Brandon Strom

In the quest to beat the clock and finish everything leaving Xbox Game Pass before January 15, TateWorlds Entertainment’s Mount & Blade: Warband is likely going to be the most daunting prospect for the majority of subscribers. To see the main narrative adventure that the medieval-themed action RPG and strategy hybrid tells to its conclusion, can take a staggering 77 ho

Every year, I'll get bitten by maybe one multiplayer game that I'll play endlessly with a group of my friends for about a month or two straight before bouncing off of it and never really returning. In 2018, that game ended up being PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds which I played probably close to every single night in the months of January and February this year. Even though I was playing on the crummy Xbox One version, I still loved every minute of my time with what is factually the best battle royale shooter.

While it might not be a major departure from its predecessor, Guacamelee! 2 is just a jolly video game that I adore. If you're a fan of Metroidvania games whatsoever, make sure you get around to playing this one.

One of Super Meat Boy ’s developers, Edmund McMillen, released an equally important title the following year named The Binding of Isaac . This game is special because of the way it blends genres and uses their design to tell its dark story. The Binding of Isaac is first and foremost a danger-filled Zelda- style dungeon crawler and it uses that identity as the metaphor for Isaac’s struggle with mental health. It also embraces roguelike mechanics that, while not the focus of The Binding of Isaac , introduced the idea to younger audiences that would come to popularize the genre in later ye

PUBG is nothing short of a phenomenon. The Battle Royale game kickstarted the genre that is now incredibly popular the world over. The game is in its tenth season and continues to receive updates to keep the game fresh and balanced. After the PC version of the game received version 10.3 at the start of the month, the PUBG Beginner Guide console update 10.3 will be live today, February 23. Here are all the times and patch notes you need to know ab

Pushing past what constitutes the primary story portion of the game, in an attempt to beat everything else that the adventure has on offer, can take anywhere up to 265 hours. It’s worth mentioning at this point that if subscribers feel as though they’re going to fail in their quest to beat everything that’s leaving Xbox Game Pass in time, Microsoft offers a 20% discount on every game currently available on the service, for players who want or need to own anything outri

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Furthermore, I became obsessed with the League of Legends pro scene this year to the point that I was waking up at 4:00 AM nearly every day in October to watch the World Championship live as it happened in Korea. League of Legends has turned me into someone that I don't really recognize, but I'm kind of okay with it. I'm curious to see if I remain as obsessed with League as we move through 2019, but as for this year, it stands as the game that captured my time and attention the most.

Of the games departing Microsoft’s subscription service at the halfway point of this month, Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts 3 is going to be one of the adventures that consumes the most amount of time for many players. As the epic accumulation of over 17 years worth of Disney-themed adventures, this latest entry in the iconic action RPG series serves up plenty of memorable moments across its roughly 30 hour long main st

Xbox Game Pass subscribers who want to experience a solid cooperative game that’s probably a little too reflective of real life for many right now, have until January 15 to do so. That’s because when that date finally arrives, Pandemic: The Board Game ‘s time in Microsoft's subscription will come to an

Like 2010, this year saw significant releases such as Celeste , which balanced ultra-difficult platforming with difficulty adjustment options and showed that platformers have the ability to tell a beautiful story about identity and mental health with nuance and respect. Frostpunk , however, released without as much attention even though it elevated the city-building genre to new and more complex heights. Frostpunk takes the experience of the totalitarian border inspector simulator Papers, Please and applies it to running an entire city in which the survival of hundreds is on the line and the biggest hurdle to success is the player's morality and the sacrifices they are (and aren't) willing to make. Both of these releases act as reminders that video games are fully capable of being art that tackle difficult subjects and do so with c