The Push and Pull of Nintendo I got a lot of problems with the Nintendo Switch! And now you’re gonna hear about it! Ok, ok, I don’t hate the Nintendo Switch, I think I just have an issue with the perception of it and why Nintendo tends to always get a free pass. At what point do we look at the output for the Switch and conclude that it’s spotty at best. There are large swaths of time where the...
E3 is a mess. The ESA may be a bigger mess. The whole thing is broken and because of deals already signed it might not be able to save itself from the udder futility it’s heading towards. It doesn’t have to be this way either, that’s probably the most damning and frustrating part of this. This isn’t about if E3 is dying or if it’s necessary anymore, it’s about squandering an opportunity to capi...
The Hidden Cost of Game Streaming Google made a big hullabaloo announcing plans to dip its feet into the video game world recently. Whenever Google does something/anything nowadays, it garners interest both public and commercially. Of course, the interest wasn’t that Google was trying to involve themselves in this industry, but that they were trying (promising?) they had solved how to stream ga...
Kingdom Hearts 3 Journal I did a month-long game journal with Kingdom Hearts 3. Don't read this. DON'T READ THIS. IT WOULD BE CRAZY TO LOOK AT THIS!!! I DID THIS FOR 1 FUCKING CALENDAR MONTH. I'm posting this for posterity sakes. SERIOUSLY THIS IS LIKE 7000 WORDS ON KINGDOM HEARTS 3 THAT I DID TO TEST IF I COULD KEEP UP A JOURNAL THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE GAME. You Have Been WARNED... There may be...
Nintendo’s latest Direct presentation was packed full of information, announcements, and details. Plenty will be written about and focused on the big announcement of a new Mario Maker so this will focus in on three standouts for different reasons from the latest Nintendo Direct. As per usual a sleeper is something that showed promise but is getting very limited if any traction amongst the commu...
When Xbox Game Pass was announced in early 2017, the concept was easy to understand. With the likes of Netflix having been around for several years as a digital platter of watchable media, everyone knew how Game Pass would work. For a monthly fee, a varied veritable buffet of Xbox One and Xbox 360 (and apparently a few Original Xbox games too) would be open for you to download and play, as long...
Slight Spoilers for Octopath Traveler (but nothing story related) Let's be honest, end credits for games are usually hit or miss at best and mostly ignored. People usually want to button through to see the trophy or achievement pop for beating the game, or maybe there is a quick extra scene at the end that is fun or sets up a sequel, but usually, nothing is there to keep the player engaged. Tha...
It has been a few months since Sony announced they were following in Nintendo’s path of releasing a small, cutesy, plastic, emulator box to the world hoping to revel in some fraction of the prosperity Nintendo set up with its NES Classic and later with the SNES Classic. It’s been a few weeks since Playstation finally revealed the full list of 20 games that will appear on the system after initia...
This past weekend, Microsoft held it’s first ‘XO’ event in several years. The announcement they made a few months back that the fan based event would be returning seemed like a response to Sony holding PSX events the past few years, to varying degrees of mostly positive success. It also sparked a slew of interest in why the Xbox front office decision makers picked this year to hold the resurrec...