Last year I was able to check out a really cool even tin my city where vendors from all over where selling vidya games and all sorts of nerdy goodness. This year I popped in again to take a look. Some really cool stuff. The most interesting thing there was a guy with a supped up OG Xbox. It had modern outputs and a SSD. He had it running on a monitoring showing the performance difference between OG outputs and the 720p he was running. He mentioned he would be selling several,

It is a question that many great minds have pondered. A question scholars at the highest level have debated. A question greater than how the universe came to be... What handheld should I get? I myself was pondering this very question 2 months ago. Now we all know the Steamdeck is probably the premium Cadillac of handhelds at the moment, but with prestige comes price. What are the affordable options out there to game on? How I approached it was what I wanted to be able to do w

Hey friends. Time for a progress update. Full transparency I got back into NHL 09 modding and its been pulling me off track. I have tinkered with the PC version in the past but now I am modding Xbox 360. Better graphics, modern controller support with the emulator, and it was the only NHL game that had the RSL(KHL). That I am aware of anyways. In between that I got a few more 90-91 OHL teams done: Kitchener Rangers Roster Players Staff (Combo real & fictitious) London Knights

Did I Miss Out is a series where i go back and play hype games i did not play at launch. Then I make the call if I missed out, or dodged a stinker. Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can.. does a thing.. then a web.. something something... yah you get it. Marvel's Spiderman came out to PS4 in 2018 to critical acclaim. We purchased the game for my son who sunk hours into it over the COVID pandemic. I on the other hand never played it. I was a marvel kid growing up. N

Growing up a Canadian kid in the 1990s I had two passions video games and hockey. If I wasn't blowing dust out of cartridges trying to get sonic the hedgehog to play, I was in front of the house with my hockey stick. Living out my fantasy as Yzerman or Gilmour in a game 7 over-time match. On the weekends I lived at the local arena. Saturday morning practices and Sunday morning games at the crack of dawn. So no surprise ice hockey video games where a big part of my childhood.

Oh mama I am hyped. It feels like decade since I was excited about a game, but I am feeling it. The name of this game is Over the Top WWI. Over the Top is a third person shooter by Flying Squirrel Entertainment set in the first World War. It is a combined arms game with a combination of infantry, vehicles, and aircraft. I have been keeping my eye on this title for a while. It reminded me a lot of Holdfast, which not to long ago added it's own WWI maps. I did not try any of th

Hey there friends. Time for another progress update on the 90-91 retro database. Progress has been slow as a few other projects have distracted me a bit, but I am still plugging away. I have completed the following: Niagara Falls Thunder Roster Players Staff (Combo real & fictitious) Sault St. Marie Greyhounds Roster Players Staff (Combo real & fictitious) It was nice see Nordique/Aves legend Adam Foote's name in the mix working through the Soo roster. You can see the current

Indie spotlight is a new series of blog posts where I play and review a game from an independent studio or developer. The very first in this series is Firefight by Sean O'Connor. Firefight is a WWII real time strategy game where you command troops on the battlefield. This one strikes a nostalgia chord with me because it is clearly inspired by the Close Combat series. When I was a kid I had these two Windows demo discs. One had Close Combat, and the other had Close Combat II:

Just a quick post to wrap the year. Thank you for all the clicks, views, likes and all your support in 2025. Wishing you all the best this holiday season and a safe and happy New Year. See you in 2026 gamers.

Time for another project update on the 1990-91 EHM Retro Roster build. I am super close to completing the farm teams with about 85% of the International Hockey League completed. I have the San Diego Gulls and Kansas City Blades remaining. When doing roster building I noticed there are many players who already exist in my database. Many players who played in the AHL that season also played games in the IHL. I am not sure how that worked exactly from a contract perspective. Whe

I bet your first experience with Guitar Hero was similar to mine. There is this new game everyone is talking about where you play with a peripheral in the shape of guitar. You shrug it off as another gimmick of the industry trying to get non-gamers to play video games and go about your life. Then one day your at a social gathering about 12 beers of Lakeport (a cheap beer that was available in Canada) deep and someone hands you this plastic guitar with coloured buttons. You gr

Hey gamers. Thought I would do a quick blog post on what I am playing and working on right now. Battlefield 6 dropped on October 10th and by 5pm EST I had it purchased, installed, and ready for me. Got in a few hours of gaming that evening before the busy Canadian Thanksgiving weekend took over. Banged out a few rounds of conquest and man was it a good time had by all. EA has finally put out a product they can be proud of. I am still waiting to see how they screw it up though

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