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All of EA Play’s games on Xbox Game Pass would’ve made for one hell of a Christmas present, sure. But while today was meant to be the big day, it looks like it’ll be a couple more months before EA’s catalogue is rolled into Microsoft’s already-generous subscription service. Xbox today announced that it’ll be 2021 before The Sims, Battlefield, Dragon Age and friends become part of your Game Pass subscription. … [Read more...] about EA Play will now become part of Xbox Game Pass for PC next year

Yes, it’s a shame that the addition of all the EA Play games has been delayed until sometime next year, but let’s face it, there are more than enough games on Game Pass to keep you ticking over until then, especially since we’re getting Every. Single. Goddamn Yakuza game on the planet over the next couple of months, with Yakuzas 3-5 arriving on January 28th, and Yakuza 6: Song Of Life arriving on March 25th (so you may want to buy another pass to ensure you can carry on your wrestle dad saga uninterrupted). … [Read more...] about Get 33% off three months of Xbox Game Pass for PC

In other oddities, here’s a first-person santa simulator where you’ve got to shoot presents at trees in folks’ houses to embiggen them and escape through the chimney before daytime. Ah and here’s an infinite runner called Infinite Pizza where you’re riding to the center of an infinitely large pizza pie equipped with a slicer and a gun. On the Cyber side, here’s a puzzler about snapping together levels called CyberSouls III. It’s definitely not the only one of the bunch calling up some neon FPS inspirations. … [Read more...] about Here are 185 jam games challenging the FPS formula, from pizza to santa

You can call Milky Way Prince a visual novel if you like, though that description usually evokes pictures of static pictures hovering over endless dialogue boxes. This game opts for a more stylish approach, mixing 2D sprites and stylized 3D backgrounds to create something more akin to an interactive comic. You click around to scroll text and select the occasional dialog option, but there are also more interactive scenes, like the moments spent in the bathroom grooming yourself before an appointment. I especially liked the way the game depicts sex scenes, with icons representing the five senses that offer you details glanced in the heat of passion. A whiff of perfume. The warmth of Sune’s flesh. The pale mark of a scar on a wrist, quickly concealed. … [Read more...] about The best game you missed in August 2020: Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star

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