So From Software and Insomniac are the most likely two then.

If that was true, it would send shock waves through the industry like no other.  Cats and Dogs sleeping with each other, magic coming back to earth you name it.

Yeah you're pretty harsh on it.
I definitely liked the first a lot more (8.5/10), the prequel is still good but not that amazing. Somewhere around 7.5/10 IMO.

I 100% think there will always be triple A games coming to Game Pass. This is just the announcement for the first half of the month. Plenty more to come.

I agree that LiS Before the Storm review is a bit harsh. Reading it reminded me of a scene from Fight Club where Edward Norton beats the shit out of Jared Leto because he "wanted to destroy something beautiful" lol.

It thought it was pretty good except the rushed final episode. Not as good as the original which also had a bad final episode.

With Gamescom this month, you know MS is going to announce a few big AAA titles for Game Pass.

Last episode of LiS was disappointing, no doubt. Dragged my score down from a 9 to 8.5.

Finished Call of Duty World War II yesterday.

The game wasn't nearly as brutal as I expected it to be. I didn't even get to see the controversial scene of those "black" farmers hanging in France. Skipped right past that. Some missing limbs here and there but I think the Treyarch games are much more brutal in that regard.
I really liked that you have optional stealth missions and not those forced ones like in previous CoD games. Also the best mission of the game is probably the infiltration mission in Paris, when you play as the French female resistance fighter Rousseau. That's also the level with the most impressive graphics IMO. I saw some improvements over the past CoD games, especially in facial animation where it's now about on par with Battlefield and lighting. Other than that though, it looks good but not amazing.
Story-wise it's your typical WW2 stuff. I just feel like it didn't end properly. You don't even get to hear that the war is over even though that happens just two months after the last mission and epilogue. Also you only get to experience the story from the US perspective so there's naturally missing something.
I liked the way you could interact with your squad by asking for grenades, medikits, air support and enemy spotting, even though you can play the game without any of them (well medikits are quite helpful). Other than that gameplay didn't change at all. There's one tank mission and one plane mission, but you only get to play those for a few minutes. The rest of the mission will be completed on foot.
As for the characters themselves I could remember their names and for some of them also their faces and that's more than I can say about other FPS games where I mostly have no clue which name belongs to which character.
Unfortunately the game is rather short with only 11 missions that can be beaten in around 20-25 minutes each (on standard difficulty). Achievements for the campaign are mostly easy but there's a hard one right at the final mission which I didn't bother to get.

Still, I liked it quite a bit and while it definitely isn't the best CoD and probably not even the best CoD of this gen, it's still a good game.
Final score: 8.5/10

After the update, SOD2 achievements work perfectly.

He is definitely being snatched up to play Halo. Halo Infinite of course.

And I wonder how much money they offered him.