It seems I will hit 200,000 XBOX Gamerscore this year. 👀 I wonder what game will cross the threshold.

I've started to work on something really big for myself. Maybe the biggest for me as a writer. I'm just really excited to move forward with this. Aaaaaaand maybe, if I'm lucky, a few other people will be really excited when I'm ready to reveal it.

I can't give up my outdated LG smartphone for one reason

I can't give up my outdated LG smartphone for one reason

When it comes to music, nothing beats my six-year-old LG V60 ThinQ.

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I can't give up my outdated LG smartphone for one reason

When it comes to music, nothing beats my six-year-old LG V60 ThinQ.

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Honestly, I'm so close to dropping Forza Horizon 6 until the expansions come out. The monthly Festival Playlist updates are the same boring, iterative releases we've seen for three games now, and I'm simply disappointed at the lack of improvement or innovation.

I'm actually playing GTA V for the first time right now, and I'm having a blast. Oh, this game is 13 years old, alright, and I have my issues... but I get it now.

I've already encountered 2 annoying bugs in Halo: Campaign Evolved. First, all cinematics were just black screens and audio until I restarted the game and my save. Next, I got caught in a checkpoint death loop that made me restart an entire mission.

AC Black Flag Resynced is very good. In many ways, it's better than the original. There are areas where Ubisoft could've pushed further with quality-of-life improvements (why isn't there an option to edit your fleet when you take a new ship?), but I'm having a lot of fun.

Am I the only one who misses Accolades and the Global Leaderboard in Forza Horizon 6? Feels like they could've had their new campaign progression AND kept FH5-like evolving Accolades.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is still one of the best games I've ever played.

The latest Samsung update broke my Watch8 Classic with constant ghost calls, rapid battery drain, and regular "Reset your watch to connect to your phone" notifications. This also happened to my Watch6 Classic, both times conveniently not long before Samsung's July event. Sigh.

Why is basically EVERY game coming out in September. Did we all just forget August and October exist?

Alan Wake 2 might be my favorite Resident Evil game.

The XBOX Games Showcase was really great. Halo, Fable, Plague Tale, Senua (terrible name), Magicians, Bad Magpie, and Vivarium especially spoke to me. Ending on CoD was a bad move, I think, but stellar show in general. XBOX is killing it, lately.

I've completed nine games this month. Maybe I should find another super short game just to make it an even 10. 😂

Luna Abyss has been a very pleasant surprise, so far. Super cool atmosphere, story, and gameplay progression.

Forza Horizon 6 has been consuming my life and I'll still be playing it regularly, but I still have lots of other games to check out. Luna Abyss has caught my attention, recently, so that might be next.

The whole "no sharing passwords" movement by streaming services will NEVER persuade me to subscribe to a single one. I'll just move on.

I'm about to start another short game because I just want to play FH6 but I have to wait 13 more hours. 🫠

As good as the Xbox mode for PC handhelds is becoming, it's still a really, really long way from the consistent convenience and stability of the Xbox console experience. I hope the next-gen Xbox nails the software.

Frieren would be a perfect show if it was clearer. For some reason, Frieren gets so blurry all of the time. 🫠

Everything I've seen of Crimson Desert puts me in three minds: "Do Everything: The Game" simply cannot work the way so many believe it should, I really want to play this game for 700 hours and I'm not sure why, and I'd rather take an acid bath than learn these asinine controls.

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Some update made the "Enter" button on my phone just send texts instead of making a new paragraph, and I can't find an option to go back, and this is clearly the worst day of my entire life. 😭

I started Resident Evil Requiem, and it's amazing, but I'll be honest: I've been spending most of my time lately playing TCG Card Shop Simulator on Xbox, and I have zero regrets.

I'm finally looking into Pokémon Pokopia and it's so immediately clear how much the developers love both Pokémon and the "life sim" genre Animal Crossing falls under. The attention to detail is amazing. I want to play this.

It's so hard to get back into an older game to play new DLC. I often bounce off completely and never return. Exactly why I'm waiting for the expansion to drop to play DOOM: The Dark Ages.

Pokémon Gen 10 and those adorable starters are making me consider a Switch 2. 🫠 I hope an OLED variant is released next year alongside these games, that'll make the decision easier. 😂

The only Shannara book by @terrybrooks.bsky.social I haven't read yet is Galaphile, but the paperback is a different size and layout to every other book in the series. 😭 It looks so out of place on my shelf. 🥲

I still haven't completed the Shadow of Rose expansion. I don't know why, it's just not hitting right for me.

Zachary Boddy@boddyzachary.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Game #2 | RESIDENT EVIL VILLAGE | 2026-01-29 I obviously needed to be caught up before Requiem arrives, so here we are! Village felt like a good mix between RE4 and RE7, but not quite as good as either of them. Still loved it! Rating: 9/10