Willow is a 1988 dark fantasy movie I never watched as a child. Yet the name still rings a nostalgic bell in my brain. Strangely, I didn’t consciously pay it much attention until I stumbled across the NES game sometime in the mid-2000s. But seeing the name and characters on the cover felt deeply familiar in a way I still grapple to understand. Maybe I saw the movie poster and heard its name in passing as a kid but didn’t think much of it until discovering the video game later in life. Initially released by Capcom in 1989, Willow was a calculated attempt to create a game with broader appeal since it was based on a property with characters familiar to its audience. Fortunately for Capcom, those calculations were entirely correct.

Happy Friday, Pixbit Nation! How is everyone on this fine Friday morning? I'm looking out at the first real snowfall and feeling woefully under-prepared for my race on the 24th.

Hey folks, here’s another batch of games I’ve been reviewing lately over at GamerDad.com.  And just in time for Halloween, most of these are spooky and kooky games!  Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe even post a comment or two here or there.  I’d really appreciate it.  Happy Halloween!

This week I'm celebrating 1988 in the arts. In retrospec, '88 was a pretty good year, but at the time I was not involved in consuming media all that much. I was at college in upstate New York kind of isolated from a lot of stuff. Plus, I was going through an anti-TV phase and steered away from any fellow students who watched their favorite shows everyday. I wanted to get away from the life I led at home: school, TV, homework, bed. Yuk! I grew to hate that routine, and I still do. But I'll try and remember the good stuff here below. 

Agents of P.I.X.L.B.I.T. what is up? It is currently Thursday night as I type this intro because I’ve been battling a cold and I think on Friday I’m going to spend quality time sleeping…or watching the Game Show Network. I currently have a raspy voice going which means I could probably be a decent Rock/Blues Singer. We’ll find out once I charge the iPod in the bathroom and I do all my singing in the shower. Singing or getting graphics ideas, the shower is the perfect place for it. So how has your week gone? Anything going on this weekend? I was going to check out a very minor league wrestling show at a YMCA and enter the raffle for a new 3DS XL but since I have this fun cold, it looks like a no go for really bad wrestling. I shouldn’t say bad, these folks are putting on a show, we’ll just say very minor league wrestling. Anyways let’s get this blog started.

Happy Tuesday Pixlbit. Today I thought I would go over the Playstation 3. I like my PS3, and even though I had problems with the original version, the second version I am using is a trooper. I think I got into the PS3 maybe a year or two after its release and I got to see it go from box that offered Linux, to no longer offering it, and to adding trophies. I wish I could say it was the first console I bought digital games for, but I think that goes to the PSP when I was buying Minis and DLC for Rockband. Anyways I do love this system, I still play it (I think I play it more than the PS4) and since GameStop is starting to blow out the games, the PS3 library might grow a lot more this year.

I’m aware that writing a countdown is a cheap and easy way to generate page hits and drum up popularity for your blog.  You don’t have to go through the effort of crafting a narrative, and errors in grammar or diction are less noticeable when digested in bite-sized snippets of opinions and description.  That having been said, let’s do more of the countdown!  This time I will be writing about the sad sacks from 110-101, those guys that couldn’t quite crack the seemingly important yet completely arbitrary TOP 100!  Haha, losers.  No, I'm kidding; don't feel bad for them.  They often possess many positive qualities, and are certainly sentimental favorites for many.  Without further ado…..

Capcom is extending the life of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City by releasing DLC for the game tomorrow on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. The content will include seven new missions and four new versus mode maps. All of the content will be free.

Activision revealed the set list for the November release of Tony Hawk: Ride. It features 50 songs of varying genres and popularity.