Month: August 2025

Just a note for the show – Labor Day is next week here so we won’t be back live until September the 6th.

With Gamescom come and gone we’re sort of set for the year on upcoming releases. I mean, there’s plenty of releases to come but I don’t see anything too surprising to show up that we didn’t already know about – except for where Nintendo stands. They do their own thing on their own time – and that only relates to first party titles.

The next big gaming thing we’re looking at next will be the Game Awards. That overly long advertisement for games with an award or two thrown in for good measure. But that’s in December.

Right now, we’re getting into the “-ber” months, and my usual situation there is that whatever you might want, if you can wait, might be better bought at a discount come November or December. It fluctuates as far as what you might be interested in and if it’s worth waiting for a discount. For instance, I’m looking forward to Ball X Pit. I don’t know the price yet on that title, but it’s not likely something I’ll sit on. You probably have a few games like that as well.

In the meantime, I’ll continue looking for a game to hold me over for a while. I’ll try again today to see what grabs me and go from there.

Maybe I’ll go back to an old Splinter Cell game considering there’s no risk of getting burned out on that title before a new one is released. Ubisoft, it has been 4,388 days since a new Splinter Cell game (non-animated series or guest spot in another game franchise, remake, BBC radio drama, or VR exclusive) was released.

Also, there’s been 3,563 job losses in the gaming industry since January 1, 2025.

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It’s not unlike us from time to time to sort of stray off topic for a little bit. And by “us”, I mean “me”. And that’s the case early in this episode and throughout as I try and remember the very first comic book I ever read. At some point I’m going to have to go digging. I’m pretty sure I still have the issue and would know it when I see it.

But now I’m doing the same thing here as I did on the show. So let me try to stick to gaming for a moment if only to say that I really haven’t branched out and played very much. Still kind of in limbo for now as to what to sink my teeth into. It’ll come to me eventually. And it’s not something I’m bothered by. Just like the comic book, I’ll know it when I see it…or feel it as it were. God knows my backlog is SCREAMING for attention.

It would have been nice maybe to have that Dragon Age remaster. Given the nostalgia of the previous 3 right now are the only things keeping that franchise in any kind of positive memory considering what Veilguard did to it. I never played it so I don’t know and I hardly played those previous 3 but I kind of would like to revisit them and see if it holds my attention. Our tastes, in all sorts of ways, change over time and I’m curious if now I could actually get into the series. I sort of did with the second one but not near enough to remember anything. And it was all the way back on the 360, I think.

Something will eventually fall into my lap and you’ll hear me gush over it week after week, it just takes some time.

Speaking of time, Ubisoft, it has been 4,381 days since a new Splinter Cell game (non-animated series or guest spot in another game franchise, remake, BBC radio drama, or VR exclusive) was released.

Also, there’s been 3,563 job losses in the gaming industry since January 1, 2025.

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Still haven’t found a game to hold my attention in recent weeks and now, seemingly, months it feels like.

I have a lot of quick games I play. Little things that I can spend however much time I want with them and back out whenever. But nothing on a story driven basis or anything like that to really keep me coming back and advancing.

Avowed was on a really good path at doing that for me but it was just so big. Eventually the size of that game and my need to explore everything I could in every map just broke me down to a gaming exhaustion.

So I’m looking for something to hold me but not something to engulf me, you know? The Battlefield 6 beta looked kind of fun while watching streams but I don’t know how well I work with mouse/keyboard controls just yet. Typing this is better than it used to be but I’m still mistyping keys on the regular here while I do this. Although…Avowed would be a good way to test out how that’s working for me since that was the game I was playing when it started to become an issue.

What I don’t want is another live service game to get into and what’s strange is that WB Games, after failing spectacularly with it a year ago, seems to want to give me just that. I mean, there could be a way to make that work, but it was a pretty big fail for them and it’s just strange how they want to try again so soon. Even with the same intellectual property.

At this point, I might actually take a live service Splinter Cell, if that’s the only way I could get one. Ubisoft, it has been 4,374 days since a new Splinter Cell game (non-animated series or guest spot in another game franchise, remake, BBC radio drama, or VR exclusive) was released.

Also, there’s been 3,563 job losses in the gaming industry since January 1, 2025.

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