I wish more games would follow Wylde Flowers' amazing rollout of post-release updates. The game and its community are both excellent. xander51.medium.com/wylde-flower...
Gaming is still firmly stuck in its live service, money-all-the-time era. I’ve seen some signs of it slowing recently, but we’re not out of…
It did a much better job! Okay, expect more of my screenshot nonsense to live here in the future.
I'm posting this Starfield screenshot here mostly to see if Bluesky compresses the image better than Threads, which decided that all the details should go away, actually.
Sometimes, a game will change the course of the whole industry without any real ambition to do so--creating new perspectives, genres, and a target to build on for the future. Catacomb 3D did just that. medium.com/@xander51/ca...
In the early nineties, there was this cool thing in the PC gaming space called “shareware.” It was kind of like today’s downloadable demos…
Star Wars Outlaws features some truly incredible music, backed up by wonderful high-tech sound design and mixing. I love it all. xander51.medium.com/the-bold-mus...
It’s hard for me to think of Star Wars without instantly wanting to belt out the iconic John Williams main theme, annoying all those around…
The man still totally brings it.
Logitech still has one gem in their weird sea of gaming headsets. xander51.medium.com/the-best-for...
Competence in a sea of marketing flash and Bluetooth clones
I’m hopeful that I can turn things around in the next couple of months as the gaming season heats up a bit, but if not I may have to consider posting elsewhere and turning my donate button back on. Thanks to everyone who reads my stuff, I appreciate you!
I’ve had a rough August on Medium. I received *way* less of a push from the platform/algorithm, and I’m well below my break even for the first month since my full-time pivot in April. In this image, the left number is stories “boosted” by the curation team and the right is my total posts that month.
Wrote up my impressions after a couple of days with Star Wars Outlaws. It's an awesome stealth action game. xander51.medium.com/star-wars-ou...
Ubisoft finally did it. After years of being maligned (perhaps unfairly) for creating several stock open world game design templates and…