{"id":840352,"date":"2026-08-01T12:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840352\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T12:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:32:10","slug":"what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-august-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840352\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 1-2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

It’s weekend time! We’ve obviously got some big new Xbox Game Pass titles to check out including Halo: Campaign Evolved<\/a> and Mistfall Hunter<\/a>, and don’t forget that the Xbox Ultimate Game Sale ends in just a few days.<\/p>\n

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

Fraser Gilbert, Editor<\/p>\n

I’m actually just getting back from a week-long holiday at the beach, so I hope everyone’s had a good week and enjoyed playing Halo: Campaign Evolved and whatever else! I’m writing this well ahead of time, but I definitely will have taken my ROG Xbox Ally X<\/a> away with me, so it’s probably been a few days’ worth of indie and AA games for the most part.<\/p>\n

I haven’t really got much else to say right now, aside from that I’m looking forward to Beast of Reincarnation<\/a> next week. Game Freak’s Pok\u00e9mon titles shaped my childhood, and Pocket Card Jockey<\/a> is one of my favourite handheld games of all time, so I’ve got high hopes that they’re going to deliver with this ambitious new adventure title.<\/p>\n

Have a great weekend, everyone.<\/p>\n

Craig Reid, Contributor<\/p>\n

I’m feeling the withdrawal from Gears E-Day<\/a>. I just want to play more! I suppose I better make do with Gears 5<\/a> for now then, It’s still such a good game. This weekend is all about the OGs it seems, as I’d like to keep going with Halo: Campaign Evolved. My goal at the moment is to complete a Legendary Remix campaign, but woof! It’s still kicking my butt.<\/p>\n

Last week I went to the cinema to see The Odyssey and thought it pretty good! So, I’m feeling the Greek vibes and want to play more Hades II<\/a>. But now I feel bad whenever I wipe the floor with one-eyed Polyphemus. Poor lad just wants to make cheese.<\/p>\n

Oh, and I’m kinda itching to give Waterpark Simulator<\/a> a go…it looks fun!<\/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":"It’s weekend time! We’ve obviously got some big new Xbox Game Pass titles to check out including Halo:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,5105,39254,61,135475,6734],"class_list":["post-840352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-features","tag-talking-point","tag-technology","tag-what-are-you-playing","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}