3 best Xbox Game Pass games you should play for the long weekend

Holiday weekend means more time for gaming While neither Good Friday nor Easter are observed as Federal Holidays, a fair number of workers in the U,S. still get today or Monday off in observance of the holidays. If you're one of the lucky ones, you know what a three-day weekend means: more time for gaming. (What else am I to do? Go outside? In spring?) This week's Xbox Game Pass recommendations spotlight some games that we can't wait to get back to playing over this long weekend, including an open-world superhero adventure, a heartfelt Metroidvania, and a game you should really check out by now if you haven't. Grand Theft Auto 5 is about to leave the Game Pass library (...again). Rockstar's open-world crime game has cycled in and out of Xbox's games-on-demand service over the years. If by some chance you haven't played it yet (via Game Pass or any other platform), well, you might as well give it a spin. Is this the last chance you have to play it at no extra cost ahead of GTA 6's Nov. 19 release? Who knows! But it can't hurt to test GTA 5 out, see what everyone's talking about before the next game becomes the only thing they talk about. —Ari Notis The wait for the next Lego Batman