While things are looking good for the titles available through the Xbox Game Pass subscription platform right about now, times are getting tough for the old guard with standard Live memberships. As the high-value, game-focused service gets...

Microsoft has been stuck in a slump of passable monthly freebies for its Xbox Games With Gold subscribers for quite a while now, almost as if they’ve run out of available options.  These past months would have...

While the past few months in the broader world itself have certainly been eventful, the lineups of free video games from the subscription services have been far less so. Perhaps it’s because of the rampant digital sales...

Microsoft likely has a strong grasp on what’s going on during the month of September in terms of their catalog of Xbox games and elsewhere, what gamers will be absorbed in and not. This month, they’re releasing...

An easy way to get on the good graces of console owners is to offer exclusives for free through their subscription service, something that Microsoft sets its sights on with August’s Games With Gold for the Xbox...

Summer tends to generate thoughts about the brightness of the sun, to such a degree that eventually one might start to think that they just want to linger in the darkness for a while, away from the...

You don’t get much more focused on a target audience than with the big title Xbox included with their Games with Gold this month.  With the Stanley Cup hockey championship reaching its end very soon — and...

In our recent monthly videogame release update – “Dark, Desolate Days Ahead for May’s Video Game Releases” – the topic was brought up about the hesitation of getting big titles on the market right at the beginning...

Microsoft’s Xbox Games With Gold titles this year have placed a lot of faith in the power of The Force, in that close to 20% of the free titles offered have come with the Star Wars name...

There aren’t very many occasions where things are truly shaken up in the world of video game subscription services, so those moments should be embraced whenever they arise.  The Xbox Games With Gold program was given warning...

After February, Xbox’s primary competition in the subscription service will stop offering legacy titles in their slate of monthly freebies, continuing their avoidance of compatibility with previous gaming generations. Among the consoles available now, Microsoft’s current iteration...

A new year is upon us, and with that comes the fairly quiet month of January in terms of newly released games for the Xbox One and other consoles. While a few big hits will be materializing...