It's fall and that means it's time to start stocking up on video games for the winter! There's no better time as most platforms have a fall sale followed by a winter sale plus some random sales in-between. I tend to buy most of my games from Steam, but occasionally seek out other digital platforms …
Black Friday Game Purchases 2019
It's the holiday season and you know what that means, clearance on video games!!! I rarely buy games at launch or at full price and usually wait until they are a year or so old and go on sale. Sales generally happen in the summer, fall, and winter hitting both Thanksgiving and Christmas. I scour …
2018 PC Upgrade Results
I recently decided to upgrade my storage and graphics card on my gaming PC. There was a bit of drama but the results are in. Storage I augmented my existing 2 TB spinning hard drive and 512 GB SSD with a 2 TB NVMe in an M.2 slot. The result has been phenomenal. A machine that …
2018 Holiday Gaming
The holidays are an opportunity to celebrate the season, spend time with family... and play video games! I'm off for 11 days in a row this year and while some of my time will be spent with the fam, some will also be spent gaming (and some working on the house). Here's what I'll be …
Bi-Annual PC Upgrade
I bought a custom-built gaming PC four years ago so I could upgrade it incrementally and avoid buying a new PC every couple of years to keep up with games. Over the long run this would provide me with a better system for less money. The original machine came with a high-end fourth-generation Core i7 …
Four Assassin’s Creeds
I posted about my holiday tradition playing Assassin's Creed III and noted that I wasn't sure if I would finish it before moving onto the next game in the series or if I'd start playing them in parallel. Well I decided to play the next game in the series... and then the next... and the …
Three Years of Assassin’s Creed
The first time I saw Assassin's Creed was at a Game Stop on a PlayStation 3, sometime in 2007-2008. I played a few minutes and died a bunch of times because I'm terrible using console controllers, but came away impressed. The game was so cool. It had a big beautiful world that you could run …
Gaming PC Revisited
I bought a dedicated gaming PC three years ago. I needed something more powerful than my iMac to play games on but didn't want to shell out $2k for another Mac that would be limited in terms of future upgrades. My iMac can be used as an external display to another machine which meant that …
My SLI Saga
I bought a customized Gaming PC so that I could expand it in the future. Most importantly, I wanted to swap out the graphics card for a newer model in a few years when mine started to struggle. I also wanted the option to combine multiple graphics cards together. This is called SLI (or Crossfire …
Far Cry 4
Since I published my first impressions of several of the games that I played over holiday vacation I started playing another that needs to be added to the list: Far Cry 4. Far Cry 4 is the newest game that I own, having been released in November. I didn't get it from Steam; instead it …
Relatively Ambitious 