Amanda Kay Oaks

Trust me, I am. They flew press out early so I was in a different time zone for a full week with a packed schedule lol.

I'm pretty stoked for Marvel's Wolverine and the upcoming 1.0 releases of Valheim and RuneScape: Dragonwilds. Also looking forward to the Ocarina of Time remake, whenever Nintendo decides to drop that one on us.

Plague Tale Legacy was SOOOOO good! I really enjoyed it.

Yeah, it was relatively light on news in general. Just that new movie on the animated front, too. :(

Per usual, Pokemon closed out its World Championships with a news drop. We got updates on several ongoing games, from Pokemon Unite to Pokemon Go and beyond. What did you think of this year's list of announcements? I was a little disappointed we didn't see any new Winds & Waves info, but I wasn't surprised.

I'd love to see a new Eeveelution and a new Pokemon type, too. But it seems like we might be waiting until Pokemon Day 2027 for any major news at this point.

I almost always go into the State of Play without any major expectations, but I'm curious what they choose to focus on beyond Final Fantasy 7 Revelation.

Tough question! Probably gotta be Skyrim or Pokemon Crystal for me.

It was a lot of fun! But I am also very happy to be back home haha.

I'm at Pokemon Worlds / Pokemon XP, so it is a very geeky weekend indeed on my end!

I'm a big Kingdom Hearts fan as well, and the games are all great!

For me, it's more about the quality of my experience. I'd probably be upset if a $70 was only a few hours of gameplay. But barring that, if it's good and I enjoy my time with it, I'm not going to put an exact x dollars = x hours of gameplay number to it. The last game I played all the way to credits was only about 15 hours, but I really enjoyed my time with it, so it felt worth it.

This might be a hot take, but I think it's time we let Hugh Jackman retire from this role. I doubt that it'll happen, but he's been around for so long and I feel like they're running out of interesting things to do with that version of the character.

I am so torn on this rumor, because of how that encounter supposedly ends. Tobey's Spider-Man was what got me into superheroes in the first place, and I cried buckets seeing him reprise the role in No Way Home. Do I want to see him do it again? Perhaps, but it has to be done right, not as a cheap gimmick.

I have a deep appreciation for physical media, but I live in a very small house. So I've gone largely digital for movies and games and have been for years. I still adore physical books, but I do read a lot of eBooks these days. My physical books are a curated collection of my favorites, rather than just every book I've read like it was when I was younger.