Andrew POE!

Yeah, if you look at the release calendar for the rest of this year, we have too many games coming out at once. It's borderline impossible to play them all. Due to the volume of games, some people (including me) are having to play catchup with releases from years ago (stretching back to PS3/Xbox 360/Wii generation and for some further than that to PS2/Xbox/GameCube generation). As a hobbyist, you end up not buying anything or becoming selective on what's bought. Another crash might be the only thing that can slow down the releases.

It sadly just shows that game development (and video games in general) is not sustainable as an industry. Almost every company is poorly managed, poorly run companies. Except for maybe Nintendo at times. Although Nintendo has the bright idea of taking fan hobbyists to court over emulators and never allowing their back catalog to be playable if they have their way.

Yeah, we're going to have a scenario where we are paying $100+ for a single title AND there won't be physical copies. Based on the staff cuts and low operating profit, I think we're going to see Microsoft buying PlayStation + all their studios in the next few years. PlayStation will still make PlayStations, but it'll be under Microsoft's direction. PSN and Xbox Marketplace will still be there....but going into the same bucket at Microsoft. I've been saying that for awhile but it's hard not to read the tea leaves and seeing it happen. The Last of Us Part III will be the last PlayStation Studios published game.

My guess: Anthem is gearing for a tax writeoff of TNA in the next few years. Next year will be 10 years since they purchased the company. They aren't interested in growing TNA as a business or even care about drawing a gate or a buy rate, they just want to maintain a holding pattern until that time comes. Not sure why they are doing this while saying publicly they want to 'bring TNA closer to Anthem.' If that's the case, they'll sell the tape library/brand/company to AEW or WWE/TKO and recoup or take a loss in the sale.

Also keep Tony away from DVDVR and hope he doesn't reactive his account to respond.

Jerry Lynn is flipping out on Twitter about "that's ruining a cliffhanger" to ask if it's an injury or not. I don't get why they're doing that the last Dynamite before the PPV. But whatever, I just caught Dynamite the one week I could watch it on TBS.

It's nuts that this match is being put on a Saturday show a week or so before a PPV. Why Tony Khan didn't decide to pull back on it and save it for the last show before the PPV on Dynamite I don't know. This build up for the AEW PPV hasn't been that enticing to watch.

Yeah, Madison Rayne looked really awful and wrestled like she was underwater. Which caused Purrazzo to have to slow down too.

I missed all but the first 30 minutes. Deonna Purrazzo managed to injure Madison Rayne or come close to it with a dangerous move she shouldn't ever do again. I don't buy Daniel Garcia against Christian. I don't really see Christian as a champion or a wrestler either but more of a manager. I thought he was too broken down to wrestle anymore but I guess not. Orange Cassidy vs Mike Bennett was boring and meander quite a bit as a match. I don't see Orange Cassidy as a champion either, but Tony Khan does, so we get to see it. Wardlow's rant I thought would lead to a wrestler coming out and splashing cold water on it (Miro would have been perfect there for that). Instead, he rants about how he doesn't have the World title (without the Undisputed Kingdom coming out and asking him what's going on), he leaves, and I felt like it was pointless. The main event was decent but a mess. Audrey Edwards manages to hog the spotlight when the World champion Samoa Joe is standing there victorious. Didn't see why Joe didn't start yelling at her to get out of the ring, but whatever. The upper part of the arena was darken and I didn't see that many fans when the camera would cut over to the commentator's side of the arena.

Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree has a release date now. Hopefully I can beat the main game before it's out.

My real life friends are losing their minds over Elden Ring Shadows of Erdtree being released tomorrow. We have a running bet that a friend of mine promised to beat Elden Ring before the DLC comes out. He still hasn't.

The WWE is starting to run into the danger that Gunther will end up like Roman Reigns and never lose the title. That may turn people off from watching WWE (beyond what's going on outside of wrestling). So I guess Gunther can end Reigns' streak, hold three titles, then whoever can beat Gunther will be a REALLY HUGE star.

Watched bits of Raw. The six women segment was sorta bad and Nia Jax looked like she might have injured Becky Lynch (or that was the appearance). Chad Gable and Ivar was decent but the crowd was surprisingly dead for it. Chad Gable really should just change it up a bit and lean more into the Kurt Angle-isms (he and Dominik Mysterio would have a perfect Eddie Guerrero vs. Kurt Angle match if that ever happens). I'm so over Gunther at this point. Problem is he had a great match with Jay Uso despite Uso's very limited moveset (although Gunther's moveset was a limited too). It's amazing how he's conditioned the audience to basically respond to a chop and build a match around a chop.

Apparently, there's a whole genre of video games where you do real life shit in a video game. There's (and I'm not kidding) PC Building Simulator, Crypto Mining Simulator, Bus Driver Simulator, Car Mechanic Simulator, Car For Sale Simulator, Cafe Owner Simulator, and Garden Simulator among others. I just want to do awesome stuff and pretend I'm a ninja through video games, not replace a simulated gasket on a simulated car. Oh and all the ones I mentioned have Platinums.

I ended up buying Skull & Bones and Legend of Heroes Trails of Cold Steel III/IV on PS5 yesterday. Along with Suicide Squad earlier this month. Skull & Bones and Suicide Squad will end up being priorities due to a server shutdown in the not too distant future although I may start both earlier while people are playing them.

Some of the other sources (Tom Warren, Jeff Grubb) had other information that Starfield, Gears, Indiana Jones and a new Doom were going to be multiplatform. I guess Phil Spencer put a stop to that for now.

Where I'm coming from with that is the number of developers and publishers closing their doors in the last several years with IPs being lost forever. It won't matter so much that Sony and Microsoft are using similar hardware as it will matter that there aren't enough publishers/developers to create software on that hardware. Microsoft has the money and resources to purchase developers/publishers for decades (whether they publish any of their works remains to be seen). I think eventually they'll gobble up large publishers after they merge. They did buy Bethesda and Activision/Blizzard which no one thought would happen. I think the next big movement will be Ubisoft and EA merging and Sony buying Square Enix with Microsoft buying Sega/Atlus. I actually also think Microsoft will buy PlayStation wholesale from Sony and will get out of the Xbox hardware business altogether in probably about 20 years. PlayStation Plus will still be there, PlayStations will still be made, it's just the overall structure will be under Xbox and will have GamePass. I'm probably wrong about all of this though. Also, the US government seems gunshy about Microsoft buying anymore companies after their purchase of Activision/Blizzard.

I agree - for whatever reason, I've been hooked to PlayStation and their trophy system for a long time. But even then, I see the changes that are happening and they aren't good. As a result, I go back to PS3 days to get Platinum trophies and I'm amazed at how well some of the games from that generation hold up today. There is no experimentation whatsoever with Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft. They're all guilty of the same thing. Something like Heavy Rain would never have gotten greenlit today. Microsoft wouldn't have released Sunset Overdrive today. Nintendo wouldn't even have done Eternal Darkness or Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes on the Switch today. Essentially, the costs of development across all three platform holders have driven games to be an unsustainable market. If publishers sell games for $100 MSRP at launch, just wait awhile, it'll be cheaper. Eventually, we'll see one console and one publisher if this keeps up.

It's rumored we'll see more remasters/ports during the year. Until Dawn was already one coming, another one rumored to come is Astro Bot (either a remaster of Astro Bot or a new Astro Bot 2). Sony recently filed a trademark for Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet (new Bend Studios game? Cory's new RPG project at Santa Monica? Naughty Dog's new game? DLC for Helldivers II? DLC for Destiny 2? Who knows) I'm hoping Sony will give Puppeteer a PS5 version so the PS3 physical copies can come down a bit.

Got my 318th Platinum trophy with Far Cry 4 on PS4. The servers started working again last month so I got the two online trophies done. Campaign and DLC was fun.

It's crazy how around this time last year Sami Zayn was blowing up huge following the Bloodline storyline and his leaving the group. Now he barely registers in the upper card.

Honestly, his time as a wrestler should be over. Something like a battle royal, where people aren't known for getting injured there, should have been the clue to that. Have him go to NXT to work as a trainer/booker, join Smackdown as a color commentator, keep him on the pre-shows, anything but wrestle. He's just going to get hurt again (Seth Rollins brought this up in an interview clip on YT).

Not exactly sure how this will work. Will Roman do the Fingerpoke of Doom and The Rock lies down for a quick pin? With Bill Codyberg running through backstage at the Georgia Dome...I mean Lincoln Financial Field to fight Roman? The Rock was completely thrown off by the crowd reaction. Plus, his Cody Crybabies will completely turn the crowd against him, but he doesn't care. I was hoping it would lead to Cody Rhodes vs Seth Rollins vs The Rock vs Roman Reigns, but I'm not even sure that will happen. It's going to be Rock vs Roman.

Won't stop legit journalists from being there and asking questions about the lawsuit. Although you're right, it'll be all kayfabe.

The Rock is right. Tomorrow's press conference will definitely be remembered forever. And it won't be because of he politicking his way into the main event. Hopefully he, HHH, Roman Reigns, and everyone else have better answers to questions about Janel Grant, Vince McMahon and now Ashley Massaro other than "we have a lot of momentum going to WrestleMania, this will be the best one yet." I'm sure Seth Rolilns got himself in trouble for his comments about Vince McMahon too. If Roman Reigns wants to pick a time for "this didn't feel right to me for me to jeopardize my life and wrestle," this would be the stance to take (but he won't do that).