October 2024

Kris’ family came down last week so as usual, I didn’t stream when they were here, but even if they weren’t here, I was pretty sick. I still don’t feel one hundred percent better, but I am feeling a lot better than I have been. I don’t usually get sick, even when I had Covid, I think I was at most really bad for 24 hours and then after that I was back to working normally. Obviously I wouldn’t have been if I had to leave my house to work, but when you’re working from home, you don’t need to worry about that kind of thing.

Since I am still sick, I don’t really have the urge to stream just yet. My throat hurts and I don’t want to talk that much just yet, but Black Ops 6 just came out and I haven’t played it that much. I did play it for a little bit on Tuesday and some last Friday, right after it came out. So far I have only played the zombies mode, which when it comes to Black Ops games, is usually my favorite modes, but I really want to get into multiplayer after playing the beta. I normally wouldn’t even be playing it at all, but it’s on Game Pass so it’s nice that I can. There was a few years where I bought a new COD every year, but I haven’t done that in a few years now.

I’m currently waiting for a hosting company to upgrade PHP. They were supposed to do it at midnight, but now it is 4AM and I haven’t heard anything since 2AM when I got a message that they were starting it. I’ve been up since 10AM Tuesday morning and I am exhausted. I am hoping they will email me soon that it is done so I can do some quick tests and make sure everything works, then get some sleep. I’ve spent all year working to get this done it seems. There’s been around 4-5 long term projects I’ve been working on, including server moves, PHP upgrades, file deletion, etc. If and when this is done then I will be able to focus on the last long term project, which is basically done too, I just need to run some tests.

While waiting for the server company to get back to me, I went into my own database and changed my MySQL tables from MyISAM to Innodb. I think new installations of WordPress use Innodb by default, but older ones use a combination of the two. MyISAM will lock the whole table when really you just need to lock the row you’re updating. This change alone has sped up this site a lot. It should have happened a long time ago, but I forgot about it until I had to update my database when we were moving servers. If you haven’t changed to Innodb yet, I highly recommend it, you will more than likely see a speed boost on your website.

The MCU is getting bigger every week it seems and almost everyday there’s new and more exciting rumors for both the MCU and beyond. The following should be taken with a grain of salt, but there is a possibility that these are true and actually spoilers. Reader beware…

Agatha All Along concludes this week and the big rumor is that the Witches’ Road doesn’t actually exist. It was a trick Agatha used to draw other witches in and steal their powers. Billy Maximoff manifested the road into reality and Agatha went along with it.

Daniel Richtman claims that Marvel will only be releasing two movies between Avengers Doomsday and Avengers Secret Invasion. One of them is Spider-Man 4, but the other one is unknown. According to Richtman, Marvel is eager to end the multiverse Saga as soon as possible.

Richtman has also said that in Thunderbolts*, we’ll find out that Bill Foster developed cancer and Ghost has been taking care of him.

Richtman has also shared that Marvel wants Gwyneth Paltrow back for the next Avengers movies. He also says that they are wanting Billie Eilish for an upcoming project. Other rumors point to Eilish being eyed for Rogue.

Alex Perez says that Spider-Man 4 will not only debut between the next Avengers movies, but be set between them and not a prequel like Black Widow was. If Spider-Man 4’s title is the King in Black, which was rumored a few months ago, then surely he will get the alien suit.

Henry Cavill and the studio has been having multiple meetings, at least according to John Campea. It’s not for more appearances of Cavillrine, but other super heroes.

Blade was recently removed from Marvel’s upcoming release schedule, but despite that, Mahershala Ali has no issues with the delays and is happy and excited with the current direction it’s taking. It’s rumored to be getting rewritten and will be filmed in 2025 with a smaller budget.

Marvel Animation is gearing up for a new CG project, but that won’t debut until the final season of What If and Eyes of Wakanda. There’s also been rumors that Spider-Man ’98 has been discussed as well. That is something that I have been hoping for since X-Men 97 was announced.

What do you think, are any of these real or are they just wishful thinking? Let us know what you think!

Clearly Tifa is the favorite, but then again, are we really surprised? Has any other Final Fantasy character come close to the popularity that Tifa has?

At New York Comic Con, Insomniac and Sony announced that Spider-Man 2 would be coming to PC on January 30, 2025. This is just the latest Playstation exclusive coming to PC, while it also joins the other two Spider-Man games that previously came to PC. Insomniac also announced that there was no additional content planned for the game.

Last year Insomniac Games data had been breached and a lot of confidential information was leaked. That information included DLC for Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, a Venom game that was supposedly aiming for a 2025 release date, and a multiverse game. Given that the third and final Venom movie is coming in a few weeks, NYCC would be the perfect time to officially announce the Venom game. It’s possible that the game isn’t coming in 2025 or that it is cancelled all together, like the DLC appears to be.

Also in the leak was the Wolverine game that was announced years ago. If the rumors are true, then Insomniac is gearing up to officially show more of the game relatively soon. Speculation has been that it will be shown at the Game Awards in December, if not before hand. If true, then Wolverine could be the next game from Insomniac Games and one of the next Sony games to be published to the Playstation 5. Given that the Playstation 5 Pro is set to be released in a few weeks, maybe Wolverine will get an early 2025 release date to bring more interest to the upgraded console.

Are you excited for the Wolverine game? What about Spider-Man 2 coming to PC?

Spider-Man 2 is coming to PC

It’s been announced that future Halo games will be using Unreal Engine. Up until now, Halo games were on a custom engine. First it was the Blam engine from Halo Combat Evolved to Halo 5: Guardians and then it was rewritten to be the Slipstream Engine for Halo Infinite. Rumors of 343 Industries using Unreal have been around for a few months now, specifically that Halo Combat Evolved would be remade using the engine and will be released on Xbox Series X, PC, and PS5. So far we don’t know what the next Halo game will be or if it will be released on Playstation at all.

While a Halo Combat Evolved Remake inside of Unreal Engine could be a good start for the next batch of Halo projects, it would make more sense that Halo 3 would be the next game to get a remake. The original Halo as well as Halo 2 were both remade on Xbox One, with the latter coming with the Master Chief Collection. If they were going to continue the tradition, then Halo 3 would be the next in line for a remake.

Halo won’t be the only game using Unreal. Gears of War has been using Unreal since the beginning, though that makes sense, considering they were both initially products of Epic Games. Sea of Thieves has also been using the Unreal Engine since its release.

The new engine wasn’t the only thing announced recently, at the same Halo World Championships that the new engine was announced at, they announced that 343 Industries would be rebranded as Halo Studios.

While Halo Infinite’s launch was less than spectacular, it has evolved into a great multiplayer experience. Every few weeks game modes are added or replaced, playlists are mixed up, and new maps are put up. While initially 343 Industries was reluctant on releasing older maps, the community created older maps in Forge and the company has since embraced them. The future of Halo certainly does look bright.

Are you excited for the future of Halo?

New Halo projects will be using Unreal Engine

People are waiting for the Switch successor to be announced, but what does Nintendo do instead? They announced a clock. That’s right, Nintendo is making an alarm clock called Alarmo. Below is the trailer for it.

In a time when Xbox had a refrigerator and a toaster, this doesn’t seem too weird and actually has some unique features to it. I like that it tracks your movement and the music is more intense the longer that it takes you to wake up. This year it seems Nintendo is giving us everything we want and even some things we didn’t even know we wanted, as is proof with Alarmo. Question is, does Nintendo have other surprises up its sleeve before the Switch 2 (or whatever it will be called) is officially announced?

We know that it is set to be announced before April 1, 2025 and that it will more than likely be released in 2025. We also know that Call of Duty will be coming to the new console. Not much else is known about it. This is the first console that will be released without Satoru Iwata’s involvement in a while. The last one was the GameCube and ever since that, the consoles have focused more on fun aesthetics rather than raw power. The GameCube was the most powerful console of its generation, could the Switch 2 be more powerful than the PS5 and Xbox Series X? Some rumors say yes, but others say it will be as powerful as the Xbox One and Playstation 4. Could Nintendo have other hardware surprises between now and the announcement for the Switch 2?

Will you be buying an Alarmo? I am tempted and I don’t even understand why, it just seems like a cool different kind of clock.