Calm Down, Xbox Isn’t Dead.
Phil Spencer is gone. Sarah Bond is gone. The new CEO came from Microsoft’s AI division, gaming revenue is down ten percent, hardware sales reportedly fell by nearly a third in the last quarter, and half the internet has taken that as their cue to write the obituary. I’m not writing an obituary. I’m writing…
Is the TTRPG Boom Over, or Just Growing Up?
Back in January 2021, I wrote a post called Sorcerers and Snobbery. It was a bit of a rant — part frustrated DM, part bewildered outsider, part person who just wanted to roll some dice with people who weren’t going to make him feel like he hadn’t done the assigned reading. I called out some…
Road Hog
Today’s achievement quest took me on a destructive detour through the vibrant world of LEGO 2K Drive. The goal? Earn the “Road Hog” achievement by obliterating 200 unsuspecting traffic vehicles. It might sound a bit chaotic (and it was!), but sometimes a bit of mindless mayhem is just what the doctor ordered. Embrace Your Inner…
Tsushima Hand Roll
For my many years lamenting PlayStation’s late-to-the-party ability to change names, one thing that replaying some of my previously-earned Platinum games has afforded me is the ability to relive some truly great classics. God of War, Spider-Man, and now Ghost of Tsushima have all earned their rightful place among games re-played from start-to-finish, and in…
PAX 2022 is Back on the Menu, Boys!
I don’t quite think people appreciate how much I bloody love PAX. It started off as just something that I wanted to go to because it was a big international gaming convention that had made its way down to Melbourne, and I just wanted to be a part of that little slice of history. I…
The Definition of Insanity
I absolutely love the FarCry series, but my love of it really started with Number 2 (the one set in Africa). The homage to Heart of Darkness tickled the literary nerd in me nicely, not to mention the level of freedom and exceptional gameplay weaved throughout. So, it’s no surprise that I loved 3 when…
Sorcerers and Snobbery
While I’ll be the first to admit, I’ve only openly ‘loved’ Dungeons and Dragons these past few years, it is, nonetheless, a lifelong passion of mine, properly kindled during the Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights eras, and complimented with a love of the fantasy genre that has spanned The Wheel of Time and The Lord…
Candlekeep Mysteries
I bloody love Candlekeep. Make no mistake about it, Baldur’s Gate was my introduction to the Dungeons and Dragons universe and Candlekeep the first location I ever truly explored. At the time, everything about being constrained to the BG story annoyed me – I hated being forced to being Gorion’s Ward and having a pre-existing…
Power Rangers Battle for the Grid
You have to admit, Xbox Game Pass is pretty good. For a game that I’d never pick up off the shelf at EB Games, for an IP that I grew up with and I love, this was a great way to quickly consume a rather mediocre game that seemed to focus on exploiting the Power…
Assassins of Kings
I knew about King Foltest only because he was one of the primary Gwent heroes in The Witcher 3, but I never really made the connection between ‘the card’ and ‘the character’, but it all makes perfect sense really when you think about the number of cards based on NPCs in W3 as it is,…
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