{"id":823025,"date":"2026-07-25T13:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T13:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823025\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T13:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T13:51:17","slug":"what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-july-25-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823025\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Playing This Weekend? (July 25-26)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Talking<\/a><\/p>\n

Welcome to the weekend! As always, we’ve got loads of Xbox Game Pass titles<\/a> to check out over the next few days, and let’s not forget the early access for Halo: Campaign Evolved<\/a> – now live if you bought one of the special editions!<\/p>\n

Here’s what we’re playing on Xbox this weekend:<\/p>\n

Fraser Gilbert, Editor<\/p>\n

It’s got to be more Halo: Campaign Evolved<\/a> for me! I’ve been having a blast revisiting the first campaign over the past few days, and it’s encouraged me to play through the rest of them in The Master Chief Collection<\/a> and beyond as well – so perhaps I might make a start on Halo 2<\/a> if I get the chance this weekend.<\/p>\n

Besides that, I’m playing plenty of Football Manager<\/a> following the World Cup, I’m enjoying both Denshattack!<\/a> and PBA Pro Bowling 2026<\/a> quite a lot on Xbox Game Pass, and I wouldn’t be surprised if I end up trying out something totally random (perhaps Planet Crafter<\/a>) over the weekend too!<\/p>\n

Have a good one, folks.<\/p>\n

Craig Reid, Contributor<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got a proper hankering for some Gears<\/a> lately, probably because I kicked off the weekend with early access to Gears of War: E-Day<\/a>\u2019s multiplayer. I\u2019m excited to tell you all about it soon.<\/p>\n

That said, it’ll most likely be lots of Halo: Campaign Evolved for me. I\u2019m currently working through a Legendary Remixed Campaign that\u2019s been absolutely kicking my ass – wish me luck!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve played a lot of shooty-shooters lately though, so I\u2019ll probably look to calm things down with a bit of Discounty<\/a>. It\u2019s a nice, chill, laid-back game and exactly what I need to unwind after all that Covenant and Locust slaying.<\/p>\n

Happy gaming!<\/p>\n

Tell us what you’re playing this weekend down below!<\/p>\n

\"Fraser<\/p>\n

Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the weekend! As always, we’ve got loads of Xbox Game Pass titles to check out over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,1379,18394,105,397049,7476],"class_list":["post-823025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-features","tag-talking-point","tag-technology","tag-what-are-you-playing","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}