In the month of love, Xbox Game Pass is about to get even better. While Crackdown 3 is the biggest release of the month for Xbox Game Pass, it’s not the only high-profile game arriving. The second and fourth-best Batman games respectively, Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Akrham City, are also on the way, with Square Enix’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider rounding out the new releases.

I love Nintendo’s Switch. It’s brilliantly designed little console that’s perfect for playing proper games on the go. It really is clever, but that doesn’t mean that Nintendo doesn’t do some completely ass-backwards thinking and implementation. One of the worst instances of this is in the system’s voice communication. For some unknown reason, Nintendo games on the Switch that use …

It’s not often that we get to go into a game without any real knowledge of what to actually expect, but here we are! Apex Legends arrived out of nowhere, and the initial results have been more than just promising: They’ve been bloody brilliant. On the surface, Apex Legends ticks all the right battle royale boxes. It has a map that shrinks every few minutes, plenty of weapons to pick up and it handles beautifully.

It would seem that nobody is having a good quarter this financial year. Just as Square Enix announced they were struggling to make a profit despite increased game sales, EA meanwhile is financially underperforming. But they may not be taking that lying down, if they follow through on certain “indications”. Despite following a successful launch of new battle royale game …

Umbrella corporation (no, not that one!) Microsoft Studios – the development house that’s home to 343 Industries, The Coalition, Compulsion Games, The Initiative, inXile Entertainment, Minecraft, Ninja Theory, Obsidian Entertainment, Playground Games, Rare, Turn 10 Studios, and Unlead Labs and whatever other developers the company gobbles up in the future is being renamed to Xbox Game Studios.

You can be grumpy about the free-to-play Battle Royale game Apex Legends all you like, but the fact is that Respawns new multiplayer game, set in the Titanfall universe, is a heck of a lot of fun to play, even for people who don’t generally like the genre. It’s a bit like Overwatch meets Fortnite, and is super slick and polished. It doesn't, however, mean that Titanfall is dead.

It is the future year 2012. Nintendo is hot to trot and it’s all thanks to the Wii console. A phenomenon that connected young and old alike, the Wii was a blazing success thanks to its ability to streamline game controls and offer something different to fans with its motion-based hardware. How would would the big N evolve from here? That question would be answered with the Wii U. Sweet Shiggy, it was awful.

Battlefield V had a very rough start, and EA is finely spilling the beans on just how rough it was and how they're now turning those misfortunes around.