This may sound peculiar, but I don’t necessarily pick games for this column and expect to hate them. Spelunker, for example, I legitimately like, despite its reputation. So I went into Sonic the Hedgehog ‘06 with a little bit of...

Does Duke Nukem Forever really need an introduction? It was announced before I hit puberty. It spent 15 years in development hell, becoming legendary for its protracted development time. Every few years, another tease would come out, saying...

Xbox Live Games with Gold...look how they massacred my boy! Last month wasn't much better and we're looking at a very dry May too. Maybe Microsoft is saving all their energy for June and E3? This month is slim, with Armello, Dungeons 3, LEG...

I'm beginning to look at the monthly Games with Gold lineups less out of real interest and more out of fleeting morbid curiosity. There's no denying that Xbox has been killing it with the Game Pass library lately... and by "killing it," I ...

In what has to be one of the least-attention-grabbing Games with Gold lineups in recent memory, Xbox Live Gold subscribers are getting Warface: Breakout, Vicious Attack Llama Apocalypse, Metal Slug 3, and Port Royale 3 as freebies for March...

[Update: The PC port of El Shaddai is coming to Steam "soon." Here are some early screenshots.] If you never got around to playing the hidden gem El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron on PS3 or Xbox 360, you might have better luck on PC. ...

In an undercover operation worthy of Bond himself, a full playthrough of the canceled Xbox 360 remaster of Rare's GoldenEye 007 has surreptitiously slipped onto YouTube, giving fans of the legendary N64 title perhaps their only opportunity ...

I always appreciate the advanced heads-up Microsoft gives for the Games with Gold lineups. Whether you're in the habit of grabbing games on sale or you like to plan out your schedule, it's just nice to know. Here's the (pretty good!) list f...

Xbox has sputtered and come up short with Games with Gold for most of 2020. That's an unfortunate byproduct of Xbox Game Pass being so well-rounded. Having so many titles on Game Pass means that Games with Gold suffers when it comes t...

It feels like just yesterday that myself and my duos partner won Halo 2 in a local tournament, but here we are. Halo is on its umpteenth game, and legacy titles are being sunset. Halo, as a series, started its life around two deca...

This is probably one of the coolest things I've seen all year, and a bright gaming spot in an otherwise rough 2020. As Modern Vintage Gamer has pointed out, it is possible to run the system link feature across four generations of Xbox. As i...

A building-high mural, painted in England to celebrate the launch of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, has finally been removed after impressing city visitors for seven glorious years. The painting of Revengeance protagonist Raiden has adorne...

Just as the seasons change, so too do the console generations. Not long ago -- like, two weeks -- the Xbox 360 was just last-gen. Now, it's last-last-gen. Or, more succinctly and better-phrased, two gens ago. And that's where you have to l...

There's an inevitable comparison between every month's PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold games. Sometimes it's a knock-down drag-out war, as it's tough to declare a definitive winner. This month, it's a massacre. Yesterday, Sony revealed...

Backward compatibility is a big point of emphasis for both Microsoft and Sony heading into the new generation of consoles. Sony came out a few weeks ago and confirmed that only 10 games won't make the transition from PS4 to PS5. That's a ve...

It's been over a decade now since the release of Left 4 Dead 2, and now with the community-made "Last Stand" update, what better time to kill hordes of zombies than ever before? On today's Impulse, Justin and I discuss and share our past an...

One of Microsoft's pillars of next-gen is unifying the past two decades of Xbox. This morning, Microsoft detailed exactly how Xbox Series S/X make backward compatibility better. An underlooked part of that plan is the way it's dropping barr...

Last last month, we told you about the final add-on for Left 4 Dead 2. It's not your usual DLC, though. This isn't Valve-developed, but rather Valve-sanctioned. It's a fan-made update, but it also has gotten the blessing (and promotion) fr...

Left 4 Dead 2 has survived longer than anyone thought it would. The 2009 cooperative zombie shooter is still kickin' around, proving that it has the mettle to not die quite yet. It's even getting an update sometime soon. The Left 4 De...

When news broke two weeks ago that Forza Horizon 3 would be delisted toward the end of September, I wondered whether it'd go out with one last hurrah as a closing time freebie in next month's Games with Gold. It wasn't meant to be, as...

Did you miss the memo that The Witcher is pretty popular right now? Despite the fact that developer CD Projekt Red has only made three proper Witcher games in nine years, the series lives on through its legacy, as well as the rece...

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is kind of legendary. Not only was it one of the best beat 'em ups of the past decade (I mean, it even kicked off the last decade as it was released in 2010, so that's saying something), but it was...

Microsoft has removed the option to purchase a 12-month subscription to its Xbox Live Gold service. While both one-month and three-month subscriptions remain purchasable, the full year sub has been scrubbed from Xbox stores across all terri...

Any committed Xbox Live Gold subscriber would've done well to buy a racing wheel by now. Nearly month after month in 2020, the biggest Xbox One freebie is a simulation racer. After a one-month reprieve, that trend is back. Rally racer WRC ...

Try to find the throughline with next month's Games with Gold. It might be impossible. We have an action platformer, a visual novel, a sandbox shooter, and a bullet hell shoot-em-up. Not everything fits in a box all nice and tidy, man. On ...