Observer (PC) Review

I know there are people who are looking at this game and thinking “FINALLY! A MODERN GAME!” And indeed it is. This game grabbed my attention the moment it launched as it combines some of my favorite things in a nice neat little package. I LOVE horror games and I love cyberpunk worlds. However, this is also a publisher who’s known for less games and more walking simulators, and with the backlog I’m looking at, I decided to wait.

Turns out this was a good choice as the came came in a humble bundle a few months ago, and when the dice picked it as a potential game in the last few hours of the Extra Life marathon, how could I say no?

The Wolf Among Us (PC) Review

This game has been a long time coming. When I was introduced to this game, it was by a demo on the Playstation 3. I immediately took a liking to the world’s colder tones and the idea that the title was about who we were playing trying to be the good guy and not some monster in the shadows, as well as it being something completely different then anything I had played by Tell Tale back then. I picked the game up soon after in a steam sale, but it would wait several years before I would play it. By this time, the new-ness of the game type had been well over for me, but the world still beckoned.

Titan Quest: Anniversary Edition (PC) Review

The second game we finished during Extra Life this year, this was another one that was a long time coming. In fact I’ve had this in my steam backlog so long, I was given this version as a free upgrade when it released and it reminded me it was there. But during the 100 Days of gaming, the dice chose this, so I started it up for the first time. Almost 70 hours later, I am glad I did.

Overlord + Raising Hell (PC) Review

Another game from the Steam backlog has come forward. Not a new game at the time, I picked up this and it’s sequel up for under $5 on one of Steam’s sales back in the day, but it would then sit collecting digital dust for years. When the dice picked this game during this year’s 100 Days of Gaming, I couldn’t be more pleased. And even if we had a rocky start, I am so glad to have taken the time to play this one.

Extra Life 2018 recap

Another year of gaming to help sick kids is coming to a close, and another marathon to push and celebrate it wrapped up for many gamers this weekend. Everyone who played their Extra Life marathon on the official gameday started at 8 or 9 in the morning (local time) on Saturday and finished around the same time on Sunday. We here at the RedSector were no different. But every group’s goal is to do as much good as they can, and with the results we are seeing, I have to think we pulled it off.

Last year, Extra Life was able to raise over $11 million before December ended, and with the total as of the end of this marathon already toping $8.5 million with one more major weekend (the usual choice for rain day when gamers cant make the main marathon) next weekend and a whole 2 months before it has to close for December, it should be no surprise to anyone that I think we will again, break records like we have every year before.

However, I can happily report records have already been broken more locally. In 2016 we hit our personal record of raising $600 as a team for local hospitals to us. This year we blew this number out of the water bringing in over $1,000 during the marathon itself and reaching $1,100 at the time of writing! If we break another barrier, we will officially have doubled our record since forming the team!

But I believe if you’ve read this far, you are probably interested in how the event went. Please read on…