Just give me time to breathe, PLEASE!

Having NPCs verbalize in-game hints on how to solve puzzles really isn't a new idea. There have long been clues provided on puzzle solutions be they spoken by other game characters, provided in the environment, highlighted with some "sense" ability, or something else. However, it sure does seem like those hints are coming a lot earlier and a lot more often in recent releases.

Take God of War Ragnarök as one example. One of...

There are at least three of them coming this year.

It's near the start of the month. It's a new month, a new year, but probably the same you. 2023 will have a number of remakes and remasters released, same as the previous few years. While there are remakes and remasters of games such as Like a Dragon: Ishin and Risk of Rain Returns slated to be released in 2023, we're going to focus only on the horror remakes in the pipeline.

That means, I'm asking just one simple question:...

What's this? Another poll for December?

​The Game Awards for 2022 have now come and gone. We had some winners announced and some other things happened. Now that it's all said and done, let's find out what you thought about this year's show, assuming you watched it.

Was it the actual awards? The new trailers? Maybe it was Animal from the Muppets? Perhaps you just loved that Reggie Fils-Aime wore a pin... of himself.

This one is another multiple choice poll,...

With The Game Awards being literal days away now, I'm just curious to know what your favorite parts are of the show. You know, assuming you have a favorite part to begin with.

Might have a second poll this month to see get your opinion on this year's event after the show airs on December 8th.

Let's focus on the free games being offered on both services.

For several years now, both Sony and Microsoft have offered their console subscribers some "free" monthly games as part of their subscription services. Sony has had PlayStation Plus and Microsoft has had Games with Gold as part of Xbox Live Gold. Each service typically gives out roughly two to four titles every month that you are free to keep so long as you were subscribed when they were offered.

The...

Boo!

It's the start of the month of October 2022, which means it's time for a new poll of the month! This might be the first time I'm actually on the ball with getting the POTM up on the first, but it's only because I've been thinking about this one ahead of time already.

As it's October, that means one of a few things: Tree leaves are starting to change color, pumpkin spice comes out of hibernation to be added to all the things, and horror games are very much en vogue....

The remake of The Last of Us was just released on PlayStation 5 and well, was it really necessary to remake a game that came out less than a decade ago? Maybe it was, but is the $70 (USD) price justified for a game that has already been released twice prior in 2013 and again in 2014?

Broken controllers, holes in walls, excessive yelling and swearing.

While I'm sure we would all like to consider ourselves here calm, cool, and collected that might not always hold true when playing a frustrating game. Maybe you're having a particularly frustrating day, and nothing is going your way. Maybe your teammates (and totally not you) are doing terrible and you're losing a multiplayer game because of it. Maybe you just died for the 50th time to a boss that did some unblockable...

Did Keighley's summer game jamboree 2022 impress you?

With the Summer Game Fest 2022 essentially being over (save for some Multiversus thing on the 21st), it's time to ask you: What'd you think of it?

Did the announcements and reveals exceed your expectations? Or did the reveals drastically under-deliver this year? Maybe what was shown off completely matched your expectations, be they high or low expectations to begin with. Hell, maybe you just want the old E3 back with...

There are a lot of them coming up.

There are a lot of "remakes" that have been announced, or at least very heavily rumored. While I cannot include all of them in a poll here, I can include a good number of the bigger ones that are supposedly coming in the months and possibly years ahead.

You can select multiple titles in the poll, so feel free to select all of the ones you are interested in. Also, not all of these are full on "remakes" as you may know...

A simple one for March 2022.

Maybe I'll do another poll later this month. I just wanted to get something up so that we can have a new poll going!

So, the question is pretty simple here: Are you playing Elden Ring? I'll leave it as a simple "yes" or "no" option, but feel free to share some thoughts in the comments below.

If you chose "yes," then maybe comment about whether or not you're enjoying your time with it. If you said "no,"...

It's a new year, and a new poll!

Let's just ignore the fact that I forgot to put a poll up for January 2022. In fact, let's also ignore that I forgot to put up a poll for February until the month was almost half over.

With all that said, let's just get into the real reason we're here: To select an arbitrary option that doesn't really matter for anything besides morbid curiosity.

This month, I'm curious to see which of the major Mario sports franchises is your...

The start of something amazing or a terrible fit?

With news that Ubisoft is rolling out a beta for their blockchain powered NFT program, named Ubisoft Quartz, it seems only right to ask this question: Are you excited for this weird NFT-infused metaverse that developers and publishers are starting to push?

Are you all about this idea of earning "limited" items in games that can possibly be sold for cryptocurrencies?

Or are you against this idea, believing...

Yeah, I forgot about this month's poll, so what?
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Yeah, got a bit of a late Poll of the Month for you today. I meant to change this a week ago then totally forgot. So uh, let's think of a question, shall we?

I got it!

With Battlefield 2042 coming out this month, and this kind of still being somewhat focused on Battlefield news, the question is: What game mode in Battlefield 2042 will you play first?

Will you play All Out Warfare, the game's...

A little something different for Spooktober.

It's October and you know what that means: Scary costumes, frights, chills, creepy games, spooky movies, and yes, lots of candy.

Despite this being a gaming focused site, let's mix up this month's poll, shall we? Instead of doing the obvious question of asking what your favorite scary game is, let's find out what your favorite Halloween candy might be. Now, there are a LOT of options out there. I'm just going to list some of...