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Customisable startup animations, better streaming, badges & more!Who's up for changing your Xbox's startup animation? Oh yeah!!These six features begin rolling out to select members of the Alpha and Alpha-Skip-Ahead rings in the Xbox Insider program today (September 9th), and they'll eventually become available for everyone in the weeks and/or months ahead.Read the full article on purexbox.com

Who doesn't love a shadow drop.What a treat! During today's Nintendo Direct, two Dragon Quest titles each got their own version of a shadow drop on Xbox Series X|S.We've known Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World is coming to Xbox in December, but now players are able to have a crack at an all-new demo of the game. In addition, Square Enix has remastered Dragon Quest Heroes: Torneko's Mystery Dungeon -Classic HD- and is shadowing dropping it on Xbox consoles TODAY!Read the full article on p

Don't worry, they're not all Switch exclusives!It's been a busy week for the folks at Nintendo, with a special showcase yesterday highlighting the new Ocarina of Time remake and dominating the headlines in the process, while yet another showcase has just been taking place today in the form of the Nintendo Direct for September 2026.This one was filled with the third-party reveals we've come to expect from traditional Nintendo Directs, which means plenty of games were confirmed for Xbox including

Be prepared to pay a premium though.We've seen quite a bit of chatter about the new SteelSeries Aeon Pro Xbox and PC controller over the past 24 hours, which is now available to buy at the quite eye-watering price of $259.99 via the SteelSeries website.Read the full article on purexbox.com

Fable, Gears of War: E-Day, and many more...Spoilers for some major Xbox titles, the existence of unannounced games, and a whole bunch of other big-name games have been spotted online due to an achievements list leak from PC storefront Steam.Exophase, a website used for tracking achievements/trophies, published an extensive list of Steam achievements for games that shouldn't be live yet.Read the full article on purexbox.com

IGN gave it a 10/10!Welcome back to another daily roundup of all the games coming to Xbox on September 9.It's a relatively quiet one today folks, but leading the charge nonetheless is the 1.0 release of Valheim, a Norse-themed survival adventure that launches out of Early Access today and is already receiving incredible reviews.Read the full article on purexbox.com

And more companies may follow soon!This is great news to wake up to on a Wednesday! The Xbox Disc to Digital feature, which is still in testing for Xbox Insiders as things stand, has suddenly started to incorporate Ubisoft games for the first time.Yesterday, there was a lot of chatter on social media about how the likes of Ubisoft, SEGA and Square Enix appeared to be avoiding the program, and Ubisoft actually ended up commenting to Kotaku that they should reach out to Xbox about it. A few hours

"The full catalogue is in it".How about this for a cool project! An Xbox fan has taken it upon themselves to rebuild the classic Xbox 360 Avatar Editor with a "full catalogue" of 21,425 items, accessible via a browser in the form of a website known as 360sona.The creator shared their website with the Xbox Reddit community earlier today, highlighting how they'd been working on it for most of the year. They also revealed some insight into how they put it together:Read the full article on purexbox.

It remains one of the best games of 2026.Once in a while, we're completely surprised by the quality of an Xbox Game Pass day one release, and back in July, the "Tony Hawk but you're a train" game Denshattack! was exactly that.Denshattack! is a vibrant blend of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, SSX, and even a little bit of Jet Set Radio Future, all smushed together to create this sensational train-flipping title. The game launched to stellar review scores and is currently sitting in Metacritic's top 15 ga

"We’re not so silly as to claim that we’re going to kill Forza Horizon".When you think of a driving game on Xbox, it's likely your first thought will be some variation of Forza. Whether that's Motorsport or Horizon, Forza dominates the majority of high-speed thrills for Microsoft. That's something Maverick Games creative director Mike Brown wants to change.Speaking with The Game Business, Brown talks about Maverick's first game, an upcoming narrative-action racer titled Clutch, and how he'd like

Ocarina of Time remake arrives just two weeks before the Rockstar title.Well, well! It's been a year of publishers purposely avoiding the month of November to get out the way of GTA 6, but Nintendo clearly doesn't care about that - they've just set a November 5th release date for the Ocarina of Time remake.This slots the game between Modern Warfare 4 on October 23rd and GTA 6 on November 19th, which marks a two-week headstart on the Rockstar Games epic. There's obviously no sign of GTA coming to

Gamerpics can tell you a lot about a person.Gamer Pictures have been around for near enough 21 years now, launching alongside the Xbox 360 in 2005. They were the precursor to Avatars when it came to player expression - a neat way to show off who you were and what you liked at a glance. But did you know the Xbox 360 only featured 12 gamerpics at launch?Kudos if you remembered, because over the years Xbox continued to add gamerpics for users to purchase and download from the Xbox Marketplace. It's

Worth keeping an eye on.We've already highlighted a few particularly interesting new under-the-radar releases coming to Xbox this week, such as the SEGA Saturn game Culdcept The First Saturn Tribute and the 2000s-style FPS Sprawl Zero, but there are also a few horror releases that we reckon are worth keeping an eye on at least.The game you see in the picture up above is The Alighieri Circle: Dante's Bloodline, which is actually described as a psychological thriller, but certainly features plenty

Tickets, please.Ready for freakin' Bus Simulator 27?! The latest entry in the popular series has arrived on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S today following a brief period of early access for Deluxe Edition buyers, and therefore we've already got some reviews and raw Xbox Series X|S footage to analyse.There are three different game modes on offer in this year's version including Story, Career and Sandbox, and it also features more than 45 officially licensed buses, a large fictional map inspired

Chilling in more ways than one.We're back with another daily roundup of all the games launching today, and, of course, the latest drop from September's Xbox Game Pass lineup!We've got seven games launching today, with the addition of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War for most tiers of XGP. Of the newbies, Mewgenics and Halloween are the most notable, with the former having a fantastic run on PC this year.Read the full article on purexbox.com

New Zealand being first in the queue.It looks like we know the release times for GTA 6! Various outlets have been reporting on them today, including the likes of IGN and Digital Foundry, as the official PlayStation Store has begun listing the times as of this evening.It seems GTAVice was the first to spot this, sharing a big list of release times on their website. The important info here is that GTA 6 appears to be releasing first in New Zealand at midnight local time going into November 19th, w

Assuming they're compatible, that is.Everyone's still talking about Xbox Disc to Digital following its reveal a couple of weeks ago, and the good news is that it's now available in every Xbox Insider ring, meaning a full public release shouldn't be too far away.With that in mind, we thought we'd use this quiet Monday afternoon to ask which games you're personally interested in converting to digital when the feature rolls out to everyone, as it comes with certain benefits such as Xbox Play Anywhe

Culdcept returns with modern features.We're always intrigued by retro games launching on Xbox for the first time, and we've got something from the SEGA Saturn era arriving on Xbox One, Series X and Series S this Tuesday in the form of Culdcept The First Saturn Tribute!This is a self-described "classic fusion of board and card games" that first debuted on the Saturn in 1997, followed by PS1 and even Nintendo DS versions over time, although it's never been released in the West until now.Read the f

Back on the road.There's been quite a lot going on at Double Fine Productions over the past few weeks, with the company leaving Xbox and announcing plans for an indie Kickstarter project (along with teasing a hypothetical Brutal Legend 2, dropping a huge update for Kiln and putting Keeper on PS5), and they've just announced a new game as well!This new game is part of the Action Labs label, which is specifically described as a "new label for weird, little more experimental games", and it's called

Launching this week on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.We've got a new Hot Wheels game arriving on Xbox this week! Just like with Hot Wheels Unleashed 1 and 2, this one's being made by the racing specialists over at Milestone, and the focus this time is to "race beyond the orange track and jump into a Hot Wheels-sized world with four islands to explore".The game is called Hot Wheels: Infinite Rush, and you'll be able to check it out on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S this Thursday (September 10t