Author Archives: GameLogIQ

Two days ago, OnePlus announced that its next major flagship smartphone – the OnePlus 11 – and new earbuds will saunter onto the smartphone scene at an event in February. Given that I just recently replaced my OnePlus 9 with the Google Pixel 6, and talked at volume about the absolutely horrible experience it wasContinue reading “The US Smartphone Market is Boring AF – therefore, the OnePlus 11”

Protected Groups Don’t Need to Stop Playing Video Games – Bigoted Gamers Do It cracks me up to no end the entitled gamers today who do not believe in holding themselves accountable for their own behavior and blame everything on corporations and other gamers. That those gamers then extend their hypocrisy to gate-keeping around demographicsContinue reading “Gaming Was Better When it Wasn’t Cool – How Mainstream Society is Killing Games”

There’s a contract that I make with games that I expect to be fulfilled. I expect games to introduce me to new worlds. To the worlds they have constructed. I expect to be taught rules about those new worlds. How things work. What things harm you. What things help. What things constitute sustenance. What thingsContinue reading “Some Gamers Like the Wool Pulled Over Their Eyes. I Don’t”

I started building gaming PCs in 1999. I had to get a PC for grad school. Interestingly enough, being in a curriculum that was oriented around people who would hold fiduciary responsibility for procuring technical equipment, the school felt it was important that we understood how a computer was built, along with some minor webContinue reading “Where I’ve Been – Travels Through the Wild of PC Gaming”

The fervor over Hogwarts befuddles me. As a licensed property, I need to see a lot more to be interested. Reviewing the combined track record of PortKey Games and Avalanche Software shows a publisher who has only released mobile games, all of them bad except for one. And a developer that has released mostly badContinue reading “The Curious Happenings of a Gamer Not Built for Elden Ring”

Since rising from the ashes in this new incarnation, I’ve said that I would skew away from the lecture-y, preacherly litany of the past. I’ll renege on that aspiration for one moment. These past few months have seen a barrage of cyber-attacks on game companies, plying for the sweet, succulent sensitive financial information of thoseContinue reading “Streamers, Podcasters, Gamers: FFS, Protect Yourselves”

Long title. A lot to unpack this morning. But we’ll try to move quickly. I’ve been molting. As a lot of you know over the past couple of weeks I’ve been transitioning to only playing on PC, after 20 years of playing on 3 or more platforms, and twice as much time gaming in general.Continue reading “My Changing Relationship With Games (or why it’s important that the Steam Deck will never do 120fps and how that might make me finally subscribe to PlayStation Now)”