Just before I finished my vacation last week, and needed to get back to work, I finished this lil' game.  I started this back in August. I started this because I thought it would be a game I could jump in and out of during a very (very very very very) busy term, but in reality I didn't have much of a chance to play around with it too much. Much of my play through happened during the Thanksgiving

Next up in my 2025 Year In Review roundup, is xbox.  Again, this year, Microsoft didn't do anything official (boooo!!!), but we've got True Achievements to the rescue.  Most notable here is that casual games are less prominent on my account this year since I stopped playing Casual games on my pixel tablet while watching television, so the games here represent just xbox gaming.  The

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