Well I beat the main story line of Gyromancer and also racked up 100 awards last night.  As mentioned previously, 120 awards (or all of them) is not going to happen except by sheer darn luck.  Furthermore, while I enjoy Bejeweled (which this basically is), I am far from a master so passing the Stones isn’t going to work either.  The only achievement left at this point I can probably get is the Gyro Chain one which I’ll probably do this week.  Over in Road Redemption land, I’m to the point where I’m getting a little bored of running the campaign over and over again.  So, in the next week I’ll probably find a new game to start.

Anyway, we have sales.  There is some Borderlands, Far Cry and Need for Speed here (and old Skate games too) to choose from.  A lot of titles, but not many BC selections.  Syndicate is on sale but not currently a BC game and it would be an interesting choice if it went that way.  But we will just have to see what happens.  Enjoy your week, and I’ll be trying to do the same.  Take care.

Sorry if I’m a little late on this one.  They don’t usually do announcements on Thursdays anymore so this caught me a bit by surprise.    It’s an odd series of announcements for sure, but releases are releases.  I would guess that we will see FUEL as a GWG announcement at some point since Microsoft loves offering racing games in that style.   I still hold out some hope for GUN, maybe this will be the year.  Enjoy.

• Battlestations: Pacific $24.99 (available on disc)
• DLC w/Achievements: Carrier Battles Map Pack $6.99
• FUEL $9.99 (available on disc)
• Rayman Raving Rabbids $19.99 (available on disc @ cheaper price)

Another week, and I’m still splitting time between Gyromancer and Road Redemption.  Gyromancer, I’m making my way slowly through the game towards my goal of beating it and getting hopefully 100 of the 120 awards.  I know I won’t 100% it, but I should be able to actually beat it.  I’m almost 75 awards in and on stage 9 currently (of 11).  Road Redemption I’m done with the quick races (got gold on all of them) and working on the campaign which is pretty darn tough.  I’m also stuck with a few of the achievements due to the glitches on any achievements that are cumulative.  So hopefully that patch gets released soon and I can start getting credit for things I’ve already done.

Anyway, on to sales!  There is some good stuff here (including Xbox One as well) and worth taking a look at.  I do want to point out that there is a lot of 360 FX2 Pinball DLC on this list.  Remember, this stuff won’t easily convert over to Xbox One because Pinball FX2 was delisted on that console.  If you plan on leaving it on your 360, it’s a great deal but don’t buy it expecting Zen to help you with the conversion.  They did help me with mine but that was about a year ago, they might not be so willing now.  Anyway, enjoy the sales and I think we will have some new BC games a little later, so I look forward to bringing you that.  Take care.

Sorry I did not get to this yesterday, I know New Years are supposed to be filled with joy, happiness and promise but truth was it was none of that for me.  Not that I wanted to be left alone, but what I ended up with for New Years was anything but good vibes.  I am still playing both Gyromancer and Road Redemption.  In Gyromancer, my goal is probably going to be 75 awards and beating it.  Thankfully, I’m still on pace to do just that.

Road Redemption, I’ve gotten pretty far achievement and single player wise. I also figured out the main bug that the game has and that is it can not count certain achievements correctly.  It doesn’t save the progress between sessions, therefore, if you can’t get an achievement during a single session (basically don’t quit out of it), then the chance is lost.  Heck of a way to get 1,000 kills for example.  I did the bats achievement (50 kills with a bat) this way and it was rough since I tend to only play for about half an hour to an hour most nights.

Anyway, we do have a few sales this week.  I really do hope we get some new BC games soon.  I would also like them to revisit some of the XBLA games that they have forgotten too.  I would even settle for more Xbox Originals as I think they have only scrapped the surface on those.  Enjoy the rest  of your week.

Sorry this wasn’t done earlier this morning, but you know Christmas.  Over the past week I’ve been playing Gyromancer and Road Redemption which finally has an Xbox One port and is pretty awesome.  It is certainly the Road Rash clone I’ve always been looking for.  I had been part of the Kickstarter several years ago, and so I was happy to find out that I was getting my Xbox code finally. Good stuff, and I will be spending a lot of time playing it in the near future.

So here are the sales, not much but its Christmas week, so I wouldn’t expect much.  Enjoy your holidays, I’m going to go back to enjoying mine.  Take care.

Welp, I knew this was coming.  The prices for this might come in waves as I attempt to work on this on a Friday where I have a lot of things going on.  Remember, this is an one-man operation and I pay for my own darn site, lol (you can always donate though).  Anyway, here are the sales.  Enjoy!

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Looks like the new Games with Gold were announced this morning.  Another rough list for sure.  Racing games again rise to the surface with Xbox One while Xbox 360 titles are the ever popular Lara Croft and Far Cry entries.  Celeste might be interesting, but this month certainly gets a ho hum from me again.  Glad we get them, doesn’t mean I have to love them.  Hope everybody is having a great holiday.  Enjoy.

Xbox One

• Celeste (Janurary 1st-31st)
• WRC 6: FIA World Rally Championship (January 16th – February 15th)

Xbox 360

• Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (January 1st-15th)
• Far Cry 2 (January 16th-31st)

Welp, I did start a new game last week named Gyromancer (actually it’s a very old game, but that’s besides the point) but honestly I don’t think I’ll play it much longer.  It starts all decent in terms of difficulty and you can progress pretty darn well through the first 3 stages.  However, once it gets to the 4th stage, it starts penalizing for something called idle twisting.  The problem is that idle twisting is necessary in certain situations.  So from that point forward, the game becomes an absolute drag.  I might (maybe) try to just beat the game but I certainly won’t be going for all of the achievements.

Anyway, we do have some sales this week.  Sadly, only one of them is actually BC though (and it’s one we have seen many many times).  But if you do own Dogfight 1942 or Dungeon Defenders, this is a chance for you folks to pick up the DLC at a decent price.  Rumor has it that there might be a sale that starts later this week but we’ll see what happens before we get excited.  Enjoy the rest of your week.

Welp, I did finally find all of the riddles in Batman: Arkham Asylum.  Honestly, you know what the last 5 riddles were.  3 Joker Teeth related and 2 in the Caves (mostly because I hate the Caves).  The Joker Teeth honestly were harder than anything else, especially in the open areas like Arkham North and West.  But I got them, did the Spirit of Arkham as well.  Maybe in a few years I’ll come back and finish it at a tougher difficulty.  I’m not sure what I’m moving on to now, we’ll see.

Here are the sales for this week.  Only two are backwards compatible.  Panzer Dragoon Orta is very tempting (and I have Persona 4 on disc).  Abyss Odyssey also looks very good but its not BC and at this point, any XBLA title is going to have a very low chance of going BC.  Can’t say it won’t happen, just it’s not likely.  Enjoy the rest of your week folks.