Earlier this morning I woke up around 5am and couldn’t go back to sleep so as I waited for my alarm to go off I watched YouTube videos on the iPad. There are a lot of recent (to me they’re new) videos about people going out and buying everything video games. Since my local Goodwill now ships off anything of value to their major distribution center to be placed on their eBay like site, it has been tough finding games that I want to add to my library. It seems like folks who are late to the party either have to pay a lot more, or have to go find stuff at Garage Sales and Swapmeets but even those are starting to become tough. Heck my local swapmeet various vendors are selling what used to be $1-4 carts now for $10-15 and even some used games going for new retail.
I hesitate making this blog on this site because I know most of you are either console-only gamers or retro gamers, which I am also, but most of you probably won’t care about the little old ‘PC Show’ that aired between MS and Ubisoft conferences. Nick Dimola tweeted something about consoles being dead and I was like, why? You didn’t like the MS games? They looked pretty sweet, and I don’t even own an xbox. Then I watched the MS conference in full, and basically most every console exclusive is coming to Windows10, and there is cross-buy and cross-play in some cases which basically turns Xbox into more of a gaming service more than a console. So, most XBox games are coming to PC, most Indie games are already on PC or at least start off there. Japan is releasing more and more games on Steam, like Final Fantasy etc. Then there are games on PC that may or may not go to console. The PC is in a pretty advantageous position right now if you’re a gamer that wants to sample a bit of everything right now, and some would argue always has been, but I also love my console and portable games so it’s not true for me. I’m not a PCMaserRace snob at all, but as a gaming enthusiast, I want to play every type of games. I’ve even setup DosBox, if you don’t know what that is, don’t ask. It is severely nerdy to discuss and I feel shame admitting it.
Good morning and Happy Good Friday Pixlpeeps! The weekend is almost here, and I am ready to sleep in on Saturday and maybe finish House of Cards. So how are you good people? Sunny Southern California has been breezy the past couple of days so I had to take my morning walks indoors to the local neighborhood gym where it seems in the same amount of time I walk around, I double the distance on a treadmill (that’s what the app on my phone tells me). Anyways shall we get started with another Quick Hits with Chris?
Welcome to the last Nerds Without Pants before E3 2015! Angelo and Julian get together to catch up on a bunch of Consumption Junction (and anime, apparently), as well as talk about their hopes and dreams for the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Enjoy!
Another Steam Sale, another feed of games to add to the backlog.
So its been a while since I've put up a new entry in my blog, but I promise, I have been frequenting pixlbit and going through all the articles and blogs! Since I finally have some room to breath a bit, I decided to take the time to finally update my blog.
Financial woes at THQ have brought many titles being developed for the publisher under scrutiny. While some titles have been scrapped altogether, other titles, such as the planned MMO Warhammer 40K: Dark Millennium, have been “refocused” – changed to fit into their evolving new strategy of serving the hardcore gamer.
Steam and huge, huge sales on PC games pretty much go and in hand these days, and this week is no different. This week, you can get deep discounts on the THQ library of games. Read on for the skinny on today’s big deal, as well as a look at the other games being offered.