Five Game Challenge Day 30: Wrap-up Journal
Booyah, final day. Basically done. The padlocks on the game list can be loosened. In fact I’m going to reward myself with a relaxation of the challenge after I get this post done and...
Monthly Archive: November 2019
Five Game Challenge Day 29: Arbitration Ahoy
Phewph. All the way back in the dim, dark, barely remembered days of old… Er, Day 18 of this challenge, I spoke about working toward unlocking Arbitrations. Welp. I’ve unlocked them now. It has...
Five Game Challenge Day 28: Looking Forward #4
The fourth and final Looking Forward for this round of the Five Game Challenge. A last look at what might tempt me away from the path of the five. Only a couple of days...
Five Game Challenge Day 27: Autumn Sale is On
The Steam Autumn Sale has kicked-off. The first sale since writing about better extracting value from the games I have. The first test of will. Will I pass? Will I succumb and make a...
Five Game Challenge Day 26: The End is Nigh
Day 26 of 30. Almost there. And I’m very much ready to be there. The daily posting is by far the harder aspect of this challenge. I’ve been reflecting too, on some of the...
Five Game Challenge Day 25: Archwing Adjustments
The big news of the latest Warframe update — Rising Tide — is of course the ability to add the Dry Dock to your clan dojo, and from there your Railjack. The spacecraft that...
Five Game Challenge Day 24: Humble Choice Starts Soon
If you’ve still been sitting on the fence about Humble Choice, time to decide and lock-in the current ‘Classic’ pricing is running out. No longer a prediction — we have an actual date. December...
Five Game Challenge Day 23: Multiplayer Motivation
Poor Skyrim. While it hasn’t quite fallen to the red-headed step-child levels of the other games in my challenge line-up, it has nonetheless played into a second fiddle role to Warframe of late. The...
Five Game Challenge Day 22: Looking Forward #3
A day late on this post — it was bumped given the sad news of Brad McQuiad’s passing. Not too much to add with this one though — just one title in fact.
Five Game Challenge Day 21: An Industry Titan Passes
Brad McQuaid — best known perhaps for defining roles in the development of EverQuest — has passed. Brad started as the lead programmer for EverQuest, but during its development was moved to producer and...
Five Game Challenge Day 20: Unplayed and Unloved (Until 2020?)
Krikket just posted about the ten games she would like to tackle in 2020, in light of the fact that she has made a commitment to buy far less of them. While I wasn’t...
Five Game Challenge Day 19: What do I want from Anthem Next?
Since the news that Anthem may yet still have some life, in the form of an Anthem 2.0 / Anthem Next, I’ve taken a bit of a stroll down memory lane. I took another...
