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One Of 2025's Best Game Pass Releases Just Got More Free Content
9.4.2025
Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders is one of my favorite surprises of the year so far. The skiing game is part physics-driven scramble, part relaxing journey through nature, and all a very fun time. It’s been free with a paid Game Pass subscription on Xbox and PC, and just received a new set of slopes...
2025's Highest-Rated Metacritic Game Is Also A Game Pass And PS Plus Release This Month
8.4.2025
Blue Prince is an ingenious first-person adventure about exploring a house and uncovering its tantalizingly unexpected secrets. It’s already the highest-rated game of 2025 on Metacritic so far, and it also happens to be hitting Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus the day it comes out. Read more
South Of Midnight: The Kotaku Review
7.4.2025
Many games are set in America, but few truly feel American. And I don’t mean that most games lack patriotism or red, white, and blue banners. I mean that, while they may use the country’s landmarks, stars, and cities, and even make reference to its politics, they don’t truly engage with American...
The Latest Batch Of March Xbox Game Pass Additions Almost Makes Up For What's Leaving
18.3.2025
The second set of Xbox Game Pass games for March 2025 have been confirmed and they include plenty of things to look forward too. From apocalyptic RPC Atomfall to the Blizzard Arcade Collection sporting retro co-op delight The Lost Vikings, it’s packed. It’s almost enough to make up for all of...
An Xbox Handheld Is Reportedly Coming As Early As This Year
10.3.2025
Microsoft may be pivoting to a multiplatform approach for its biggest games, but that doesn’t mean it’s abandoning hardware just yet. The company reportedly has an Xbox handheld planned for 2025 as it works on its next-gen consoles aiming for release in 2027. It looks like the Switch 2 won’t be...
24 Games Coming In March We Can't Wait To Check Out
4.3.2025
Peak release season for the first half of 2025 is officially upon us. The February flood picks up into a tidal wave in March with dozens of new games both big and small to check out, as well as tons more that will blow up or be discovered in the weeks ahead. Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the...
Forza Horizon 5 Pioneers Bizarre New Form Of Early Access Garbage On PS5
27.2.2025
Forza Horizon 5, which launched over four years ago on Xbox and PC, is making the leap to PlayStation 5 soon, but because it’s 2025, the game will lock “early access” to Xbox’s open-world driving sim behind a pricey special edition. It’s the next evolution in publishers holding games hostage...
This App Is On A Mission To Recommend You The Perfect Game
27.2.2025
What if finding the perfect game to play was as easy as swiping left and right in a dating app, minus the actual horrors of online dating? That’s part of the pitch behind Ludoscene, an app for game recommendations that uses humans rather than machines to tell you what to play. The other part of...
Xbox Delays Its Big Fantasy RPG Blockbuster Fable To 2026
25.2.2025
On Tuesday, Playground Games and Xbox announced that the upcoming Fable reboot has been delayed. It was set to arrive later this year but has now been pushed back until 2026. The reboot of the popular RPG franchise was first revealed by Xbox in 2020. Read more
Whoa, A Ton Of Cool New Games Just Got Announced For Xbox Game Pass
24.2.2025
It’s looking like a good Game Pass harvest this year, especially because Microsoft’s backlog of big first-party Xbox games like Doom: The Dark Ages and Fable are coming in 2025. But tons of other cool stuff is headed to the subscription service as well, and a bunch of them were announced during...
Xbox's Latest Big Single-Player RPG Was Originally Pitched As Skyrim + Destiny
21.2.2025
Obsidian Entertainment’s Avowed is a wonderful single-player RPG featuring large fantasy zones to explore and chatty companions. But that wasn’t always the plan. In fact, it was originally designed as an online game similar to Destiny.Read more
Every Question You Have About Avowed, Answered
19.2.2025
The next big Game Pass RPG, Avowed, is finally here and it’s really good. However, perhaps you’re wondering if the game is on Steam? Or if you can play it with a friend via co-op? Or maybe you just want to know how much space it will take up on your Xbox’s SSD? Read more
Xbox CEO Confirms What We Knew: The Console Wars Are Over
18.2.2025
In case you didn’t notice, the console wars—the decades-long battle between mulitple companies and their plastic game boxes—ended a few years ago. And while Sony continues to fight on with its PlayStation despite the war being over, Xbox CEO Phil Spencer recently confirmed that, yeah, it’s...
Obsidian Has Quietly Become Xbox's Secret Weapon
14.2.2025
In 2022, Obsidian Entertainment was the only first-party Xbox studio to ship a new game, Pentiment. And in 2025, the Microsoft-owned studio has already launched one big RPG, Avowed, and is set to release a second one, The Outer Worlds 2, later in the year. If it wasn’t clear before, it is now:...
I Hope Every RPG Steals Avowed's Brilliant Inventory System
13.2.2025
Obsidian’s latest RPG, Avowed, is out now on Xbox and PC (for those who pre-ordered the expensive fancy version) and it’s a really good game! But one key thing I wanted to highlight is the RPG’s inventory and item management system because it’s really good and I want more games to copy it.Read more
15 Things To Know Before You Start Playing Avowed
13.2.2025
Avowed, the newest RPG from Obsidian Entertainment, is out now on Xbox and PC, and it’s very good! But before you hop into this next big Game Pass RPG, here are 14 tips and tricks to keep in mind. And don’t worry, there are no spoilers below.Read more
Avowed: The Kotaku Review
13.2.2025
Avowed features plenty of commentary about empires, religion, colonization, war, progress, and other weighty matters. But what Avowed is really about, when you strip everything else away, is simple: Who are you loyal to? That’s the question at the heart of this new role-playing game. And more than...
From What's Out To What's Coming: 17 Cool Hype Games We Can't Wait To Check Out In February
10.2.2025
Welcome to February, an otherwise quiet, wintery month that has quickly established itself in recent years as one of the hottest times for developers to release their games. Some of the biggest games of 2025 are out this month, as well as some of the longest, with February bookended by massive RPGs...
Game Pass Gets Madden NFL 25 In Time For The Super Bowl As More Xbox Games Head To PS5
4.2.2025
Are you prepared to watch the Eagles snatch defeat from the jaws of victory this weekend? I am not, but destiny may have other plans. Either way, Philadelphia will be a mess. Schools are already opening late the day after the Super Bowl, a perfect time to relive the glory of Saquon Barkley somehow...
There's A Great New RPG On Game Pass And A Fantastic New Dungeon Crawler On Steam
1.2.2025
This week, our roundup of takes includes a recommendation for a very cool new RPG on Game Pass and an even stronger rec for a new dungeon crawler on Steam. Also, we look at what certain reactions to a new Superman TV spot reveal about how some fans relate to movies nowadays, and see why the trading...