Saturday, January 30, 2021

Year 5: January Update

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The fifth year of the blog has begun! I'm not sure how much I'll keep up on things which I know I keep saying in the monthly updates. Once 2020 wound down I ended up getting pulled into Assassin's Creed Valhalla and put a lot of my free time into that before completing it about two weeks ago. Now I'm taking a break before jumping into another long game. I should probably get around to completing the G.I. Joe game and maybe some others that are likely on the short side. Right now, I don't have any videos in the works. I've got an idea for baseball's opening day but nothing for the Super Bowl. While sports isn't a focus of the blog, I try to tie a few things into some of my favorite events and I do own a lot of sports video games and other sports-themed things from the '80s and '90s.

Being January, there hasn't been a whole lot of video game news to report on. LucasArts did announce a new Star Wars game in development at Ubisoft and a new Indiana Jones game being developed by MachineGames. No specifics were unveiled and I'd expect neither will be released for at least a couple years. This year's video game schedule doesn't look too appealing to myself, though there is still the upcoming launch of the Intellivision Amico. In case anyone doesn't know, Nintendo platinum points expire. I recently received an email that I have a few expiring and after viewing my account it looks like I've had more than 1,000 points expire in the past so I don't know why this is the first time I've been alerted to that. They can be spent on digital or physical items, and it appears some of the physical rewards don't stick around too long. Currently there are 13 out-of-stock listings, Pikmin decals, some Mario-themed things, and a couple Hyrule Warriors rewards.

How about some Star Wars toy news because we can never have too many different versions of Star Wars action figures, can we? Lucasfilm is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and to mark the occasion is releasing a series of new Star Wars action figures in classically styled packaging. The first three will be Obi-Wan Kenobi, Greedo, and a Jawa, and they'll be exclusive to Amazon.com at a price of $19.99 each on May 1st.


Thanks for stopping by,
Jonathan

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