Jasmine asked me recently which games I’ve spent the most time in. Herself having over 1500 hours in The Sims 4. Thing is, I don’t spend that much time in singular games. I’ve rolled credits in almost 20 games so far this year, and that’s not possible if I’m to get stuck in games for hundreds and hundreds of hours. Besides, I often think games are too long. 8 - 12 hour games are perfect....
Like so many games I eventually play, Indika (2024) spent many moons upon my steam wishlist. Some have been there for years. Others got removed after a year or so. I was about to remove this one, didn’t think I’d enjoy the horror aspect of it. I did remove it actually. It wasn’t gone for long. Too intriguing. “Because of all this we make a firm covenant in writing; on the sealed document are the names of our princes, our Levites, and our priests....
When I found Forza Horizon 5 (2021) a couple of years back on Xbox Game Pass, I mainly tried it out because I had a new graphics card and wanted to see how pretty it could be on my computer. I did not expect to get stuck and eventually also buy one of the dlcs (Hot Wheels). And so I wrote a little thing here about how I’ve been playing a lot of games lately, or rather, to quote myself, “A lot of games for the very limited amount of spare time I have at hands”....
A week or two ago I started playing a game I’ve been thinking about playing ever since the sequel was announced, over 20 years after the first game. Pokémon Snap. Admittedly I first thought about buying the new game, ‘New Pokémon Snap’. But it felt a bit expensive for a rail shooter in 2021, especially since its coming from a game company that doesn’t really care. So I thought I’d wait for a while, see if the price dropped....
A while ago I beat THPS 1+2 for the fifth time and it’s still as good of a game as the first time. I never played the originals when they released, but I did play a lot of Tony Hawk as a kid. THPS 3 was the first in the series I played, a cousin lent it to me after I had gotten hold of a used PlayStation 2. It was a great game, but I had heard that there were better Tony Hawk games....
Nintendo has done a lot of custom coloured Switches, especially of the standard Switch. The ’lite’ version though, mostly has some basic recolours. And a couple of Pokémon variants. But there is one Switch Lite that stands out of the crew. The white, custom gold painted Avicii Invector Switch Lite. 2017 Hello There Games released ‘Invector’ on the PS4. A rhythm based music game with 22 of Aviciis hit songs. In 2019, the year after his tragic passing, they released an updated version with 35 songs, in collaboration with the Tim Bergling Foundation....
A couple days ago Wizards of the Coast revealed some cards for the new Lord of the Rings crossover set. One of which was “The One Ring”. “The One Ring”, is going to have a special special edition - extended art with text in elvish (Quenya in Tengwar letterform to be exact, if that tells you anything you’re a huge NERD). This card, among some others, will be what they call serialized....
Today I learned about Co-Star, and therefore, so will you! It’s an astrology app, and just like many others like it, it gives the user a daily horoscope. But this one is special, because this one is “based on science”. It uses data from NASA JPL and the “magic of dates and AI”, to find patterns and create horoscopes. Created by Banu Guler, a woman who, ackording to Wikipedia, once brought an astrological chart to a baby shower, where she noticed it was such a hit, she decided to create an app for it....
March 10, a.k.a. MAR10 day. First celebrated by Nintendo 2016, probably when some clever Nintendian came up with the idea. And since then, they’ve actually made something each year to celebrate Mario, even if some years have been lazier than others. This year we got the final trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Wave 4 of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass (car stuff, pretty fitting since it’s also the V8 engines day today) and a new Mario themed Nintendo Switch bundle....
I’ve been playing a lot of games lately. Or… A lot of games for the very limited amount of spare time I have at hands. It’s been loads for fun though. More fun than I have had gaming in a long long time. I quite recently bought a new graphics card, and I guess I have to attribute my newfound joy to this, as I’ve not been able to enjoy AAA titles to their extent in recent years....