Over the holidays I ve been listening to a lot of retro VGM, as well as catching up with some newer soundtracks. A recurring favorite of mine in this context is the RPGamer Network radio channel that has been around for a very long time and is my go-to when doing chores or creative projects at [ ]
I wish everybody a happy 2025 and hope you have spent a peaceful holiday season! I usually look forward to the Xmas break a lot but I m also glad when the special events and celebrations are finally done. It s been snowing over Xmas here in Switzerland which made for picture perfect holidays, so nobody gets [ ]
I don t know what possessed me this last weeekend to do the unfathomable: re-install FFXI. Yes that Final Fantasy, the first cross-platform MMORPG that ever was and cradle of my online gaming journey. When I left the game in 2004, I knew I was not to return. WoW was around the corner and I [ ]
The other day the Wayback machine took me back to my first ever blog that was hosted on blogspot. It was the early 2000s and I was an English literature student at the University of Bern. I had only just moved close to campus and inhabited a 6-bedroom flat with four other students whom I [ ]
In a misbegotten move that can only be described as fixing things that ain t broken, Steam changed the default for how it handles your personal screenshots this summer. Why is this, you ask? NOBODY knows but in any case there s no longer a simple click on the show on disk button that used to sit [ ]
I ve not played FFXIV in quite some time, in fact not since before the last expansion concluded. There are still parts of the late Endwalker MSQ I haven t touched which is also why I ve abstained from getting Dawntrail this summer. I kept waiting for my feelings to change on this but they have not [ ]
Whaddaya know, there I was feeling the gaming blues all summer until I ended up getting Palworld and Once Human this September and finding myself enjoying both for different reasons. The last two weekends were mostly dedicated to monster catching however which is why Once Human has to wait its turn for a personal review. [ ]
Back when the media landscape was simpler and videogames still young, aka the 80ies, gamers could only dream of movies or TV shows that were based on their favorite pastime. According to Wikipedia, the Super Mario Bros movie from 1993 was indeed the first foray into such territory which is not surprising given Nintendo s market [ ]
Delicious in Dungeon is a quirky little show based on a Japanse manga series that s currently streaming on Netflix. It s a beautifully animated fantasy adventure / dungeon crawler with an initial party of four unlikely heroes, looking to slay a dragon and win treasure. As logistical difficulties arise, the journey turns into a foodie s experiment [ ]
Every other week or so I go through the Steam discovery queue out of curiosity if nothing else. The algorithm is more miss than hit the majority of the time, yet there have been those rare occasions over the years where Steam surprised me with a queue that seems almost entirely tailored to me. I [ ]