Happy 2016, friends! I hope everyone had a safe and silly ringing in of the new year.
I managed to stay awake until midnight (a feat in and of itself), then promptly fell asleep for ten hours.
Look at me go.
However I feel pretty good because on this first day of this new year, I managed to put into practice some of my recently made gaming resolutions. I have to say, it felt pleasantly productive. Now the challenge is in putting those changes into regular practice and turning them into a habit. It apparently takes three weeks to form a habit, and I feel like that’s a manageable chunk of time.
When I think about what 2016 holds (game-wise) I’m genuinely excited. There are so many games we know about (and who knows how many we don’t) on schedule for release this year, and I think we are in for some fascinating experiences.
If I had to call out one game in particular that leads my excite-o-meter, it’s Dishonored 2. The first game took me by surprise and I loved it. I can’t wait to see where the sequel takes us.
But most of all, I can’t wait to find out what certain developers are working on. I’d love to hear more from the following in particular:
ThatGameCompany
Sucker Punch Productions
Irrational Games (in whatever form the company currently exists)
So with that I ask: what are you looking forward to in 2016? A specific game that’s already been announced? An announcement from a particular developer? Or are you hoping for a happy surprise out of the blue?
No matter what you hope for, I wish each of you a safe and prosperous new year.
Cheers, friends.
Categories: games
Rebekah Lang 
I’m really looking forward to how Uncharted 4 turns out.
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I’m sure it’s going to be as polished as everything Naughty Dog puts out. The delay wasn’t ideal, but I’d far rather they delay it a month than release a game that needs a huge day-one patch. It’s going to be beautiful.
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I agree.
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Happy New Year. I’m excited to see if/what the next season of Life is Strange is going to be. If you haven’t played it, I recommend it.
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WOMBAT! Happy new year!
Okay, that just cements to me that I NEED to play that game next.
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I really hated the ending. I don’t want to spoil it for you if you really want to play it, but for me it was a huge letdown. Felt like the budget/release date wasn’t extended so they had to get it out and couldn’t do everything they wanted.
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Oh dear. I’m still going to play it, but yeesh. That doesn’t sound promising.
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For me, The Division & SFV. From a developer Bioware’ ME: Andromeda. Hoping to learn more about it come E3 this summer. That’s just a few games on my list at the moment.
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That’s a good list. I’m also kind of surprised we haven’t heard more about The Division since it is releasing so soon.
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Hey Rebekah, mind if I ask you a question? A month ago I changed my my wordpress.com site over to a self hosted site. I transferred my wordpress followers over (you are one of course!) and I was wondering: do you still receive notifications from WordPress reader about my new blogs? I’m curious, as I saw you had followed my site again! I’m afraid transferring to wordpress.org meant that followers don’t get updates anymore! Thanks, Yvonne
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I believe I am getting the notifications, but I also think I followed you again at your new site…so maybe that’s why? When did you switch over? I can check my email archives to let you know for sure.
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I switched over at December 2nd, and yes, you did follow me again. I saw it at the time but didn’t realize why. My visitor count has been down some 30% since the move, but I had no idea why. I accidently stumbled across the reason this weekend: because WordPress.com readers don’t get notifications, or so the article said!
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Oh wow. Wait, that doesn’t make sense. The people who follow my site (it’s a WordPress.com site) get notifications. I suggest you follow your own site so you always know what notifications are sent out. I did that a while back and I always feel better knowing the notification was sent.
I’m looking back through my email, but I don’t think I’m getting the notifications regularly even though I followed you anew. I’m sorry it’s not working properly. :(
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I’m excited for all of it, but mostly excited for the opportunity to play more than I did in 2015. Shouldn’t be too hard. Game on!
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Indeed!
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