What proves a small surprise about September 2025’s selection is only one of the three games are native to PS5. Of course, Psychonauts 2 and Stardew Valley play on PS5 via backwards compatibility, but they are PS4 titles at the end of the day. Nevertheless, there’s a lot of quality on show in the lineup. Psychonauts 2 is a fantastic …
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With E3 dead and buried for a good few years now, Gamescom is the undisputed king of gaming conferences, offering gamers, exhibitionists, and media a means of coming together in perfect harmony to stage one of the grandest gaming shows on earth. But, this isn’t just an expo to dress up in cosplay and buy more merch than you can …
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The announcement of Hollow Knight: Silksong’s release date has created a ripple effect in the indie game community. With the game launching on such short notice – next week, on September 4 – several indie titles that were slated to release on or near that date are collectively jumping out of its blast radius to avoid being overshadowed. Devolver Digital’s …
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Gamescom 2025 has begun, and I’m on site in Cologne, Germany, checking out more than two dozen new and upcoming games, ranging from Hollow Knight: Silksong to The Outer Worlds 2 to 007 First Light and beyond! I’ll be doing individual write-ups for many of these games, but I’ll also be writing condensed quick-hit thoughts on the coolest games I’ve …
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A fresh report has detailed the difficulties faced by some developers keen to launch games for Switch 2 — but who remain unable to do so due to a lack of Nintendo support. According to Digital Foundry, Nintendo is still restricting its supply of Switch 2 development hardware and instead telling some studios to launch their titles as Switch 1 …
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Demonschool, the forthcoming RPG Eurogamer described as “Persona meets Buffy”, has been delayed once again due to the surprise release of Hollow Knight Silksong. The game was originally intended for a release last year, but was delayed until 3rd September this year. Now it’s moved back to 19th November thanks to “brutal” market conditions. The decision appears …
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Wednesday night’s Powerball jackpot will be an estimated $815 million, the seventh biggest in the game’s history, after no winning tickets were sold for Monday night’s $750 million grand prize, Powerball’s 10th largest ever when it was up for grabs. The winning numbers drawn Monday night were 16, 19, 34, 37 and 64, with a Powerball of 22. Wednesday’s jackpot …
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Capcom has announced that it’s taking eight games to Tokyo Game Show next month, and will put on a special Capcom Online Program livestream to go with them. The following titles will be playable on the show floor: In addition, the Japanese publisher will host a livestream on 24th September 2025 at 7am PT / 10am ET / 3pm BST …
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The promising old-school Persona-like Demonschool has been delayed by more than two months, and it’s all because of Hollow Knight: Silksong. Team Cherry announced the long-awaited sequel will release on 4th September 2025, and Demonschool was set to launch the day before. To avoid the release, Demonschool now comes out on 19th November. In a press release, Ysbryd Games said …
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Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin’ in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he’s not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that’s far too old for him, watching football on the telly and …
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