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HUGE discounts for great games!Looking for some cheap Xbox games during the Xbox Spring Sale 2026?There are a whopping 2000+ titles discounted as part of this year's sale, and over 80 of them have been reduced by 90% or even as much as 95% for the next two weeks.Read the full article on purexbox.com

A simulator extravaganza.Simulators are becoming much more popular on Xbox these days, and that's leading to floods of them arriving on Series X|S as of late. Some sims are as addictive as all-hell, and while often laden with some of that endearing 'jank', they're typically quite approachable too. Well, this past week or so I've been playing Car Dealer Simulator on Xbox - and its varied systems and mechanics are starting to sink their teeth into me. There's something for everyone with this sim!I

All of them unplayable by the end of the month.A new month has begun, and therefore we've got more server shutdown notices to bring your way for Xbox games in April. The good news is that there aren't too many in here, but the bad news is that none of them have offline modes.Firstly, we've got King of Meat which is going offline on April 9th - a dungeon crawler game that literally only released a few months ago, but reportedly suffered terrible sales and is therefore getting scrapped after less

As part of patch 1.02.00.The latest update for Crimson Desert has officially been rolling out across Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S today, and when it comes to the Xbox Series X in particular, there's been a notable improvement for the game's performance mode.It's mentioned in the patch notes for Crimson Desert Patch 1.02.00 that the dev has added a "4K upscaling option to Performance Mode on Xbox Series X", and according to some early impressions, it's quite the "game changing" addition:Read t

A serious value for Xbox players.When Xbox Game Pass Premium was first introduced back in October, we didn't know how the service would hold up long-term. Yes, at the time we declared it a great value (largely thanks to Microsoft's new commitment to put its own games in the library within a year), but we still weren't sure how the tier would sit within Microsoft's new XGP lineup. Well, six months in and Xbox Game Pass Premium has surpassed our expectations so far, and some of this month's additi

Some early predictions!What's leaving Xbox Game Pass in May 2026? Well, Microsoft hasn't confirmed anything just yet, but based on some games that were added to the service this time last year, we can at least make a few predictions ahead of time.We know that a lot of Xbox users want more advance notice of games leaving Xbox Game Pass, but Microsoft usually gives us around two weeks right now - and don't forget, publishers sometimes secure late deals with Microsoft to keep their games on Game Pa

Including at least two new Game Pass titles!Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for April 6-10! We've not got any major reveals coming up, but there are still plenty of intriguing indies on the horizon, along with at least two Xbox Game Pass titles in the form of Final Fantasy IV and Tiny Bookshop!Here's what's coming to Xbox next week:Read the full article on purexbox.com

An Easter weekend special!Welcome to your first weekend in April! With Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 entering Game Pass Premium a few days ago, we suspect there'll be a bunch of Xbox players jumping into 2025's GOTY for the very first time - that's certainly not a bad way to spend an extended Easter weekend!Here's what we're playing over the next few days:Read the full article on purexbox.com

"A mysterious broadcast calls to all survivors of the blood plague".It's been a long time since Xbox first announced State of Decay 3, but it's finally almost ready to start public playtesting, with a "mysterious broadcast" from Undead Labs announcing plans for multiple Alpha Playtests in the near future.You can watch this broadcast up above, which shows off a few bits of concept art and actual gameplay (albeit only a few seconds) from State of Decay 3, while also emphasising the role of the SOD

It's only been out for two days!Two days ago, a game called Content Warning officially released on the Xbox Store for Xbox One, Series X, Series S and PC, and it's already racked up just under 50 reviews on the US version of the store - amounting to a 4.7/5 rating.This is a formerly Steam-only title that has a whopping 30,000+ user ratings on that platform (with a "Very Positive" average), while the game itself sees you trying to film "spooky stuff with your friends" and make it go viral.Read th

Another day one surprise!We've got our 11th announcement for Xbox Game Pass in April 2026 after just two days of the month!This one is for Tiny Bookshop, which is an amazing Nintendo Switch and PC game that first released last year. In it, you play as someone who's left their life behind to open a travelling bookshop, with the game serving as a casual, cosy simulation title, as well as a narrative adventure.Read the full article on purexbox.com

ID@Xbox is serving up great games on a weekly basis.If you were an Xbox fan in the Xbox 360 era, you'll almost certainly remember the Xbox Live Arcade program (and indeed the Xbox Live Indie Games program), which allowed creators of a smaller size to bring their games to the platform digitally, and gave us some of the most popular titles of the generation like Minecraft and The Walking Dead.Xbox Live Arcade (often referred to as XBLA) is remembered fondly as a result, but we'd argue that ID@Xbox

The latest freebies for XGP subscribers.The Xbox Game Pass Perks program is continuing to add a bunch of freebies for Game Pass members throughout April 2026, including for the likes of Sea of Thieves, Minecraft, FragPunk, PUBG: Battlegrounds and various other games. We expect more to come over the next few weeks.As we've mentioned before, it seems most Xbox Game Pass Perks are now accessible to Essential, Premium and Ultimate members, but there are exceptions where only Ultimate members can get

"What's happening?".There's been a lot of talk about Xbox backwards compatibility in 2026 already, especially since Xbox teased some kind of revival for the program at GDC a few weeks ago, but at the moment, we have no idea what we'll be getting. Will it be brand-new additions for console? The arrival of Xbox backwards compatibility for PC? Could it be something totally different that we haven't considered yet?Whatever the case may be, there's been an interesting discovery by the Better xCloud T

With NBA 2K26 arriving later today!With April now in full swing, and with NBA 2K26 having been randomly announced for Game Pass earlier this week, we wanted to issue a reminder that the first three Xbox Game Pass additions of the month have now begun rolling out!The first two technically arrived yesterday (April 2nd) in the form of Barbie Horse Trails and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — the latter being a new addition for just the Premium tier of Xbox Game Pass. Barbie Horse Trails is for Ultimate

Here's a look at some of the most notable ones.It's always difficult to know what to buy in Xbox's massive sales, and that's especially the case with the Xbox Spring Sale 2026, which features over 2000 games in all - one of the biggest sales we've ever seen on the Xbox Store.With that in mind, we thought we'd pick out a bunch of games in the Spring Sale that are officially at their "lowest price ever" on the Xbox Store at the moment. Everything in the following list has never been cheaper than i

It's been a busy start to the year.What a crazy few months we've had in the world of Xbox, eh? It's normally pretty quiet around this time of the year, but Asha Sharma has taken the role of Xbox boss, we've had multiple showcases, the next Xbox console has been announced, the Xbox Games Showcase has been announced, and Xbox FanFest is making a grand comeback!There's more we could mention (such as how great of a start it's been for Xbox Game Pass), but you get the point - there's definitely some

A surprising advantage for the lesser-powered system.It's not very often that we expect the Xbox Series X to beat the PS5 Pro in terms of visuals or performance, but apparently that's the case with the new upgrade for Assassin's Creed Unity, which has a graphical advantage on Xbox.This is according to the fine folks at Digital Foundry, who advise that the Xbox Series X version of Assassin's Creed Unity is now outputting at 2880x1620 compared to the PS5 and PS5 Pro's resolution of 2304x1296. Ther

A massive celebration for Xbox's 25th anniversary.Woah! Following the announcement of Xbox FanFest in LA for the Xbox Games Showcase 2026 earlier this week, it's now also been revealed that the Xbox FanFest Tour will be stopping at no less than eight destinations this year!Specifically, the following countries will all be getting Xbox FanFest events in 2026, and more locations will be apparently be announced in the near future:Read the full article on purexbox.com

This looks better than the Xbox app itself.Truth be told, we pretty much never engage with the actual Microsoft Store app for Windows. If we're going to play PC games, it's either through the dedicated Xbox PC app, or another storefront like Steam and the Epic Games Store.However, we came across a post today from MondoXbox that suggested the Microsoft Store app had received a major Xbox overhaul recently, and yeah... we've never seen this before. It's either brand-new, or just relatively new!Rea