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Random Xbox Promotes Game Pass With A Ridiculously Catchy Music Video
Be warned, it'll get stuck in your head
We're not sure anything can top the Xbox All Access music video featuring "R&B sensation" All-4-One that Xbox dropped back in July, but the marketing team is back again anyway with another comical music video, this time promoting Xbox Game Pass with a ridiculously catchy tune and even on-screen lyrics so...
Random Halo's Legendary Multiplayer Announcer Does Voice Lines From Destiny 2
Just imagine a crossover
Although Bungie moved on from the Halo series more than a decade ago, plenty of fans still like to reminisce. One individual who has been around since the series' inception is the voice actor Jeff Steitzer - Halo's famous multiplayer announcer. He worked with Bungie back in the day, but what would it be like if he was...
News Halo's Voice Actors Were Nearly Recast On Two Separate Occasions
"It almost slipped away from me"
The voice of Halo's Master Chief, Steve Downes, has appeared as part of a brand-new episode of the Gameplay podcast today, and as part of it, he's revealed that Halo's voice actors were almost recast on two separate occasions. The first was during the Bungie days, where following the success of the original Halo:...
Random Xbox Fans Want Microsoft To Add Clippy AI To Halo Infinite
Halo's Twitter account seems open to the idea...
With Xbox lately, a lot of things have been born out of a meme...Craig the Brute, a fully functioning Xbox mini fridge - so what's next? Video game accessory maker Astro Gaming shared the following mock-up of a Halo Infinite multiplayer avatar holding a rather interesting personal AI -
Random Uh-Oh, Halo Infinite's Destructible Fruit Has Become A Bit Of A Talking Point
Attention to detail or just nitpicking?
The first Halo Infinite Multiplayer Technical Preview has officially ended, and while many participants seem to be quite taken with it (including us here at Pure Xbox) there are some more, let's say...controversial takes. One video, in particular, on the Halo subeddit highlights how the destruc
Random Xbox Partners With Krispy Kreme To Create 'The Nexus Level Doughnut'
"Leveling up the gaming and doughnut experience"
Doughnut specialist Krispy Kreme has officially partnered with Xbox in the UK in order to "level up the gaming and doughnut experience", complete with a limited edition doughnut available to purchase throughout August. It's called "The Nexus Level Doughnut", featuring "irresistible light and fluffy...
Random Tim Schafer Is Still Battling To Get All The Achievements In Brutal Legend
"I’ll do it, I’m sure. After 50 years I’ll do it"
You'd think that being the creator of a game would give you all the tips and tricks for achieving the full 1000 Gamerscore, but Tim Schafer doesn't appear to be so lucky, and is still finding it challenging to gather all the achievements over a decade later in Brutal Legend for Xbox 360...
Random Someone Decided To Play Xbox Game Pass On A Smartwatch
Thanks, Project xCloud
A bit like the saying "will it run DOOM?", there are now Xbox fans out there wondering what sort of odd devices they can get Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming and Xbox Game Pass services running on. One individual, in particular, has gone to the extent of using a web browser on an Android smartwatch to access the Xbox Game Pass...
Random Team Xbox Wants To Know The First Xbox Game You Ever Played
Halo or something else?
If you've got a Twitter account, Xbox wants to know what the first Xbox game you ever played was. Perhaps you played Halo on the original Xbox, or first joined the Xbox generation during the 360 generation - whatever Xbox game it is that you first played, let them know and the official account might share it in its official...
Random DJ Khaled Appears To Confuse Xbox Series S With A Speaker
"What is this, a speaker?"
American musician DJ Khaled has been hitting the headlines for a bizarre reason in the last 24 hours, as he posted a video to his Instagram highlighting a gift he received from Xbox, appearing to confuse the Series S with a speaker. The gift was the Space Jam: A New Legacy bundle various influencers have obtained...
Random Xbox Responds To 'PS5 Is Better' Comments On Social Media
"The best console is the one you enjoy playing"
If you've ever viewed a comment below one of the official Xbox social account posts on either Twitter or Facebook, you might have seen the occasional reply suggesting certain other consoles are better. While it's mostly just fans of these other systems trolling, the company (or at least the person who...
Random Happy Gilmore Was Almost Turned Into An Original Xbox Game
"It should have been greenlit"
Think of all the games we've potentially missed out on over the years. A lot of them will never come to light, but courtesy of Digital Eclipse studio head Mike Mika, we know that a Happy Gilmore game for Xbox was one of them. Back in the day, Mike was part of a team at Digital Eclipse who pitched the idea as a "hybrid...
News Phil Spencer Finally Reveals Why He Has A Nintendo Switch On His Shelf
Asking the important questions
A couple of months ago, the Nintendo Switch was hitting the headlines for a bizarre reason, as Xbox boss Phil Spencer (and others in the Xbox team) seemed to be showing it off in certain interviews and events. While it remains to be seen whether there was any hidden intent behind it, Spencer has revealed the Switch on...
Random Incredibly, An Xbox 360 Copy Of Skyrim Just Sold For $600
Red Dead Redemption also sold for $384
Over the past few days you may have seen news of games such as Super Mario 64 selling for $1.56million, and while not as impressive, an Xbox 360 copy of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim sold for $600 in the same auction.
News Telltale's The Walking Dead Fans Aren't Happy With Clementine's First Comic Appearance
"Completely destroyed Clementine’s character"
FYI: We've tried to avoid spoilers, but if you're still playing TWD, maybe ignore this story to be safe! It's been a couple of years since Skybound wrapped up the conclusion to Telltale's The Walking Dead in the gaming world, but now fan-favourite character Clementine has made her debut in a new...
Random American Girl's New 'Xbox Gaming Set' Includes A Fake Series X And Controllers
The Series X even makes sounds!
Know someone who absolutely loves playing with dolls, and is also a big Xbox fan? This is the perfect match, as American Girl has partnered with Xbox to deliver a brand-new "Xbox Gaming Set" centred around the Xbox Series X. This set, which retails for $60 USD, comes with a fake Xbox Series X console, a fuzzy blue...
Random Xbox Turned Its All-4-One Music Video Into An Incredible Care Package
Talk about going the extra mile
If you were keeping track earlier this week, you likely saw that Xbox dropped an insane 90s music video to promote the Xbox All Access program, performed by none other than "90s R&B sensation" All-4-One. It was brilliant, quickly going viral across the web, and Xbox followed this up by sending out a variety of...
Random The Xbox Kinect Is Being Used To Help Run A Grocery Warehouse
It's far from useless, even in 2021
As the years have gone on, the Xbox Kinect has sadly become something of a paperweight for many console owners, especially since the Series X and S don't support it. Visit your local second-hand shop and you can often find them piled up looking sad in the corner. Yet, despite never truly catching on, there's no...
Random Xbox Sends Space Jam: A New Legacy Gift Package To Influencers
Complete with a LeBron James action figure!
It might have slipped to the back of your mind that Xbox is releasing three Space Jam: A New Legacy controllers tomorrow, July 8, and Xbox has been sending them to influencers in an elaborate gift package over the past week. The likes of Rand Al Thor 19 and RayNarvaezJr have been showing off their bundles...
Random Xbox Challenges YouTuber To Build Wearable 'Baseball Cannon'
To celebrate MLB The Show 21 on Game Pass
In a bit of a random partnership, Xbox Game Pass has sponsored a new video from popular YouTuber Hacksmith Industries, challenging them to create a wearable baseball pitching machine to celebrate MLB The Show 21. The channel, which has over 12 million subscribers, details the process of making the...
Random Xbox Head Phil Spencer Applauds Nintendo President's Mario Golf Skills
"I know you are a mean Mario Golf player"
Here's a random little story to finish the week off! Head of Xbox Phil Spencer was spotted interacting with Nintendo president Doug Bowser on Twitter this past Friday, and the topic centred around Mario Golf: Super Rush. This interaction arrived on the same day as the game's release, with Phil Spencer...
News The Xbox Series X Mini Fridge Is Already Proving Incredibly Popular
Let's hope they make enough of them
Xbox and Bethesda closed their E3 2021 Showcase this year with a first look at the official Xbox Series X mini fridge, which is set to arrive this Holiday. And judging by the reaction, they're going to absolutely fly off the shelves. Incredibly, the trailer for this fridge has more views than any single video...
Random We'd Love To Get Our Hands On This Halo Xbox Series X
Sadly, it's not real
It's been a while since we last shared any creations from the ever-popular Xbox Pope on Twitter (these days just known as 'Pope'), but ahead of E3 2021, they've decided to "get the hype train going" with this excellent Halo Xbox Series X. Unfortunately, this is purely a concept and not a real console, although Pope has...
Random A Gears Of War 3 PS3 Prototype Has Been Released Online
Requires a debug unit to run
Last May, leaked footage of Gears of War 3 running on a PlayStation 3 devkit appeared online. At the time, Epic Games noted how it had been used in Unreal Engine 3 for internal testing purposes and was never an "actual product work". Now, the same prototype version (dated 19th May 2011) has been uploaded to the...
Random Someone Used Skate 3 To Create A Rube Goldberg Machine
"The culmination of 13 years of play and dedication"
It's not very often that we post random user-created videos from games, but this is definitely worth an exception! Skate 3 player Skate3Tommy has taken to the web to share this incredible Rube Goldberg creation. It shows him using a concrete ball to set off a chain reaction featuring big pipes,...
Video Incredibly, It's Possible To Use The Xbox Series X On A Nintendo DS
Via a random Japanese accessory
How crazy is this?! YouTube channel The Retro Future has discovered there's actually a way of playing the Xbox Series X on the very original Nintendo DS, made possible by the existence of a random Japanese accessory. The accessory is a Nintendo DS TV Tuner which doesn't work as intended anymore (at least in the UK)...
Random We're Loving This Official DOOM & Star Wars Crossover Art
This is the slay
Happy Star Wars Day, and May the 4th be with you! Today is the day to celebrate all things Star Wars, and even Bethesda has been getting in on the fun with this amazing official DOOM / Star Wars crossover art! The company posted this over on its Twitter account earlier today, and it quickly racked up thousands of likes on the...
Random Oh No, There's A Fake Animal Crossing Game On The Microsoft Store
"We have Animal Crossing at home!" Animal Crossing at home...
Somebody get Tom Nook on the phone, as this blatant Animal Crossing rip off on the Microsoft Store will not be winning any awards of subtlety. How this slipped through the cracks is beyond us, but given how the game's promotional art and title are literal replicas of Nintendo's Animal...
Random This Xbox Series X Plant Pot Is Unbe-Leaf-Able
You grow girl!
Aloe there! Okay, we'll stop with the puns now. Many criticised the Xbox Series X's basic design when it was first revealed, but the sheer creativity people have made out of a box shaped console has been staggering. Xbox Canada on Twitter has even got in the fun, sharing an image of a plant pot that acts as a replica Series X...
Random Mamma Mia! We're Loving This Sea Of Thieves & Fallout Artwork
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
We're all well aware the Xbox social media team is very good at generating a buzz, and that's exactly what happened last night when the team posted this brilliant rendition of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody on Twitter. Of course, instead of the Queen members, the folks at Xbox swapped them with two characters...
Random Yes, You Can Actually Buy This Tom & Jerry Xbox Series X Skin
Looking a little square there, Tom
Poor Tom has been on the receiving end of some abuse throughout the history of Tom & Jerry. Sure he's constantly trying to capture Jerry, but can the poor cat just not catch a break? Over the years he's been turned into an assortment of shapes, including a square, so obviously, an Xbox Series X skin has been...
Random Here's Zelda: Twilight Princess Running On Xbox Series X
Thanks, Dev Mode
We've heard (and seen) how the Xbox Series X|S is great with emulation and now to continue this trend, Twitter user @GrimSimm has shared footage of the 2006 Wii title The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess in action on Microsoft's most powerful home console. Unsurprisingly, this was achieved with the console's development mode -...
Random Tut Tut, Phil Spencer Has Been Playing Octopath Traveler During His Meetings
Ommmm, I'm telling!
We all know Phil Spencer loves his games. When he's not working he can often be found hitting up Destiny 2 with other Xbox fans, or even playing it while sitting in the airport. Well, Mr. Spencer has really dropped himself in it now, as he's admitted (again) he's been play
Random GTA V Player Figures Out The Exact Number Of Kills Needed To Complete The Game
It's less than you might think
Ever wondered what the minimum amount of kills needed to complete Grand Theft Auto V is? Probably not, but that doesn't make these facts any less interesting, as one player has reportedly discovered the number! We've all pretended to follow the rules in the GTA series, but never to this extent. In a recent Reddit...
Random This Original Xbox 360 Kiosk Disc Is A Blast From The Past
It even uses the Blades dash!
Remember the launch of the Xbox 360 back in 2005? At the time, in-store retailers were using something called a Kiosk Demo Disc to advertise the system, and it's a pretty crazy nostalgia trip looking at it in 2021! Full credit for the video above goes to Digiex on YouTube, who provides an excellent look at this 2005...
Random Former Halo Composer And His Dog Share TikTok Collaboration Of The Halo Theme
Good doggo!
Marty O'Donnell worked on the Halo series during the Bungie days, creating some of the iconic tunes we all know and love today. The legendary composer has now started his own TikTok channel, where he's shared a nostalgic rendition of the classic theme. Not only did O'Donnell play the Halo theme on his piano, but he was also joined by...
Random Microsoft Might Be Teasing An Xbox, McDonald's And Spotify Collab
Games, food and music
Yesterday, the official Microsoft Twitter account published a tweet addressed to Xbox and McDonald's - with Spotify attached, asking if they were wanting to catch up soon. It comes across as a joke and also signs off as the "person" who runs the Microsoft account, but knowing Microsoft and Xbox, it could potentially be another...
Random Lucky Xbox Fan Shows Off His MS Rewards Competition Prizes
Including a lifetime sub to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
Did you know that there's such a thing as an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate lifetime membership? It's true, and Reddit user Ryreco is the proof, who took to the platform to show off his prizes from the 2020 Chief Xbox Officer sweepstakes. Ryreco won the sweepstakes by entering as part of Microsoft...
News Xbox Promises To Make Mini Fridges After Winning Twitter Contest
Update: After over 500,000 votes, Xbox won!
Update: It's happening! After a very close battle, Xbox came out on top versus Skittles with 50.5% of the vote, with well over 500,000 votes collected in all. In response, Xbox's Aaron Greenberg promised to make the mini fridges a reality: "Thanks to everyone who voted, this was down to the wire and...
Random No, Halo Infinite Hasn't Been Delayed Again
It's April Fools, Chief
If someone told you Halo Infinite had been delayed again, you would probably think it was a joke, right? Of course, you would. It's already been delayed and as you might recall that was serious news. Despite all the warning signs that another delay could easily be fake, video game website
Random Xbox Teams Up To Create A 'Power Your Dreams' Snowboard
Power the slopes
The Xbox Series X "Power Your Dreams" slogan gets about quite a lot these days, but its latest use may be the coolest use yet, as it's been used to design a snowboard. In collaboration with Xbox and CAPiTA, a snowboard manufacturer, the unique board has been made and looks beautiful. Probably not enough to convince us to take up...
Random Xbox Controller Disconnects Lead To Weird Messages In Undertale
That's not creepy at all...
Toby Fox's cult-hit RPG Undertale got a surprise release on Xbox Game Pass earlier this week. While it's mostly the same game, it's also got a slot machine in it, which has bumped up the game's age rating. That's not all, though. Now that Xbox players have had more time with this release, many have discovered some funny...
Random Xbox Is Up For An Award For The 'Best Use Of A Meme'
All thanks to the Xbox Series S leak
Xbox had a huge year in 2020, but one of its biggest moments didn't come directly from the company. Back in September, the Xbox Series S leaked for the world to see. How did Xbox react? With a good old meme. Due to the incredible interaction and quick thinking, Xbox is up for a "Best Use Of A Meme" award at The...
News Want An Xbox Series X Mini Fridge? You Might Be Able To Win One
But only in the US, unfortunately
Microsoft has today pulled back the curtain on a partnership with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson on the launch of the ZOA Energy line of energy drinks, which has seen various influencers receive custom Xbox Series X mini fridges. Unfortunately, these mini fridges aren't going to be made available for sale, but Microsoft...
News Microsoft & The Rock Are Giving Away Xbox Series X Mini Fridges
The meme is back!
Update: This promotion has now officially been revealed, as Xbox and Dwayne Johnson have teamed up to "Bring ZOA Energy to Gamers," with The Rock introducing the "healthy warrior energy drink, ZOA Energy." In regards to the fridges, fans will be given a chance to win "their very-own customized ZOA Xbox Package" through a Microsoft...
Random Yes, Phil Spencer Does Stream Xbox Games While Waiting For Planes
Of course he's playing Destiny 2
It's always nice when a company representative is a legitimate fan of what they're employed to praise every day of the week, and one of the best examples of this just might be the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer. We've heard before how he'll often use meetings as an excuse to play games, and even takes any chance he can...
Random Power Your Dreams With This Todd Howard Xbox Packaging
If only it was real
Now that Bethesda is operating under Microsoft, there are a lot of fans wondering what might come next. Apart from 20 Bethesda titles coming to Xbox Game Pass today, the possibilities are pretty much unlimited. Xbox's very own Aaron Greenberg decided to kick things off by sharing an image of the Xbox Series X packaging with the...
News Share The Love With A New 'Bethesda Joins Xbox' Twitter Emoji
#BethesdaJoinsXbox
Yesterday we finally got confirmation that Bethesda had joined Xbox Game Studios, after what seemed like an eternity of waiting. One small detail that went unnoticed to many following the announcement was a specific emoji available on Twitter alongside using the hashtag #BethesdaJoinsXbox. As spotted by Video Games Chronicle, the...
Random Kid Calls 911 Because Mum Changed Their Xbox Password
"Yes, this happened"
You get some weird stories in the world of Xbox sometimes, and this is one of them! Halton Police in Canada has taken to Twitter to warn young Xbox fans not to call 911 just because their mum changes their Xbox password. And in case you're in any doubt, yes - this actually happened. No further details were provided about the...
Random Xbox Fan Shares Concept For Improved Achievements Layout
What do you think of the design?
Achievements have been a big deal for many Xbox fans ever since the system was introduced with the Xbox 360 all the way back in 2005, but some Xbox users aren't currently too thrilled with the way they're presented in 2021. As a result, Xbox fan Babu1993 has taken to Reddit to share his concept for an improved...
