Diablo IV (PC) Review

When this game launched, it was not accepted very well by many gamers. And between Blizzard driving their reputation straight through the mud in how they treat both their audience (Overwatch 2 anyone? Diablo Immortal?) and their own employees, I can perfectly understand that. I myself watched this one come out with little interest, especially as one of the games to spearhead big game developers' campaign to increase the price of AAA games to $70. And to this end, I passed it up at launch.

However, months later, the game was already starting to show up on sale. Add to this a few people who wanted to play with me, and I decided it was worth a shot. It was not a bad choice, despite everything stacked against it.

Pony Island (PC) Review

Once again we have a game that's been hanging around in my backlog for a long time. In this case, it was a game that was on my radar when it launched, but actually came to me as part of a HumbleBundle back when I was subscribed. It would sit unused in the backlog for years until the dice decided it's time had come. So like the old arcade in the game itself, it's time to dust off the cabinet and click power...

Ghostwire: Tokyo (PC) Review

This is a game that has a bit more of a tumultuous history with me. When it came out, it had my curiosity, but there wasn't a lot coming out about it. Add to that playing on a PC that looked dangerously close to the minimum spec at the time while sitting on my massive backlog, and I held off... deciding I dodged a bullet with a shady dev when they added Denuvo to the game a year after it came out.. 

I didn't give it any more thought after that until this Christmas came along. As per usual, all the major game stores had their Christmas sales, including Epic. And while I honestly have yet to want to spend cash on this store, I've hung around for the freebies Epic is always giving out... and this sale always comes with them going fast and furious. Christmas Eve, they gave away this game. Without dropping a dime, I grabbed it.

Now as I finish playing, I believe I would have been happy with it had I bought earlier... and seeing them remove the DRM again so soon only makes such joy playing it that much sweeter.

Metrico+ (PC) Review

Once again, we find ourselves at the reverse end of a game I picked up back in the day via a humble bundle. It looked interesting so I figured "why not?" Well, it's not the worst decision I've ever made, but whether that's because it wasn't bad or it was short is up for debate. Probably a bit of both, though.

March Extra-Life Update

Hello everyone and welcome to our regular update. And we are continuing to march forward to the beloved weekend in November for Extra-Life! If you don't know what I'm talking about, welcome to my page, as I am pretty sure someone out there wishes I would shut up about this. I won't, but that's beside the point.

As for what Extra-Life is, it is a charity event run by the Children's Miracle network. I've taken to comparing this gaming marathon to a real-world marathon. In those events, you collect sponsors and donations from them who will basically pay to help you run across a major city to support the cause you are got the sponsors to support.

Extra-Life is a lot like that. In our case, however, we do not have to pick a cause. We already have: we are here to help sick kids. Children's Miracle Network takes care of the details. All we have to do is sign up and pick a hospital we are playing for, then get out there and get donations. Then, come November, we come together to play for 24 hours straight. This could be video games, board games, tabletop RPGs, card games, hell if you can make it work, I'm sure you could LARP for it (live action role playing for those of you who don't know). The only rule is, outside bathroom and food breaks, you don't stop playing.... and if you have to, you make up the time later.

But what if you can't play that week? Well I can speak up to that as they tend to pick the same weekend my family sets for a get-together for birthday celebrations, so I take the rain-date option and usually play the next weekend, so believe me when I say this is not an issue. So don't let get in your way of playing games to help kids. Just come on in, check it out, sign-up and start helping kids today!

And if you just can't play (or maybe don't play?), I'm not sure why you are here, but you can still help us. After all, we still need your help to help these kids. And we've made it as easy as possible. If you click the following link to reach our teampage, where a donate button will let you select who you want to donate under on the team (and therefore what hospital you wish to donate to help) and... well help us!

Thank you again for all your help. Joining or donating, we can't do it without you.

- Megabyte

Golden Light (PC) Review

Here we have another game I probably would not have picked up had I bought myself. However, when Epic gave it away for free, I figured it looked just strange enough to give it a shot and a home in my backlog. Well, it definitely proved strange, but it was missing the staying power to really recommend you follow me through it.

A Hat in Time (PC) Review

I honestly can not remember when this game entered my library. If I had to hazard a guess, it would have been back when I was subscribed to Humble Bundle and decided "yeah this game could be fun." Unfortunately, while the themes indeed were, the game under it just fell short.

Persona 5 Strikers (PC) Review

This game was going to happen eventually, though to be fair, I wound up playing it on a different machine then I expected to. When it was announced, I knew it wasn't a traditional RPG, but it wasn't a dancing sim (like the Persona 4 offered as spinoffs to it's portable playing fans there for a while) and I honestly have had almost nothing but great experiences with the entire franchise. However, since the PC version would not have a physical copy to go with the rest of my collection, I figured I was going to wind up getting it on Switch. Then Steam came along and did what it does best... sales. So I picked it up and in time, began to play.

It was definitely worth my time, despite showing me why the game series it's play belongs to will never be for me. Step inside.

What Remains of Edith Finch (PC) Review

Ever since Epic has setup a store front, they've been trying to draw business by giving away a different game every week and if it struck me as interesting I would pick it up only for it to languish in my backlogs. This would be one of those games, so when I did my first dice roll in a long while (franchises took up a lot of my gaming time recently), this came up as the result. Interested, I installed and a few hours later, the credits were rolling. I have to say, it was a nice evening.

Ghostwire: Tokyo - Prelude (PC) Review

When over the Christmas holiday Epic Games gave away Ghostwire: Tokyo, I decided to pick this up as well since it takes place before the main event and is a free title. I already understood it was a visual novel, but I was hoping for a lot more then I got here. I pray this doesn't reflect on the main game beyond the setting.

The Talos Principle 2 (PC) Review

Way to start the new year with a bang! Ok ok, I was playing this through the end of 2023, but really how else can I put when I finished it? Now don't get me wrong, this did not come out of left field or anything. I absolutely loved the game it's a sequel to, but after my time so far playing with Unreal 5 (in the form of Starship Troopers) I had concerns about performance and general game quality this time around. Thankfully I was not only proven to be worrying over nothing, the game carried by the engine is arguably my favorite game of 2023, taking even the title from the CyberGoddess of Citidel Station's outing! Well done!

New Year, new drive! Welcome to Extra Life 2024!

Hail and welcome everyone! Not a lot to say that isn't said on the title, but with this post, we are starting the yearly tradition around here: playing games to help sick kids! And we do this by taking part in Extra Life.

Every year, gamers come together to raise money with the Children's Miracle Network with the pledge to play games for a 24 hour session in honor of those kids we are helping. We each play for our chosen hospital, having a great time taking our chosen hobby to do some good in the world.

And how it works is really simple. If you want to play with us, just make your way to the Extra Life website, sign up, pick the hospital you wish to play for, and get to it! If you would like to help us help the kids, it's also simple (and either way, thank you for getting involved. These kids need all the help we can give them). Come on over to our team page and you will see a nice big blue "Donate" button. Clicking this will bring you to our roster where you can pick who to donate under. You can even click on any of our names to see our individual pages and what hospital we are playing for... complete with a similar donate button on any of our pages. But if you wish to pick right there, the donate next to each name will bring you there with the donation section already open.

All of this is handled by the Children's miracle network, and the page itself has a lot more detail about what the whole thing is about.

But on that note, I think it's time I close this opening entry... and time we all get to what we do best... and do something straight up awesome while doing it. Have fun and game on!