Tag: Xbox Store
Talking Point What Have You Bought In The Xbox Black Friday Sale So Far?
Added anything to your backlog?
Today marks exactly a week since the Xbox Black Friday Sale 2024 officially went live on the Xbox Store, providing us with hundreds and hundreds of discounts for a variety of great games - including some major releases from this year! We've seen some huge games being reduced in recent days, including the likes of...
Talking Point What Improvements Would You Like To See Made To The Xbox Store?
We have a few ideas in mind
The Xbox Store (or the "Microsoft Store" if you want to call it that) is a place that we're constantly browsing on a near-daily basis here at Pure Xbox, and it's obviously a crucial part of the console (and PC) experience for all players. This is the place you go to buy new games, buy them on discount, check out the Free...
News Multiple Fallout Games Are Topping The Xbox 'Paid' Charts This Week
Following the success of the TV show
The release of the Fallout TV series on Amazon Prime has brought the franchise into the limelight over the past few days, and according to the "Top Paid" Xbox charts this week, it's resulted in some great sales for a bunch of old games. Looking at the rankings in the US, Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition is...
News If Your Xbox Wishlist Has Suddenly Disappeared, You're Not Alone
Update: "Your items should be coming back"
Update: Xbox Engineering Lead Eden Marie has advised that Wishlists should now be returning to normal: Original story: Over the weekend, you may have noticed that your Xbox Wishlist went from displaying tens if not hundreds of games, to suddenly displaying nothing like in the image up above. If that's...
News Xbox Store Gets Welcome Browser Update As Part Of Accessibility Improvements
"It’s easier than ever to find your next favorite Xbox games"
Yesterday, Xbox celebrated its "commitment to accessibility" as part of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, sharing a whole bunch of ways that the team has been working to support the brand's Gaming & Disability communities. This includes updated accessibility support pages on the...
News Xbox Users Are Finding More 'Just For You' Deals On The Store This Week
A slightly improved discount on a couple of titles
Xbox's new "Just For You" feature on the Microsoft Store has proved a hit so far, offering some good deals to certain users over the past few months - and it's just returned again with some nice discounts as part of this week's sales. From what we can see so far, most people seem to be getting Call...
News 'Not Playable On This Device' Message Causes Havoc On The Xbox Store
"Your store is messed up!"
If you've been browsing the Xbox Store over the past 24 hours and come across a message suggesting a game is "not playable on this device" and you can't understand why, you're not alone! Fortunately, it's just a visual bug. We've seen reports from many Xbox users on social media questioning why games such as Shadow of the...
News Xbox 360 'May 2023' Closure Message Was An Error, Says Microsoft
"The Xbox 360 marketplace will not close in May 2023"
Update [Fri 3rd Feb, 2023 01:35 GMT]: A Microsoft spokesperson says the Xbox 360 Marketplace will not be closing in May 2023. The message on the website was apparently "posted in error". Here's the full response (via Gematsu): "This message was posted in error and we can confirm the Xbox 360...
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...
News You Didn't Get Fallout 4 For Free, Collect $10
You have won a beauty contest
On Thursday evening UK time, there was a bit of a bug on the Xbox Games Store that set the price of both Fallout 4 and the Fallout 4 Deluxe Edition to approximately $0.00. A whole stack of people obviously cottoned on as soon as it was posted on Reddit and waded in to get their free game. The price was fixed an hour or...
