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

Over the summer, I binged Severance. I've seen a lot about this series, and a lot of pop culture references to it, so I thought I'd give it a try.The show is about employees at Lumon Industries who undergo a surgical procedure called "severance," which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. When they are at work, their "innie" self has no memory of their life outside

While waiting for season two of NCIS: Origins to start, I thought I'd write a little bit about the inaugural season that aired last year.  Gibbs is back!  Well, sort of!  The series, as the name implies, is a prequel.  It's a prequel on two counts. First, it follows a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs as he begins his career as a special agent at the Navy Investigative Service Camp Pendleton

 Cautiously optimistic about this one. There seems to be something for everyone here.  I wonder what the final game will look like, and if it spans the entirety of Voyager's 7 years (or more) into the delta quadrant...

Thundercats RoarA while back...sometime during COVID, if I remember correctly. I started to watch it back then, but my original reaction to it was "WTF?!"  I admit that I was expecting more of a repetition or modern reimagining  of the original Thundercats (the 2011 version wasn't that bad), and what we got was...not that!The core idea is the same...their planet exploded, they crashland on

The Americans[spoilers] Last month I finally finished The Americans. I had started watching this back in 2017 (ish?) but after the first season I fell off. I've been meaning to return to finish it, and I finally binged it this past summer.  The series is spy thriller set during the Cold War. Our main characters are  Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, Russian spies who were trained in Western-style