School’s starting back for a bunch of people this month, and it’s a complicated and mentally exhausting time for both parents and kids this year, which certainly merits some love from Xbox and their Games With Gold...

A few months back in one of our monthly subscription free game articles, we discussed a little bit whether video game players would be more or less drawn to hardcore “everyday life” simulation games right now, such...

Welcome to one of the strangest Julys in recent memory, where the likelihood of people staying indoors and firing up their Xbox is significantly higher than in past years. One would think that subscription services like Live...

The strangeness of 2020 continues into July, though one would naturally expect this month to be a less interesting one in terms of new videogame releases. As folks continue to weather the challenges of keeping their distance...

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...

So far, this year has taken severe and distressing turns for nearly everyone across the globe, which leaves video games in an awkward space between being trivial and almost necessary as distractions.  We’re reaching those summer months...

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...

Regardless of the current state of the global stay-at-home orders/recommendations due to the virus, May never was going to be a big month for video games. The summer months are coming, and with them the prospect of...

As a longtime collector of physical media – not just of the media itself, but of unique collector’s editions and exclusives – it’s almost sad to see what’s happening to the decline and future of “little shiny...

With the recent release of a demo for a long-anticipated remake that’s coming out next month (April), the year in video games feels like it’s finally starting to kick into gear. The release schedule’s catching up to...

This will eventually be a momentous year for video games, for better or for worse, but it’s taking some time for the engine to warm up in these early months. February doesn’t do much to help that,...

As a firm believer that the first actions taken in the new year set a tone for what’s to come for the rest of the year, it’s nice to see Microsoft offer some interesting, quality, if perhaps...