You know the deal – new month, new games. I’m not wanting to draw out this intro as, honestly, writing about these feels like a bit of a chore but it’s sometimes nice to get to address something about these games that may (or may not be) mentioned in the Microsoft video, and this month […]
Ah, Star Trek – a well beloved staple of Sci-Fi culture, and a franchise which has had its fair share of video games, some good, some bad, all seeming to do what they can to capture at least some aspect of the series. In this episode, James takes a look at a few of these […]
Long time readers may recall I was pretty big on Destiny 2 last year, playing it pretty regularly and sometimes writing about it here where I felt it relevant. By about May of 2018, though, I just stopped, and haven’t really fired the game back up at all since that time. I figured it’d be […]
In a bit of more cool gaming news yesterday, Microsoft announced that Halo: Master Chief Collection (MCC) would be coming to PC soon, while also announcing that they would (finally) be adding Halo Reach to the game! Halo, for better or worse, is the flagship game series for the Xbox brand. Hell, Master Chief Collection […]
We get in quite a few repairs at work. It’s not our focus by any means but alongside the normal business of the used game market we offer repair services. For reasons I won’t speculate on here, our most common repair requests are for PlayStation 4 consoles. Normally (as in, about 75% of our repairs […]
Apparently today marks 20 years since the Japanese release of Final Fantasy VIII, an RPG with a mixed reception in the community but one that I absolutely adore. Let’s go back to the mid to late 90’s. RPG’s were big. Really big. The genre which had been a bit more of a niche in the […]
Nintendo announced back in 2017 that in 2019 the Wii shop would be shutting down, a process which would in effect mark the end of the life span of the Nintendo Wii. Right now we’re in the middle of this process. Back in March of 2018 the ability to purchase and add Wii Points to […]
In a bit of current gaming news that spawned some “discussion” worth commenting on, Microsoft had some issues this past week regarding their Xbox Live service. Now, I didn’t pay too much attention to this for two reasons – one, I was busy, and two, when I did fire up my Xbox One during said […]
In case you didn’t know, PlayStation 4 consoles, mainly the original series but this is still somewhat true with the Slimline models, have incredibly fragile HDMI ports. While no HDMI port will withstand deliberate attempts to break it, PlayStation 4 ports seem to break far more readily than most any other console in the past […]
This Entry Has Been Superseded By This Article: A Final Commentary On The Whole PlayStation Classic Power Supply Mess Over the past few days since the release of the PlayStation Classic, my article from several months ago titled “So The PlayStation Classic Doesn’t Come With A Power Supply, And That’s Absolutely Fine” somewhat blew up […]
Well now, it’s the end of the year. Time for one last set of games, and here we have… well, it’s games. I’ll spare the intro and get right to the video and my thoughts on this end of the year set of free games. Let’s begin! On the Xbox One, we have Q.U.B.E. 2 […]
In the time span since the announcement of the PlayStation Classic and the subsequent announcement of the 20 games on the console, there’s been quite a bit of debate on if this latest mini retro console is actually something you should buy. People have done comparisons on the value of actual PS1 hardware and the […]
Alright, time for another set of “free” games from Microsoft. I put free in quotes because quite a few people argue about how “free” these games are given that they are available with an active Xbox Live Gold subscription. I’ll go into the details of this in the future but to put it simply, these […]
Yesterday the full 20 games that will be featured on the PlayStation Classic were announced to a mixed reception. Some love the games presented, some are questioning what Sony is thinking, and others are stuck in the middle, slightly conflicted about the games list. Consider me in that middle group. Before I continue, let’s actually […]
Today, October 29th, 2018, marks 30 years since the release day of the Sega Mega Drive in Japan. This 16-bit beast, better known to us in the United States as the Genesis, would grow to become the first true threat to Nintendo’s dominance of the North American game market and would also grow to become […]