I’ve been blogging for 25 years. Here’s the things I was blogging about on the first day of August in 1998-ish, 2006, 2008, 2012, and 2020. Enjoy!

Welcome to Blaugust! Every year, Belghast tries to revive those halcyon days when blogs were relevant to the world of games. It’s all video and podcasts now. The thing about video is that it isn’t really very searchable – same with podcasts. If you want a bit of info, you’re not going to find it in a video. If you just want to skim something, you’re not going to find it in video. ...

Step into an ancient and treacherous world where Pokémon reign as wild and untamed forces, embark on a perilous quest, and discover why Pokémon Legends: Arceus delivers the most daring and immersive Pokémon experience yet!

White Knight Chronicles, a 2009 PS3 RPG exclusive, shut down its servers a decade ago, leaving it with only half a game. But that half a game is deeply customizable and surprisingly fun.

A gripping story, a deeply customizable combat system and a beautiful world being killed by its crystals. It’s Final Fantasy. But is it for you?

Here we go again. The top 38 MMOs in the last 30 days in the USA, as reported by Google Trends.

My heart aches for the loss of G’raha Tia, as I wonder what could have been between us.

The Diablo series evolved from dungeon crawler to dungeon brawler. Diablo IV brings it one step further…

I really wanted to title this post, “FFXIV: Who Hurt You To Make You Do This?”. I didn’t, because I knew the answer. It was me. I’m to blame.

I have a soft spot for this movie. I think Jodie Foster is amazing in it. But almost everything in it is stupid. Carl Sagan was best known, when I was a kid, of being a guy who was on TV all the time making astronomy cool. It was his idea to make a golden disk for the Pioneer space probes so that in a million years, if someone or something comes across it, there will be a (literal) record of who we were and where we came from. ...