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Hey folks, happy Friday! YEAH FRIDAY! It’s a long weekend here in the States, with Martin Luther King Jr. day on Monday, and I for one am looking forward to it. I mean sure, we just had nearly two weeks off at the end of the December, but I need to recover from that still! Plus Space Tycoon too. That game robbed me of my energy and joy for DAYS y’all, I crap you not.

Also, I hate Gutenberg a little more now. Why? Tags. I put a tag in for every game mentioned, to hopefully add to usability and spiderability of the site. Welp, Gutenberg loves to lose my tags. LOVES. If it was just a few, no big, but these articles can have DOZENS of tags, so now I’ve taken to putting them in a separate text editor until ready to paste in. What a pain in the keister. Thanks Gutenberger. Stupid editor. Anyway, onto the stuff you’re really here to see…

Today’s Video(s)

Last night, Spaz and I (later joined by fellow former Jumpgate pilot Excelsior) loaded up the co-op first person survival horror game thing, Desolate, since it’d just come out of early access. I had a copy somehow, and Spaz had a coupon, so we figured we’d try it. It was creepy more than outright scary (which is mostly fine for me), but overall it was a lot of fun too. It was great trying to survive, not go crazy, laugh at our afflictions (two of our characters had sepsis!), and some situations were HILARIOUS, like when we encountered this really powerful thug. It took all three of us to kill him, but it also took one of us running back and forth between the other two to revive them after they got knocked out. So fun.

Today’s News

Today’s Deal(s)

House of the Dying Sun is on sale on Steam at its lowest historical price.



What I’ve Been Playing

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada II – After clearing the prologue campaign the other night, I decided to dive into one of the two available campaign chapters in the current beta, and began with the Imperium. After some awesome cutscenes, we had some early battles that felt great, like the band getting back together. Eventually the meta map opened up, and this looks like it’s going to be GREAT. Each planet can help build and repair fleets, plus defenses for itself, along with points of interest that add flair (bonuses, enhancements, etc) to a planet. The tactical gameplay here is great, as you have to dominate specific points on the map in order to reach the winning point total. It made for a fun mix of terrain control and prevention, as the AI worked to take control of the control points we acquired, as well as balancing keeping those control points and damaging the enemy. I really, really enjoyed it, and I can’t WAIT for the full game next week.

That’s it for today y’all. Have a lovely weekend, and we’ll see you next week!