The most recent installment in Microsoft's premier racing franchise, Forza Horizon 5 took fans to a sunny, carefree Mexican playground in November 2021. Players are able to drive their favorite vehicles through a wealth of new exotic environments, including tropical jungles, arid deserts and winding canyons.

Xbox has to be the top FPS console, with so many stellar franchises, like Halo, Call of Duty, Doom, Wolfenstein, and so on. It's the

2024 was a very, very good year for games, and although Xbox's first-party output dried up at times and perhaps lacked a certain spark overall (at least in this writer's opinion), the likes of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, CoD: Black Ops 6, Age of Mythology: Retold and Hellblade 2 still resulted in an undoubtedly productive 12 months.

You could buy a few games to hold you over until spring, or you could purchase a subscription to Xbox Game Pass and get access to potentially hundreds of games to keep you occupied. Microsoft launched Game Pass in 2017,

The free Xbox app is a great way to manage Game Pass, check out what your friends on Xbox Live are doing, and even earn some Microsoft reward points, too. But did you also know that inside the app is a free puzzle game that is fun to play and can earn you credits toward your next Xbox purchase?