Category Archives: Video Games
Here’s a Really Cool Warhammer Video
Total War: Warhammer III was my favorite video game last year. I love the Total War games, especially the Warhammer ones. It’s a real time strategy game set in a huge world and featuring armies of orks, trolls, wizards, dragons and much, much more. I’ve been playing for at least a decade, through all three games. And one of the funnest aspects is that the developers have simply expanded the same map each time.
And now that whole map is open to everybody just buying Warhammer III.
So basically, in the first Total War: Warhammer, we had a big map and half a dozen or so races to fight on it. In Warhammer II, they kept that same map, then added a whole bunch of new continents, islands and races to the west. And now in Warhammer III, they expanded to the east, south and north, making a huuuuuge map with dozens of available races. Before now, players needed to have all three games to play this big map. Now the developers have opened the map up to just people buying Warhammer III, so it’s less of a pricey process for anybody who wants to give it a try.
That’s neat! And I also just wanted to share that cool announcement video, because it’s really neat. I highly recommend this games, and I’m very much looking forward to years of DLC and new races and generals coming up in the future.
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John Wick vs. Tetris
This has been a huge week for movie trailers. And these are no different!
First up is a big new trailer for John Wick: Chapter 4. This will probably be a big, awesome film with awesome action and an awesome Keanu Reeves at its center. Lotsa guns, lotsa fighting, lotsa action; it’s a John Wick movie.
This movie and trailer strike me as so weird, sometimes, when you consider how this franchise started. John Wick was working as a hitman for some lowly Russian gangster in a single city. Was he slumming it with that guy? Have they ever talked about it in any of the sequels?
Ah well, doesn’t matter. The new one should be fun. John Wick: Chapter 4 comes to theaters on March 24.
Next up is a new trailer for a film we didn’t know was coming: a Tetris biopic!
I love Tetris as much as the next person. I hope this is a cool and exciting story! An American with a dream about Tetris goes to Russia to get his hands on the ultimate video game. Looks pretty exciting and full of action. Maybe it’ll be the best video game adaptation movie of all time.
Tetris is coming to AppleTV+ on March 31.
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Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Should Be Sweet
Good news, everybody! I own a Nintendo Switch now, so when Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is released in a couple months, I’ll be able to play it immediately! I very much enjoyed Breath of the Wild, and I’m glad to be on board for the sequel right away. Looks like they just took the first game and expanded it in a lot of great ways.
There’s driving a cool car, there’s falling through the air, there’s some underground stuff; maybe we’ll get to play as Zelda? I’m fully on board with all of this! A lot of people are raising a fuss online that this game is going to cost $70 as opposed to the usual $60…but I’ve made my piece with this. I’m an adult with a full time job and a comfortable life, I can afford an extra $10 for my video games. And yeah, I’m bragging. Wanna fight about it?
Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom comes out on May 12.
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Here’s that Sweet Mario Kart Parody Trailer from SNL
I don’t have much to share this Monday, with no new movie trailers or anything of that nature to talk about. So how about we just watch that sweet, gritty Mario Kart parody trailer from Saturday Night Live this past weekend. Does anybody still watch that show live on Saturday nights?
This is fun stuff. Great work by the graphics department at SNL, for sure. And Pedro Pascal kills it as gritty Mario. I’m loving The Last of Us on HBO, like everybody else. And this was a great parody for pull off for Pascal’s guest appearance on SNL. Obviously, this isn’t the first gritty, post-apocalyptic Mario re-imagining on the internet, but it’s fun when some actual work goes into it from a major media outlet.
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6 Characters I’m Waiting For in Marvel Snap
Anybody else become really addicted to Marvel Snap? I’m not one for superhero-based mobile games, because they’re usually some weird Bejeweled rip-off or something. And Marvel has a dozen or so of these games, with promise tons of unlockables and characters and blah blah blah. No thank you! But for reasons I’ve long since forgotten, I totally got into Marvel Snap and have been playing pretty much nonstop for months now. It’s a good use of my time.
Marvel Snap is a lot like those old Marvel trading cards I used to obsess over when I was a kid. I had a ton of those things! Marvel Snap is all about collecting cards of various comic book characters and then using them in battle. It’s fun, it’s quick, and there are a metric ton of comic characters to play around with. It’s not movie-based, like a lot of games are. So that’s a hoot! But as with those cards in the early 1990s, I want to see my favorites in the game. There are a whole bunch of characters who don’t have cards yet, and that’s why I’ve put this list together.
Join me after the jump for six Marvel characters I want to see as Marvel Snap cards sooner rather than later.
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