I somehow got *way into* using the PlayStation Portal every single day. xander51.medium.com/oh-no-ive-be...

The @turtlebeach.bsky.social Atlas 200 is so good that it screwed up a review of a different headset I was working on. So, now I’m starting over and writing a head-to-head style piece instead!

I am very excited to play Crimson Desert in March. It seems like a game I will put hundreds of hours into across years without hesitation.

Oops, I spent the whole week playing Diablo IV! xander51.medium.com/how-diablo-i...

Just spent some time browsing @jeremycoatney.com's profile as I noticed my feed was no longer showing me any posts from that portion of the internet and I found that unacceptable!

I'm finally checking out Dying Light: The Beast.

I spend a lot of time thinking about video game skill trees. xander51.medium.com/are-skill-tr...

The best surprise release of 2025 was kind of a rumor for years, but then it turned out great anyway. xander51.medium.com/the-best-gam...

My PS5 Pro is still just barely holding on as a part of my gaming life. xander51.medium.com/i-almost-put...

My game of the year content begins! I've pivoted from doing a list to doing individual highlight articles, and I've bucked all other trends to start with my number one game. xander51.medium.com/avowed-is-be...

It's once again time for my yearly Christmas-week tradition of "ramble about my computer." I'm in a much better place this year, and quite thankful for it. I've got some game of the year lists coming up in the next week or two! xander51.medium.com/i-love-my-ly...

The new Avatar DLC is...fine? xander51.medium.com/the-avatar-f...

Sony improved an interesting older design into the best gaming headset I've used in a few years. xander51.medium.com/the-best-pre...

My favorite keyboard of the year came from an unlikely place. xander51.medium.com/a-cool-keybo...

The other day I took an updated look at the state of the two currently active Diablo games. If you want to get these articles as soon as they go live, please consider following me on @medium.com! xander51.medium.com/is-the-free-...

I think Diablo IV is finally in a place where I enjoy the way it feels to control it. That's a big deal! I have a piece about it going live on Medium later this afternoon.

The new Control sequel should have been my favorite thing announced last night at The Game Awards. Instead, it made all of these words come out of me. medium.com/@xander51/oh...

I wrote up my thoughts on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora's new third-person camera mode. I'm excited for the DLC next week! xander51.medium.com/avatar-front...

I started the day happy to learn that Skyrim launched on Switch 2. But then I played it. xander51.medium.com/skyrim-on-sw...

I've got a new story up about my secret favorite mechanic in open world games. It's something that so few of them actually get right. xander51.medium.com/the-innate-a...

Skyrim is still out there influencing every modern open world game. Let's talk about it! xander51.medium.com/my-favorite-...

I posted a sort-of-review of the new Corsair Void Max V2 that I've been playing with for a number of weeks. It's the most delightful gaming headset surprise I've given myself this year. xander51.medium.com/a-tale-of-tw...

Wait, you mean you *don't* categorize all of your gaming thoughts into outdated categories you learned from print journalism? xander51.medium.com/im-still-try...

Here's almost 2200 words about the year's Dynasty Warriors games. I love this franchise and I'm happy it's still so prolific. xander51.medium.com/im-out-here-...

I had a whole different article planned for today, but this latest Microsoft mistake was too important not to write about. xander51.medium.com/microsoft-br...

To round out the week, I've got some thoughts on Nintendo's weird Q4 games lineup. xander51.medium.com/nintendos-ho...

My favorite budget headset got a sequel after four years. Sadly, some parts of it went wrong. xander51.medium.com/logitech-bas...

I published this story this morning, but the original title didn't accurately reflect my frustration. I almost never change my titles, so this is a big deal! xander51.medium.com/hyperxs-flag...

I’m trying out a Corsair Sabre V2 and I love it so far. However it is also light enough that I managed to knock it straight onto my floor with nothing but the weight of a plugged-in USB cable.

The new VR version of Vampire Survivors is totally fine...but my review turned into a rant about how much I loathe the current Quest operating system. xander51.medium.com/i-took-one-l...

I weirdly feel like I need to play some MindsEye soon. It seems like it might just vanish one day.

The new Fallout 4 release is a huge bummer. xander51.medium.com/fallout-4-an...

It takes many hours for Age of Imprisonment to get to its inciting moment, and by then I think players might be bored. xander51.medium.com/hyrule-warri...

I was planning to write about the Fallout 4 update today, but it is so thoroughly nothing that instead I'm finishing up a Hyrule Warriors piece.

I resubbed to Humble Choice last month. I might use their discounts to “de-game-pass” myself now that Xbox is a mess. I don‘t want to pay thirty dollars a month to access modern Bethesda games. Humble didn’t ask me to post this. I literally forget about them all the time.

Razer made a big dumb mistake, and I'm not going to support their products going forward. xander51.medium.com/razer-detest...

I'm reasonably far into The Outer Worlds 2...and I'm bouncing off of it hard. xander51.medium.com/the-outer-wo...

I've got a new piece up on Medium about my early days with my new PC. This is a friend link, so a free click/read for all! xander51.medium.com/how-was-this...

My fun time with the Logitech Superlight 2C got slowly eroded by a bunch of little issues. xander51.medium.com/logitechs-ne...

I checked out Ball X Pit. I'm happy I did! xander51.medium.com/you-should-p...

I've struggled to build much here, and I get more story clicks/attention on the Meta-owned platforms even though I don't have huge follower counts there. Ghastly, I know! I don't love it! I might step slowly away from here in the future since writing for my Medium following is my main focus.

I spent some time with Logitech's new and slightly smaller gaming mouse, and my thoughts about it ballooned into whatever this is. xander51.medium.com/the-sneakies...

Lego Horizon Adventures on PC has some impressively long end credits. i always like to watch these, but I’m coming really close to hitting the “exit” button. I think this has been scrolling for well over ten minutes.

It's late on a Saturday night, so it's time for a keyboard article I guess? xander51.medium.com/the-gaming-k...

I think Lego Horizon Adventures might be my favorite use of Unreal Engine 5 so far? Followed by Hellblade II, and then maybe Avowed? I’m talking about technical/engine competence here and not necessarily game quality though I think they’re all fun.

I'm almost impressed at how badly Microsoft continues to handle their Xbox division. Their distaste for building a gaming community around their brand has never been more apparent. xander51.medium.com/xbox-has-not...

I resisted the urge to call Razer's mid-range DeathAdder mouse "mid." It was hard! xander51.medium.com/razers-death...

I'm loving all the DualSense controller features in Ghost of Yotei. It feels like it fell in out of an alternate universe where everyone loves haptics as much as I do. xander51.medium.com/ghost-of-yot...

Borderlands 4 has some cool stuff in it...buried under a mess of fundamental design issues. I'll be truly impressed if the delayed Switch 2 release actually functions. xander51.medium.com/borderlands-...

I’m finally playing the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima, and aside from some motion blur glitches on background foliage when Nvidia Reflex is on(!), it’s great.