Don't Revive Your Friends

Fallout 4, released back in 2015, is getting a next gen update!  This is exciting news for people who have played the game in the past or are wanting to give it a shot on the latest hardware. It will include a performance mode, 4K gameplay some bug fixes AND bonus Creation Club content. You can view the announcement plus more on Fallout's 25th anniversary HERE

It has been announced today, via Twitter, that Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier will be shutting down in January. The First Soldier was a mobile Battle Royale game set in the Final Fantasy 7 universe. The game was meant to capitalize on the influx of interest in Final Fantasy 7 after the remake. Featuring gameplay to the likes of PUBG and FreeFire online, The First Soldier also let you use Materia Magic popularized in the Final Fantasy series. [End of Service Notice] We are regretful to announce that we will be ending service for FINAL FANTASY VII THE FIRST SOLDIER at 07:00 UTC on January 11, 2023. We would like to thank you all for all your support over the past year. https://t.co/XvNOVv2EVs #FF7FS pic.twitter.com/aNVI4iHle4 — FINAL FANTASY VII THE FIRST SOLDIER_EN｜FF7FS (@FFVII_FS_EN) October 12, 2022

Cyberpunk is a game. That's it. It is for sure a video game. Besides that fact it very well may be one of the most unfortunate launches in video game history. How does it hold up nearly TWO years later? Let's find out! Cyberpunk starts you off with some choices. Always pretty nice. I started this game when it came out and thought the character creator was pretty awesome. Especially for how little you actually see your character since there is no 3rd person mode. Weird.  Picking your lifestyle and gameplay style is up next and I took a NOMAD route. An outlier to the streets of Night City. I do things my way and my way only. Unless it is a really hard dialogue choice and I pick whatever is best. All of this at launch was pretty fun and it still is. It crashed on me every 10 minutes or so back at launch and my clothes..kept...disappearing..but so far so good! One thing that plagued this game back in 2020 were random (over 1,000) issues that most players had encountered. UI leaving...

 I've got you in my sights.... But I cannot play you. Overwatch 2 has been a game I have been excited to play. Not because its new or refreshed or for any other reason. I like Overwatch. That is it. Overwatch is a fun game that has been one I go to play and relieve stress for years now. That has since changed. The upgrade to Overwatch 2 has not been smooth. That is saying it nicely. From millions of players not even able to access the game on launch and even 3 days after. Once people did get in, a lot of their merge content from the first Overwatch  was missing. THEN once the content has returned, Blizzard somehow managed to lock half of the characters from a majority of the players. Even at the time of this writing I got kicked out of a ranked match and placed in a never ending queue of log in errors. I get that launch days ever since 2010 have been absolutely horrendous but it is still very frustrating to even get remotely excited about video game releases in this day. ...

I'm an RPG guy. What's great about that is I can continue games at my pace, pause when I need to, save and exit when I want and engage in wonderfully crafted stories. My Online Game Brings All The Boys To The Yard Enter: NBA 2K23. I now have FOMO on gaining an chance to improve my shot, play basketball on a freaking trampoline or shoot WAY back behind the arc for a 4 point score.  My friends play this game and at first we started as a "ah maybe a few days for the review" type go. But now. NOW. It is ON. We fully stink up the Rec games. We stink up theater games. We stink up every single court we touch. And we cannot get enough. Pay Me To Play Me NBA 2K23 is fun. Absolutely. The fun DOES come at a price though. For full transparency, I received the Michael Jordan Edition of the game (Thanks 2K!) to review. This came with 100,000 VC (2K's virtual currency) to spend on my character. I did such a thing. My character was overall 80. I thought I could be competitive. I...