Tag: Reaction
Reaction Like It Or Not, Xbox Has Gone Full Throttle On Multiplatform
It's much bigger than Series X and S
We've known for a good while now that Microsoft wants Xbox to be more than a console, but up to this point in time, its messaging around that pursuit has been quite vague. It's always felt like the company wants to keep its loyal fans happy, while also adapting and growing Xbox as a business, which hasn't always...
Reaction PS5 Pro's Extortionate Price Justifies Xbox's Lack Of A New Console
It's just too costly to make sense
We've already talked a bit today at Pure Xbox about the PS5 Pro that was announced by Sony a couple of hours ago, and as things stand, it seems very unlikely we'll be seeing anything similar from Microsoft in the near future. Some will definitely take that as a negative, but to be honest we can understand why...
Reaction Xbox & Nintendo Continue To Deliver With Major Summer Showcases
What a fantastic pair of events!
With E3 officially going away for good this year, we were afraid that the big summer showcase season would fall a little flat in 2024 - but Xbox and Nintendo had other ideas. With two fantastic livestreams in June, the two platform holders have reminded us that we can still have an exciting showcase season in a...
Reaction Xbox's Push Towards 'Microsoft Gaming' Looks More Drastic Than We First Thought
The price of ever-expanding growth
It's been a wild few years over at Team Xbox, with the brand being marked by vast change since the launch of Xbox Series X and S back in late 2020 - which is starting to feel like a lifetime ago now. Huge acquisitions like that of both Bethesda and Activision Blizzard have massively changed how the team now...
Feature These Six Xbox Games Have Made January A Month To Remember
We've got some GOTY candidates amongst them
January has always typically been a quiet time for new Xbox releases, but last year broke the mould with some major arrivals such as Hi-Fi RUSH and GoldenEye 007, and somehow January 2024 has surpassed expectations once again. Specifically, we want to highlight six games that have all arrived in excellent...
Reaction Looking Back, Xbox Has Had Some Strange GOTY Omissions Over The Years
Or are we just salty about Starfield?
Yesterday, Geoff Keighley & co. unveiled this year's Game of the Year nominees for The Game Awards 2023 - and we noted that Bethesda's brand-new IP Starfield failed to make the GOTY cut, despite being nominated for Best RPG. This GOTY omission has got folks talking (and us thinking) about Xbox's history with...
Reaction Zelda Reviews & Redfall Woes Put The Pressure On Xbox Exclusive Starfield
We need a smooth landing
Well, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom reviews are in and this is quickly becoming a Game of the Year contender already! Sitting at a blistering 96 on Metacritic and 97 on Open Critic, Nintendo's latest Zelda adventure is seemingly one of the greats - an
Reaction Halo Infinite's New Playlist Feels Key To The Game's Future
We're loving these Forge maps!
If there's one core issue that's plagued Halo Infinite pretty much since launch, it's been the severe lack of meaningful post-launch content. The team hasn't delivered any new weapons at all so far, and additional maps for us to play around with have been pretty hard to come by as well. Late last year though, Forge's...
Reaction Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Is Beating Battlefield At Its Own Game
Ground War
Infinity Ward took a very different direction, at the time, with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare in 2019. The reboot grounded the series in a modern combat setting similar to what made it famous in the first place, after years of misguided attempts at propelling things into the future (and one look back to the past). The franchise also,...
Reaction GoldenEye Is Finally Coming To Xbox, But It's A Rare Whiffed Shot For 007
No online multiplayer is a letdown, but it's not all bad news for Bond fans
So, Rare’s 1997 classic, GoldenEye 007, is finally officially making its way onto Xbox consoles via a remastered version of the N64 shooter that’s just been announced for Game Pass. Hooray! We should all be ecstatic right now, yeah? Well, we would be if it weren’t for...
Reaction Bethesda Delays Make June's Showcase Even More Important For Xbox
Delivering the goods
Here in Xbox land we're no strangers to waiting months and months for a big first party launch. Throughout the Xbox One era fans suffered through huge periods bereft of anything from Xbox Game Studios, especially when that studio family was relatively small. Well, after Bethesda's recent delays to both Starfield and Redfall, we...
Reaction Unreal Engine 5 Is Going To Add Crazy Intensity To Games That Utilise Its Tech
I am become teh Witcher!
We already posted about the incredible YouTube Video above, showing off as it does the Unreal Engine 5's startling capacity to make amazing replicas of real life locations, in this case a train station in Japan. The new Unreal engine's Lumen lighting tech and ability to create ultra detailed shadow and texture effects show...
News It's Been A Rough Old Week For Microsoft Rewards On Xbox
Couple of bugs in the system
Many of us are big fans of Microsoft Rewards here at Pure Xbox, but we're also able to agree that the program could use a bit of restructuring on Xbox, particularly in regards to the app which is known for having occasional bugs. Case in point, the recent Forza Horizon 5 punch card. At the time of writing, it's...
Reaction Halo Infinite Caps Off An Incredible Year For Xbox Game Studios
We've been spoiled
What a year it's been for Xbox, eh? Well, what a six months-or-so in particular. It's been capped off today with the reviews for Halo Infinite, the vast majority of which have been highly positive, and yet somehow it still isn't topping the Metacritic ratings for Xbox in 2021 — a testament to how strong the showing has been this...
Reaction Looking Back At An Excellent First Year For The Xbox Series X|S
Happy birthday!
Can you believe that the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S were first released a year ago today?! It seems like only yesterday we were guessing the prices, release date and launch titles. But here we are, twelve months later, marking the first birthday of the now current-gen consoles. It's been a rollercoaster of a ride with some...
Reaction Gamescom Has Proved Not Everything Needs A Digital Showcase
Maybe it's time for a change?
There have been so many digital events this year that we've lost count. It feels like only yesterday we were covering E3, but that was June! Flash forward a few weeks and here we are at Gamescom with some new showcases to capture our attention. The main two have been Xbox's Gamescom stream, and of course, Gamescom...
Reaction This Year's Shaky E3 Was Held Up By Xbox And Nintendo
A messy four days with a few highs and many lows
Well, E3 has come and gone, and to be honest, it was kind of a blink and you'll miss it affair. That's not to say it was bad - on the contrary, despite the general response to this year's event, it packed a substantial number of huge and meaningful announcements - I'm just not sure we needed E3 as a...
Reaction Xbox Just Had Its Best E3 Showcase In Years, And Game Pass Was The Star
It's going to be an exciting end to 2021
Have you recovered from yesterday's Xbox and Bethesda E3 2021 Showcase yet? We polled the Pure Xbox community immediately following the event, and the majority of votes gave the show a top-marks A
Reaction FPS Boost On Xbox Series X Just Keeps Getting Better And Better
Better, faster, stronger
When FPS Boost first got announced, the initial selection wasn't earth shattering, but it showed promise for Xbox Series X|S owners for what this feature could bring. Titles such as Far Cry 4 and New Super Lucky's Tale got some impressive boosts in their frame rate when they dropped, and this was only the beginning. Since...
Reaction As The PS3 Store Closes, Xbox Reminds Us How 'Critical' Game Preservation Is
"We're committed to making games across generations available to you"
Listen, we're not on a mission to bash PlayStation or anything, but following the announcement today that Microsoft would be bringing backwards compatible titles to the cloud, with 16 of them arriving today, it's impossible not to draw the comparison with recent PlayStation news...
Reaction Xbox Might Just Be In Its Strongest Position Ever Right Now
The future looks incredibly bright
Any excuse to use that image, right? But seriously, Xbox is in an incredible position right now. Microsoft is firing on (nearly) all cylinders as we enter into this Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S generation, and there's reason to believe Xbox could very easily eclipse the so-called 'glory days' of the original...
Reaction Lucasfilm Games Is Setting Up A Bright Future, But Is It Being Revealed Too Soon?
The games are in a galaxy far, far away
It's only the second week of January and gaming news is already coming thick and fast. It seems everyday this week a massive announcement has taken place, all stemming from the reveal on Monday of Lucasfilm Games being a new banner for many properties. But are these games being announced too early? The...
Reaction After Cyberpunk 2077, Halo Infinite's Delay Feels Like A Relief
It could have been a sticky situation for Xbox
Cast your mind back to August, and you'll undoubtedly remember when 343 Industries dropped the bombshell that Halo Infinite would no longer be releasing alongside the Xbox Series X, and instead would be delayed until 2021 "to ensure the team has adequate time to deliver a Halo game experience that meets...
