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Just can't SWITCH it off!!

Sorry about the shitty Switch pun... yeah. Anyway! This blog will be all about my first few days of Switch ownership, and it's been quite a ride! Waiting for the Amazon man felt like a Herculean task. Waiting for updates, learning that Amazon weren't gona send Zelda until Monday, complaining, getting nothing back, and then finding a Special Edition at my local Argos (for cheaper! Fuck you Amazon!). I was in work all day Friday, it arrived at 2ish, I was in work till 6pm. It was torture to have the console and Zelda and not be able to dive in!! Ok, I played like 10 mins! Well 20... the point is it was hard ok, maybe 30 mins.... It seems like no time since Jan 12 reveal, but that Friday dragged! Initial impressions it was so tiny! And smooth, and pretty! Nothing quite like opening new Nintendo hardware! I was a kid again as I switched it on this was what I had been waiting for for so long! Zeld was magical, but Friday night was spent mainly playing 1-2 Switch and Bomberman R, as Beth had come around to welcome the new thing in our relationship! I could not love this woman more! She was so patient and understanding, and brought presents, glass bottle Coke and Cadbury Mini Eggs!! Perfect. We had a lot of fun playing 1-2 Switch but I was not impressed if I'm honest, Bomberman too was ok, but not mind blowing. Some of the 1-2 Switch mini games were fun (Quick draw, sword fighting, samurai training etc) but mainly I wanted to play Zelda and the other games were getting in the way. Saturday was Zelda day though. Wow! It really is special, I've played it around 15 hours I would say and it's maybe my favourite Zelda game. It's so pretty, the combat, exploration, and vastness so far are blowing my mind. I highly recommend it. Sunday I brought the Switch around to fellow Screen Fiender Chris' house, where we and fiender Zoe, and Chris' wife Bec, played 1-2 Switch and Bomberman. It was here that I realised just how much fun these games are! 1-2 in particular is perfect party game material and we really had a great time. Bomberman R is an amazingly addictive 4 player game, and competition got pretty fierce! I have to say although I wouldn't play 1-2 Switch on my own, I would get it out when friends are over and I think it would go down well. So Zelda is calling me back to it, must dash. But before I go, in summation, I love the Switch, the tech is impressive, HD Rumble is amazing, it's so small and seamless and classy looking and feeling! Ok there aren't loads of games right now, but what is out is quality and is well worth a try. So remember, it's dangerous to go alone, read this! Catch you next week! Maybe, Zelda permitting!!

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Movie rampage

So, I've been a bit busy for a few weeks and haven't had time to write anything much. So here we go... I would like to start by saying that the last few episodes of Screen Fiends have not only been a lot of fun to record, but have sounded pretty damn good too. Feel that my attempts to increasingly add more humour and a general sense of umm, less seriousness to proceedings has been taken up by Zoe and Chris too, and I feel we are really hitting our stride. Sometimes it takes time to get truly comfortable on 'air' with others. I think it's really worth checking out recent episodes if you haven't already, and I hope I'm forgiven for tooting my own horn for a bit? With Nintendo Switch now 6 days away, my excitement has reached 6 year old child on Christmas Eve levels! Reading the early buzz on Breath of the Wild is pretty mind blowing so I just can't wait to explore the world. Oh and feel how many balls are in my hand in that 1 - 2 Switch mini game, how could I forget? I've been on a bit of a movie tear recently. Devouring films at the cinema and at home, it's kind of replaced video games for a bit, not for long though (see above). I have seen at home, in no particular order Jack the Ripper (1959, good), Jack the Ripper (1976, weird), Jack's Back (1988, not quite what I was expecting but still ok), I am Not A Serial Killer (2016, good and different), Kill Your Friends (2015, I enjoyed it a good deal), Beyond The Gates (2016, retro low budget horror about a murderous vhs game, a bit meh), that's quite a lot of movies about murder. At the cinema I have seen, John Wick 2 (good but not as good as John Wick), The Great Wall (a rather good historical fantasy), Hidden Figures x2 ( not a great movie, rather boring in fact), Lego Batman (yes again, it was still great, although my girlfriend and her daughter were not impressed!), The Founder (a rather good biography movie about the man who made McDonalds into a global empire) and A Cure For Wellness (which was rather fantastic overall, I really liked how it harkened back to classic gothic horror tales). It's been quite a ride this week! I was helped by having a rather lovely day off on Thursday which meant I had nothing to do but watch movies! So that's it not really sure what I was gona write, but thought I should write something. So until next time, it's dangerous to go alone,read this!

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Catching Up

Hello you! I couldn’t be bothered to write anything last week, so I thought I had better pull my socks up and get something on digital paper. So here we go!

This week, I have mainly been concerned with anniversary plans! 11th March last year marks my first date with my incredibly lovely and amazing girlfriend Beth and so I have a few things planned, no spoilers here though! We did manage to get out and about to the Museum of Welsh Life at St. Fagans. It was nice day out as everyone else was watching the Six Nations, so it was the perfect time to go!

I mention this mainly to mention that whenever I go to Museum or Stately Home or Zoo, Safari Park or Aquarium, I have to purchase a magnet or 3. Not really sure why. I suppose it is a visual record of where I have been, and makes my fridge look like a really bad collage of tiny pictures and objects, and that really is enough. But the real reason I have magnets all over the fridge, my deep dark secret…

Hello, My name is Jon… and I’m a collectaholic. Yes I have a problem. It’s not just magnets either, although that is a very visible example. It’s Blu Rays & DVD’s, it’s Batman graphic novels, it’s amiibo, it’s general Nintendo anything really. I have every amiibo that has been released in the U.K. So far, they are unopened, I like the box art too much to open them up. I have 2 small shelves full of Batman graphic novels, I think I’ve stopped this collection now, although I did have one more for Christmas.

I like to represent the things I love and am interested in in a visual and solid way. If you stepped into my room, you could see a statue of Bigfoot, another of King Kong fighting a V-Rex, a Spartan Shield and Helmet from 300, Narsil and Striders sword from LOTR, numerous video game related stuff, an 18" Mario and Link, a PAC-Man ghost light, a Tetris light, a shit load of amiibo, various Universal Monsters framed posters, and even, if you squint, a pub sign for a Jack the Ripper pub.

It may be materialistic, but it is important to me to surround myself with beloved characters, not sure Jack the Ripper counts there, but I am interested in the subject! Earlier I realised I have been secretly collecting geek mugs, and hadn’t really realised, I don’t even drink tea that often!

I think it is important to have a place that’s all our own, with all our favourite things in. A personal Fortress of Solitude where we can be alone with our loves, dreams and favourite things.

I guess we all love something, and budget willing, collect something. Well most people anyway. My Dad doesn’t, even though I’ve tried over the years to start him off…

Anyway that’s the bullshit that’s going through my head this week. Probably go back to summing up what I watched, played and read next week. Until then remember, it's dangerous to go alone, read this!

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All about Nintendo.

As I write this, I'm listening to Nintendo Voice Chat, a podcast from IGN that deals with Nintendo. They are currently doing a roller coaster of Nintendo good and bad points about the Switch. As a massive Nintendo fan, it's hard to admit that your favourite company in the world may not have created the greatest piece of hardware in the world with Switch. But, it's a something worth considering. I've been a Nintendo fan since I first saw Super Mario Bros on a family friends tv in the late 80's, I can't remember exactly when, but I do remember what that experience made me feel. I had never wanted something more in my life than a NES, Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt, that red blaster was so cool! I was lucky enough to get one, again I can't remember exactly when, but I remember that I felt like this was the greatest thing ever. As a kid, games were few and far between. Birthdays and Christmas were always game getting opportunities, as were good school reports, nothing makes you work harder in school than the possibility of obtaining a Nintendo game. I don't actually remember owning that many NES games. But around the corner was something way more exciting. I first saw a SNES in Toys R Us. Super Mario World and F-zero were the demo games, and I couldn't believe the graphical jump. Graphics couldn't get better than this, I was sure that this was the future. I was never a SEGA Kid. I knew in my heart that Sonic was trash. He wasn't even a poor mans Mario. He was a poor mans poor mans Mario!! Nothing on the Megadrive interested me, the graphics looked terrible, the sound awful, it only had a 3 button joypad!! It was at this point in my life that Nintendo became my first love. Sure I liked Dinosaurs, He-Man, WWF, Transformers and a million other things, but they weren't as cool as Mario riding Yoshi, or playing Battle mode in Super Mario Kart. Then one day, in a local department store where I live in Barry, I saw The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past. I had to do all in my power to obtain this game, I pored over screen shots in magazines, the internet wasn't around then. I still remember the feeling of picking up my copy, paid for with what felt like years worth of pocket money, but time feels different when you're younger. Playing Link To The Past was magical. It was at this point that I began to understand who Nintendo were, that they made this and Mario, and Metroid and Star Fox, Mario Kart, Pilot Wings, F-Zero, and a myriad of others. I knew then that no one makes games quite like Nintendo, and that Zelda and Mario were created by the same man!?! How? How was this possible? Magazines let me in on who Shigeru Myamato was and he quickly became one of my heroes. Sony entered the console wars and I didn't care, I cared that they had seemingly turned their back on Nintendo and a possible joint CD system, which became the PlayStation. Screw those guys! Turns out nothing is as black and white as that, and for the full story, I would recommend Console Wars, by Blake Harris, which is a brilliant account of Nintendo vs SEGA and how Sony jumped into the market. Nintendo aren't always the good guys! N64 was the next thing to dominate my life. Mario and Zelda were in 3D now and holy shit how could anything be better? It quite literally blew my mind how this could even be real. The N64 is probably my favourite console of all time. Not only did we have masterful titles from Nintendo, Mario 64, Mario Kart, Ocarina of Time, F-Zero X and Wave Race, Rare, a British game company, absolutely killed it on N64. Goldeneye, Banjo Kazooie, Diddy Kong Racing, Donkey Kong and Perfect Dark could all hold their own against all but the very best of Nintendo!! The N64 was couch multiplayer heaven. Something that they tried again with the GameCube. Again I loved the Cube and it's weird and very Nintendo library of games. This was a console that had raw power but looked like a toy, something that didn't bother me, but Nintendo now had to contend with Microsoft and its Xbox, Sony was still there too, but SEGA was dying. The Dreamcast couldn't compete, although it was a totally decent console. I had a Cube and Xbox at this time, as I felt I needed both to experience all that console gaming could offer. I couldn't buy Sony at this time! The Cube had great exclusives, but third party seemed to be slowly abandoning Nintendo, thus Xbox was my way of filling in the gaps, plus I really dug the Xbox and its exclusive games, PG Racing and Halo etc. The Wii was the first time I thought Nintendo had made a huge mistake. I tried to get one at launch, it was Nintendo after all, but this whole motion control thing worried me. Wii Sports was fun, but not mind blowing, and although we still had some amazing games on Wii, like Mario Galaxy, for the first time I felt like my 360 was my console of choice. Wii U came next, and although it was all in all a failure, I think it was Nintendo back to being its quirky best with some fabulous games and easily my favourite game of the generation Mario Kart 8. The Wii U was weird, but Nintendo is weird, and it is really worth checking out a great collection of exclusive games, even though, at this point, most third party developers had abandoned Nintendo. So that's my Nintendo history so far. I think Nintendo have been dropped to one knee, they are no longer in the console wars, in truth they haven't been there for quite awhile. However, I don't think they need to be in the trenches. Nintendo, for me make the greatest games in the world. Their franchises are magical, and I know that I want to experience these games for the rest of my life. I'm looking forward to Switch more than anything else I can remember in quite sometime. As much as I was looking forward to Link to the Past,or playing Mario in 3D. Switch isn't perfect. It's not the most powerful, it probably won't have a huge amount of 3rd Party support, and I don't give a shit. You buy Nintendo consoles to experience Nintendo magic. Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart Deluxe, Splatoon 2 and Super Mario Odyssey, will no doubt justify my purchase, and I have preordered all of these and more. I'm lucky enough to have an Xbox One to play all the non Nintendo games and Xbox exclusives that I want, an increasing amount these days. It really is a great time to be into gaming. There are so many great games out, and a load of very cool looking games on the way. Nintendo will never again be the gaming Emperor they were in the 80's and 90's, and I don't think they need to be. They need to be Nintendo. Maybe they could update a few of their video sharing policies and some other things, but the power of Nintendo has always been magical games. The Switch so far looks to be a console that will be able to deliver some magical gaming experiences. The portability of it, in my view, helps me share my love of these games with friends and family. It's really giving me the feelings of the first time I saw Super Mario Bros. Playing Goldeneye with 3 friends around my tiny tv for countless afternoons. Of holding that Legend of Zelda box in my hand and dreaming of the adventure to come. It is a golden age of Nintendo fandom. Never before has there been such a wealth of merchandise, toys, books and trinkets for Nintendo fans. I definitely spend too much on my Nintendo love, but I love it, and I don't care. March 3rd can not come quick enough. Who knows, maybe Nintendo can rule the world again? It happened with the Wii to a certain extent. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter to me. I love Nintendo, I will always love Nintendo. The Switch might not be the best selling console ever, but it certainly has a chance to be my favourite console ever. That's it for this week, until next time, it's dangerous to go alone, read this!!!

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Confessions of a Cinemaholic

Hey Guys! Yeah I totally Youtubed the opening, and why not? Have to start this bullshit somehow!! I spent a whole hell of a lot of time at the cinema this week, so I'm gona leave that till last and try and cover some of the other things I've done to keep my mind off of politics, work and all the other boring shit that seems to be flooding my twitter feed with alarming regularity! As I write this I have just finished Watchdogs 2 (20:14 22/1/17). It was a most enjoyable game, one that I wasn't sure I was going to buy, turns out Santa picked it up for me, and I'm very glad he did. I'm almost sad it's over, I have very much enjoyed driving, running and hacking my way around San Francisco. Highly recommended, and much better than the first game in the series. Not sure if I said this last week, but I started a new book, #2 this year. THEM! By Jon Ronson. Enjoying it so far, as our author travels the world talking to extremists, and revealing how strange, sad, bizarre and at times truly pathetic, these people are. Very breezy and fun read, written in a very funny and interesting style. Big fan so far! TV wise I haven't seen much of anything, but did manage to see episode 2 of Taboo. Still very much liking this show, very mysterious, not exactly sure what is going on but I am enjoying finding out what it's gona be. Before I hit on the cinema experiences I've had this week I would like to mention a film I managed to catch on YouTube, one that I've been wanting to see for ages! It's called Roar (1981) and it really defies explanation, but I'm gona try. Basically this is a film about a man who is studying big cats in Africa, by living with them in his house. There are like 100 lions, tigers, leopards, and cougars living in this dudes house, then his family arrive. So far, not that interesting? Well the fact that they really filmed with all these cats in close proximity to the actors, and that the actors were often horrifically injured by these cats, is were the interesting part comes in. These cats aren't trained and all these actors are fucking crazy. They attack the actors and cause real injuries, it's really one of the most stressful films I've ever seen, but I can't believe it was filmed. Really worth checking out just as a curio I think. Right, deep breath, here we go! Since last Sunday I have managed to see 5 films, taking my tally this year to 9 and well on track for my 100 this year! Let's deal with the rubbish first. SING! 1/5 I saw this this morning and I have very rarely been so bored. There was nothing good about this film. There was no humour, the cast was wasted, the premise was basically X Factor with animals, and I could not give less of a shit. Avoid! Next we have Underworld: Blood Wars 1.5/5. Umm I talked about this on Screen Fiends this week, so for a fuller account check out the last episode. Basically Things happen at night, with loads of goth type people fighting lots of scruffy farmer types, with Kate Beckinsale being sexy. This film gets a whole .5 for the quality of the bad vampire girls cleavage revealing dresses, sorry it's true. The worst Underworld movie, a shame as I kind of like the others as cheesy fun. Avoid. The Bye Bye Man 2/5. Again I've talked about this on the podcast. Not good, but not truly bad. I really liked the monster design. Bad acting though. XXX: The Return of Xander Cage 3.5/5. Ok. Wow. Rarely has a film this stupid been so much fun. I don't think I've had this much fun in a cinema for along time. This was perfect B Movie fare, and ranks along with modern action classics like Crank/2 and Fast and the Furious movies, although it never quite reaches their amazingness in my view. This is not a 'good film', it's not 'good cinema' but boy is it a great movie! I laughed all the way through at what started ridiculous, and just ramped up to silly levels. Really hoping we see more of Vin Diesel in these movies, and I truly hope we get to see the XXX Team take on the Fast & Furious lot in a huge VS movie. And yes, I want Vinny D pulling double duty as Xander and Dom!! Make it so!! Ok the real movie of the week, and the one I think you should all check out is Split, the new M. Night Shyamalan movie, 4/5!! I'm on record as saying I've not been a fan of M. Night's films for a while now, since at least The Village, and his last film, The Visit was fucking abysmal. But, I'm back on board the Shyamalan Express with this one. James McAvoy is truly great as a man who has 23 (6) personalities all jostling for 'the light' and control of his body. The rest of the cast is pretty good too, except a certain cameo half way through, stick to directing eh? I don't want to spoil too much, but there is a twist, of sorts, at the end, and it is very very interesting indeed! I really want to talk about this so I expect some of you to watch this!! It's my big recommend for this week! Right that's really it. Feels like the longest one I've written, so sorry about that! As always follow me on twitter @hmsbeefnuts and @screenfiendspod and listen to Screen Fiends on iTunes or whichever podcast provider you like best, please leave a review and subscribe, it would be awfully decent of you. You can also listen to my other podcast @twoguysagirland Two Guys a Girl and on iTunes etc. It's a bit of a laugh! Until next week, have fun doing what you like to do best, don't be dicks and be awesome! Oh and remember, it's dangerous to go alone... read this!!

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Episode II: Nintendo All Over

Hello and welcome back to this blog. I do hope you enjoyed reading last weeks edition, I did have some positive feed back! I'm gona assume that you were all being honest and liked it, instead of just being polite. Anyway, let's have a little round up of what I've been up too, before we get to the juicy Nintendo main course. I'm still reading my first book, Hunting Monsters. Very nearly done with it. I'm enjoying it, I've just been busy this week, I'm already trying decide what to read next, but that's a topic for another blog. I did manage to watch Taboo last Monday. I mentioned it on the last Screen Fiends episode, but not in the last blog. I LOVED this episode! I believe there are 8 eps in total, that seems like a good amount to me. Tom Hardy is a full on presence on screen and commands all of the attention in this show. I recommend everyone give this a go as it really is very interesting! I had a slightly disappointing time at the cinema this week. I saw a double bill of Live By Night and LaLa Land on Saturday. Let's start with LBN, it was a big old mess. It certainly had potential and the story was interesting, basically Ben Affleck played the worlds nicest least racist gangster, who wore the most ill fitting suits ever, it looked like he was wearing his Dads suit, very odd. It was not very well written, things just happened because the story needed them to happen, not in a natural way, if that makes any sense. 2/5. LaLa Land... holy shit. I do hope that Zoe and Chris, my fellow hosts, love the shit out of this movie, they are very excited about it, but I sure didn't. I'm not someone who like musicals beyond Disney Films, and can't quite see what the point of them is. There are a few I can tolerate, Scrooge, Oliver... nope thats it, Highschool Musical? That's ok too. Anyway, as I was watching LaLa Land, I started hating it, then I made the decision that I had to see the film universe in a different way, in this universe people sing, or are mentally ill, or are having day dreams, really intense ones! With this in mind I focused on the story and the characters, and you know what, it wasn't that bad... Oh and then the last act happened. Fuck me it depresses the hell out of me. No spoilers here but for me, it managed to undo all the good it had built up and I started to hate it again. For more on why check out Screen Fiends podcast this week, I don't want to post spoilers here! Lastly we have games. I'm still plugging away at Watchdogs 2 and still having a really fun time. However, that is hardly the most exciting thing in the video games world this week! Nintendo Switch was presented Live from Japan on Friday morning UK time. I woke up at 3:30am, excited as a kid on Christmas, and it was so worth it. Not everything was great, but all in all, I think this console and these games look amazing. The price was a little higher than most expected, but I think £279.99 is very fair for what you are gona get. There is a lot of stuff going on here. The games selection that they showed was a mixed bag. Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey look fucking mind blowing. I also like the look of 1 2 Switch and Arms. Splatoon 2 is a must but too. Apart from that there were a lot of JRPG's that I don't care for. I was waiting for Mario Kart, and they didn't show it on the Live Stream, however, they did release a trailer for it later and it looks great. I'm sure we will talk all about it on this weeks podcast so check out what we all thought then! I will say that I have preordered a Switch, with Zelda, 1 2 Switch and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. The Switch launches 3rd March with Zelda and 1 2 Switch, with Mario Kart out in April, and Mario Odyssey out at Christmas. I can't wait! Just have to clear my gaming backlog so I can't jump feet first into Legend of Zelda when it comes out!!! That's it for this week. Just a reminder that Two Guys A Girl and... is back this week, we record later today (Sunday), and that you should follow me on twitter @hmsbeefnuts and @screenfiendspod. I hope you all have had, and continue to have a fantastic week filled with lovely entertainment moments! I will be back next week, and until then, remember, it's dangerous to go alone, read this!

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Screen Fiends Podcast Week 1

Hello everyone! Glad you could join me for the first, of what I hope will become, a regular blog all about my adventures through the geeky landscape of Movies, Games, Books and TV shows.

It is here, on this very blog, that I will track my progress with my yearly challenge, as well as other random thoughts and opinions.

First of all I would like to remind you that the podcast that this blog will ultimately enhance, Screen Fiends, is pretty damn good, and you should check it out on twitter @screenfiendspod and on SoundCloud or iTunes, if you haven’t yet. Although why would you be reading this if you hadn’t? Well the least you could do is like a subscribe?! Go on… please? You could also check out my other podcast Two Guys a Girl and a, @twoguysagirland and on SoundCloud and iTunes! It’s a bit different to Screen Fiends but is fun too, if you're not easily offended!

So here we go! What have I done this week? Well back to work after Christmas has been a slight shock to the system, so not a whole hell of a lot, however I have made a positive start to the 2017 challenge! ‘What is the 2017 Challenge, Jon?’ I hear you all shout at once… well I will tell you, but you really should have listened to Ep 28 of Screen Fiends! I’ll forgive you this once.

1) I need to see 100 films at the Cinema 2) I need to finish at least 1 book per month 3) I need to finish at least 1 video game per month 4) I need to try at least 1 TV show I have never seen before, per month

That’s quite a challenge I feel, but I will try my best! So how have I done so far? Well I’m 2 movies in to my 100. I saw Assassins Creed (solid I thought, not great but I enjoyed) and Why Him? (Although I don’t really like Bryan Cranston, I do love James Franco, and it had some great jokes). Creed is gona get a 3/5, with Why Him? Getting a 2.5/5.

I write this on a Sunday night so there is every chance I will improve on this before the podcast records Tuesday night! I have finished January’s game too, Battlefield 1 on XBO. Campaign was good, I don’t fuck with multiplayer. Overall a very good experience which I will give 3.5/5. I also started Watchdogs 2 and I must say I’m having a damn good time, much better than the first!

I am also 50% through my January book too, Hunting Monsters by Darren Nash. A sceptical book all about what people encounter at Loch Ness or the forests of the Pacific Northwest etc. It’s pretty good so far and although you all know I love me some Sasquatch, it’s always good to have a well rounded view on a subject. Because we all know they are real right? Or do I just really want them to be? I dont even know anymore!

I haven’t started a TV show yet but I’m really tempted by Taboo, the new Tom Hardy joint on BBC. We shall see.

Anyway, I’ve prattled on for long enough now. I hope someone enjoyed this, and if you did let me know on twitter @hmsbeefnuts and let me know what I should be writing about. So remember, until next time, it’s dangerous to go alone, read this!

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First time back end of year blog type thing...

As Twitter is only 140 characters, I thought I might try and keep a blog in which I could expand on some of my thoughts. Usually about movies and games, but other stuff as well, why limit yourself? So here we go... 2015 has been a pretty great year in entertainment, here are random top 10s of some of my favourite things this year, if anyone cares.... Movies In no particular order... Star Wars: The Force Awakens Jurassic World Ant-man Fast & The Furious 7 The Avengers: Age of Ultron Mad Max: Fury Road Crimson Peak The Martian Slow West Legend Some that are worth a mention, Bill, Sicario, Macbeth, Victor Frankenstein, Krampus, Whiplash, Kingsman, It Follows, The Voices, John Wick, The Salvation & Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. Some films I hated this year, Spectre, The Lady in the Van, Steve Jobs, Monster: Dark Continent, Tomorrowland, Absolutely Everything, and The Visit, which was the drizzling shits. Games Assassins Creed Syndicate Fallout 4 Forza 6 Batman: Arkham Knight Chibi Robo Yoshi's Woolly World The Witcher 3 Halo 5 Far Cry 4 Valley of the Yeti DLC Assassins Creed Syndicate Jack the Ripper DLC Honourable Mentions, Mario Maker, Mario Kart 8 DLC, Gears of War, Splatoon, Kirby and the Rainbow Paintbrush. I am yet to play Tomb Raider, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Just Cause 3, and Mario & Luigi Paperjam. TV Shows The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Last Week Tonight The Flash Supergirl Arrow Daredevil Jessica Jones Game of Thrones It's Always Sunny Penny Dreadful I have read 36 books this year, not too shabby! Not gona do a top 10 of those though, not sure when they were all released. So there we go, blog 1 done. See you next time. Hmsbeefnuts