In-Game Chat

Before we get to the (bad) news this week, a reminder that we’ll be off next weekend due to the holiday. Also, a massive thank you to all of you who helped us reach our goal covering our server costs for the year. We appreciate that more than you know and we can’t begin to express what it means to us. Seriously, thank you. Now for the bad news. This was a week packed full of what normally would be...

And the bad news just keeps rolling on. To start with, after the wonderful help and generosity with the help of our hosting costs – our host decided to increase our costs. If you are able to help, and I get that we’re living in times right now where helping, financially, is difficult, we appreciate even the least little bit. It’s all laid out in the post just below this one on our website. S...

To start this off I need to thank all of you for listening over the years and being as supportive as you’ve always been. And to specifically thank Dave, Sarah, & Bryan. We have hosting costs coming up next month and their generosity has gone further than I ever expected to make that possible. This is what was talked about at the beginning of the show and before the first hour was done, we’d a...

Well, as is every year, we’ve reached the point where EVERYONE wants to show their games. And it’s too damn much! Seriously, spread the love here. Not everything has to be done in the first weekend of June. Also, why does everyone think it should? You are not doing any devs or publishers any favors by doing this. The big guns just drown you out. And I’m writing this right now before we get to Micr...

Goodbye. Again. I was contemplating doing a post during the week break we took. When the Destiny news broke, I’d thought to say some words about it given we’d be another week before we could talk about it. Never did get around to it so consider this THAT post. It’s been a few years since I last played Destiny 2. After the ban there was no way for me to do so without starting completely over...

As is usual this time of year, we’re not doing a show next week to coincide with a holiday here stateside. Coming back, we’ll be leading into the big summer game event stuff where we find out that rumors were true or false or better or worse than we expected. For now, we’ve had a good run of releases. Forza Horizon 6 and Subnautica 2 this past week with LEGO Batman and 007 First Light on the horiz...

What a strange time to witness the state of video gaming as it currently stands. I thought 2020 was an odd time with the release of the new consoles but here we are six years later and I’d have never believed you could tell me that those same consoles will be MORE expensive six years later – oh, and we’d have no idea of when the NEXT systems would be released. That’s the kind of strangeness...

Do we need another controller for something? Well, yes, we do. Do I personally need this controller? No, absolutely not. I don’t need the Steam controller but I can totally see myself owning one at some point in the future. And I do like the idea of it and what it’s trying to do. I was there for the first one and rarely ever used it – either because of its functionality or the tech for strea...

Advertising feels evil. And that’s so strange to say, but I look at how many ways we attempt to avoid it and it feels like it’s something we just don’t want to mess with at all. We skip them on pre-recorded things, we subscribe to ad-free tiers, we try to block them out on our websites…we don’t seem to want them in any part of our lives. Especially not in our gaming. But it’s already there for som...

I seem to have stumbled upon another “type” of game that I enjoy. The kind of game where you try to break it. Not actually break it but you take its rules and gameplay and find ways to do absurd things with it. It’s the nature of the game itself and could easily be called “ways to crash your PC”. There was Ball X Pit and CloverPit, Vampire Survivors and Mega Bonk, and now I’m doing the same with R...

How’s that line go again? The things we own end up owning us. It probably doesn’t apply in this instance but we talk about the whole physical and digital ownership thing where, for a good long while now I’ve found myself owning more digital than physical. Likely the case when you prefer playing on PC more than console. And when you have the addition of subscription services it only expands that di...

We took a week off and we wish we came back with good news but it’s still depressing week after week. This seems likely to be the case going forward. Studio closures and lay offs. It’s just a question of how big each one is and which studio goes next. We didn’t even cover the recent story about the money being spent with triple A studios. That reminds me – I need to remember to talk about th...

You’ll have to forgive me for getting completely sidetracked as we turn to someone who bought a pre-built PC. But not just ANY pre-built. Dude went ALL out with 64 gigs of RAM and a massive 5090 GPU. So, yeah, that kinda grabbed my attention a bit there. Given the times we currently live in when we talk about RAM prices going way up and causing the prices of graphics cards to also increase. All of...

Listen, there is still bad news. More AI stuff and more studio closings and people losing their jobs. It’s still pretty bleak. And it isn’t likely to change for quite some time. But, in an effort to not yet again sound like a broken record of just horrible news every week, I’d like to pose a question to you. If you could wipe the memory of any game you’ve played, so that you could experience it ag...

I’d love to be able to write one of these and NOT talk about how bleak things are, but that ain’t happening this week. There’s more studio closures and people losing their jobs. More price increases or flat out shortages because of RAM due to AI – which is also a part of the job losses. Microsoft just made a big shakeup in their leadership, which brings us back to AI again given who took ove...