Aaaaannnndddd.... I am all caught up with the COD series...at least the Black Ops variety.  I still have MW III to complete. And, apparently, Black Ops 7, which is coming out later this month?I started this on 7/20/25, and I finished it at the end of August, just in time before the academic year started.This series is a direct sequel to Cold War, which hopefully means that Black Ops now has some

I was reluctant to start Cold War, because I wasn't looking for another period shooter, but when I was looking into it and saw that it was the continuation of Black Ops, I decided to give it a try. I started the campaign on 7/1/25 and completed it 7/20/25.The game was fun.  I wasn't sure how much I'd like the Cold War setting, but I really dug the 80s vibe of the game. Smoke-filled CIA rooms,

My next entry in the series was Call of Duty: Black Ops III.  Having played Black Ops, and Black Ops II a while back (it's somewhere in this blog), I decided to continue on with this one (instead of replaying the older entries).  I started the campaign on 5/24/25 and finished it on 6/30/25. I did play a bit of Zombies, and a bit of the arcade, and while fun, I ended up leaving those until

After Wolfenstein, I decided to go back to the Call of Duty series and try to binge through the entries in that group of games.  I started COD: Modern Warfare on 5/2/25 and finished the single-player campaign on 5/11/2025.The campaign of MWII was quite a lot of fun.  I ended up getting fragged...a lot...in the beginning because I kept running ahead and getting hit by grenade shrapnel. 

Hey! I am finally all caught up with the Wolfenstein Series!I started this game on March 8, 2025 and finished April 27, 2025.Picking up this game right after Old Blood was a bit jarring.  In all honesty, I was expecting badass Blazkowicz twins that were essentially mini BJs. Of course, that's the trouble with kids, isn't it? They are't neat little clones of their parents ;-) Once you get over

Back to some video game reviews for a few posts :-)  This one is for Wolfensein: Young Blood, which I finished March 8, 2025....yeah, I know it's been a while since I finished this, why am I writing about it near the end of October? ;-)  No real answer to that, other than "I got busy," but brace yourselves for more long overdue thoughts :-).So...This game felt very familiar! I actually had

Alright!  After a false start, I got to play and finish the New Colossus. I finished this game just before the start of the new school semester on 1/20/25, both the core Blazkowicz story, and the Freedom Chronicles.Some things that stood out to me in the game included going to Venus where a very senile and paranoid Hitler resides and he is trying to make a movie about "Terror Billy" (Blazkowicz).

Another looking back at 2024. This one I finished (again) on 11/3.  I thought that I had played this game a while back, but I either didn't write about it, or both the search capabilities of Blogger and Xbox stink.Anyway, I started playing the New Colossus, when I realized that it was a sequel to The New Order, so I went back to this, only to realize that I had played it back in the XBOX

Microsoft is doing a Year In Review for Xbox again! Woohoo!!!This one (compared to TrueAchivements) gives you your playstyle. No surprises there, I play a lot of FPS games, but the surprise is that casual card games overshadow my more console-y games.  You can still see Assassin's Creed Mirage, and Wolfenstein: The New Order in my top games, but Star Trek Resurgence didn't make it.  I think

I checked out my TrueAchivement's YearOnXbox summary first this year. Similar to Untappd, they have a billboard-style summary, and a rolling video, which I used SnagIt to capture. I was surprised that I spent THAT much time on a casual game! It started with a round of Wordle (which is untracked) Solitaire every evening while watching TV, and by the end of 2024 it was Wordle, MS Solitaire, MS Wordament,