I’ve recently been on a nostalgia trip playing two games I probably haven’t touched in nearly 20 years. The Burnout series has been one of my favorites since the sequel. A game I picked up on a rental just to check it out and completely fell in love with it immediately. And I got other people on the bandwagon as well. Since then, I’ve just been a m…

One really quick note before I get into the show post today: If you can emulate your games, do it. Being able to play Burnout 3 on my PC or Steam Deck has been amazing and fun as all hell. I plan to start grabbing a lot of my favorites from the past and get those up and running. Something I just can’t really do now without the original hardware and…

It’s never really good when a game fails. Now, there’s good reasons FOR a game failing, but, I mean, that’s people, with lives and families. And when a game fails now, it’s almost one and done for a studio in that regard. Rocksteady failed with Suicide Squad, but they have 3 pretty big bangers in their history and they can (for the most part) survi…

I know interviews exist with the people at Microsoft. I know there’s people with more info on the subject than I, but it’s not gonna stop me from trying to figure out Microsoft’s idea for buying a studio and releasing on multiple platforms. We’ve looked at this before and it really just comes down to money. It’s a big company and the bottom line fo…

Is it really time to upgrade? I don’t know if it’s my weird sense of time, but it seems way too soon for me to be thinking about getting a new graphics card. But now I’m realizing how LONG it took before I moved onto the 3080 that I currently have. Due to the inability to find the cards because of COVID it was well over a year or more before I grab…

Just a head’s up that we won’t be doing a show next week. If I paint the state of Destiny 2 in some uncertain light as far as the future is concerned, that wasn’t my intention. That game will be fine to an extent. The die-hards and long termers, as I once was, will still be there playing it most likely. It also serves as a nice meet up with friends…

There’s a few times in the year where, really, nothing is going on in gaming. This is one of those times. I mean, sure, things are happening but announcements and rumors and the like kinda dry up at this point as we move into the bigger release months. Outlaws in August then…whatever comes in September, October, and November. And I’ve been really d…

I really like watching the EVO tournament. I was really just going to leave it at that. I absolutely love watching the professionals and amateurs battle it out in this competition. I don’t know their names or their histories for the most part. Even some of the games I watch them play are unknown to me, but none of that stops me from enjoying watchi…

What goes up… We kind of expected there would be some sort of change to the whole Gamepass thing once we knew the Activision stuff would start showing up on Gamepass for day-one releases. Maybe a price hike, or an extra tier type of subscription to add onto it. Had to be something when you spend that much money on buying a company but also have the…

Just a heads up that we’ll be taking off next weekend so no show again until July 13th. The days between shows didn’t really afford me as much time with gaming as I would have liked so there isn’t much I’ve played lately. Still, the current Steam Summer Sale happening now is making me all wide-eyed like a kid in a candy store. And again, I suppose …

Well, the demos start coming and they don’t stop coming. I didn’t think we’d spend more than half of the show going over demos I’ve been playing but then again I ramble horribly so, maybe that isn’t so surprising to you. But man, those demos. Plus, I revisit a game from NINE years ago that I finally finished – MAD MAX. There’s spoilers there, but t…

Still drowning in demos over here. A week removed from Summer Game Fest and getting close to the end of Steam Next Fest and I’ve still got around 30 or so demos left to play. I probably won’t make it through all of them but that’s okay. I never expected I would. I do wish these demos would stick around longer. Because while I don’t expect to get th…

Throw a drowning man a line… I am covered in games. I don’t ever want to go back to the old E3 if this is what it means to lose that. I’m perfectly fine with it. I think I’ve likely added close to a hundred of them to my Steam Wishlist and that has been growing. It’s Sunday as I’m writing this and I’m downloading a massive amount of demos currently…

I enjoy games that want you to experience them. That’s a bit of a broad stroke so let me be a bit more specific about what I mean. Hellblade 2 wants you to experience the game. Ninja Theory was so adamant about this that there’s even a setting to let the game automatically control combat. So, any time there’s a fight, it’ll take care of it for you.…

Thy cup runneth over… This month has been a killer for Indie games. Just hit after hit after hit getting released. And that’s already on top of a pretty good year so far for indie titles. I mean, for me, it started with Balatro in February and there’s probably been one release per month that I’ve added to my wishlist on Steam. May has just added an…