PixlBit

When 1up.com shut down, I went to two different places to make new blogs: here at PixlBit and at IGN.  I figured if I didn't like one, I'd just focus on the other one.  Well, after three blogs at IGN, I stopped and just stuck with PixlBit.  It was just too hard to find blogs I wanted to read, and I had no idea if anyone was reading mine.  

I haven't visited IGN in years.  Which is a shame because for a long time I was a big supporter of them and visited them even back when they were just N64.com.  But there came a point where they just got worse and worse, plus I was getting all my gaming news through press releases that were emailed to me anyway.

Oh yes, Monster Hunter is very popular in Japan.  In fact, a few years ago in the 3DS game Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, for a limited time you could get Monster Hunter furniture to decorate with.  Even in the US!

Yeah they are hard!  I think the only ninja games I ever beat was I-Ninja and the TMNT arcade games.

Gesundheit (sorry).

Oh that makes "Chiki" sound like even less sense! :)

One cool thing about Shadow is that he has a dog.

I've never played Monster Hunter Stories (or any Monster Hunter game for that matter), but in Japan they did release six different amiibo figures of Monster Hunter Stories and I have them all.  I wonder if they'd still work on the US version of the game?

I remember reading about Pocket Monsters in Nintendo Power about a year before it came out in the US.  I put it in the back of my mind.  A year later I was writing game reviews for a major newspaper, and I went to my first E3 and saw how Pokemon was going to be marketed in the US, and I knew it would be a hit.  Speaking of which, according to my original press kit (which I still have), the Pokemon slogan was "Catch 'em if you can," not "Gotta Catch 'em All" and Ash's name was Casey.  Anyway, when I got back from E3, I told my editior I wanted to cover everything Pokemon.  He was like, "Yeah, sure, whatever."  But he kept his word, and when the game did come out, I was writing Pokemon articles left and right when it got popular.  I was getting paid for my artciles back then, so I like to say that Pokemon helped pay my way through college.  I don't play Pokemon as much now, but I sure do have memories about it back then!

I got a review code for My Brother Rabbit, too!  Except I'll be reviewing it on PS4.

I never really saw Tank! x3 as a EDF-alike.  I always thought of it as a more colorful and cartoony Tokyo Wars.