This is going to be a quick one, but I wanted to update readers who may be interested (all 3 of them) that I did become aware of a few links in my Bits and Bytes article series becoming broken. I had sourced links from 2 different YouTube accounts and one (Canadian Toast, I believe […]
I’ve been on a big kick over the past half year of purchasing slightly older Apple computers for the hell of it. I enjoy the hunt that is trying to find certain machines for a good price and working them into my digital life in whatever way they can be, either as machines to actively […]
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 […]
It’s been 5 months since the last Angry Video Game Nerd episode review. 5 months since the last entry in a little pet project that on the surface seems so absurd yet when you think about it makes so much sense, as his “reviews” are really their own cinematic pieces beyond the nature of just […]
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 […]
I feel like I normally doom myself to procrastination when I speak of upcoming plans for the site, but the past few days have proven fruitful writing, and I’m feeling optimistic, so why not take a chance, right? I’ll be keeping this short, as I really just wanted to put up a list of subjects […]
Another thing of note in YouTube’s never ending “let’s try things, then change those things, then remove those things a few years later” pattern over the past decade is the removal of automatic post sharing. Strictly in this case sharing to Twitter and Google+ (which quite honestly I think were the only two options left) […]
After a long enough download phase, I finally gave Apex Legends a shot earlier and, as I said last night, I’m writing my first impressions here now. Let’s get the formalities out of the way – this isn’t a review this is just a capturing of my first thoughts. This is after all of 30 […]
Back on January 15th YouTube finally killed off the annotations feature completely on all videos. This came about a year and a half after YouTube ended the ability to create and edit annotations in any form, rendering those existing on videos as “stuck” so to speak, and not allowing any newly uploaded videos to take […]
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 […]
Time for yet another update – this time one regarding all my projects, of which Xadara is really the only one that has been going steady. To make a long story short, January has been a pretty productive month, albeit with some challenges, for me and hosting. On New Years Day I discovered why the […]
This is one of those questions someone has to have asked when seeing me online – just who in the hell actually is this person with the strange Japanese username? It’s a natural question to have, and I figured with us starting off the year why not provide a bit of an explanation as to […]
Oh, great, I went a week without posting anything. Go figure. I’m not going to lie and act like I’ve been super busy and just haven’t been able to update things here – I’ve had time, but I’ve been working on a few other projects. Actually, I’ve been pretty darn productive over the past week, […]
Continuing a tradition started last year, I’ve decided to devote an entry today to the plans of my good buddy Prince Watercress. He’s certainly an awesome friend, and one of the most prolific content creators I’ve ever known. I’m completely serious. To give you a very simple summary, this guy has: a retrogaming blog, a […]
Yep, we’re pulling out that dirty word here on Xadara — Backlog. The backlog is what happens when I don’t get around to writing about some topics which interest me, but aren’t super urgent. Things I make note of to cover, but never get around to. It’s a constant source of stress and annoyance when […]