In a recent earnings call over at Rockstar Games owner 2K, the company’s CEO was asked about GTA 6 running on Xbox Series S – and the response should instil come confidence in Series S owners. In short, CEO Strauss Zelnick says that the team are used to developing for lower spec hardware, and that … Read more
Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin’ in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he’s not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that’s far too old for him, watching … Read more
At a glance: 12.7% of UK games workforce contractors as of May 2024, vs 4.4% in April 2023 Number of UK games industry workers rose to 28,516 people 248 companies closed down or exited the games industry during the survey period Number of full time roles had lowest annualised rate of growth since 2012 The … Read more
The London Games Festival has announced its 2025 schedule, including the launch of new consumer games expo New Game Plus. Celebrating its tenth anniversary from April 2 to April 13, 2025, New Game Plus will headline the festival and feature upcoming games from across the globe. It will include more than 30 titles from the … Read more
Image: Damien McFerran / Time Extension Archivists have uncovered a prototype of a lost Commodore 64 “visual novel” from the co-creator of Centipede Dona Bailey. The game, which is called Computer Theatre, was found in the collection of Paul Allen Newel (one of the designers of Simutrek’s laserdisc game Cube Quest) and was reportedly a … Read more
For those who aren’t fully caught up with Microsoft’s new Game Pass plan – the ‘Standard’ tier replaced ‘Xbox Game Pass Console’ earlier this year. Instead of forgoing online multiplayer access like the Console tier used to, XGP Standard includes online play, while providing a smaller library of games than the full Ultimate service at … Read more
You’d think there might be some kind of complicated reason as to why a successful show like Squid Game is only getting one season, but it’s actually quite simple. When Squid Game proved to be such a massive hit back in 2021, it was pretty obvious that Netflix would want to capitalise on … Read more
Steam launches game recording | News-in-brief
Xbox Game Pass gets another day one release today in the form of Metal Slug Tactics, and while a busy schedule has prevented us from delivering a Pure Xbox review for this one, plenty of other outlets have begun posting their thoughts on the title. And, it’s looking like a more-than-solid addition to the Game … Read more
Back at the start of the year, the team behind the awesome Microsoft Rewards program announced that major changes were being made on the Xbox side of things, including the removal of the old MS Rewards console app. We saw some changes to Xbox Game Pass Quests as part of this as well, and today, … Read more
