The Division wasn’t the *best* game (though I thought it was fun), but traversing the snowy streets of NYC was an absolute delight. Ubisoft did an amazing job with that setting.

If you use Microsoft Rewards (which gives you points for things like playing Game Pass games, earning Xbox achievements, and doing Bing searches, among other things), you can pretty easily keep yourself in Game Pass completely for free, with fairly minimal extra effort.

If you use Microsoft Rewards (which gives you points for things like playing Game Pass games, earning Xbox…

Random friendly reminder from an epileptic to anyone who still believes this that, no, someone having a seizure cannot swallow their tongue, and for God’s sake, if you see someone having a seizure, please do not put anything in his or her mouth.

I like to keep an Excel spreadsheet of upcoming games I’m interested in (I’m a nerd, I know), and it’s been extremely challenging trying to determine what’s coming to Xbox only, what’s Xbox-only at launch, what’s coming to current gen vs. what’s coming to next-gen, and what’s coming to Game Pass.

Mediocre/bland gameplay, extremely high production value, interesting premise/universe, very short. Depending on what you value in a game, you’d either really like it or absolutely hate it.

I really don’t get it either. A remaster isn’t going to change the ridiculously outdated combat or barren-planet Mako exploration of ME1, or remove the dull, repetitive mineral scanning from ME2. And the games all look pretty damn good considering how old they are.

I had a big group of friends in the Indian community

I’ve fallen asleep several times playing the game.

This seems like something where the designers forgot the basic concept of “less is more,” and decided to throw sweeping curves all over the place, because why the hell not?

I don’t know the first thing about the screenplay/synopsis for this movie. I’m not sure I even knew there was going to be a Borderlands film until I saw this. I don’t have anything against Eli Roth (of his movies, I’ve only seen Hostel, which I will say is excessively gratuitous drivel). Cate Blanchett is a fantastic…

Ah, I see that “gameplay” now means “entirely scripted cinematic visual experience” now.

I loved Rogue. One of the better stories and was just more of the great gameplay of Black Flag.

I enjoy both exercising and destroying the results of said exercise with beer, junk food, and off-hours laziness.

Jason, without spoiling anything, is there anything you would recommend to make the final chapter of the remake more palatable for a newcomer? Other than playing the original game itself, is there any lore worth reading up on that might help? Or is that a lost cause, and us newbies should just accept that we’re going…

And you’d be risking the public health as much as your own, which is pretty shitty

Man, Mindy Kent spreads more fake news than my 90-year-old grandma after she spends too much time on Facebook.

This shouldn’t shock anyone; just another episode in the “Randy Pitchford is a piece of shit” saga.

China did a lot more than “chill for 2-3 weeks.” We’re in no way equipped to do what they did (both infrastructure-wise and for political reasons).

A significant chunk of his base is unable to really understand things

and this month’s stellar Ori and the Blind Forest