Prologue Hello friends, and welcome back to another Game of The Year list. I started doing these way back in 2006, so we’re getting kinda close to going on 20 years of this nonsense. But not quite yet. I just wanna say that this was a difficult list to do…

On Monday November the 14th 2022 the nominees for Geoff Keighley’s annual video game award show The Game Awards were announced alongside the ability to allow viewers the chance to vote for their favorite picks in several different categories ranging from Best Game by Genre, all the way up to…

During the course of Xenoblade 3 you’ll encounter a number of characters referred to in the game as “Heroes” who can make up a 7th “Guest” spot in your active party. While you can’t control these characters directly like you can the other six main party members, they will contribute…

Fire Emblem: Three Hopes is not only the second game in the “Fire Emblem Warriors” spin-off series whose first game debuted in the same year the Switch released, back in 2017. But it’s also an alternate “what if” scenario that follows the world and characters of the highly acclaimed Fire…

It’s been two months since I wrote the first one of these, and I’ve gathered some more embarrassing headline screenshots during that time. So I thought I’d share some of the various trash Google has served up to me leading up to the big Not-E3 season of games. The Different…

For reasons unknown, I spent a lot of time scrolling through my terrible Google News feed and take some sick pleasure in pointing at the current state of video games writing on the internet. If I see something particularly stupid, then more often than not I’ll grab a screenshot and…

It took me a little over a month, but last night I finally finished Elden Ring. And believe it or not, I have some thoughts about it. I kind of avoided talking about the game too much on Twitter this past month mainly because I was so engrossed in the…

Hi. It’s Joel, aka TheNesta, aka Nesta Jaxxon. Either way, welcome to the introduction to my annual Game of The Year list. 2021 was still a pretty rough year, but honestly it was probably better than the last couple years, all things considered. This year brought about a pretty significant…

The best offense is a good defense, or so they say. Throughout the ages, there have been more than a few iconic and memorable shields found in video games history. Whether the shield has a really iconic look to it, a game changing function, or even just some fun anecdotes…