Avoiding the Cold in a Virtual Snow-scape

I have started to realize I’m not a normal gamer. Whatever normal is anyhow. Here’s the thing. First, I bought a brand new PS5 (luck of the restock lottery!) and though I’ve had it for about a week, I’ve used it almost exclusively for PS4 games so far. Then, I bought a PlayStation Plus subscription …

Jumping the Sharks with Maneater

It figures. The first next generation console game that would spark my interest and capture an hour or so of my precious free time would be a gore-filled fish-based role playing game about a killer shark. Yesterday morning a large brown cardboard box landed on my doorstep. When I slit the tape and pulled the …

Neglecting all that Anthropomorthic Island-Hopping

One of the last walks I took through the downtown shopping mall near where my pre-pandemic office was located took me past a video game store where a large stand-up cardboard cutout display heralded the impending arrival of a game of which I was only peripherally aware. Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released in late …

Neglected Games Project

I buy too many video games. To be precise, I thrift purchase a lot of video games when they show up on really good sales or in humble bundles or in clearance bins. A small number of my games I do buy at full price, things I really care about or titles that I’ve been …