Life on the road.

In this new bit of Police Simulator DLC, you're finally able to leave the city of Brighton and take to the highways that surround it, opening up new gameplay scenarios along the way.

Life on the road.

In this new bit of Police Simulator DLC, you're finally able to leave the city of Brighton and take to the highways that surround it, opening up new gameplay scenarios along the way.

Operation Crisis begins.

Insurgency: Sandstorm is getting another major update on all platforms, just under a year on from when the FPS title first arrived on Xbox Game Pass.This particular update is dubbed 'Operation: Crisis', and it brings a new map, new weapons, a new limited-time game mode and more to the fantastic Game Pass shooter.

Almost a quarter of a century later.

This is an old school hack-and-slash game with a distinct pirate theme, and you can definitely tell it's of a certain era, shall we say.

Yesterday's Nintendo Direct livestream gave us some great third-party announcements for Xbox, but we did also stumble across a few more titles that are strangely skipping Microsoft's platform.One of those is the Marvel Vs. Capcom Fighting Collection, and a couple of sources are now suggesting that an old game engine is the reason behind this Xbox omission.

Capcom game aficionado Jawmuncher has suggested on Twitter that the 'MT Framework' game engine has stopped supporting Xbox One in the last few years, and that could explain why only certain Capcom games are skipping Xbox.

Pure Xbox's Craig Reid recently attended Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles, where he had a chance to preview a series of upcoming Xbox releases.Today, we're sharing his thoughts on a hands-on demo of The Plucky Squire, where he sat down with All Possible Futures' co-founder James Turner to play a portion of the game's sixth chapter.

Following the successful release of Sea of Thieves on PS5.

Rare, the developer behind modern hits such as Sea Of Thieves, is today celebrating the release of another one of its classics on Nintendo's Switch Online subscription service.

In case you missed it, this time it's the first-person shooter Perfect Dark.

The vault has been opened.

Sometimes it's hard to believe yourself when you type a sentence like 'Xbox owns Call of Duty and Fallout' but its darn true, and later this week the two massive Microsoft franchises will be crossing over in Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone.

Yep, the COD x Fallout bundle brings a bunch of Fallout-themed gear to Call of Duty multiplayer on June 20th - including character outfits, weapon skins, charms, and even a Pip-Boy accessory!

AC, Skull & Bones, Avatar and more!

As usual, we've got another fresh selection of Xbox deals available for Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S on the official Xbox Store right now, primarily made up of "Publisher Spotlight" and "School's Out" sales.

We've noted in the headline here that Ubisoft leads the way with the likes of Assassin's Creed Mirage, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Skull & Bones and many other titles all included, but we've also got some other big inclusions such as Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 that you might be interested in.

We have a new Game Pass addition today, June 19th, and this one could be a title worth sinking some time into!My Time at Sandrock delivers a huge life simulation game onto Xbox Game Pass - as the follow-up to 2019's My Time at Portia, which is already in the library.

Here's about more information on My Time at Sandrock, now available on Xbox Game Pass for Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC and Xbox Cloud Gaming:

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Just over a month until the store closes down.

We're getting much closer to the end of the Xbox 360 store on July 29th, and as promised, Microsoft has decided to discount another batch of digital games today, giving you a chance to pick them up before they're delisted permanently.

A remaster of the 2002 OG Xbox game!

Nightdive Studios has been absolutely killing it lately with these remaster efforts, and their next project is tackling 2002's The Thing for a modern remaster in 2024.This upcoming title has been confirmed for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, and now the team has sent over a selection of in-game screenshots our way!

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 post-pandemic, E3-less era.

We thought the June 2024 edition of the Nintendo Direct was an awesome event, and it included plenty of exciting Xbox announcements after the fact, but we were also left a tad disappointed by some of the games skipping our brand.

The big one is the Marvel Vs. Capcom Fighting Collection, which was announced for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Steam with a late 2024 release window.There's no sign of Xbox as things stand, which is definitely a shame.

Including some big Dragon Quest reveals!

Today marked the arrival of yet another Nintendo Direct showcase, with the June 2024 edition featuring some exciting first-party reveals, but also plenty of third-party games that are making their way to Xbox consoles!

Perhaps the biggest announcement here is not only that we received an Xbox release date for Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D, but we also got confirmation that Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D will be launching in 2025!

The huge Elden Ring expansion is almost here.

Elden Ring was a bit of a phenomenon when it arrived on Xbox back in early 2022, so it's safe to say we're extremely excited about the game's Shadow of the Erdtree expansion.This huge Elden Ring add-on lands this week, and ahead of launch, the review embargo has now lifted.

Well, we just got our brand-new Xbox Game Pass roundup for the back half of June, and there's one big surprise included in the form of Robin Hood: Sherwood Builders.This is a PC Action RPG that was previously unannounced for consoles, and now it's confirmed for an Xbox Series X|S release this month - on Game Pass no less!

This recent Robin Hood release has gotten a 'Mostly Positive' reception on Steam so far, and it's described as "an action-adventure RPG with base-building elements".

The second batch of the month.

Microsoft has today announced the second batch of Xbox Game Pass titles for June 2024, which includes today's arrival of Still Wakes The Deep, along with the likes of EA Sports FC 24 and My Time At Sandrock!

Here's the list of titles coming to Xbox Game Pass from June 18-27:

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Talking on the Xbox Two podcast, hosts Jez Corden and Rand al Thor broke down State of Decay 3's appearance at the showcase, with them mentioning that the team is aiming to launch the game in 2025.However, the hosts then went on to speculate whether Microsoft would delay it just for the sheer amount of games it has planned for next year.

"By no means is it just me".

Bethesda and video game legend Todd Howard is an incredibly busy guy right now working on projects like the first Starfield expansion, the Fallout television series, the long-awaited Elder Scrolls 6, and the upcoming Indiana Jones video game.Put simply - he doesn't have any hobbies (gaming is pretty much it), he loves doing what he does and he's got a lot of "amazing people" who do a lot of the heavy lifting.

He's held the CMO role for almost five years.

There's another shake-up taking place inside Xbox HQ this month, as it's been revealed that Chief Marketing Officer Jerret West will be leaving the company to join the ROBLOX team at the end of June.

This was mentioned in a report by The Verge's Tom Warren yesterday, which also included an internal memo from Xbox boss Phil Spencer.

And it's out today!

Playground Games has unveiled a new premium car pack for Forza Horizon 5, and this one brings five movie star cars to the open world racer.Available today for $10, Horizon's finest drivers can go hands-on with five new rides inspired by the likes of Jurassic Park, Back to the Future and Knight Rider.

The long and short of it is that one of the game's voice actors seemingly attached a 2025 release to their work on Clockwork Revolution, before removing this information.InXile spotted it though, and decided to poke fun at what had happened;

He's back!

Larry Hryb, AKA 'Major Nelson', was the face of Xbox for years before announcing his departure from Microsoft last summer - and now the Xbox legend has revealed his next move in gaming.

He's heading over to the Community team at Unity, which develops one of the industry's leading game engines amongst other bits and pieces in the world of gaming.

As part of the series' 10th anniversary celebrations.

The retro-inspired hero Shovel Knight is currently celebrating his 10th anniversary, and as part of this, developer and publisher Yacht Club Games held a special broadcast announcing a bunch of new projects.

Perhaps the highlight of the lot (apart from the announcement of a new game which will thrust Shovel Knight into an "entirely new dimension") was the reveal of Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope DX - an enhanced edition of the original adventure that started it all.

"I don't think it's bad for people to miss things".

Fallout hype is at fever pitch right now, with Amazon's fantastic TV series and the recent Fallout 4 next-gen update helping fuel interest in Bethesda's post-apocalyptic series.Despite some synergy with the show and existing games in the franchise, fans are wondering why this didn't happen alongside a brand-new Fallout game, and whether some sort of spin-off could be in the works while the team makes The Elder Scrolls 6.

An upcoming Game Pass launch!

Another day one Xbox Game Pass release is right around the corner in Still Wakes The Deep, and early reviews of this spooky Xbox game are now cropping up online - including our own opinion on the title here at Pure Xbox.

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The road ahead.

Up for another horror adventure on Xbox Series X|S in 2024?Well, Saber Interactive and Stormind Games have partnered up to adapt movie series 'A Quiet Place' into video game format - with the "narrative-driven horror game" A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead coming to Xbox later this year.

If you've played any of The Chinese Room's past games you'll have an idea of what to expect from Still Wakes The Deep; something short, sweet, dripping in atmosphere and with a laser focus on the overall narrative.Well, we're here to report that despite some behind-the-scenes changes at the British developer, Still Wakes the Deep mostly delivers on everything we've come to expect from the team - and this is a perfect candidate for a spooky night in on Xbox Game Pass.

The real star of the show here is the game's setting; a Scottish offshore oil rig that's constantly coated in a thick layer of North Sea fog.

"Gears has a pretty clear DNA for gameplay modes".

Developer The Coalition has been quite shy on dropping any nitty gritty details for Gears of War: E-Day just yet, which is perhaps understandable given that the game won't be out until 2025 at the very earliest.However, the studio was pressed about multiplayer modes over the weekend, and while it hasn't gone into specifics, it sounds like fans can expect this to be a fully fledged Gears game - multiplayer and all.

The company continues to cut developers.

Today, Swedish developer Pieces Interactive has announced its closure following this year's Alone in the Dark reboot.The team was acquired by gaming titan Embracer Group back in 2017, having first been established 10 years prior in 2007, but it will unfortunately close its doors in 2024.

One of the employees highlighted the studio's "last day".

Last month, Xbox shared the news it would be shutting down four studios including the developers behind the critically-acclaimed title Hi-Fi RUSH.

As highlighted by our friends at VGC, developer Takeo Kido shared multiple pictures of the Japanese studio - noting how it was the "last day of work" with the studio then closing.

June's second batch of leavers revealed.

Our second batch of titles leaving Xbox Game Pass in June 2024 has been revealed, with five games in total exiting the service at the end of the month.There aren't any huge departures in this list, but there are still some great games on the way out in late June.

We've already seen some fantastic Starfield mods on Xbox since the June update arrived last week, and some of the latest examples allow the Xbox Series S version to reach a high of 120 frames per-second!

This is documented in the video you see above, which shows how certain Starfield mods lower the visual quality in order to provide a smoother experience on Xbox Series S.As shown at the 1:24 mark, the mods that are used here include "Uncap FPS for Series S", "Performance Tweaks (Series S)", "Performance Shadows (Series S)", "Remove Grass", "Crowd Reducer" and "No God Rays".

And hopefully that's not the end of it!

Bethesda's Todd Howard made an appearance on the MrMattyPlays YouTube channel today, where he confirmed that Starfield will get a second year of content alongside another paid expansion following 2024's Shattered Space DLC.

Howard's first mention of a "year two" for Starfield came during a segment in which he was discussing the recent June update for the game, explaining that there might be "more of a gap" until the next major update:

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It's a peach.

Pure Xbox's Craig Reid has spent the past few days at Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles, where he's had a chance to preview a series of upcoming Xbox releases. Today, we're sharing his thoughts on a hands-on demo of Black Myth: Wukong, which let us get stuck into two hours of an early chapter from Game Science's 2024 ARPG.

For most, Summer Game Fest came to a close once Play Days wrapped on Monday, but not for us! Game Science, the talented developers responsible for the upcoming ARPG Black Myth: Wukong, found time for Pure Xbox the following day, and we’re so glad they did because the game is phenomenal.

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Please Phil, we want some more.

The Xbox Showcase was amazing this year. Seriously, the relaunch of Pure Xbox took place four years ago, and we can't remember a better summer showcase from Xbox since then. Gears, Fable, Perfect Dark, DOOM... the list goes on and on. But if we're being totally honest, there's one announcement that we're a bit sad we didn't get.

Of course, we're talking about the massive selection of Activision Blizzard games that are expected to hit Xbox Game Pass in the near future. Since the takeover, all we've seen from the company on XGP is Diablo 4, and we also know that Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be launching day one this October. But what about everything else?

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An early look at what's ahead.

We're only just hitting the middle of the month for June's Xbox Game Pass additions, but as usual, we're starting to take a look at what's ahead for July as well. And it's good news - there's a lot confirmed for next month already!

Some of the highlights here include day one releases for Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, Dungeons Of Hinterberg and Capcom's Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, while Frostpunk 2 is also coming to PC Game Pass at launch.

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Including this major new expansion!

Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for June 17-21! We've got some major releases on the way next week including Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree and The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road, and while we don't know much about the Xbox Game Pass lineup yet, we do at least know that Still Wakes The Deep is arriving at launch on Tuesday!

Here's what's coming to Xbox next week:

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How about The Callisto Protocol on Game Pass?

Welcome to the middle of June! We've got plenty to enjoy on Xbox over the next couple of days, including some more new Game Pass titles, another batch of Free Play Days offerings, and plenty of great deals to enjoy on the Xbox Store!

Here's what we're playing this weekend:

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"It's what makes this experience the most immersive".

The Xbox Games Showcase last weekend was packed with fantastic-looking titles across a whole bunch of different genres, but one of the highlights was undoubtedly Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. The fact that MachineGames' upcoming adventure is a 2024 game is incredibly exciting, and a couple of members of the studio have just appeared on the Official Xbox Podcast to talk a bit more about the title.

Game Director Jerk Gustafsson and Product Director John Jennings discuss all aspects of the recent reveal, including some of the locations we'll be visiting as Indy and some of the design choices behind the gameplay. Importantly, Gustafsson also touched on the team's desire to go mostly first-person with this game - despite other titles in the genre typically sticking to a third-person viewpoint.

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"Console ports will be coming".

If you were paying close attention to the Summer Game Fest 2024 showcase earlier this month, you may have seen a game called "Killer Bean" which ended up attracting millions of views following the event's conclusion.

We talked about the game here at Pure Xbox last year when it seemed like an Xbox version was planned for the future. Now, the developer has confirmed that Killer Bean is definitely coming to Xbox after the early access PC release.

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The Metacritic scores are huge!

Today's the day for Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance on Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S!

This brand-new release from ATLUS and SEGA is officially available to purchase on the Xbox Store (starting at £54.99 / $59.99), and if the reviews are anything to go by, it's definitely worth your time and money this weekend!

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Everything you need to know for the big expansion.

FromSoftware's huge Elden Ring expansion in Shadow of the Erdtree is coming to Xbox very, very soon after what feels like an eternity! Yep, we're pretty hyped about this one - after all, we did grant the base game an "Outstanding" 10/10 score here at Pure Xbox back in 2022.

Ahead of the big launch next week, we're going to break down exactly when you can play, and how to get ready to tackle Elden Ring's major DLC expansion on Xbox.

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The Series S version looks like a different game!

Last November we took a look at some of the early public tests for Ark: Survival Ascended on Xbox and found some "interesting results", and now the team at Digital Foundry has given the game a pretty scathing review from a technical perspective - roughly six months after launch.

In a fresh face-off from the tech-focused outlet, the 2023 Ark remake is labelled as "the worst optimised Unreal Engine 5 game we've seen on console". If you look at the video up above, the evidence is pretty damning - the Xbox Series S version looks like a different game almost!

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Xbox odyssey.

Well-known leaker eXtas1s is reporting that Xbox Game Studios Publishing will be working with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey dev Panache on a new project. 2019's Ancestors was the much-talked about adventure game from the creator of Assassin's Creed - and at this point it's still the only game to have been released by Panache.

The report doesn't contain much more detail than that, aside from the fact that the game is using Unreal Engine 5, and it might not release until 2026 or 2027. EXtas1s also speculates that it could be a game called '1666: Amsterdam' that's been worked on by the ex-AC developer for some time - but that's just conjecture at this stage.

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Including a huge 2022 release!

It's that time again where a selection of titles leave the Xbox Game Pass library, and we have five games in total exiting the service this weekend. As you can probably guess, the big leaver this time around is High On Life, which departs Game Pass after roughly 18 months in the library.

All five games are on the way out on Saturday, June 15, so you only have a day-or-so left to try these out before they leave the service.

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"A real privilege".

We were treated to a great surprise at the Xbox Games Showcase last Sunday when Perfect Dark reappeared with an impressive glimpse at gameplay, and since that trailer, the actor for lead character Joanna Dark has been revealed!

The role has gone to the award-winning British actress Alix Wilton Regan, who expressed her delight at working on the project in a social media post earlier this week. Here's what Alix had to say at the time:

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Signups are now live.

Amazon is bringing its open-world RPG New World: Aeternum to Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S this October, and if you want to try it ahead of time, sign-ups are now live for a closed beta taking place in July.

To participate, you'll need to head over to the official New World website, where all the instructions are outlined. The beta will take place on July 11th at 9am PT until July 17th at 9AM PT for those who are lucky enough to be selected.

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Along with other new features.

It's been almost two years since the survival / crafting / town management RPG Medieval Dynasty first arrived on Xbox Game Pass, and it's about to get a major new update that will transform the experience on consoles this month.

On June 27th, Co-Op Mode will be available for the first time on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, allowing you to play with up to three other friends across Xbox or PC. This is a current-gen feature, so Xbox One players sadly miss out.

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Perhaps even earlier than Fable?

When Gears of War: E-Day was revealed at the Xbox Games Showcase this past weekend, we naturally assumed that it wasn't targeting a release anytime soon, especially considering there was no sign of a launch window at all.

However, we might be seeing it much sooner than expected! According to Tom Warren at The Verge, his sources informed him a few months ago that Gears of War: E-Day was targeting a release in 2025. Here's his quote about it:

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Juliet makes a comeback in 4K.

We've heard a fair bit about the Lollipop Chainsaw remake and it's now been officially confirmed Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP will be making its way to Xbox Series X|S on 25th September 2024.

This remastered release of the 2012 Grasshopper title, often described as a "cult classic", is being handled by Dragami Games and is being marketed as the definitive version of the game.

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Will you be picking one up later this year?

During the Xbox Games Showcase this year, Microsoft unveiled three brand-new Xbox Series X|S console revisions coming in late 2024 - and we want to know if the Pure Xbox audience is planning on picking up any of these shiny new systems later in the year.

Across the new lineup, we've got a 1TB White Xbox Series S, an all-digital 1TB White Xbox Series X, and a new 2TB Galaxy Black Xbox Series X. The three new systems run the gamut when it comes to pricing - right from $350 on the low end up to a whopping $600 for that Xbox Series X with upgraded storage.

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"I think that could be really really compelling".

Gears of War: E-Day is certainly a throwback to the old Xbox 360 days of Gears, and you know what else is? Cliffy B! Yep, one of the series' legendary creators has been away from Microsoft's famous franchise for years now, but he still likes discussing his heritage when the chance arises, and Cliff's most recent thoughts on the series come from a new podcast talking all-things Gears: E-Day.

Sitting down on the Xbox Expansion Pass podcast, Cliff was asked about Gears of War: E-day, and what he thinks about The Coalition's new direction for the franchise. On the whole, Cliff seems pretty positive about it - and he says that he'll "definitely be picking up E-Day" when it launches.

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Sea of sales.

Rare's Sea Of Thieves was probably the most high-profile Xbox game to make the switch to PlayStation 5 earlier in the year, and Microsoft's multiplatform move seems to have paid off for the Xbox owner already.

In a new post over at the PlayStation Blog, Sony has detailed its software sales charts for May 2024, and Rare's pirate adventure tops the list in both the US and Europe. Yep, Sea of Thieves is officially the best-selling PS5 game in both regions for May 2024.

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All aboard the hype train.

Call of Duty is always popular, there's no denying that. Every year that a GTA title doesn't launch the franchise seems to break records, but there appears to be an extra bout of hype behind this year's Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 - the first one to launch day one on Xbox Game Pass.

In just four days, the Black Ops 6 gameplay reveal trailer — which debuted during the Xbox Games Showcase — has picked up more than 50 million views on the series' official YouTube channel. That now makes it the most popular Call of Duty trailer of all time, surpassing 2016's Infinite Warfare reveal - which has 46 Million views at the time of writing.

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See how the new game looks alongside the 2002 release.

One of the many highlights of the Xbox Games Showcase this year was Microsoft's new take on a classic strategy series in Age of Mythology: Retold. If you've been wondering about the graphical improvements and upgrades coming in this new version of the game, developer World's Edge has now shared some comparisons during a post-show deep dive.

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It won't be out in 2024, though.

One of the biggest surprises from last year's The Game Awards show was Jurassic Park: Survival, a brand-new single-player FPS set in the famous Dino-filled universe. While its showing was an incredibly early look at the game — as you can see by the above cinematic — this one has lots of promise, and developer Saber Interactive has gone into some more detail on the title this week.

Speaking with IGN, Universal and Saber revealed that players will be "revisiting iconic locations from the 1993 film", including "places that were only implied in the film, but never seen". Here's what Universal's John Melchior said in an internal Q&A session with Saber:

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Included with Game Pass Core and Game Pass Ultimate.

Free Play Days returns once again, and this week we have four Xbox titles in total to try for free over the next few days. Tom Clancy's The Division 2 is leading the charge here - there's absolutely loads to go at within Ubisoft's online co-op shooter.

And here's your full Free Play Days lineup this weekend:

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"We'll share insights on the development process".

Avowed seems to be the major Xbox exclusive that's closest to launching right now - with the game recently getting an accidental November release date before being pulled by developer Obsidian. While the Xbox dev has retracted this date for now, the game is clearly fast approaching launch, with the team now announcing a 'Road to Avowed' livestream series.

Kicking off today at 2pm PT / 5pm ET / 10pm BST, the team will "revisit Pillars of Eternity I & II w/ guest devs", sharing Avowed development insights along the way.

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A couple of huge additions to the library!

Microsoft has delivered an Xbox Game Pass refresh today, with two titles being added to the library on June 13. Headlining the pack is 2022's The Callisto Protocol, while BlackMill's WW1 shooter Isonzo has also been added to the service.

Here's a closer look at these two new Xbox Game Pass additions:

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Early access to a major new feature.

If you're a big Palworld fan and you've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of dedicated servers on Xbox, you'll be glad to know that they're arrived... kind of. Although they're not fully available yet, you can still access them as of today!

This is via a new service called the Palworld Update Preview, which provides you with "early access to new features and game updates". We're assuming this also means there's a chance of running into more bugs, but if you're happy to take the risk, the good news is that your existing game saves are compatible with this Update Preview program.

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Console at a later date.

What's that? Another Xbox first-party game confirmed for 2024? Oh, go on then!

This one's a little bit different admittedly, as strategy game Ara: History Untold is launching exclusively on PC when it arrives on September 24, 2024 - with the Xbox console release set to take place at some point in the future.

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Arriving in Early Access.

This one's for the PC Game Pass fans! Depersonalization has been added to the PCGP library today as part of its early access rollout, which began all the way back in December 2022 on Steam. It's available to download right now.

Depersonalization is described as a tactical role-playing game that bares a resemblance to Clash of Clans. It debuted to a "Very Positive" average rating on Steam based on over 3,000 reviews, so it sounds like it's worth a download!

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It's supposedly coming out next year!

There was a lot going on at the Xbox Showcase last Sunday including reveals for the likes of Gears of War: E-Day and DOOM: The Dark Ages, so to a degree, the re-reveal of Fable was perhaps a little bit overlooked in general.

But hey, we've got a release window now! Fable is officially expected to release on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S at some point in 2025, and for a game that we've been so hyped about for so long, that's extremely good news.

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As part of Update 9.

Everyone loves a freebie, and Forza Motorsport is giving one away right now! At any time until June 19th, you can grab the Porsche 963 Combo for free, which usually retails at £3.99 / $4.99 on the Xbox Store and Steam.

As part of this combo, you get access to the 2024 Porsche #5 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 along with a special Porsche Racing Suit, with the latter available via the Driver Customisation Menu. Here's a bit more info about it:

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Rolling out this week to Xbox Series X|S & Xbox One.

The Xbox June 2024 update begins rolling out to all users on Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S this week, introducing plenty of new features - some of which we've already highlighted about recently here at Pure Xbox.

Here's a short overview of the Xbox June 2024 update, with more details available at Xbox Wire:

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The complete list of all games.

Xbox Game Pass is already starting to fill up for 2025, and if you're looking for a list of everything coming to Game Pass in 2025, you've come to the right place! Below, we've picked out the complete list of games announced for Xbox Game Pass in 2025 so far, and we'll keep updating this as more are announced ahead of next year.

If you want a list of all the 2024 Xbox Game Pass titles, we've provided that elsewhere on Pure Xbox:

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"The landscape of remakes has evolved".

We had a good time watching Ubisoft Forward on Monday (especially the Star Wars Outlaws and Assassin's Creed segments), but one bit of disappointing news came in the form of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake.

Don't get us wrong, it's great to hear something about it, but we've been waiting for this game since 2020 - and to hear that it's still another two years away is a bit of a bummer. There's a good reason for it though, as Ubisoft Montreal became the lead development studio on the project back in 2022, taking over from Ubisoft Mumbai and Pune.

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Lifting the veil.

Pure Xbox's Craig Reid has spent the past few days at Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles, where he's had a chance to preview a series of upcoming Xbox releases. Today, we're sharing his thoughts on a hands-off preview of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which provided a sneak peek at what's to come from BioWare's Fall 2024 RPG.

Our group journeyed into Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s preview with EA escorting us to a secluded industrial room that felt like Geoff Keighley’s secret on-site brewery. Once there, we perched our bums upon Summer Game Fest Play Days campus’ comfiest seats (you heard it here first!). We were then briefed by BioWare, who introduced us to the upcoming RPG, followed by a 40-minute gameplay demonstration.

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"Explore a world of elemental spirits and adventure".

Square Enix gave us an in-depth look at Visions of Mana as part of the Xbox Developer Direct earlier this year, and it's finally got a release date! The game will launch for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S on August 29, 2024.

If you haven't heard of it, the game is a single-player action-RPG that marks the first mainline entry in the long-running "Mana" series since 2006, and the first to ever release on Xbox. In Visions of Mana, you'll follow a young fighter called Val who's tasked with travelling to the Tree of Mana in order to rejuvenate the flow of mana power.

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It sounds pretty meaty!

Star Wars Outlaws is definitely one of our most-anticipated Xbox titles at the moment, with its release less than three months away, and we've been seeing a whole bunch of great footage from the Ubisoft title over the past few days.

We also now know how long of an experience it'll be. In an interview with VGC, creative director Julian Gerighty confirmed that we're looking at around 25-30 hours, while completionists can expect to double that.

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We believe it.

We've already waxed lyrical about how fantastic this year's Xbox Games Showcase was, with the entire two-hour runtime (or 90-ish minutes if you exclude the Call of Duty bit) providing some amazing reveals that left us in awe.

And apparently, there was more that could have been shown! Kinda Funny Host Parris Lilly, who has appeared on Xbox Showcases in the past, mentioned on Resetera yesterday that he'd spoken to multiple people at Xbox about this:

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Better with friends.

Since its major acquisitions, Xbox has mentioned how studios within its ecosystem would be able to collaborate on projects and generally help each other out. We've already seen this before with some games in the past, and it seems the developer behind State of Decay 3 has also had some assistance crafting the next entry in its zombie-themed survival series.

As highlighted on Xbox Wire, Undead Labs is "collaborating" with the Gears of War developer The Coalition and Avowed creator Obsidian. It's been working with Obsidian on the game's "shared world feature" which will enable "more flexible online co-op" (the teams previously collaborated on Grounded with "shared save technology") and it's called on the expertise of The Coalition to "help harness the power" of Unreal Engine 5.

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We're just getting started.

Just a couple of days ago, a surprise June update for Starfield brought mods to Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S for the first time, and we're starting to see some really cool creations being made available for download.

The ones that are getting all the attention right now are skins for Batman and various Star Wars characters, courtesy of the creators Tenebris and radiclown. Examples for Star Wars include Ashoka, Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

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BioWare is back.

After a brief teaser popped up during the Xbox Games Showcase, EA and BioWare have finally lifted the lid on Dragon Age: The Veilguard, following what feels like an age of waiting for the next big BioWare RPG.

Up above, we've got a good 20 minutes of raw Dragon Age: The Veilguard gameplay ahead of its Fall 2024 launch on Xbox Series X and S. There's everything from combat to traversal, cutscenes to conversations tucked in here, and we have to admit that it's nice to finally get an extended look at this title.

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Just a few months left to play these online!

EA has announced that three more Xbox 360 Battlefield games will be closing their doors in November 2024 - following a swathe of Battlefield closures that happened in late 2023. This time around, the Xbox 360 versions of Battlefield Hardline, Battlefield 4 and Battlefield 3 will go offline on November 7th this year.

The first two of these losses don't feel like a huge deal - Battlefield 4 and Hardline both have much-superior Xbox One versions that now run with FPS Boost to boot. Battlefield 3 is the big loss here, as the console version is locked to the Xbox 360 era and will go fully offline on console this November.

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