Hold the Line: The American Revolution

The 2006 book drew on anime, video games, and martial arts movies to level the playing field between martial characters and spellcasters.

Here is a game that feels like an adventure. And it feels like it was an adventure to make, too. Mina the Hollower took six years to design and build, six years that took it from what sounds like a kind of coding doodle to a panoramic journey across a richly imagined island, taking in platforming and combat, puzzle-solving, and sheer immersion in the world building. It's Zelda and it's Bloodborne. It's smacking bosses and reading the in-game newspaper. All of which is to say that those six years of design work are apparent throughout, in the complexity of the landscapes you travel, in the dens

Mina can offer whatever challenge you're up for.

A big game in a small package, and an absolute masterpiece of an adventure.

Microsoft has confirmed the lineup of games coming to Xbox Game Pass during the second half of May as well as the early part of June. Here's what to expect.