Talking Point: How Much Has The Xbox Outage Affected You?

Can you play anything yet?Xbox servers have been down for most of the day (July 27), impacting thousands of players, myself included, and leaving me unable to play most of my games.Sifting through social media platforms for the general reaction whilst keeping an eye on the Xbox Status page for a miracle, continues to paint a bleak picture for a digital-only future. My thoughts are already with the Xbox Series S owners, who don't even have the option of turning to their physical library. Not like it would change much, as Microsoft's server outage hasn't even spared my precious physical disc-based games - Not my discs!Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Xbox Servers Were Down For 20 Hours, But Everything Should Be Working Now

Update: "Good news — the earlier Xbox issue should now be mitigated".Last week, Xbox suffered an untimely server outage preventing players from accessing Halo: Campaign Evolved Early Access on the very same day it launched. Not great from Team Green, and to make matters worse, it looks like servers are playing up once again.You're not alone, Xbox Support confirms the outage, this time preventing players from signing into accounts, games not showing up in libraries, and issues launching games.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Stalker 2: Cost Of Hope Gets August 2026 Release Date For Xbox, PS5 & PC

Launches alongside major 2.0 Unreal Engine 5 update.GSC Game World has just announced the first major expansion for Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is set to release on August 20, 2026.We got a new trailer for the upcoming DLC Cost of Hope, which introduces two new regions with plenty more "horrors and mysteries of the Zone" to encounter. The expansion arrives alongside a massive 2.0 Unreal Engine 5 update.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Xbox Servers Are Still Down, Preventing Players From Accessing Both Physical And Dig

Players can't even play "disc-based games right now".Last week, Xbox suffered an untimely server outage preventing players from accessing Halo: Campaign Evolved Early Access on the very same day it launched. Not great from Team Green, and to make matters worse, it looks like servers are playing up once again.You're not alone, Xbox Support confirms the outage, this time preventing players from signing into accounts, games not showing up in libraries, and issues launching games.Read the full article on purexbox.com


https://www.purexbox.com/news/2026/07/xb...ital-games

Talking Point: How Much Has The Xbox Outage Affected You?

Can you play anything yet?Xbox servers have been down for most of the day (July 27), impacting thousands of players, myself included, and leaving me unable to play most of my games.Sifting through social media platforms for the general reaction whilst keeping an eye on the Xbox Status page for a miracle, continues to paint a bleak picture for a digital-only future. My thoughts are already with the Xbox Series S owners, who don't even have the option of turning to their physical library. Not like it would change much, as Microsoft's server outage hasn't even spared my precious physical disc-based games - Not my discs!Read the full article on purexbox.com


https://www.purexbox.com/features/talkin...fected-you

Halo: Campaign Evolved Legendary Ending Teases A Halo 2 Remake Is On The Way

*Minor Spoiler Warning*.Halo Studios has teased that a remake of Halo 2 is coming, and they've done it in the best possible way.Back in 2001, players who managed to complete the final mission of Halo: Combat Evolved on Legendary difficulty were treated with a secret ending. It wasn't anything major, just a fun cutscene featuring the UNSC's finest, Sergeant Johnson hugging a Covenant Elite as the Halo ring exploded around them.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Lara Croft Suffers Another Delay, Tomb Raider: Catalyst Pushed To 2028

Hopefully it's worth the wait!Lara Croft can't seem to catch her breath, as it looks like Tomb Raider: Catalyst has been pushed back to 2028.The legendary adventurer has has suffered a rocky revival, with the reimagined version of her original adventure, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, becoming the first of Amazon's Lara Croft projects to receive a delay, moving it from its planned release this year to February 12, 2027.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Xbox Servers Are Down Again, Preventing Players From Accessing Games

Xbox Live server issues preventing sign ins, game library visibility, and launching games.Last week, Xbox suffered an untimely server outage preventing players from accessing Halo: Campaign Evolved Early Access on the very same day it launched. Not great from Team Green, and to make matters worse, it looks like servers are playing up once again.You're not alone, Xbox Support confirms the outage, this time preventing players from signing into accounts, games not showing up in libraries, and issues launching games.Read the full article on purexbox.com


https://www.purexbox.com/news/2026/07/xb...sing-games

Talking Point: What Have You Bought In The Xbox Summer Sale 2026?

It ends in just a few days' time!It's finally almost time for the Xbox Summer Sale 2026 to come to a close. The big sale with over 2000 discounts has been live since the middle of July, but it'll all be over by the end of July 29th.As you've probably seen, we've been putting together a bunch of guides for the Summer Sale over the past week-or-so, including all the backwards compatible games, 25 titles we wanted to highlight specifically, and the 90-95% discounts.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Three Games Are Confirmed For Xbox Game Pass To End The Month (July 28-31)

Two of them being huge additions!The final week of July is approaching! We've got three titles set to join Xbox Game Pass over the next few days, and considering they're spread out, we thought we'd round them up in this article to ensure you don't miss anything.Of course, Halo: Campaign Evolved is the big highlight - a game we've been having a blast with here at Pure Xbox, and one that's finally coming out of its Premium "early access" period on July 28th.Read the full article on purexbox.com


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