Happy First Anniversary, Baldur’s Gate 3!

Last Saturday marked the first anniversary of the full release of Larian Studios’ wildly successful Baldur’s Gate 3 on PC. The game would make its way to console later in 2023, but after spending so long in early access, watching its massive PC release last August was something to behold. It made me all the…

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Top 5 Worst Levels from Donkey Kong Country

I’ve already posted a little list ranking my top 5 favorite stages from the original Donkey Kong Country from 1994.  And now it’s time for the worst.  One surprising fact I had to face was that, after roughly three decades of playing this game, some levels are still surprisingly difficult!  I can appreciate a challenge…

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Going from ‘Heck Yes!’ to ‘No Thanks’

With all the sales going on lately on PSN and Steam, I’ve been browsing around on them pretty frequently looking for something interesting to snap up. I was thinking of trying Conscript, but I wasn’t quite sure if I wanted to sanp it up at full price and so kept looking. That’s when I found…

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Likely a “Holiday” Release?

Unless you happened to be at the San Diego Comic-Con’s Dragon Age: The Veilguard panel, which introduced the game’s voice cast, more news about the game just trickled out over on BioWare’s blog And by “news,” I mean mild bits of information about the game’s companions. What’s clear from the article is that these actors…

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Baldur’s Gate Patch 7 Closed Beta Delayed

The next big patch for Baldur’s Gate 3 is on its way, being due to release for all players, PC and console alike, this September. For the moment, though, it seems the PC closed beta for this next patch, that is, Patch 7, is getting pushed back to later this week. Fans apparently needn’t worry,…

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Top 5 Best Levels from Donkey Kong Country

Seeing as the original Donkey Kong Country games for the SNES have a special place in my heart, it’s odd that I’ve never actually ranked any of the levels before.  And so I spent two afternoons replaying the very first game from 1994 for the purposes of some nostalgic research.  Keep in mind that when…

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Return to Hollow Knight

While drifting around between a few games trying to decide what to do next after Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, I happened across a couple of Hollow Knight videos on YouTube. I haven’t really played the game since running through it a few years ago, so it’s been a little bit since I actually…

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Back in the Mix with Fallout 76

It’s been nearly two years since my last post about Fallout 76; and it’s been about that long since I played the game in earnest. I’ve popped in here and there, most notably to play through The Pitt expansion with my other half, but I’ve yet to check out the game’s newest content with any…

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