Sorry I've been away from this blog for the last few months. It's not like I didn't have stuff I wanted to blog about; it was more I just couldn't find the time to blog it correctly.

What I mean is, when I am writing something I will write it and rewrite it in my head a couple of times before I sit down and put fingertips to keys. Not every sentence exactly, but I will have a general outline of the blog and will then write it in one sitting.

So since work is starting to get busier and busier and I have less time to play games for the time being. I have even less time to sit down at my PC for thirty to forty-five minutes and write.

But anyway. I'm here now and typing and that's all that matters.

So a slight update on what's being going on in my gaming and non-gaming life.

I finally started to play an MMO, my friend Nanaka plays Final Fantasy XIV and while I've always been curious about the game, the whole MMO part was somewhat of a turn-off. Purely ignorance on my behalf as I have little to no experience playing MMO's. So I thought, fuck it, let's dive in the deep and we'll see if I'll sink or swim.

So I logged into the mog station and paid for an 180-day subscription. The reason being that I do plan to play other games while playing FFXIV, I just prefer to have long term subscription plan so that I can hop in and out of it freely and not worry about if my subscription was paid for this month. I would love if Netflix brought an annual plan, to be honest, one payment and you have it for twelve months. Same for the WWE Network.

I have picked up Persona 5 but have yet to sit down and play it. I'm thinking I'll probably leave it for late summer/early autumn as my sister is getting married at the end of July and things will be hectic leading up to that. So once that's over, I'll have plenty of free time in the evenings to sit down and binge play Persona 5.

In non-game related news, I'm thinking of picking up a region free 4K blu ray player. Amazon has one for £500 and it is the Sony one, which is getting some great reviews. It's something I've been putting on the back burner for about five or six years. I'll save up a little bit of money and then I'll buy a region free player and then finally I'll start collection the Criterion blu-ray's (as they are region locked) but every time I'm near the price, something comes up that has me putting the idea to one side and the whole "I'll get to that later" attitude starts to kick in.

I applied for a job at GamesRadar+, it's a writing and presenting job and if I am successful I will be moving from my current home on the west of Ireland to Bath in the south west of England. It will be a big life change if I do get it. I am somewhat pragmatic about it and if I can make it to the interview stage I'll count that as a small but positive victory. I will keep you updated on this.

We have E3 next week, which is now starting on Saturday with EA leading the press conference pack. I'm not even sure what to expect from it this year. Sure we'll have Destiny 2 and the new COD. Hopefully, we will have one or two major surprises. I just hope for some new interesting IP's to be shown instead of the usual sequel after sequel or remaster or remake, with the whole carrot on the stick of, "If you buy the remaster of this old game, then maybe we might give you that sequel you always wanted."

I will try to update this blog over the next week or so as much as I can with thoughts on E3.