Summer Slowdown

     It seems that summer 2020 is just all around terrible.  The west coast is on fire, the Rockies are frozen solid, and the east is having another resurgence of COVID-19.  So its little wonder that the lack of summer game releases and the continued delays of major titles have slipped under most people's radars.

     But as this is a gaming blog and most of what I've been able to do since February is play videogames, I'm a little saddened by the lack of new releases coming out for any platform right now.

     From long awaited titles like Beyond Good & Evil 2 still not making a 2020 deadline, to a launch title not making it to launch (and Halo Infinite being the only thing anyone was going to purchase a series X for), 2020 is the year of disappointment in the gaming sphere.  Everything including the number of games released on Stadia, to the lack of quality of life updates for Animal Crossing: New Horizons has let us down.

     I know that it is still September, and there are still three months to the rest of the year, and there is still Cyberpunk 2077.  But with that games history and the way this year is going I'm not holding my breath.  I just don't see any major players swooping in at the last minute to save the day, and I haven't heard any whispers in the æther of any sort of indie title that might be a light in the darkness.

     So as the heat here in the west fries  my brain and I succumb to the negative vibes of the worst year on record so far, I sign out saying that not even the greatest escapism mankind has created can hide the fear and anxiety building around the world, and that's pretty bad.