Thanks for reading through!

I’m so glad you enjoyed it!

Hey, don’t worry! Better safe than sorry, this way at least if people reading are curious and want to find it (and play!) they can search it up, I’d assume. No problems!!!

Ahhhh, thalassophobia! I’m the opposite, having my dive license the idea of submerging is heaven to me!

Just an escape!

I’ll keep my apartment in the city, of course, but I like the idea of having somewhere that I will perhaps be less inclined to work, or stay in a chair/sofa, and instead keep running wild. That’s the hope, anyway!

I’m curious what you think of games like Dead Cells, Graveyard Keeper, Eastward, Stardew, Octopath Traveler, Sea of Stars?!

Are they just not something you’d enjoy because it reminds you of what gaming used to be? I like to think of it, in some cases at least, as a way independent developers can make games without having to be versed in a whole other world of 3D animation which might be a bridge too far. But, then again, I’m very much in the category of:

enables younger ppl to enjoy older games

I HAVE!!!

Thanks for remembering! I kinda liked how they just threw you into Firebreak. I get why some gamers were confused, but I love it when a developer shies away from the hand-holding and over-explaining we all get these days. It’s got so much that it needs, really is a bit bare…but still, I’m enjoying it!!! And I’m glad you are too, the game doesn’t seen to have made much of a splash

I find my utterly over spec’d desktop gets ignored these days more than my Xbox does. The company keeps making terrible, terrible decisions, but the value of Game Pass on a sofa can’t be beaten. The quick resume is utter magic, and between the ‘two’ who are often compared - Sony and MS - I find MS to be the least awful to consumers

I loved the ocean mechanics and the feeling of Sea of Thieves when it launched so long ago, but it’s now been years since I was into that game religiously. Now I just find myself, every now and then, hoping for more in the setting! Lucky us we’ve got at least one to hope is good :)

But on the off-chance you’ve not seen it, Captain Blood is on GOG!

And there is even a demo of it on GOG too, with this link if you’d like to try it!

Shared on my Mastodon a few days back!!!

Its still got some improvements to be made (like the UI) but its great fun!

The game was deemed abandonware years ago now, featuring both on the site myabandonware and on archive.org. There’s no complaints from LEGO itself as a brand since being shared there, but I’ll just remove the link entirely for you since you’re worried!

EmuReady sounds awesome! I’ll definitely be using that in the future, hopefully it will be a good resource for my Odin 2 Max!

Be the change you want to see! You can make an account there and share how games run for you, in fact I just checked and can’t see a single Odin compatibility report submitted by the community yet. You could be the one to change that!!!

Your next interview is giving me darknet diaries vibes, sounds like it has potential to be very interesting.

If Jack is somehow stumbling over this, he and I both know that he owes me a coffee.

Wii U emulation on Android just isn’t quite there yet

I’ve not been in the Android emulation scene for awhile, it’s nice that its even possible these days!

By memory this means we’ve only got Rise of and Shadow of - alongside the IV-VI Remastered still to come via Amazon, they’ve given the rest out themselves (though Epic has given others)

If I had more time, I could 100% arrange a crazy once-off downloadable and installable demo disk of non-copyrighted games.

As it stands, the more I write of this reply the more work I know it’d be! (still fun though)

I guess I do, but I don’t really know so much about the older magazines. I’m young, so I wasn’t around for the magazine era of gaming (much to my own sadness, my Papa tells me all the time how fun it was getting each month’s issue and the included ‘demo disk’). I’ve just spent a ton of time looking at scans of them, finding old archived gaming blogs…idk I just wish the current era of gaming journalism was more fun and less ‘begging’ or trying-to-trap-you-into-ads.

And not anywhere really! My friends Eben and Annie, who run Junk Store for Steam Deck take what I write and edit it so it fits for their sub-reddit. Or did, because now with the next iteration of Junk Store so close, their workload is getting more and more.

Other than that, last year I had a few of my interviews on SteamDeckHQ (because the owner of the site was a friend), and the same for Gaming on Linux for a couple.

These news posts though?! Nope, as they are they’re just here. Thank you for taking the time to enjoy these, I really appreciate it. Without people who love these I’m sure I’d have stumbled to a halt!

Make sure you wishlist it!

And don’t forget to check your Matrix chat mister!!!

Since the game is slow and mostly text based, I think its gameplay has aged quite well.

This made me smile! I’ll look this game up, it sounds interesting :)

Thanks for the interest!

In 2023 / 2024 I was in contact with what I suppose you’d call the ‘big three’ of modern piracy - FitGirl, Dodi and Empress.

Empress was clearly in it just for the money. She was exactly as you’d expect her to be from her interview and general ranting back then.

Dodi said he did so because he grew up very poor in Egypt, he stated that pirating games was the only way he and his friends could hope to enjoy gaming and culture. That the companies lost no money or sales because there was simply no way they’d be able to afford the games. Though, to be fair, he has afforded to put himself through medical school since he started…so I’d say he also enjoys the proceeds.

Fit was the most calculated, and I think knowledgeable of the three. I think she is a pirate at heart and does it for an ideal, though she too (the most of the three) has enjoyed a lot of money for her efforts.

I’m super interested to see how this Switch pirate interview goes, since like I mentioned - its not been done before!

…worryingly, I had more to add but when I saw I was over 5,000 words I thought maaaaybe time to stop and hold the other bits back!

Oh, and thanks as ever for GameSieve! I love it, and really do check in constantly there :)

I’m so glad you’ve started Death Stranding!

Keep in mind it can be a marathon - it can be a gigantic long game if you fill the gaps, doing the ‘side delivery missions’ etc. Just…take your time, enjoy the scenery! The second area is amazing. I hope you keep enjoying it!!!

(and thank you so much, comments like yours are - can’t pretend otherwise - a big part of why I keep these coming!)