Ziggurat (PC) Review

This game faked me out. When I bought the game, I expected a short boomer-shooter made by a small team. A fun little division to be sure. What I got was a bit more then that, and something a bit out of my wheelhouse, but something I had a lot of fun playing.

To The Moon (PC) Review

This was supposed to be an indie darling, loved by everyone. So when the dice chose it, I was happy to give it a shot. It did not feature controller support on it's store page, but it felt like something a controller would be best for so I was ready to do my usual tricks to make it work... only I didn't need to. Happily surprised to see native, support, I settled into my couch for some much needed relaxation. No, I did not expect a game with much gameplay. After all, that is now why this game is so well loved. But I expected to relax, take in a nice story for a few days, and have a descent time of it. I did not expect a broken mess to ruin the game in such a way that research not only showed fairly common, but blind luck was the only solution to get around it. Unacceptable.

Extra Life 2023 February Update

Time for an update on what we have instore for the big gaming event known as Extra-Life this year. If you do not know what Extra-Life is, you are definitely in the right place today. Extra Life is a charity event held every year where gamers from around the globe gather together to help sick kids in their local community. Run by the Children's Miracle Network, the charity has a simple process:

1. Gamers signup throughout the year, selecting a hospital to play for.
2. Gamers pull in donations to their pages and their team's pages (like our own) from people who  wish to help kids who need it most.
3. On November 4th, these same gamers spend 24 hours in one massive marathon playing games both to push those donations and to celebrate what has been accomplished over the year.

This year, as we have been doing every year, The Red Sector is back in the swing, and as always, we will need your help to help these kids. And while it has been my personal honor to be here since year zero, it has never been anything short of humbling to be a part of such a big event. If you would like to help us help them, our team page is available both in the above link and right there in the pages list to the right of this blog. The page itself has a nice big donate button right at the top, even letting you select who to donate under (since teams do not need to all play for the same hospital). If instead you are inspired to join in yourself, come on in! Go to the Extra-Life page and sign up! The year is still young and the more gamers we get involved now, the more kids we can help! So either way, thank you VERY much.

On our end, however, I do have some additional news to report, even now. First, we are already over halfway to our first team goal! Within a single month, that is an awesome start, so thank you everyone who has donated already! And while I sincerely doubt $500 will be our final goal, the sooner we hit it, the sooner we can push to the next and see how far we can go! Once again, thank you so much for all your help so far and help to come!

Second and more excitingly, I would like to welcome our newest player! PastelRhel is an old friend of mine who saw what we were up to and wanted to jump in, so how could I tell her no? (Hint: I couldn't. ;) ) So she is now listed in the Site Stream listing, as well as the front-runner on the team page! So come on in and give her a warm welcome!

And finally if you want to see us all at once, we do have a way to do this. I mean there are many ways, but to make it easy, we are generating a link through Multitwitch. I will be providing updated versions as more players come online, both here and on our team site, so come on in and see us all!

And with that, I will wrap it up for now. Catch you next time, and thank you so much for all your help so far and let's see how far we can go!

The Blackwell Legacy (PC) Review

Another game that's been a long time coming. Years ago, I picked up the pack of games on a sale since I have always enjoyed the point & click genre and the series has a reputation as a particularly good set of them. Right now, I'm not so sure they will live up to it.