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


https://www.purexbox.com/news/2026/07/tw...ss-july-22

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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Xbox Game Pass 'Starter Edition' Arrives For More Players In Partnership With Meta H

"A new benefit connected to the Meta Horizon+ subscription".Back in May, Xbox announced that it was creating a "Starter Edition" of Game Pass that was specific to Discord Nitro members as part of their subscription, and now that same tier has also extended over to Meta Horizon+.If you've never heard of it before, Meta Horizon+ is a membership that you can buy for Meta Quest VR headsets, allowing you to access 100+ VR games instantly for a monthly or yearly fee. That fee also now includes Xbox Game Pass Starter Edition as standard, providing 50+ games, 10 hours of cloud time and access to Xbox Rewards.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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Splatoon Raiders Review

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Like many, Splatoon 3 felt to me like a game that was certainly a lot of fun, but…
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Order of the Sinking Star is coming to PS5, hands-on report

The glittering sky of mystery, magic, and head scratching enigmas is becoming much larger – Order of the Sinking Star is arriving on PlayStation 5 later this year. Developed by Jonathan Blow’s independent studio Thekla, it should come as no surprise that this stablemate of Braid and The Witness is a puzzler… but with a […]


https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/21/...on-report/

The Planet Crafter Is Out Now On Xbox Game Pass, And Here's What The Reviews Say

Latest addition to XGP in July!The Planet Crafter, or simply Planet Crafter, if you will, is today's Xbox Game Pass addition for July 2026, bringing its sci-fi base-building survival goodness to the subscription service on both PC and, for the first time, console!It's an open-world terraforming survival type that supports co-op for up to 10 players, tasking you and your mates with transforming an inhospitable planet into a comfy spot to call home. If you've played Subnautica 2 or anything of that vein, you'll have a pretty good idea of what to expect.Since Planet Crafter launched on Xbox Series X|S, there's only been one full review published so far, so we'll have a look at that before seeing what players are saying on Xbox and Steam:Xbox Achievements (7/10)"While it’s taken its sweet time getting to consoles, The Planet Crafter emerges as an enjoyable entry in the survival genre, with simple base building, clearly-presented objectives, and an oddly relaxing gameplay loop that’ll get its hooks into you."Read the full article on purexbox.com


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Two Massive Betas Are Now Confirmed For Xbox Series X|S In August

Both with early access periods, followed by Open Betas.August looks like it's shaping up to be a big month already! Amongst all the new releases coming our way (including some exciting Xbox Game Pass titles), we've also now got two massive betas confirmed for Xbox Series X|S.The first of these is the Gears of War: E-Day Multiplayer Beta, which will run across two weekends in August. Anyone who pre-orders the game digitally (and in some cases physically) or has a subscription to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate / PC Game Pass will get early access between August 6th and August 10th.Read the full article on purexbox.com


https://www.purexbox.com/news/2026/07/tw...-in-august

Ex-Forza Horizon Director Jokes About Making Xbox's Next Halo

"Asha, reach out and I'll give you a pitch".Former Playground Games and Forza Horizon veteran Mike Brown has been hard at work on his own open-world driving game, Clutch, and it seems as though he'd like a stab at an open-world Halo game next.In a podcast with MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Brown discusses his departure from Playground Games and Xbox, as well as what it's been like founding his own studio, Maverick Games, back in 2022. As the conversation begins to wind down, It's revealed that Brown is a huge Halo fan, who jokingly states "it's a hard life being a Halo fan".Read the full article on purexbox.com


https://www.purexbox.com/news/2026/07/ex...-next-halo

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