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YesterdayThu, 18th Apr 2024 News Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Brings Its 'Unforgettable' Adventure To Xbox In 2024 A tale of love and revenge Warhorse Studios has announced a major new release for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S today in the form of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, which will be arriving at some point later this year - and it looks fantastic so far!
In Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, you'll play as Henry of Skalitz - an ordinary man who finds himself... News Turtle Beach Announces New Xbox Headsets To Launch Next Month "We're thrilled to debut our new lineup" Gaming accessory manufacturer Turtle Beach has today announced a new lineup of hardware, with some fresh Xbox headsets thrown into the mix, for release in May 2024.
The popular headset maker will launch new versions of its 'Stealth 500' and 'Stealth 600' wireless headsets next month - said to bring "newly... News World Of Warcraft For Xbox Is Still Discussed Internally At Blizzard "Of course we still talk about it" Can you believe that World of Warcraft is 20 years-old this year? Nah, us neither, and as it turns out - new versions of the title are still a hot topic over at developer Blizzard. Yep, two decades later the team still ponders a console release, and whether it's something worth pursuing.
Talking to VGC, the... News 'Braid, Anniversary Edition' Gets May 2024 Release Date For Xbox It's been a long time coming! Update (Thu 18th Apr, 2024): The date has changed! It's now been confirmed that Braid, Anniversary Edition will be launching for Xbox on May 15th, 2024, which bizarrely falls one day after the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, PC and Netflix version. Here's a bit more information on the latest release date:
"Thekla, Inc... News Here Are All The Xbox Reveals From April's Nintendo Indie World Showcase Yes, there were plenty of them! In case you missed it, Nintendo held a new Indie World Showcase for April yesterday, and following the event, plenty of the games were also confirmed for Xbox - including three of them for Xbox Game Pass!
We've already mentioned about those Game Pass games here at Pure Xbox, including SteamWorld Heist 2:
<related... News Larian Teases Four Major New Features Coming To Baldur's Gate 3 "We still have a few tricks up our sleeve" The incredible Baldur's Gate 3 has pushed out a large number of patches since its Xbox release back in December of last year, and it's definitely not done yet! Looking ahead, there are four particularly major new features on the way.
In a Steam blog update today, Larian Studios confirmed that Patch 7 is... News Blizzard Says It's Already 'Benefitting' From From Being A Part Of Xbox "If anything, it's just been helpful" It's no doubt a pretty huge task to incorporate a team like Blizzard into your organisation - we've already seen evidence of this back in January when a studio shakeup resulted in a cancelled Blizzard project. However, things seem to have settled down since, and a new comment from one Blizzard dev suggests... Guide New Xbox Games Release Dates In 2024 2024's upcoming Xbox launch dates What new Xbox games release dates in 2024 are coming up? If you're looking for a list of 2024 Xbox release dates, including for Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, you've come to the right place. 2024 is shaping up to be a massive year for the platform when it comes to new releases and Xbox Game Pass, with... News Dying Light 2 Adds 'Nightmare Mode' Two Years After Xbox Launch "Nightmare Mode isn't the only feature we have coming" Techland has dropped a new update today for Dying Light 2, its 2022 zombie-slaying adventure. The key feature in this update is 'Nightmare Mode' - a brand-new high difficulty option for seasoned Dying Light players.
You can check out a slice of the new mode in action up above, which features... News Xbox One Call Of Duty Title Shows Up As Cloud Gaming Compatible But is it an error? Since Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, there's been lots of speculation about the team's library and how it'll work with Xbox Game Pass / Xbox Cloud Gaming. The details aren't exactly clear right now, but work relating to some of ActiBlizz's biggest series' could be going on behind the scenes.
As posted over on News Free Play Days: Try These Xbox Games For Free (April 18-21) Included with Game Pass Core and Game Pass Ultimate Xbox Free Play Days is back for the coming weekend, with three main titles and one very nice bonus up for grabs this week. That bonus is Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Mirage, which is undergoing a longer free trial period right now on Xbox.
Here's the full list of games this week:
Assassin's Creed... News Xbox Game Pass Adds NHL 24 On EA Play, Plus Three Surprises For PC It's hockey night tonight! Hands up, who's in the mood for playoff hockey this weekend?! The NHL playoffs officially begin this Saturday, April 20th, and two days ahead of that date, EA is treating us to NHL 24 on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.
The game will be added for console players later today, probably somewhere around 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 6pm BST... News Multiple Xbox Cloud Games Get Mouse And Keyboard Support Quake, Valheim, The Sims 4 and more! Xbox Cloud Gaming has added mouse and keyboard support to even more games this week. There's a good mix and 14 all up to try out. These can be tested out in the Xbox App and supported browsers (Edge and Chrome).
Here's the full list:
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Cities: Skylines - Remas Wednesday17th Apr 2024 News Three More Xbox Game Pass Titles Have Just Been Announced For 2024 Including a new SteamWorld game! Anyone fancy a few more Xbox Game Pass reveals? We were already sitting on a new addition earlier today, and then Nintendo went and held a special Indie World Showcase that treated us to a couple more!
All of these are "day one" additions arriving in the next few months, with the highlight arguably being SteamWorld... Talking Point What Do You Want To See From Xbox's New 'Game Preservation' Team? New features like FPS Boost? More back compat games? Tell us! Earlier this month, we learnt via internal Microsoft emails that Xbox has recently set up a new team dedicated entirely to game preservation - building on its "strong history of delivering backwards compatibility" to players on its platform.
While the leaked memo doesn't contain much... Guide Is Manor Lords Coming To Xbox? Here's Everything We Know So Far It's currently Steam's most wishlisted game Will Manor Lords be on Xbox? The medieval strategy game has attracted a large amount of attention over the past few months, to the point where it's become Steam's most wishlisted title ahead of its April 2024 release.
There's clearly a lot of interest in seeing an Xbox version of this game, and the good... News Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon's Limited Run Xbox Releases Go Live This Week Multiple editions to choose from Ubisoft's 80s-inspired FPS spin-off Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is well over a decade old at this point, and it never got a physical release on either Xbox 360 or Xbox One at launch. Well, Limited Run has now come along and stepped in - creating a couple of new physical editions of the fan-favourite Far Cry title... News XDefiant Server Test Session Now Available To Preload On Xbox Series X|S Here's exactly when you can play Following yesterday's report on XDefiant, Ubisoft has officially confirmed that the game's server stress test will take place on Xbox this weekend! The team's pre-release test starts at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST on Friday, April 19th.
What's more, you can actually download the 'Server Test Session' file right now... Talking Point What Have You Bought In The Xbox Spring Sale 2024? It ends this Thursday! It's now been almost two weeks since the Xbox Spring Sale 2024 brought over 800 discounts to the Microsoft Store, and time is officially running out, with this year's version of the sale set to expire on April 18th.
Before then, don't forget to check out a bunch of our Xbox Spring Sale guides here at Pure Xbox, including News Xbox's Sea Of Thieves Reaches 40 Million Players Prior To PS5 Launch "A truly extraordinary number" Xbox and Rare's Sea Of Thieves is officially about to set sail on PS5 in just a couple of weeks' time, but before then, it's been announced today that the game has now surpassed 40 million players across Xbox consoles and PC.
In a message on the Sea of Thieves website, Executive Producer Joe Neate thanked the game's... 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 Baldur's Gate 3 Sequel Being Planned, But Not From Larian Studios The BG3 dev is stepping away from the series It's no secret that Baldur's Gate 3 has been an absolutely smashing success for Larian Studios and IP-owner Hasbro, as the game has swept pretty much every awards show we can think of recently. Well, the owner wants to press on with more Baldur's Gate in the future for obvious reasons, but it'll have to... News Orcs Must Die! 3 Is Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (April 17) Your latest Game Pass title is here Today's Xbox Game Pass drop is available now, with Microsoft bringing Robot Entertainment's Orcs Must Die! 3 to the library during a busy month for the service.
So, we'll drop a quick introduction to this new Game Pass addition down below, alongside some handy links to what else is coming to Game Pass in April... News Pocketpair CEO On Devs Copying Palworld: 'These Are Incredible Times' The Game Pass hit seems to be inspiring other devs Ever since it burst onto the scene back in January, Palworld has been labelled a Pokémon clone of sorts - or at least something akin to 'Pokémon with guns' available on Xbox. However true that may be, Pocketpair's CEO has now claimed that its game is being copied, during "incredible times" for the News New 3D Platformer 'Penny's Big Breakaway' Scores An Xbox Demo Download it today If you've been eager to try out the retro-inspired 3D platformer Penny's Big Breakaway on Xbox Series X|S, now is your chance.
Publisher Private Division and developer Evening Star have released a new demo across all platforms including Microsoft's storefront, so you can download this trial now and see what it's like for yourself... Tuesday16th Apr 2024 News Another Three Titles Are Joining Xbox Game Pass Core This April And it's not a bad list! Microsoft has today announced another selection of titles coming to Xbox Game Pass Core, the team's replacement for the now-defunct Xbox Live Gold service.
In total, three games will join the smaller Game Pass Core collection on April 23rd, including the pictured Deep Rock Galactic and Bugbear's chaotic racer Wreckfest... News These Six Games Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass (April 17-30) The latest official roundup of new titles Microsoft has announced the latest batch of Xbox Game Pass titles for April 2024, which includes the previously confirmed Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes and Another Crab's Treasure, along with some surprises!
Don' Guide Xbox Game Pass Core: Full List Of Games (April 2024 Update) Here's everything you can play on Game Pass Core Back in September 2023, Microsoft finally phased out Xbox Live Gold, replacing it with Xbox Game Pass Core as a new entry-level tier to its subscription service.
Unlike Games with Gold, which has now been scrapped, Xbox Game Pass Core grants subscribers access to a select list of games separate to... News Two Additions Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (April 16) Including another day one release We have a couple of fresh additions on Xbox Game Pass today, April 16th! Obsidian is bringing its 'Fully Yoked Edition' of Grounded to the library today, while new day-one title Harold Halibut is also available on the service.
Here's a bit more information on today's new Xbox Game Pass additions:
Grounded: Fully... News Six Games Will Leave Xbox Game Pass In Late April 2024 The latest group of leavers The second batch of games leaving Xbox Game Pass in April 2024 has been revealed today, and in total we have six games leaving the library - including one EA Play title.
Here's the full list of titles leaving Xbox Game Pass on April 30, 2024:
Xbox Game Pass: Leaving Soon (April 30, 2024):
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April... Talking Point Do You Actively Avoid Xbox Games With Massive Download Sizes? Storage space and download speeds can be an issue Since the arrival of the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S in late 2020, it feels like we've been talking about download sizes a lot more than we used to. A few years ago, it came as a huge surprise if a game surpassed the 100GB mark in terms of its file size, and now it's becoming pretty commonplace... News The Outlast Trials Gets Its First Update Since 2024 Xbox Launch Be prepared for a Toxic Shock The Outlast Trials seemed to get off to a pretty good start on Xbox last month, and now the team has revealed its very first update since that much-anticipated console launch.
The game's 'Toxic Shock' event starts today, running through May 7th on all platforms - including Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. The update adds... News This Week's Xbox Deals Include A Huge Discount For 2022's Saints Row Time to pull the trigger? We're now entering the final couple of days of the Xbox Spring Sale 2024, but Microsoft has also added just over 100 games to the list of Xbox deals for the next week, with most of them being exclusive to Xbox Game Pass members.
Interestingly, 2022's failed Saints Row reboot has dropped to a very low price in the process,... News Palworld Update 0.2.2.0 Coming To Xbox Soon, Here's What's Included "Major fixes" and more Pocketpair is still rolling out regular updates for its smash hit release Palworld and this includes a new patch for Xbox Series X|S, bumping the game up to Version 0.2.2.0.
This latest update, which will be released when its ready, comes with "major fixes" and various other fixes. Here's the full rundown of what to expect... News Xbox's Towerborne Beta Is Opening Up To More Players Ahead Of 2024 Launch "Sign up thru the Insider Program today" Xbox Game Studios' Towerborne first opened up pre-release playtesting last year, and now the team has announced another expansion to its Insider Program. Developer Stoic will be "opening the doors" to more players "very soon" as the team continues to build towards the game's full launch.
At the moment we... News It Takes Two's Developer Is Almost Ready To Reveal What's Next "We got new (real good) stuff cooking..." The amazing co-op adventure It Takes Two was undoubtedly one of our favourite games of 2021, and over the past few years, we've been patiently sitting and waiting to hear what might be coming next from Hazelight Studios.
Fortunately, it sounds like we don't have long to wait! In a social media post...
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