The Ancient Gaming Noob

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TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2026 – Week Thirty with Splatoon Raiders and Avatar Legends

Coming into week thirty we had two titles queued up for release and one title from the week before looking for enough reviews to get on the board. Fantasy Critic League – Like Fantasy Football, but for Video Games As usual, we will kick off with where the scoreboard stood previously. Week 29 Scores I mentioned last week how close Cyanbane, Bhagpuss, and Potshot were in score, as the scoreboard…

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Stardew Valley and Through the Winter and Into Year Two

My daughter and I had entered into Winter in Stardew Valley at my last update, and Winter does seem to involve a lot more fishing than I expected. Stardew Valley Splash Screen As I mentioned previously, for our co-op game I hold the save and play a bit ahead at times between our weekend play time.  But I stop in advance of events so we can do them together… and Winter has a few events. First…

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Friday Bullet Points about EverQuest Related Servers and Launches

Recently Daybreak dropped a bunch of information, including a few of producer’s letters and, were I looking for things to expand upon I probably could have turned all of that into at least three 1,500 word blog posts. But who has time for that when CCP/Fenris is trolling us with their Ansiblex nerf?  So I am going to mash this all together into one bullet points blog… though I am likely to…

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Windrose: Welcome to the Swamp

Having defeated the second main boss Hands down, we had opened up the next set of gated content.  Windrose follows what I think of as the Valheim model in that you defeat a boss and you get a new biome type with new materials that you can use to craft new gear and upgrade old. Windrose – in Early Access For whatever reason I got the notification about this the next time I logged in and not when…

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The Ansiblex Nerf and the Capacitor Fiasco

I put up a post on Monday that I had written on Friday afternoon around the Okami plan to “fix” the force projection “problem” by nerfing the Ansiblex jump bridges in null sec.  In that post I used a fair share of sarcasm and exaggeration for emphasis. Little did I realize Okami would come back and make my sarcasm seem tame, and even accurate.  Certainly we know he is listening to a very specific…

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The Herald of Blaugust 2026 - Blaugust Must Go On!

That time is fast approaching.  It will once again be Blaugust.  The annual tradition for more than a decade will continue. Blaugust 2026 With the tragic passing of Mark “Belghast” Temple, the event’s founder, at the start of the month it felt more important than ever to keep this event going in order to remember him. It is odd to be doing this without him though.  His absence is felt in myriad…

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EVE Online and the Coming Ansiblex Nerf

On Friday Okami, one of the troika at Fenris dictating the direction of EVE Online currently, put up a long and rambling dev blog about some proposed changes to Ansiblex jump bridges. Carriers, dreads, and faxes taking an Ansiblex… soon to not be allowed Introduced back in 2018 with the Onslaught update as one of the three new Upwell FLEX structures, the Ansiblex jump bridge was the replacement…

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TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2026 – Week Twenty-Nine

We are past the halfway mark of July and August is looming, but we did have a couple of releases here in the summer doldrums of the league. Fantasy Critic League – Like Fantasy Football, but for Video Games In addition, Fantasy Critic League opened up a new feature that allows a league to have multiple drafts over the course of the year long season.  I heard this described as something aimed at…

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My Gaming in 2026 So Far

We are now past the halfway point through the year.  So here, a couple of weeks into the second half, and already into the summer doldrums, I thought I might trot out the usual post about how 2026 has gone for me so far on the gaming front.  It has become part of my post Steam Summer Sale routine for the last few years. Welcome to 2026 That means it is time to get out my spreadsheet and see what…

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Thinking Again on Early Access

Early access as a funding scheme for video games has been on my mind a bit lately, if only because a few titles I purchases in that state will hit 1.0 and be live this year.  But I’ll get to that further down the page. Steam Early Access Early access is… well… I hate to use the word “controversial,” at least in an age where the mealy mouthed editorial board at the New York Times has decided the…

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The Road to Alliance Tournament XXII

We have once again arrived at that point in the year where the build up to the annual EVE Online Alliance Tournament kicks off.  This will be the twenty-second running of the tournament and the regular dip into the New Eden e-sports event will commence soon.  As with all thing related to the game, it is more complicated than you probably think it should be. EVE Alliance Tournament XXII For…

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Stardew Valley and Creating a New Save

My daughter and I have been on a weekly play time schedule for our co-op game of Stardew Valley.  While I might play a bit during the week in between our time, I try not to get too far ahead and I make sure to stop before there are any events so that we can go through them together. Stardew Valley Splash Screen But I was also getting into the rhythm of the game and wanted to explore some more. …

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My Journey Through the Pokemon Go 10 Year Anniversary Event

My post on Saturday morning was a quick retrospective of Pokemon Go and its success over the last decade.  But Scopley/Niantic or whatever they are calling themselves this week… they do keep changing their minds on that… had plans for the anniversary weekend. Pokemon Go 10th Anniversary Despite my playing Pokemon Go daily, I am pretty bad at keeping track of when events are happening.  The most…

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Windrose and Sailing Forth to Booty Bay with Potshot the Builder

As previous posts about the game have indicate, Potshot and I have been playing Windrose, the co-op survival Caribbean pirate title.  But when I mention both of us I feel like I need to distinguish who is really playing and who is kind of along for the ride. Windrose – in Early Access The other day when I logged in I saw Potshot was online and in game and on the map I could see he was at a…

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TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2026 – Week Twenty-Eight the Allure of Doom

After a fairly quiet time in week twenty-seven, week twenty-eight was set to at least shake up the roster a bit.  We had three titles set to launch, including one that was counter picked. Fantasy Critic League – Like Fantasy Football, but for Video Games With that on the line, we need to stop for a second a review where things left off last time. Week 27 Scores While we had three titles set to go…

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Ten Years of Pokemon Go

This past week, on July 7th, Pokemon Go hit its ten year launch anniversary, and it has been quite a ride. Pokemon Go – Since 2016 Launched during the year that the Pokemon franchise was celebrating its 20th year, the mobile title, a rare departure for Nintendo, which prefers to keep such titles exclusively on its own hardware, was an immediate run away success in the summer of 2016. Pokemon…

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Stars Reach and Becoming a Real Game

It has been a bit since I looked in on Stars Reach.  That was largely due to both the random availability of access and the fact that things were being reset often enough that starting from scratch had ceased to be interesting. Stars Reach But since they announced that early access was coming soon the team has been on a tear to make the game… well, a game.  Way back, when Raph was trotting out…

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