I give up. There are too many games. Who has time for all this?
Category Archive: From The Armchair
This is it. I’m doing this. Within the next few months, the slate is being wiped clean.
Yoku’s Island Express! Tomb Raider! Inside! Firewatch! Batman: Enemy Within! And more! I certainly got through a lot of games this Christmas.
One thing that helps to thin out the backlog is sticking to just the genres you enjoy.
2018 was an amazing year for games, but there’s only so much time to play them all. Here are the ones I wish I’d had a chance to try.
PlayStation VR has entered The Manor, and it’s flippin’ amazing.
Sunless Sea and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey could do with picking up the pace a bit – we don’t all have endless time to kill.
I’ve spent most of my life wishing there were more games like Super Metroid, and now there’s a ton of them. Bring it on.
‘Tis a sad day, for Baron Richenbaum Fotchenstein is leaving us. Which begs the question, who on earth is going to review all the scary games now he’s gone?
As the dying embers of 2017 fall into the grate and 2018 roars into life, now is a good time to reflect on the achievements of the past year.
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What ho, chums! Well, what a wonderful week I’ve had. I downloaded Affordable Space Adventures for the Wii […]
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What ho, chums! So no doubt you’ve already heard the news by now: Club Nintendo is to close […]
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What ho, chums! As we hurtle down the final furlong of the year, I for one will be […]
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