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Question Of The Week [October 29th 2025]

Question Of The Week [October 29th 2025]

Q: What Was Your Favorite Xbox Live Arcade Game? A: Marble Blast Ultra. Yes, there are many other Xbox Live Arcade games that I could choose to pick, like Geometry Wars, Castle Crashers or Braid, I will always go back in my mind to this little marble game, a genre

Question Of The Week [October 22nd 2025]

Question Of The Week [October 22nd 2025]

Late night gaming sessions are usually my most preferred way of playing video games, the late nights, dark environment and no distractions lead to hours upon hours of uninterrupted playtime. However, I find myself having to grab something during those long play sessions, especially during a cut scene of insane

Question Of The Week [October 1st 2025]

Question Of The Week [October 1st 2025]

Q: Do You Enjoy Boss Fights? A: Boss fights are a staple of gaming ever since the earliest days of video games back on the Plato computer system in 1979 for a Dungeons and Dragons game. Since then players have been tasked with rising to the challenge of taking on

Question Of The Week [September 5th 2025]

Question Of The Week [September 5th 2025]

Q: Who Is Your Favorite Game Companion? A: Game companions are either a blessing or a curse. While their entire existence is in service of the player, and to help them along their journey, there are often too many times that I find myself loathing them and just wish I

Question Of The Week [August 13th 2025]

Question Of The Week [August 13th 2025]

Q: What Game Did You Get For Good Grades? A: I’ve always marched to the beat of my own drum in life, and that’s no exception when it came to school, and growing up in the Californian school system, they really frowned on that. Classrooms were always overcrowded

Question Of The Week [July 30th 2025]

Question Of The Week [July 30th 2025]

Q: What Was Your Favorite Game Trailer? A: Game trailers, like all trailers, are an art form in themselves. A good trailer will entice you and keep you actively wanting to play whatever game is being shown. A lot of people would most likely say their favorite trailer is the

Question Of The Week [July 23rd 2025]

Question Of The Week [July 23rd 2025]

Q: What's A Genre Name For First Time Indies? A: There is an indie boom as of late in the gaming sphere. Where games are being developed by a single person in their spare time. Their budget is basically nothing, and these games might develop over several years and when

Question Of The Week [July 16th 2025]

Question Of The Week [July 16th 2025]

Q: What Was Your Pizza Parlor Game? A: Back in the 1990’s Pizza Parlors were such a big part of my childhood weekend, along with a trip to BlockBuster to rent a game for the weekend, we’d usually end up at our local Pizza Parlor. Back when you’

How To Fix Halo

How To Fix Halo

Halo used to be not only a flagship game for Microsoft, but it also was a core title for video games as a whole. It transcended the gaming industry and became a cultural phenomenon outside of the gaming sphere. We are long past the days of midnight launch events and

Question Of The Week [July 9th 2025]

Question Of The Week [July 9th 2025]

Q: Do You Refund Games You Don’t Like? A: Back in the early days of gaming, the 80’s and 90’s it was quite normal to return games for a various amount of reasons. You could bring a game back and get a full refund if let’s

Question Of The Week [July 2nd 2025]

Question Of The Week [July 2nd 2025]

Q: What Is Your Favorite Game Of All Time? A: I get this question all the time while streaming, and it’s never changed since 2005. Psychonauts. Made by Double Fine Productions and the mind of Tim Schafer, it’s about a boy named Raz at a psychic Summer Camp.

Question Of The Week [June 25th 2025]

Question Of The Week [June 25th 2025]

Q: What Is Your Favorite Fighting Game? A: While I’m not really great, or even “good” at fighting games, since I’m more of a button masher when it comes to them, I still end up enjoying fighting games quite a lot. Mostly on a surface level and very

Question Of The Week [June 18th 2025]

Question Of The Week [June 18th 2025]

Question: What Is Your Favorite Console? Answer: The year was 1999, Y2K was just a couple months away, and the Sega Dreamcast launched the day before my birthday. I rode my bike at least 10 miles to the game store I would end up owning later in life and was

Question Of The Week [May 7th 2025]

Question Of The Week [May 7th 2025]

Q: Do You Like Game Trailers? A: I thought about this yesterday after the Grand Theft Auto 6 second trailer came out yesterday, and we had a discussion on it on the evening stream. I think Game Trailers are in a weird state right now. With the influx of streamers

Video Game Crash 2.0

Video Game Crash 2.0

Back in 1983 there was a video game crash, it happened due to a couple issues. The oversaturation of low quality games and consumer burnout of those low quality titles. Now we are in a similar situation that I predicted a couple years ago. Everyone called me crazy and honestly

Question Of The Week [February 3rf 2025]

Question Of The Week [February 3rf 2025]

Q: Should Reviews Cover Game Bugs? A: I thought about this earlier today, as I saw some people talking about how a game scored so low when it originally came out and over time, the game fixed a lot of bugs and small issues to make it a "great" game.

Question Of The Week [January 27th 2025]

Question Of The Week [January 27th 2025]

Q: Would you rather buy a game at full price and own it, or rent it and play it for a set time (like GamePass)? A: With most modern games now, I'd rather use a subscription service like GamePass. GamePass gives me access to a library of games that I

Question Of The Week [January 20th 2025]

Question Of The Week [January 20th 2025]

Q: What Is Your Favorite BIOS/Startup Screen? A: My favorite BIOS/Startup screen would be the original Xbox startup or known as "The Blob". It's weird and reminds me of the Robin Williams movie Flubber... but I actually never saw that movie. It just looks like the weird green

Question Of The Week [October 23rd 2024]

Question Of The Week [October 23rd 2024]

Q: What Is Your Favorite Retro Game? A: This one is actually kinda hard for me. I spend a ton of time (especially on Retro Game Nights in the stream) playing a ton of retro games. One that I continue to think about, and the one that sparked this question

Question Of The Week [September 25th 2024]

Question Of The Week [September 25th 2024]

Q: What Game Announcement Do You Want To See? A: A new Burnout Game. While I’m sick to death of remasters and remakes, and I think the industry needs to start far away from churning out the same handful of IPs that they pump out year after year, there

PS5 Pro: Why Does This Exist?

PS5 Pro: Why Does This Exist?

So I keep seeing the whole PS5 Pro stuff happening, and I really would like to put some thoughts down, so let's talk about it a bit. Sony announced the PS5 Pro the other day, and it's a "0.5 Upgrade" to the PS5. It's slightly better specs, and has

Question Of The Week [September 11th 2024]

Question Of The Week [September 11th 2024]

Q: What video game genres will you absolutely NOT PLAY? A: I usually will play anything and everything. I grew up in the late 80’s and early 90’s where pretty much every video game was appealing to me, and moreover, marketed to me. My parents let me rent

Question Of The Week [September 5th 2024]

Question Of The Week [September 5th 2024]

Q: What is a game no one talks about? A: Comix Zone A classic Sega Genesis (or “Mega Drive” for those in Europe/PAL regions) game featuring Sketch Turner, a comic book artist who, on a dark and stormy night gets sucked into his own comic book trapped by the

Question Of The Week [August 13th 2024]

Question Of The Week [August 13th 2024]

B: Does Subscription Games Make You Less Likely To Complete A Game? A: With the rise of subscription services for gaming, such as Xbox Gamepass and Playstation Plus, these services have given gamers a huge library of games to play with at a whim. You can try out a plethora

Question Of The Week [July 31st 2024]

Question Of The Week [July 31st 2024]

Live Service games, for those who don’t know, are games that are Online in nature, constantly updated to provide the player with new content and keep the player locked in and playing the same game continually and paying for MicroTransactions. Live Service Games have become the bane of the