Spelunky is a supremely frustrating game. It's frustrating failing over and over again, slowly and meticulously mastering the systems to accomplish your goals. And, it's frustrating watching other people effortlessly run through Spelu...

Love is not in the air in February, at least not as far as Games with Gold goes. Cupid's arrow has flown astray of Xbox, as next month's freebies are focused on cosmic horror and laser blasters.  On Xbox One, Xbox Live Gold subscriber...

Xbox is starting 2020 with two games where the lead sticks to the shadows. Good synergy considering they couldn't be more diametrically opposed from a moral standpoint. Batman: A Telltale Games Series is January's Xbox One game that m...

A single game with staying power is a difficult achievement to obtain in this industry. With dozens of titles launching each week, most of them in the Switch eShop, the spotlight tends to move quickly as new hits surpass the current crop of...

Over the decades, games and ideas come and go. At the end of last decade, plastic instrument music games were riding high, but these days they're all but gone. Today, hero shooters and battles royale are the hot ticket, but who knows how lo...

[This post is going to require some audience participation. Mentally hum the Jurassic Park theme while reading this. Or click this link and listen to it. Blogging is now a transmedia enterprise.] Ahead of the Thanksgiving weekend, Xbo...

Do you have any fondness for Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter? Good! The Xbox Games with Gold lineup for November 2019 is banking on that fact. As far as these things go, it's not an eye-catching month. If you're subbed to Xbox Live Gold or Gam...

We're only a week out from Obsidian's new RPG The Outer Worlds, but in the meantime, Fallout: New Vegas is calling my name. It's joining the Xbox Game Pass catalog today, and honestly, one little run across the desert couldn't hurt. I wonde...

We've had consistently great things to say about Xbox Game Pass these past several months, but when it comes to Games with Gold, well, things tend to get a little funkier. The October 2019 lineup is no exception. It's jarring to see a Hall...

The Switch release of Grid Autosport completely snuck up on me. Despite following the news pretty intently, I somehow missed that it's coming out next week. Available on the eShop starting September 19, 2019, developer Feral Interactive (w...

Xbox Live Gold subscribers are in for a treat in September. The "Games with Gold" selection has been announced and it contains Hitman: The Complete First Season. While not as good as its sequel, IO Interactive's reboot to the iconic assass...

We're most of the way through 2019, and Microsoft is still putting work into a console that launched in 2005. We're approximately one calendar year away from the Xbox 360 being two generations old, yet it's not quite dead. This morning...

Without much warning, Codemasters' 2013 racer GRID 2 has been delisted from all digital marketplaces. This includes Steam, the Humble Store, PSN, and the Xbox Live Marketplace. While physical copies exist for consoles, you'll now be unable ...

Life is like a hurricane. One day, DuckTales. The next, no more DuckTales. Disappointment comes hard and fast. Capcom has confirmed that DuckTales: Remastered will be delisted from digital storefronts on August 8. That means it'll no ...

Xbox Game Pass is set to receive quite the collection of games next month. Coming from practically every genre imaginable, subscribers to Microsoft's service will have a chance to play Ashes Cricket for free, among others. That's worth the ...

Sony might be striking out with PlayStation Plus' July line-up, but at least Xbox One gamers are getting some quality titles. Both Symphony of the Night and Inside headline a month that is pretty decent, overall. Meet the Robinsons, based ...

[Update: As it turns out, the delisting for Alpha Protocol wasn't because of Sega losing publishing rights, but due to a music license. As is the case with most digital removals, Sega did not renew its contract for the song "Turn Up The Rad...

Minecraft: Story Mode is about to be delisted from digital marketplaces, but something odd is going on with the Xbox 360 version. In a strange limitation of the Xbox Live Marketplace, there is no way to remove a title from sale while lettin...

Microsoft's heading into E3 with a Games with Gold lineup that's fairly divisive. All of the games are good in their own right, but only one of them is something that most everyone can enjoy -- and most everyone has already played it. On X...

"Better late than never," some people might say as a flimsy excuse for belatedly getting around to stuff. Thanks to backward compatibility on Xbox One, late is a viable option and never is increasingly obsolete. The last console generation ...

Switch is about to get one of the finest indie hits from the last generation of consoles. Josef Fares' video game debut Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons is bringing its familial bonding to Switch on May 28 for $15. The most unexpected ad...

Child of Light was a standout release for Ubisoft. In an era where fans were becoming increasingly worried that they were just jamming AAA open world concepts into everything they made, a beautiful indie platformer with RPG elements is just...

It's wild to think about where Trials started and how far the series has gone. For better or worse, it's an institution at this point. If you're ever feeling wistful about the care-free Xbox Live Arcade days, it's not too late to revisit Tr...

As an action fan I'm pretty much checking out everything I can get my hands on, good or bad, to expand my knowledge of the genre. Blades of Time is just one of those games that you probably somehow own in your Steam collection and have neve...

Microsoft has announced the May 2019 line-up for its "Games With Gold" selection and it's all over the place. I understand not every month can be a banger, but this is an exceptionally odd collection of games. Each game is from a different ...