Xbox Fan Claims To Know The Start Date & 'Initial' Games For Summer Sale 2026

But will we get a teaser event as well?Back at the end of June, we highlighted the upcoming Xbox Summer Sale 2026 and predicted that it would either start on July 16th or July 23rd, and it looks like we were mostly on the money - but perhaps off by a single day.An Xbox fan known as "Bloomy" has taken to the CheapAssGamer and TrueAchievements forums to suggest that the Xbox Summer Sale 2026 (also known as the Xbox Ultimate Game Sale 2026) will begin at 1pm PT / 4pm ET / 9pm BST on Wednesday July 15th, and their track record suggests it's probably quite likely.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Roundup: The First Reviews Have Arrived For AC Black Flag Resynced

"Yo-ho, yo-ho, great review scores for me".Listen up you scallywags, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced reviews have dropped and they are glowing!I've personally played several hours of the Black Flag remaster myself and thought it a jolly roger of a time. If you're interested in knowing how the game performs across both Xbox Series X and S consoles, consider spying our comparison.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Xbox Game Pass Reportedly Drops To 30M Subscribers, But Has 'Started To Grow Again'

It was confirmed the service lost millions of subscribers last year.It's been almost 10 years now since Xbox changed the gaming industry with the introduction of Xbox Game Pass, and it's played a key role in shaping the brand and how people engage with it ever since.There's a lot of discussion about Game Pass on social media at the moment due to a few reports that have appeared online suggesting that it's dropped to 30 million subscribers in recent years to compared to the 34 million in 2024.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Here's What DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations DLC Looks Like On Xbox Series X|S

Solid 60FPS on Xbox Series S.It has been a tumultuous few days for the developers at id Software, currently dealing with the loss of half the studio as part of Microsoft's untimely Xbox Reset. Amid the layoffs, the team released Revelations, its first major DLC for DOOM: The Dark Ages yesterday onto Xbox Series X|S.We thought we'd take a gander at the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S versions following the DLC's arrival, both in terms of comparison and performance across the Xbox consoles.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Xbox Game Pass Members Are Being Treated To A Surprise New Release Today (July 8)

"Buckshot Roulette" has been a massive hit on Steam.How's this for a surprise Xbox Game Pass addition?! Despite not being mentioned at all in yesterday's roundup of upcoming Game Pass titles, Buckshot Roulette has launched straight into the service for Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, PC and cloud across the Ultimate, Premium and PC tiers.This is a horror game where you play Russian Roulette with "The Dealer" in a "tense, claustrophobic single-player experience", but there's also a multiplayer component for up to four players. It's a brand-new release for Xbox consoles, but it's been on PC for years now and has an "Overwhelmingly Positive" rating over on Steam.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Hunt Your Prey In Turok: Origins On Nintendo Switch 2

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Players’ Choice – The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales voted June 2026

Your votes have spoken: The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales wins Players’ Choice for June. Congrats to Square Enix! What games have you been playing this month so far? Share predictions on July’s winner in the comments below. Last month was filled with fighting, sports, and adventure! Some big new releases included The Adventures […]


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'They Will Report Directly To Me' - Mojang And King Singled Out By Xbox Boss

For having the largest monthly active players.In the midst of layoffs across the majority of Xbox, Microsoft has announced Mojang and King will play a more centralised role in its future plans.Within a lengthy "resetting XBOX" post on Xbox Wire, CEO Asha Sharma addressed the strategy to reduce 3,200 Xbox jobs through FY27, devest several studios, and highlighted Mojang and King as key development teams in the reset.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Xbox CEO Sets Ambitious Goal Of Reaching 'More Than A Billion People Each Day'

She says she knows it's achieveable.New Xbox boss Asha Sharma certainly had a lot to say in her statement regarding the Xbox layoffs and studio departures yesterday, and one particular line from the conclusion has been generating a lot of discussion ever since.While insisting that the changes being made at Xbox are "about a bigger future, not a smaller one", Sharma revealed her ambitious goal of reaching "more than a billion people each day" with the brand.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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'It's A Franchise We Love' - Toys For Bob Keen To Work With Xbox On Banjo-Kazooie Ga

Make it happen, Asha.The folks over at Toys for Bob are busy working on Spyro: A Realm Reborn for Xbox right now, which we absolutely can't wait for, but they've also indicated their interest in bringing back one of the most classic Rare IPs of all time.Yes, the Crash Bandicoot 4 and Spyro Reignited Trilogy studio is keen to work on a new Banjo-Kazooie game if the opportunity arises, as discussed by the Associate Creative Director (Louis Studdert) and Studio Head (Paul Yan) of Toys for Bob on a recent episode of the Kinda Funny Gamescast.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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