Yesterday, March 27th, 2023, was the last day to buy something from Nintendo’s 3DS and WiiU eShops. Opening the shops on those consoles now presents the user with a series of empty digital shelves. The 3DS eShop still displays its collection of “Nintendo Selects” for some reason, though all of the games’ listings read, “This software is currently unavailable.” At least the animations and music … Continue reading The Nintendo 3DS and WiiU eShops are Dead
Seeing as my previous plea/prediction/hope in this vein came true, right down to the announcement of some beyond-my-wildest-dreams Restored Content DLC for KOTOR 2 (though we’ve still yet to see that DLC), I’ve decided to push my luck. While indulging my own nostalgia last week, I remembered that I still have my original installs and saves of Star Wars: Battlefront™(2004) and Star Wars: Battlefront II™(2005) … Continue reading Put Battlefront on Switch
Amazingly, I finally finished my big, long Game of the Year wrap-up this week. So I figured whipping up another one of these would be a fun follow-up. There’s just something satisfying about agonizing over one post for three months, only to turn around and finish another in one sitting. This series (it’s a series now) started as a post marking the games I’d Played … Continue reading Every Video Game I Played in 2022
Hey there, sports fans! I’m back once again to dig through another year of video games and see what gave me the most jollies! I played a grand total of 108 video games in 2022, my highest total ever. There were a lot of super short one-offs in there to pad things out, but I also just allowed myself to go out on more limbs … Continue reading Mike’s 2022 Games of the Year
I suppose there’s no point beating around the bush with this post, seeing as the title and header image give it all away. I did it, folks. This saga ended exactly where we all thought it would. I bought the fancy Disco Elysium jacket. And I love it. I went with a small, based on the size chart on the ZA/UM Atelier website, and it … Continue reading I Bought the Disco Elysium Jacket
THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I HAVE EMERGED FROM MY BLOG HOLE TO DO FREE PR FOR A VIDEO GAME. PID IS COMING TO NINTENDO SWITCH. THIS IS NOT A DAY I SAW COMING. BECAUSE PID IS A VERY OBSCURE GAME FROM A VERY SMALL DEVELOPER. BUT SOMEONE IN SOME BOARD ROOM SOMEWHERE MUST LOVE ME, SPECIFICALLY, BECAUSE PID IS COMING TO NINTENDO SWITCH THIS … Continue reading Oh Heck Yeah, Pid Is Coming to Switch
Fall has finally, officially arrived in my neck of the woods, and you know what that means: It’s time to throw on your thickest socks, your fuzziest sweater, your coziest blanket, grab a cup of something hot, and play some video games. But not just any video games. Only the biggest, longest, meatiest (oh my) games will do. I’m talking about my new best friend, … Continue reading It’s RPG Season, Baby
Almost exactly a month ago (I’m a day late writing this), I started a new project. Since May 1st, 2022, I’ve been building a fan/archival website dedicated to the video game series Boktai. Aside from a bootstrapped portfolio website that I made as part of a college course, this is the first website I’ve ever built from top to bottom in HTML almost entirely on … Continue reading The Boktai Database
Last year, I played Final Fantasy VII for the first time, and it quickly became one of my favorite games of the year, and probably one of my favorites of all time. These things happen slowly, and as a result of many small moments added together, but one moment in particular stands out in my personal FF7 journey from “interest” to “love.” I was just … Continue reading The Moment I Fell in Love With Final Fantasy VII
Well, it’s here. It’s real. The Analogue Pocket exists. And it’s a really nice way to play Game Boy games. The Pocket is the latest in a line of high-quality video game hardware releases from Analogue, a company that specializes in hyper-accurate hardware emulation via FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays). I don’t know what that means either, but it sounds clever, and I’m told it matters … Continue reading Analogue Pocket Review: I Love the Fancy Game Boy
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