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The Electronics Entertainment Expo, or E3 for short, is one of the biggest trade shows in the video game industry, and I’ve been going to it nearly every year since 1997.  Sure I’ve skipped a few years here and there.  Like when I didn’t have an outlet to write on for a short while between the newspaper and GamerDad.  Or when I just started a new job and didn’t have enough money or vacation time.  Or when E3 went through a bit of a downsizing phase and I didn’t feel like it was worth the trip then.  But those absences were all my choice.  I’ve been able to go nearly every year otherwise.  But for the past five years, I was denied a press pass for whatever reason.  Yet somehow, this year I was able to get a media pass even though nothing had changed.  So last week I went to E3, and here’s some articles about it!

A bunch of stuff here. I finished with Disneyland Adventures, dug into some DKC games, popped in some GameBoy games into my SNES GameBoy Player, and roamed the post-apocalyptic landscape in Fallout 4 and Wasteland 2. DETAILS!

Sable and Sea of Solitude stood out to me as far as indie games I'd like to play. I'm not entirely sure what Sable is, but the art style looked really cool. SoS (oh ... OOOOHHHHH, how did I not catch that before?) has a unique art style as well, and while I skipped past whatever the woman was saying about it, since I was watching in the living room and trying to skip ahead to trailers so my dad could watch cable, I am interested in the seemingly introspective inspiration behind it to boot. 

Well, I bring sad news. My TV I got for free is Das Kaput. For some reason it came on by itself last night. So being cautious I unplugged it. Now when I turn it on it only stays on for about a second. Now I am on the hunt once again for a CRT TV so I can play my light games and Atari 2600. That is it for now, at least until I find another TV.

As requested, I am bringing you some KREATOR! Gods of Violence is the fourteenth studio album by Kreator. Who is Kreator you may ask. Well they are a Thrash Metal band from Germany. Now on to the meat! The METAL!!!!

I have never played EVE Online and seeing how time consuming it is, I'm sure I never will. All the same, I recently read through Empires of EVE, a history of the first few years of the game. While there are fictional AI empires in the game, the book covers the struggles of the purely human factions. And it's surprisingly engaging! These might as well be real world events. And it was cool to see the scale of things escalate from skirmishes of a few dozen ships to epic battles that involved thousands of ships, every one piloted by an actual person in the real world. Backstabbings and betrayals, blockades and political machinations, life obligatons and deadly apathy—it was quite engrossing! If you fall in the middle of a Venn diagram of interest in history and video games, you really ought to read this book.

I've been busy doing HTML5/CSS/Javascript coding for class but I managed to find some time to play. I downloaded Disneyland Adventures from Game Pass because I liked what little I played on the Kinect version of the game. Now I'm hooked.

So, Sony is being the jerk on the playground. Serously? What does it hurt to share with Switch players? I think Sony is statring to forget who supplies the bread and the butter that is placed on said bread. That's cool though. The Sony conference was blah anyway. Am I being a little harsh? Or just about right?

Good morning Pixlpeeps! I have been away for the last week because I have a family member in the hospital and I’ve spent a lot of time there and when I came home it was to eat bad fast food, watch some TV, and fall asleep. I think this maybe the first time in a week that I have actually really used my laptop. I may have powered it up yesterday to sign up for Discord to join the Pixlbit page and search for a cure on how to actually use a Fortnite account I have instead of the one the Switch signed me up for and I can’t get rid of (*hint, you don’t because Epic didn’t think of things like a Logout button). Anyways let’s get started with a combo Game/Quick Hits blog!

So another E3 has come and gone. This year's wasn't the best we had in terms of game reveals but it had me more optimistic about where games are heading than most. There looks to be a lot I want to play and little I disliked. However, there were two things that irked me and I need to get out of the way before I get to the positives: