Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster Nintendo Switch 2 Review

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Former Xbox Studio Wins 'Game Of The Year' At Games For Change 2026

Just weeks after announcing they're going independent.It's been a few weeks now since Xbox announced that it was eliminating 3,200 job roles and parting with a number of first-party studios, and one of those studios has just won Game of the Year at the annual Games for Change Awards.The award for "Game/Experience of the Year" went to Compulsion Games' South of Midnight, which was released back in April of 2025 but still met the criteria for this event. Games for Change says that the Game of the Year award is their "grand prize" and celebrates "an exemplary game" that sums up demonstrates a number of key qualities:Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Metal Gear Solid 4's Full Resolution & FPS Details Revealed For Xbox Series X|S

Arriving as part of the Master Collection Vol.2.Can you believe we'll finally be playing Metal Gear Solid 4 on Xbox in just a few weeks' time?! Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol.2 officially releases on August 27th, and we now have full resolution and FPS details for it.Konami has listed the "platform specifications" for each version of MGS 4 over on their official website, and it confirms that Metal Gear Solid 4 will run at 4K, 60FPS on Xbox Series X and 1440p, 60FPS on Xbox Series S. It's worth noting those are the output resolutions, whereas the internal resolutions are "up to" those figures.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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80+ Ubisoft Games Have Suddenly Been Added To The Xbox Store On PC

All sorts of bundles.Ubisoft continues expanding the accessibility of its library across Xbox platforms, with a major update bringing more support to the Xbox app for PC. Checking the Xbox PC app reveals a sweet treat for desktop folk, with more than 80 different Ubisoft editions and bundles available to purchase.It's not a perfect implementation, however, as you'll still need to enable the cumbersome Ubisoft extension to play these titles. It also highlights a consistent issue with Xbox's PC experience, as Reddit users have noticed these games do not support achievements on PC.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Xbox Announces Backwards Compatibility For PC, First Four Games Revealed

"Today, we’re introducing XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC".The rumours were true! Xbox has announced today that backwards compatibility for original Xbox games is officially coming to PC, starting with four titles that are rolling out immediately.Those four games are as follows:Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Microsoft Is Officially Bringing Achievements To 'Select' Original Xbox Games

Across both console and PC via backwards compatibility.The big news of the day is undoubtedly that Xbox is bringing backwards compatibility to PC, but even if you're someone who only plays back compat titles on consoles, you might be pleased to hear about plans for new Xbox achievements.You're probably aware that original Xbox games have never supported achievements since they arrived on the backwards compatibility program a decade ago, but that's about to change. Microsoft says that "select" titles from the original Xbox lineup will add achievements later this year, including the four that were announced for PC today - Blinx, Fuzion Frenzy, Crimson Skies and Conker.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Two 'Day One' Games Are Available Today Across Xbox And PC Game Pass (July 22)

"Work together across randomly generated shifts to investigate your customers...".Ready for some more Xbox Game Pass additions? We've got two of them joining across a couple of tiers of the service today, with Shift at Midnight arriving for console and PC, and Tears of Metal being exclusive to just PC players for now.Shift at Midnight is an online co-op detective horror game where you'll need to manage a gas station and interrogate your customers as some of them aren't as human as they look! Reactions to the multiplayer demo on Steam have been "Overwhelmingly Positive", and we can see this being the kind of game that proves highly popular on Xbox.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Key New Xbox Employee Leaves After Three Months, But Reporter Argues It's A 'Non-Sto

"I’m grateful to Asha and everyone at Microsoft and Xbox".When Asha Sharma was made the head of Xbox back in early 2026, one of her early moves was to bring over a bunch of employees from the CoreAI division at Microsoft, including its VP of Product in the form of Jared Palmer.Imagine everyone's surprise, then, when Palmer announced on social media yesterday that he was leaving Xbox and taking up a new role as Vice President of Engineering at AI company Cognition!Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Beast Of Reincarnation 'Estimated' Length Revealed, Along With Lots Of Other Details

Taken from the most recent previews.We're getting more and more excited for Beast of Reincarnation now — the new game from the developer behind the Pokemon titles, Game Freak — and it turns out a whole bunch more details were revealed about it in recent days.These mostly come from the "Final Preview" of Beast of Reincarnation from IGN, which is available in both written and video form and slightly differs between the two (you can watch the video above).Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Physical Sales Graph For The Past 20 Years Highlights Just How Much Gaming Has Chang

It's a pretty depressing pattern.There's been a lot of pressure on Xbox to continue supporting physical games following PlayStation's decision to pull out of them from 2028 onwards, but we also know that physical sales have suffered on Xbox for a long time.Indeed, they've suffered across multiple platforms for a long time, as evidenced by a Circana graph that's been getting some attention on social media. The graph tracks physical sales in the United States alone, but nevertheless shows the intense drop-off of those sales since 2009, and particularly since the Xbox One and PS4 launches in 2013.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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