here's a look at what you've potentially been missing out on. Some common...
Random Xbox Reminds Us Of The Time The Series X Was Caught Vaping
"Please do not blow vape smoke into your Xbox Series X"
The release of the Xbox Series X (and S) sparked all kinds of news stories back on November 10th, 2020, but one of the stories that we definitely didn't see coming was that the console was emitting large amounts of smoke out of its vent. This is something that drew a massive amount of...
Random Xbox Teams Up With Pringles To Create 'Suspicious Stew' Flavour
Sounds... tasty?
Minecraft Legends is about to launch on Xbox Game Pass, and that seems to have inspired the Pringles folks to develop a brand new flavour for its popular salty snack range. Yep, 'Suspicious Stew' flavoured Pringles are now a thing - plucked straight from the Minecraft universe (we cannot confirm nor deny whether Pringles are cannon...
News Xbox Fan Wins 'Game Pass For Life', But Shockingly Declines The Prize
"I wish the prize wasn’t for life..."
Every now and again, we see a competition cropping up as part of Microsoft Rewards that allows the winner to claim a "Lifetime Membership" to Xbox Game Pass - a prize which ultimately lasts for around 40 years. Earlier this week, a recent winner of this prize took to the
News Xbox Is Bringing Nine Bethesda Games To PlayStation Plus This Month
Interesting move
If you're a regular reader of our sister site Push Square, you may have noticed that 16 games were announced for the April 2023 PlayStation Plus lineup today, and nine of them are owned by Microsoft! Yes, a whole batch of Bethesda titles are being added to the Xbox Game Pass rival service, including the likes of DOOM Eternal,...
News Xbox Gets Tagged As Dino Crisis-Inspired Game Searches For A Publisher
"Please Xbox, look at this game"
This is a little bit of a random one, but we thought it was interesting anyway! Over the weekend a game called Primal Omen was getting a lot of attention on social media, described as a "modern survival horror game with Dinosaurs made by industry veterans". As you can see in the tweet below, the inspirations are...
Random What Happened To This Controller? Xbox Fans Are Trying To Figure It Out
"What could this be?"
If you sometimes find yourself browsing the various Xbox subreddits, you may have noticed a post that was getting a lot of attention over the weekend showing an Xbox Elite controller that had developed a very strange pattern. The person who uploaded the photo simply asked the question of "what could this be?", which ultimately...
Random Xbox's Phil Spencer Finds The Humour In Ridiculous Call Of Duty Meme
"Ok, that's pretty good"
We've seen Microsoft handing out a lot of 10-year deals to guarantee Activision Blizzard games (and particularly Call of Duty) on a variety of platforms in the future, so unsurprisingly there are plenty of memes cropping up! One of those memes actually caught the attention of Xbox boss Phil Spencer earlier this week, when...
News Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Achieves His Second 100% Completion Of 2023
We're not even three months in!
We all know that the Head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, is a massive gamer in his spare time, but it's very rare that he achieves a full completion when it comes to achievements - before this year, the last time he did it was back in 2018. That all changed a few weeks ago when Spencer finished off every single achievement...
Random The New 'Oreo Xbox Series S' Looks Absolutely Crazy In Person
You might be able to win one!
Oreo and Xbox are in the middle of a pretty busy partnership at the moment, and one of the prizes they're giving away to lucky Xbox fans is a custom Xbox Series S that looks absolutely ridiculous in person! The standard promo pic doesn't really give much away, but then when you see the unboxing images, it becomes clear...
News Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Achieves His First 100% Completion Of 2023
It's actually his first since 2018!
Phil Spencer, the Head of Xbox, conjured up quite a bit of attention over the weekend as he revealed that he'd just completed every single achievement in Vampire Survivors to date - his first 100% completion of 2023. At present, there are 162 achievements in Vampire Survivors if you include the Legacy of the...
Random The Xbox Walkman Is Real, And It Actually Plays Cassette Tapes
But of course you can't buy one
Update: If you're in the UK, a brand-new competition has opened up to win one of these via Twitter! Original story: Back in December, Xbox DACH generated a bit of attention by running a competition to win an Xbox Walkman based on the Xbox Series S, and the device is now slowly starting to go viral on social media...
News 'The Last Of Us' Ads Have Started Appearing On Xbox This Week
Hey, it's free real estate
HBO's 'The Last of Us' TV show is proving incredibly popular right now, as PlayStation brings its exclusive post-apocalyptic game series to the TV network. While we can't play the games themselves on Xbox, we can of course watch the show there, and Microsoft & HBO seem to be taking advantage of that fact. Adverts for...
Random Prince Harry Makes Headlines With Story About Diana Buying Him An Xbox
He says he has "no idea if it's true", and it can't be!
It's not often we find ourselves talking about Prince Harry and Xbox in the same sentence, but here we are! The British royal family member has published his memoir (called "Spare") this week, and he's making some headlines in the UK for a comment about receiving an Xbox in the late 90s. As...
Random Xbox & Bethesda Respond To Amazing Skyrim Creation In Halo Infinite
We kneed this
As if we all needed another excuse to play some form of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, a Halo Infinite player has now built the city of Whiterun directly in forge mode - and both Xbox and Bethesda have jokingly responded. Bethesda popped up with this pun first, relating to one of the Skyrim city's most notorious citizens. A few hours...
Random Halo Infinite Forge Mode Is Home To Some Wild 'Mario' Mashups
Mongoose Kart
Halo Infinite Forge mode finally arrived earlier this year, with 343 Industries delivering the series' most comprehensive set of custom game tools yet. While the mode has already enabled plenty of classic Halo content, like maps from previous games in the series, we weren't ready for what some of the community has started to come up...
Random High On Life Includes The Full Versions Of Four Classic Movies
From the 70s, 80s and 90s
If you've been playing High on Life on Xbox Game Pass this week, you may have noticed that the game includes some real-world movie content — in fact, it actually includes four feature-length films from the 70s, 80s and 90s! The one that's getting the most attention right now is Tammy and the T-Rex, which is a 1994 sci-fi...
Random Kid Gets Arrested After Invading Game Awards 2022 & Ranting About Bill Clinton
This was a bizarre moment
If you were watching The Game Awards 2022 last night, you may have noticed a bizarre moment at the end of the show in which an intruder made their way onto the stage and proceeded to talk about Bill Clinton. There was a bit of confusion at the time about who the person was and whether they were supposed to be part of the...
Random Xbox Is Now Selling Mini 'Hoodies' For Its Wireless Controllers
Snug
We've seen some weird and wonderful gaming merch over the years, but Microsoft might have just created the strangest Xbox accessory yet. In a surprising turn of events this week, the company has begun selling an incredibly useful Xbox accessory: mini hoodies for your controllers! Is that much-loved special edition pad of yours getting cold...
News Phil Spencer Shares Message With Xbox Fans For Thanksgiving 2022
"I just wanted to say thank you"
If you're celebrating it today, then happy Thanksgiving! As you may have noticed, team Xbox has been very quiet over the past 24 hours (we haven't even had any Free Play Days titles), and that's because Thanksgiving is taking priority. However, we have seen a few messages from various Xbox employees marking the...
News Mysterious 43GB Warner Bros. Game Discovered On The Xbox Store
Suicide Squad? Wonder Woman? Or something else?
We often find ourselves reporting on the Twitter account Aggiornamenti Lumia here at Pure Xbox, which scans the Microsoft Store for listings that aren't yet public, and it's found something mysterious related to Warner Bros. Games. A new title has been spotted on the Xbox Store under the codename of...
Random Xbox's Boss Has Set Up A Mastodon Account, Just In Case...
He's still active on Twitter, for now
One of the major ways Xbox communicates with fans is via the social media website Twitter. Now, as you might have heard, there's been some drama unfolding since the billionaire Elon Musk acquired the platform for roughly $44 billion. It seems many individuals are worried about the future of Twitter, and are now...
Random Xbox Accidentally Lowers Forza Horizon Bundle From $200 To Less Than $1
It's been selling at a 99% discount!
Update: Microsoft has now decided to refund and revoke this deal for anyone who took advantage. Original story: There's been a lot of excitement surrounding the Xbox Black Friday Sale 2022 over the past few hours, and Microsoft has definitely gone crazy with the sheer number of discounts this year, but...
Random Master Chief Voice Actor Teases Fans At Halo World Championship 2022
With Cortana also in attendance
Last weekend at the Halo World Championship finals, the voice of Master Chief, Steve Downes, got up to some mischief, teasing fans while they took pictures with a lifesize Spartan-117 statue. The official Halo YouTube and social channels have uploaded the short sketch, which features a guest cameo from Jen Taylor...
Random 'Sexy' Yakuza Screenshot Got Me Banned, Says Xbox User
"It's just a goofy picture..."
Have you ever been banned for uploading an "inappropriate" screenshot to Xbox Live? It appears to have happened on more than a few occasions, and this latest example comes courtesy of the brilliant Yakuza Kiwami 2. Taking to the Xbox Reddit earlier this week, a user by the name of ForFrayed revealed that their "goofy"...
Random Xbox Goes Viral With 'Masterful Tweet' About Social Media Trolls
"They won't stop repeating the same thing..."
We all know how popular Xbox can be on social media, and the brand has absolutely taken over Twitter over the past few hours with a viral PlayStation-based tweet that racked up 30,000 likes within just an hour. The tweet pokes fun at social media trolls who are often seen commenting on Xbox's posts that...
Random This New Nvidia Graphics Card Is 'Bigger' Than Xbox Series S
Big GPU or tiny console?
Ever since we first set eyes on Xbox Series S, we've been flabbergasted by how small the system is! Seriously, we know the Xbox Series X is large by normal console standards, but that doesn't take away from how tiny Microsoft's all-digital system actually proves. And yet, this new revelation doing the rounds on Twitter has...
Random Of Course Phil Spencer Has Been Playing Grounded
Version 1.0 launched last week
One person who has been a huge fan of Obsidian's latest release, Grounded, since the beginning of its existence back in 2020 is the Head of Xbox - Phil Spencer. Last week, Version 1.0 was officially released. Spencer mentioned at the time how he was "really proud" of the small and focused team at the studio that had...
Random Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Appears In Xbox Game Pass Library
Half baked
Okay, this isn't something we thought we'd see today, but here we are! A Reddit user spotted Ben & Jerry's appearing as an Xbox Game Pass title, yes, the ice cream brand. The app wasn't titled as such, but all the media related to Ben & Jerry's ice cream. After coming across the post we thought we best check for ourselves, and lo...
Random The Nostalgia Is Real For Doritos Crash Course On Xbox 360
"This game walked so Fall Guys could run"
Remember Doritos Crash Course? This was a free game released as part of the Xbox Live Arcade library on Xbox 360 in late 2010, and it ended up proving a massive hit, even going on to receive a sequel in the form of Crash Course 2. Every now and then, we see small pockets of Xbox fans popping up and talking...
News Fall Guys Goes Viral On Twitter With 'Big Surprise' For All Players
Free in your inventory right now
Fall Guys has been a massive hit since it arrived on Xbox last month as a free-to-play game, and if you're interested in adding a free skin to your collection, you'll be glad to know that all players have been treated to an extra special one. This was teased on Twitter yesterday with a very suggestive picture,...
Random Someone Made A Functioning Halo Rocket Launcher In Real Life
And fired it across a lake, because why not
You know when you pull off the perfect move in a video game and think 'that'd be badass to do in real life'? Well, there's not much that's as badass as landing the perfect rocket launcher shot in Halo, and someone's now taken it upon themselves to do just that in real life (minus the splattered enemies, of...
Random This Might Be The Most Realistic Xbox Cake We've Ever Seen
"Would I have fooled you with this cake?"
We've seen a few Xbox cakes in our time — including the official Xbox controller design — but this is on another level entirely! Created by Sugar High Score, it seems to be a stack of Xbox games, but it's actually a delicious-looking cake! You can watch the YouTuber explaining how she made this cake in...
Random There's A Version Of Halo With Multiplayer For Nintendo 3DS
It's a "Halo style Quake mod"
You've seen Halo games on Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. Maybe you've played one or two on PC, especially since Halo: Master Chief Collection arrived on the platform in 2019. However, you've probably not seen Halo on Nintendo 3DS, but did you know that it does exist? Reddit user deliciousprisms recently...
Random This Xbox App Helps You Unwind With Relaxing Background Sounds
Aaaand chill
Ever looked at your mahoosive list of Xbox games and apps and thought, 'I really want to listen to the sound of a roaring fireplace'? Yeah, us too when things get stressful (we're looking at you, Elden Ring) and now, we might all be in luck thanks to an app called 'Ambie White Noise' that's been brought to our attention. 'Ambie' is a...
News YouTuber Creates World's Largest Xbox Series X, Sets Guinness World Record
And yes, it actually works!
How crazy is this?! YouTuber Michael Pick now holds the Guinness World Record for the "Largest Xbox Console", which he created in partnership with fellow content creator ZHC, and the amazing part is that it's actually fully functional. Michael goes into detail about the process of building it in the YouTube video above,...
Random YouTuber Plays Xbox Series S Using The Nintendo Power Glove
And it works! Sort of
This isn't something you see every day, folks. YouTube channel 'Will It Work?' has decided to attempt a bit of a different setup with their Xbox Series S. Rather than using a traditional controller to tackle Halo Infinite and Shredders, they've gone for, yep, a Nintendo Power Glove. This 80's accessory is famous to this day...
Random Xbox Cloud Gaming Cameos In New Disney+ Series Ms. Marvel
Now how about some Marvel exclusives?
We've seen Xbox and Microsoft team up with the Marvel universe before to release a custom Xbox, and now it appears Xbox's Cloud Gaming service has featured in the second episode of the Disney+ series Ms. Marvel. While we can't show you a full scene, you can see a phone attached to an Xbox Series X|S controller...
Random Xbox's Major Nelson Reflects On The Time Reggie Signed His Nintendo DS
"You and I are looking a little bit younger there"
On the latest Xbox Podcast, Major Nelson sat down with former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé. Reggie appeared on the show to promote his new book, Disrupting the Game - discussing his rise to the top of Nintendo and also his time within the video game industry. One story that came...
News Signed Poster Of Scalebound, The Cancelled Xbox Exclusive, Shows Up At Yard Sale
And Zion from Nintendo Life bought it!
We've talked a lot about the cancelled Xbox exclusive Scalebound here at Pure Xbox in the past, but one of the stories we didn't expect to share was that of a signed poster from the development team randomly showing up at a yard sale. That's exactly what happened this past weekend, as our Nintendo Life friend...
News New Unreal Engine 5 Video Makes It Hard To Choo-Choo Choose Between Graphics And Reality
The future is photo-realistic
A YouTube video showing off some very fancy Unreal Engine 5 tech demo work is currently doing the rounds online and, let us tell you, our minds are completely blown by this one. The video, which is the work of 3D environmental artist Lorenzo Drago, shows a recreation of Etchū-Daimon Station train station in Toyama,...
News Game Dev Receives Abuse And Apparent Death Threat After Trek To Yomi Tweet
Game Pass comment causes anger on social media
A game developer has apparently received a death threat, alongside lots more abuse, after a tweet he made a few days ago suggesting Flying Wild Hog's Trek To Yomi will have been much more successful on Xbox Game Pass than it would have as part of any PSN sale. As reported by GFinity, the developer,...
News Fortnite Cheat Forced To Pay Up And Apologize After Epic Lawsuit
All damages to be donated to charity
An Australian Fortnite player who was taken to court by Epic Games for selling "compromised" game accounts, alongside other cheat items, has been forced to apologise publicly to the company, had his account-selling racket shut down and will stump up substantial damages which Epic says it will donate to charity...
News Halo TV Series Is Officially "A Global Hit" According To Paramount+
Globally doing the business, in America
Paramount+'s Halo TV series has officially been hailed as "a huge global hit" by the company's CEO Bob Bakish. Yes, as reported by GameSpot, and according to an earnings-related press release from Paramount+, the show has hit the ground running, helping the network continue a strong recent run of form;...
News Sleeping Dogs Gets New R18+ Rating In Australia
Wei got excited
Sleeping Dogs is still, as far as we're concerned, one of the very best GTA-style open world experiences available on consoles, and so you can forgive us if we get slightly over-excited about the game receiving a new R18+ rating over on the Australian Classification website. Yes, as reported by Kotaku Australia, Square Enix's action...
Random 343 Has Actually Added Microsoft's Clippy To Halo Infinite
The MS Office assistant is ready for battle
Halo Infinite Season 2 multiplayer has dropped and there's a whole lot of information to unpack. There are also plenty of surprises and one that's caught the attention of social media is the inclusion of Clippy (also known as 'Clippit') the Microsoft Office personal assistant. Yep, after a very relaxed...
Random This Working Fisher Price Xbox Controller Has Gone Viral
It still even makes the annoying sounds
Well, this is absolutely incredible. The self-proclaimed "builder of bizarre controllers" Rudeism has taken to Twitter to show off his latest invention - a working Fisher Price Xbox controller. Yes, this thing can somehow actually play games! Not only that, but the controller still features all the "annoying"...
Random GTA 5 For Xbox Series X Has A Weird Physical Case Design
New artwork style
GTA 5 arrived on next-gen consoles last month, well, digitally at least. The physical launch came a month or so later, and well, those copies are now out in the wild - and they look a little odd. At first glance, it appears as though Xbox is testing a new style of box art, with a pretty big border surrounding the game's artwork...
Random These Official Xbox PC Key Caps Look Absolutely Awesome
No cap
We're suckers for cool little bits of Xbox merch here at PX, especially when they include some of our favourite Xbox franchises. That means that we absolutely need these Game Pass key caps spotted over on Twitter. YouTuber Stodeh shared these awesome keyboard caps that are all based on Xbox franchises, first and third party. We've got a...
Random There's A Hilariously Bad Mario Game On The Xbox Store
The adventures of Super marioner continue!
Update: Looks like it's been taken down from the Xbox Store already! It was fun while it lasted... Original story: The beauty of the Xbox Creators Collection program is that anyone can publish a game on the Microsoft Store (within reason), and that's why you sometimes get some hilariously ridiculous ones...
