It’s not news that I have been diving headfirst into Magic: The Gathering. One thing that has been a little too intimidating for me thus far is a booster draft. Well, why not try it with one of the most complicated new sets? Well, kind of new. Ravnica Remastered is a new set of old cards and mechanics. Sod it. I’ll get to that later. What is a booster draft? Just like other sealed events, you open packs at the event and make your own deck. I love sealed events because you don’t need to worry about someone bringing along…
Author: Blair Loveday
Final Fantasy XVI is an incredible game. It veered further from the FF formula than I liked, but the story and characters were much more engrossing than I had come to expect. Then, with the combat being essentially as hard or easy as you want it, the game caters to us nerds that want to venture off for a crazy story and those that want a challenge. Well, now Echoes of the Fallen has been released, the first DLC package in a two-piece expansion pass. I was eager to jump back into the world of Valisthea to see what awaited.…
Avatar is a franchise that my fandom goes a bit all over the place. The first movie I bounced from loving to being indifferent, and the sequel, The Way of Water, is… well, it’s fine. The one thing that I consistently like about it is the interesting world with all its flora and fauna. So an open-world game set in the universe? Well, I was ready to be impressed. A movie game that doesn’t have anything to do with the movie! One thing I was nervous about was how it was going to be tied into the movie. Fortunately, it…
There are so many speakers out there, so it can be hard to decide, especially when you consider that most of them do the job they need to do. Well, JBL has made this decision a whole lot easier with the JBL Authentics range, purely from a style perspective. I took the JBL Authentics 300 for a spin, and I have been pretty blown away by it. Old-school style that works in a modern house The JBL Authentics 300 is a beautiful speaker that is a throwback to the style of radios and speakers from the 1970s. Initially, I wondered…
It’s only 2 weeks until Christmas. I’ll let that sit with you for a minute. If you still have a couple… or all your Christmas gifts to buy, we have some great ideas to get the juices flowing. As always, make sure you take advantage of the awesomeness that is PriceSpy to make sure you get the best possible prices. Everything listed below we have personally tested ad recommend. So we put that sweet as YNG tick on each of these potential gifts. The gift for the gamer in your life Gamers are easy to buy for. Get them some…
Magic: the Gathering has been going on for 30 years, and despite being alive that whole time, I only started to dabble with it this year. Doing some poking around, I discovered there is a cool new TCG that has popped up from Aotearoa, Flesh and Blood. So I wanted to take it for a spin and see if this card game made in little New Zealand was worth checking out. What’s it like? What’s interesting is the way the game works. Instead of playing creatures to essentially protect your health, in this game, you put a hero down and…
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 had a lot to live up to. With Spider-Man, we were given the most fun comic game ever made, followed by Spider-Man: Miles Morales, taking what was great about Spider-Man but cutting the faff and making a tight, great game with an excellent story. So with Spider-Man 2 bringing in both Spideys in a giant main release, expectations were high, and it mostly meets them. https://youtu.be/9fVYKsEmuRo The story kicks off with Miles in class when a new physics professor comes in. It’s our old friend Spider-Man, err, I mean Mr. Parker. In the first few minutes of…
If you have followed my MTG Newbie series at all, then at this point you will know I am loving it. My favourite kind of event are sealed ones, especially ones that use the prerelease boxes. Everyone gets a bunch of packs, makes their decks and plays against each other. It’s fun. When I saw a new event called the Chaos Sealed Event, I was so damn keen to go have some chaotic fun. What is a Chaos Sealed Event? This one is the Summer of Magic Chaos Sealed Event where each player got a box containing: A draft booster…
If you are wanting to up your ergonomic game with some style, Logitech wants you to look their way with their new Wave Keys keyboard and their Lift Vertical Ergonomic Mouse. From first glance, there’s something special here, and after playing some more, it’s still special. Logitech Wave Keys https://youtu.be/yw3B2j0yf7o I really wish there were more ergonomic mechanical keyboards. Generally, when you want the tactile feel of mechanicals, you have the big chunky keyboards that sit far too high off the desk, so for that nice mechanical feeling, you have to be super not ergonomic. While the Wave keys aren’t…
Since starting my Magic: The Gathering journey a few months ago with the Lord of the Rings set, I have only fallen deeper and deeper into this hobby. With Wilds of Eldraine, I got knee deep into the different packs and events. This time, instead of fairy tales, we are headed to the depths of Ixalan to see mermaids, pirates, and dinosaurs! Oh, and Jeff Goldblum, of course. The art and theme First and foremost are the snazzy new cards. This one is all over the place, in the best possible ways. Going in, I knew about all the dinosaurs,…