31 Days of Dread – Week 3

Poof.... three weekly posts in a row. It's like magic. More spooky movies, spooky games, and some not so spooky reads have all be going down this week. Let's get into it. Films I've got into 13 films this week, most of which were horror. And it was mostly a really good week of film....

109th Game Finished of 2020: Star Wars: Squadrons – XB1 (2020)

One of my favorite games of all time is Star Wars: TIE Fighter. I played its predecessor, X-Wing, and its sequels X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter and X-Wing: Alliance but none of them ever quite captured the same feel that TIE Fighter did. It mixed a fun Imperial narrative, one of the first of its kind...

108th Game Finished of 2020: Madden NFL 21 – XB1 (2020)

Madden, if it is anything, is constant. Every year, without fail, it is there. And for a good many people, it is the only game they buy and play every year. For a long time I played Madden yearly but the last two generations, I've fallen off a bit. Still, Madden ends up in my...

107th Game Finishes of 2020: Forza Motorsport 7 – XB1 (2017)

I've played a lot of Forza this year so this is going to maybe sound very familiar but the Forza series is the best in the business for racing games on a console. It has the best "simulation" racing with the Motorsport sub-series and it has the best "arcade" racing with its Horizon sub-series. Need...

105th Game Finished of 2020: Tetris Effect: Connected – XSX (2020)

In 2018, I chose Tetris Effect as my Game of the Year. It was an audio visual experience that elevated the classic as something more than just Tetris, all the while keeping the same great Tetris gameplay intact. It captivated me the same way that Pac-Man Championship Edition DX did. And aside from the Sony...

103rd Game Finished of 2020: Batman: The Enemy Within – XB1 (2017)

For eight years, Telltale games puttered along releasing all manner of adventure games but they never had a breakout success. Some of this was because adventure games were mostly a forgotten genre but in 2012 they struck gold with the release of The Walking Dead. TWD was a vast improvement over their last "big" title,...

102nd Game Finished of 2020: Little Nightmares – XB1 (2017)

Little Nightmares is pretty good. Hell, it's a bit better than that too. To be fair, it checks a lot of the boxes I like, mixing two things I'm quite fond of, horror and platforming games. And it does all that in a nice little package that will take a few short hours to play...

99th Game Finished of 2020: Mafia: Definitive Edition – XB1 (2020)

Full disclosure: I'm not a fan of mob stories. I have no deep love for The Godfather (although I do think it's an excellently made movie), Goodfellas, the Sopranos, or any other cultural touchstones involving the mob. I'm not sure why, I mean growing up Philadelphia was in the process of breaking up the Italian...

95th Game Finished of 2020 – Forza Horizon 4 – XB1 (2018)

A decade ago saying that Forza was the undisputed king of console racing might have been controversial. Gran Turismo, Need For Speed, Burnout, and others were still putting up a fight in the space. Today Gran Turismo is a shadow of its former self and not even getting a mainline entry during this generation. Need...

94th Game Finished of 2020 – Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 1 + 2 – XB1 (2020)

When you think of old games (particularly anything after 16bit), there is a vision of what they actually were in your head. But generally, if you go back to play them, they don't look or play like that. And Tony Hawk Pro Skater and Pro Skater 2 hold true to this. They are still great...