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Hi. You probably don’t know me. Without getting too into it, I’m a friend of the Punished Backlog team. The other day, as we were discussing our beloved Patriots heading to another Super Bowl, halftime got brought up. Rumors are that Maroon 5 may be putting on a tribute to SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg, which lead to a controversial opinion within our ranks on the matter. One thing led to another, and I started telling everyone which halftime show was best, but it got too complicated and turned into a full-length article and now we’re here. Fun times.

Looking Back on an Impressive Year for Games 2018 has come and gone, and boy, what a year it was, for better but also most certainly for worse. Like the years before it, what you…

Happy Complete Solar Orbit! I don’t know about you, but for me this particular trip around the sun felt uniquely… eventful. Read: 2018 can actually choke on my dick. Man, oh man, was this the roughest…

You Asked For This Go big or go home. Here’s the play: two lists in one. First, let’s rank every game I bought with a 2018 release. Then, let’s rank the games I actually played…

Five Games that Blew Me Away in 2018 This year was a little all over the place for me. The latter half gave me a lot of time to focus on gaming, but, with the…

The Allure of AAA Pulls Me Back In 2018 was an atypical year for me in media consumption. I took a bit of a sabbatical from playing games for the first half of 2018 and…

Highlighting the Best of an Impressive Year for Games Many have said that 2017 was a particularly special year for gaming, but I actually feel like 2018 was better. Not necessarily in the sense that…

Five Favorites as 2018 Comes to a Close I think that 2018 was a pretty alright year for video games. I’ve never really subscribed to triple-A game industry hype trains. Mostly because I’ve never really…

The Punished Backlog Crew’s Creative Endeavor: Inktober 2018 Hopefully this year’s “Spooky Month” treated you well, unless you’re reading this in the future, in which case this doesn’t apply and also has Todd gotten to…

Big Predictions for the Biggest Night in Games Correction: Don’t expect to see The Last of Us Part II Thursday night, as Naughty Dog recently tweeted that they don’t be showing anything from the title at…