Category Archives: Video Games
The Street Fighter Movie Is Still Coming!
There are still a lot of movies coming out this year and one that I’m very excited for is Street Fighter. Every trailer has looked amazing and hilarious and wickedly crazy. And I can’t wait to see that happen! Seems silly. Seems goofy. Seems wild and crazy. Seems perfect to me!
I don’t care much for the Mortal Kombat movies. The second one won me over by the end, but they’re not very good. But I have such high hopes for Street Fighter. It looks so perfect. The characters look amazing. The tone seems perfect. The effects could be something else! This could be one heck of a movie.
Street Fighter comes to theaters on Oct. 16.
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Here is the Grand Theft Auto VI Extended Look!
If for, whatever reason, this is the first time you’re hearing about or seeing this GTA6 Extended Look, you’re a saint for paying such close attention to my blog. How nice of you. Basically, for GTA6, we’ve had two trailers more than a year ago. And now Rockstar Games has released a half-hour long gameplay showcase. It started out on Netflix, and then came to YouTube last night. It’s gorgeous.
Also, just click through to watch it on YouTube if that’s what the prompt says.
Look, I’m already incredibly hyped for GTA6. I’ve played and loved all mainstream GTA games, all the way back to GTA1. I was there. I played GTA2 like my life depended on it. I bought GTA3 months before I was able to save up enough money to buy a Playstation 4 back in college because I was so excited. I’m hoping I live long enough to play GTA7. So I’ve got GTA gaming in my blood.
I think this looks great. I have zero complaints. I’ll be pre-ordering the $100 version of the game because I can afford an extra $20 if it means more of the game to enjoy. I have zero problem with locking some cosmetics behind a Deluxe Edition. Games have been doing that for ages. I love the idea that, instead of just dumping the bonus goodies in your inventory at the start of the game, Rockstar went to the trouble of inserting them naturally in the game world. I don’t care that video games are going disc-less. I dropped discs ages ago and I’ll probably be too old to care when digital-only comes back to bite us all in the butt.
I just want my GTA6! I took the week off from work when it comes out! Just hook it to my veins!
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It’s Star Wars: Zero Company Day! Among Other Major Things
Today should be a pretty fun day! After work, I’m going to go see Coyote vs. Acme in the theaters. That should be a hoot. And today/tonight, we’ll get our first major look at Grand Theft Auto 6! I don’t have an Netflix subscription, so I won’t be able to watch the show when it drops at 3 p.m. today — I’d be at work anyway. But I’ll be tuned it when it goes up on YouTube at 9 p.m.
In the meantime, today is also the release Star Wars: Zero Company, the new tactics-based Star Wars game. That should be fun too!
I love me some X-Com 2, so I can’t wait to play Zero Company. Everybody looks cool. It’s getting great reviews. I’ve got a 3-day weekend coming up. Things are lining up nicely for me. Here’s hoping for the best!
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Tell It Animated: Bowser and Punisher
One of my favorite little channels on YouTube is Tell It Animated, where a dude draws character evolutions from over the years/decades. He’s a cool dude with a great gimmick. And I like sharing what he’s made, even if I’m rather late with at least one of these.
First up is Bowser, or King Koopa for those of us who grew up in the 1980s.
And then we’ve got the Punisher, ahead of his upcoming appearance in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Good videos, both! Hopefully they brighten somebody’s Monday. I gotta get some work in today and then I’m going to see The Odyssey, so hopefully it’ll be a good day for yours truly.
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Some Fancy New Video Games Are On The Way
This weekend was apparently some kind of fancy video game convention. I’m too lazy this Monday morning to look up the exact name, so forgive me, but I just wanted to share some trailers for the games I’m excited about. I’m not too lazy for that!
First up is State of Decay 3, which is my favorite zombie franchise! There are a bajillion zombie game franchises out there, but State of Decay is my favorite.
State of Decay is a GTA-esque open world sandbox game is that all about scrambling for resources and maintaining a community. Despite what the trailer shows you, action and gunfire aren’t a big part of the game. At least they weren’t big parts of the first two games. It’s about having a big, open world and an established camp, and then taking a vehicle and what few weapons you’ve found and heading out into the world to raid warehouses and broken down grocery stores to find the supplies you need to get your camp and people through another day.
It’s also one of those games where you control everybody in camp. You don’t just have one singular protagonist, you can switch between everybody! And then there’s perma-death! So it’s real nifty.
Glad to see it’s coming for Playstation, my current gaming device of choice. And it’s coming next year. Sounds good!
Next up, here’s a new look at the Fable reboot.
This one has been moved to next year to avoid GTA6, which is fine by me. Between Wolverine in September and GTA6 in November, I was planning to skip Fable at launch. Everything I’ve seen so far has me excited for a big, spacious, interactive open world — just gotta wait and confirm they’ve got all the kinks worked out.
Fable is coming in February.
There’s a new Gears of War, this one called E-Day for Emergence Day. Not sure why they’ve decided to go backwards in the timeline, but it’s not a big deal and I’m sure it doesn’t matter. I don’t need strict continuity in my GoW games.
Will probably play. The last time I had a core gaming group of friends was back in some of the early GoW games. We had a blast playing matches and getting through the story. Those were good times. So yeah, I’ll probably play this one, though probably not with my old crew. I think I’ve played every GoW so far.
Gears of War: E-Day comes out…oh! Oct 6! And not for Playstation, just for X-Box and PC. I’ll figure it out.
Lastly is Star Wars: Zero Company, which is Star Wars dipping its toes into X-Com.
The X-Com games were super fun! They’re tactile, squad-based game maps. I’m going to love adding Star Wars to that mix, with at least one Jedi on the playing field. That should be a hoot. I definitely recommend the X-Com games to anyone looking for a neat challenge. I’m sure they’re very on sale these days.
Very excited for Zero Company. And it comes out on Aug. 27! So perhaps I’ll play that in between Crimson Desert and Wolverine.
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