You'd think Minecraft was a peaceful game of mining and crafting, but I spent a lot of time killing things and watching things get killed today. 

God Wars didn’t look as good as I expected. Its art style is appealing, but it wasn’t as richly detailed as I expected. It reminded me of the Xbox 360 downloadable game Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment from 2010. I’d say God Wars wasn’t much of a graphical improvement over that game. But I like grid based strategy RPGs, and this one was just fine in that way. However, after about three hours, the game kicked me out to update itself, and I lost about a half hour of gameplay. Well, I didn’t feel strongly enough about the game to continue.

Airwolf is one my favorite ‘80s TV shows. Originally airing in 1984 to 1987, the premise centered around a high-tech military helicopter capable of reaching supersonic speeds. In addition to the entertaining action sequences and interesting plot, Airwolf is perhaps best known for having one the most distinctive theme songs of the ‘80s (intro clip included below). Naturally, it was only a matter of time before we would see a video game conversion. There was an arcade version by a company called Kyugo in 1987, but the home console release was only for the Famicom. The NES finally saw its own version of Airwolf when Beam Software developed it with Acclaim as the publisher in 1989- 2 years after the show’s final season. Needless to say, this version had a lot to live up to.

Well another day of BaD is here. So with that comes MORE GAMES! Enjoy todays batch!

So, I tried the Blog a Day thing last year, and like so many of us, I petered out before the end of the month. Not sure why, besides time being a factor. I’m back this year, and my goal is to see this through to the end. I have more time on my hands now, and I have a lot of things to write about. I also think that the key to BaD is writing smaller, easily digestible pieces instead of every blog turning into a thousand-word essay.

Season's warnings, PixlBit community! I thought I'd bestir myself and write a quick blog.

I got a PS Vita for Christmas this past year.  There are enough games on it that interest me now, but I guess it’s a little late since nobody is making new games for the Vita hardly anymore.  But one of the games I wanted for the Vita was Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz.  Luckily since it’s been out for so long, I was able to get it from Amazon for only 12 bucks!  Which is good considering it’s not much different from past Monkey Ball titles, and they’ve been declining in quality anyway.  But the first two Monkey Ball titles on the GameCube were great, so I always like to give the series a chance anyway, if the price is right.  While the main game has you rolling around a monkey in a ball through mazes and obstacles, many of the Monkey Ball titles have fun mini-games, too.  Banana Splitz included.  So since I like to write about mini-games, here are all the mini-games you can find in Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz for Vita.

Say hello to another batch of Skylanders. I couldn't resist hitting one of the last Gamestops in my area I haven't been to yet this week. I think I have about 15 Gamestops in about a 15 mile radius of where I live. This one would be number 14, I have one left.

Happy Cyber Monday Pixlpeeps! If you folks are currently buying stuff today, good luck and hope you find the stuff that you want. So how was your Thanksgiving (for you out of the USA folks, how was your Thursday and Friday)? It was a lot of fun here in my little piece of Southern California. Got to spend it with family, eat a bunch of food, took some pictures, and maybe braved the crowds at Target.

Recently I reviewed Transformers Devastation, and it got me to thinking about the franchise.  When I was a kid in the 80’s, I was pretty big into Transformers for a couple of years.  Ever since I was a kid I always wanted a GOOD Transformers game that was truly based on the cartoon.  And now we finally got one with Transformers: Devastation (although I still like Fall of Cybertron better).  So in honor of the release of this long-awaited game, here’s a blog about my top five favorite Autobots (good guys) and Decepticons (bad guys).

Gerald: Sure you will. Let me introduce you to the man with the silver knuckles. 

Pixlbit Nation, Happy Friday! This week was a bit slow but it picked up around Wednesday (doesn’t it always?) So how are you good people? Any fun plans for the weekend? I’m probably going to do my usual, but I will also throw in some things like go to the park, take some pictures, and maybe catch up on some video games I haven’t played in a bit. Anyways let’s get started with this week’s Quick Hits so I can go enjoy the outside weather!

Well Happy Wednesday Pixlbit Nation! I still don’t get why it is warm (80 degrees and sunny) but I would have liked a couple of weeks of winter like weather but hey it is what it is. Anyways for today I’d like to focus on a system that many people adored, but I stayed away from until the release of the next generation version, and that is the X-Box. The X-Box was a hell of a machine, but I found a nice home in the Playstation Camp. I understood what the X-Box offered but at the same time I had a sizeable PS2 library and I didn’t want to make that financial investment in another console. I actually waited a bit until the release of the 360 and a used X-Box was going for around $100. One day I decided it was worth a try to pick up a console, and it was probably around the time of the Buy 2 Get 1 Free deals at GameStop so I stocked up on titles that were exclusive to the console…and maybe a cheap copies of games I owned on the PS2.

Finally we get to the meat of the year, the games that came out in 2014 that I actually played.

 Second in my recap of the gaming I did in 2014. It'll all end with my GOTY pick in part three.

Yes, it's more multimedia notes on Brett Weiss' new book 100 Greatest Console Video Games: 1977-1987.

 I was going to stop after Floor 1, but it was so much fun, I kept going to see how far I could get with Team Predator. My friend Mark got interested in Wizardry too and fired up his Yobo NES console and played a Star Trek themed team. He grabbed several super powerful Blade Cuisinarts and over a million in gold from his previous teams to fuel his play. I was playing pure and didn't use anything from old teams.

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord came out for PC in 1981, the same year the first video gaming magazine started, Electronic Games. Donkey Kong was out in the arcades and my favorite Atari 2600 game came out, Stampede. But enough history, let's get to playing Wizardry.                          

Happy Friday Pixlbit! So how have you good folks been since our last post? I’ve been caught up in something different. I’ve started to get rid of stuff. Yes, while I was sorting and adding the new CDs to the library, I decided it was time to get rid of a bunch of stuff. I got rid of duplicates (around 20, who knew I had that many), weeded out some records that I lost interest in, got rid of a bunch of caps that I no longer wear, a ton of shirts from college dorm stuff, to everyday graphic tees, and I cleaned out the jerseys I don’t wear. Gone are some jerseys I’ve had for years, a couple of Chargers ones I got for cheap, and other random college team jerseys. At some point I will tackle my sports cards collection, and get rid of copies, and finally add the cards I bought from the thrift stores a year ago.

At first, this blog may look just like another one of my typical “Here’s a list of games I’ve been reviewing lately blogs.”  And, well, it kind of is.  BUT, this time we have a THEME!  You see, SEGA recently sent me a batch of classic titles to review on the 3DS, so I decided to do them all at once and make a SEGA week.  And I got a SEGA related Christmas present so I decided to write about that as well.  So if you could please read as many reviews as you can and maybe post a comment or two, I’d really appreciate it.