Awards! Who needs them? Who wants them? Well I do apparently and I hope you do as well because you are about to get a bunch of them. Yes it's the yearly companion piece to my end of year retrospective as I single out games remarkable in ways both good and bad. It's the New Year and as the last vestige of festive cheer fades into the night I'd like you to raise your hands and your voices for the following awards presented in order of general importance and 'prestige'. I did once more think of abbreviating the name of the awards and calling them The GPLYA's or The GoPlaya's but I was once more shouted down by the committee, damn their hides! Instead we shall award these general non-branded trophies to the following games in the following categories... The Most Surprisingly Bad Game Award Let's kick things off on a sour note with a game that managed to surprise me by somehow being even worse than its reputation suggested. This was a game alre...
BEHOLD... THE MEGA EDITION! It's time o nce again! With no further ado b ut actually with some ado I am going to recap my personal year in gaming. The scintillating highs, the cratering lows with all points in-between and beyond spoken for as well. It's that most holy of end of year traditions and let me tell you I am both up for it and down for it simultaneously. On reflection I've somehow said the same thing twice there. Alas now's not the time to deliberate on the foibles and quirks of the English tongue! No it's the time for gaming and a super mega f-tonne of it as well! It's been a busy year for me outside of the gaming habit but yet somehow I have managed to squeeze in another fifty or so games. If the old gaming backlog I complain so much about was looking considerably lighter at the end of 2024 then it's positively slender now at the end of 2025. The list is still mostly comprised of 'old' games but yet again more and more curren...