I'm on a kind of staycation this week. I made some real life journeys to NYC and some virtual ones to WWI France, a fanciful place called Teyvat, baseball land, and Marvel's NYC.
My new plan is to roughly follow my reading plan. This month I'm reading from the years 1900-1949. The games just have to be related to the period in some way. So this blog is about my week's plays and some new pickups.
I figure that number reflects my 25 years worth of gaming since 1995. I've mastered this pastime twice over if you believe in the 10k hours to master a craft idea. Anyway, this is what I did this 2609th day of gaming.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! So I was at the local Treasure Hunt yesterday and I found a bunch of cool stuff, that surprise involves gaming so I’m gonna share that with you. Spoiler this is going to be just a pickup blog and if you want to know what I watched (Mandalorian = very good, Jack Ryan S1 = excellent, MTV’s The Challenge = very good, all sorts of rastlin’ = hit and miss) or what I listened to (tons of podcasts), or what I read (zip, zilch, nada) that can probably be found in next week’s blog. Today it’s all about my finds because I want to hit the bank, grab some breakfast, and maybe check out a thrift or two today. Let’s get started.
I played the biplane missions in Battlefield 1 and a handful of missions in Red Dead Redemption 1 on Xbox One, but I spent more time replaying The Order 1886 on PS4.
I saw the movie Pixels, played 90 minutes each of Victor Vran, Battlefield 1, Dragon Age II, and Eternal (a card game).
Watched a movie, visited a few Xbox One games, watched my friend play Battlefield 1, played a PS4 game, and watched another movie while played my PS4 game. Further details follow.
Madden 18. It seems there is going to be some story in this one.
Another year in the bag! 2016 broke new ground in the "Whaaaaa-! It's already over??" category. Somehow I managed to play some games in there, so let's take a look. First up are all the games I beat this year and then how many I bought or somehow acquired (don't worry, I don't list those specifically). Be sure to stick around for the Golden Hippo Awards after that!
I got back into Netflix to watch an episode of the Skylanders Academy cartoon, watched highlights from The Game Awards on youtube, and played a heck load of Doom, all on my XBO. It all worked very seemlessly without crashes, slowdowns or other issues like what was the case on Xbox 360. Online multimedia on a console has finally been fully implemented. I'm happy about that. Now, on with the details.
Welcome back to Nerds Without Pants! This week, we are joined by Danny, a former Gamefellas coworker of Julian’s, and a very knowledgeable classic game collector. We have a packed show for you this time, so let’s get to it!
Hello Bittonions! I sorry I have been out of the loop for a while. I am trying to finish up this Network Systems Management degree.
I’ve been enjoying Super Mario Maker for the Wii U lately. It’s a new game that lets you create your own 2-D Mario levels, and share and play them with friends online! It’s a lot of fun, and it got me to thinking about my other favorite “make your own game…games.” So here’s a list of my top five, plus some honorable mentions.
I sat there wondering would I ever friggin play Battlefield 4.
For my new friends here on PixlBit, I do these kind of blogs every year. I've been doing them since 2007 back on 1UP.com. I started doing these blogs to show off my collection of games and to try curving my game buying addiction that has grown over the years. Buying games wouldn't be so bad if I actually played most of the games I bought. My backlog is ridiculous. On top on that, I have a growing family to take care of. My wife & I had our 5th child this year. 
One bonus I didn't account for, from doing these blogs, is that they help me keep track of the games I buy. You wouldn't believe the number of times I'm thinking about buying a game I really want and I go back to one of my old Game Purchases blogs and find out I already own the damn thing. 
It doesn't happen often, but this year I double bought 3 games. I don't sell games, so I'm thinking about giving them away or maybe if someone has a game I don't have is willing to do a trade. 
EA has been in the news a lot lately, and it’s been pretty much all negative. Between the advent of the Online Pass, the botched launch of SimCity, and the appearance of micro transactions in full retail games like Mass Effect 3 and Dead Space 3, it’s really easy to dump on the company. I’m not here to do that, though. I have a complicated relationship with EA; one that moved from hate to love to apathy. So turn down the nerd rage for five minutes, because I’m about to present a different opinion on what a vocal minority consider to be the most hated company in America.
I finallying made the time to write another blog. I wanted to do this a month ago, but I've been a little busy with work, family, and you now..., life. Well, update time.
Battlefield 3 will be getting its first major DLC pack soon, but if you own it on PlayStation 3, you’ll get it even sooner. That’s part of EA making nice with PS3 owners who didn’t get their promised free copy of Battlefield 1943 with their new purchase of BF 3. The official release date for “Back to Karkand” is December 13, with the PS3 version launching on December 6.
It seems that EA needs to get their employees to quiet down, as we have had a lot of rumors leaking out from the company about tons of upcoming projects. There was the story earlier in the week about the possibility of Dead Space getting spun off into different genres, and the rumors of a sequel to Dante’s Inferno. You can add a couple more interesting tidbits to these rumors, as now we’re hearing about a new Army of Two game, and multiplayer coming to Dragon Age.
It is wise to keep your promises, especially when it comes to platform-exclusive perks, and EA is learning this the hard way. We reported earlier how EA had promised PlayStation 3 purchasers of Battlefield 3 would get a download code for a free copy of the 2009 digital release of Battlefield 1943. When it didn’t materialize, PS3 owners were not pleased, to say the least. A class-action lawsuit was filed against EA, but before you can say “holy litigation, Batman!” EA has made good on their E3 2011 promise.
Electronic Arts is being sued after not providing copies of the downloadable title Battlefield 1943 with PlayStation 3 retail copies of the new Battlefield 3, as originally promised. EA first said that the PS3 version of the latest in the Battlefield series would come with a free copy of the 2009 release Battlefield 1943, but later stated this would not be the case.
Jack Tretton revealed during the PlayStation press event that three upcoming EA games will feature exclusive content on the PlayStation 3. SSX will offer a Mt. Fuji level, modeled after the real location in Japan. The level will feature 10 drop points, giving players a significant amount of content to enjoy.