Specifically, I’ll be playing some of the levels that feature the real-time strategy mechanics, along with the mode that’s all about such. While I don’t expect such to be featured in The Skywalker Saga, it is one of the most interesting additions to LEGO games that doesn’t seem likely to return. With Battlefront 2005, I’ll be looking at the Galactic Conquest mode, and that will be trimmed down to some Twitch Highlights for my YouTube channel.
 
And speaking of that channel… I didn’t upload anything to it last month. While I was working on that rendition of London within RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, I got distracted by pretty much everything else. Slowly but surely, I am building it up, and it should be ready to show off in May. As for Star Wars Month, my YouTube is also keeping to a classic theme. With The Force Unleashed. I’ll be playing both of them. While they’ve both been featured on the channel before, this time I can give some reactions and assessments on them.
 
But why all the classic theming, you might be wondering (along with how something from ten years ago can be considered classic). Well, those Disney+ announcements from last month have given me a good excuse to. No, not the recent ones (though I am excited to watch The Bad Batch and share some initial impressions in May). The fact that several classic series and films are coming to the service.
 
Caravan of Courage, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, the Ewoks TV series, the 2D animated Clone Wars series, and the animated story that featured within the Star Wars Holiday Special are all hitting the service on the 2nd. What a lovely Star Wars Month treat for me. And for all of you, as it means I can talk about everything I’ve just mentioned. All of this (except for Clone Wars) will be new to me, which gives an extra reason to talk about it all.
 
It’s not just going to be about classic stuff, though, for I’m going to be reading the first of The High Republic novels, and I’ll have impressions of that – along with what else I can discover about the era. All will be featured within one article for easy viewing. Along with that will be a new article covering LEGO The Skywalker Saga. If the date of release is set for May the Fourth (why not hit Star Wars Day if you can?), then some time in April, we should be getting that final trailer. No matter what happens, though, I feel like writing another article talking of some more of my hopes for the game.

And for those of you who might not like Star Wars, there is at least a bright corner of my content where you get far from it. Friday’s over on GRcade’s Twitch channel will be free from Star Wars content, with this Friday seeing a second play of Monster Hunter Rise after my Joy-Con meant I couldn’t get even two hours of playing it. I’ve progressed onto three star quests, so during that second play, I’ll be going through those – or even the four star quests.
 
As for what else is being featured on that channel, you’ll just have to wait and see. One thing I will say is that games I’ve played on the channel before will certainly show up again. And… y’know. Maybe some GTA V Online on one of the days. That is my most featured game on the channel, after all.

Always one to concept ideas, I’ve got a few that will be appearing within articles across this year. Most build off concepts that already exist – such as the one from last month on evolving Bowser’s Fury into a full Mario experience. The one this month is staying with Nintendo, but using Thrillville as a base. I think it’s easy to guess what the idea will be. Just as with Mii Resort Paradise, I’ve slowly been building this one up for a while.
 
Monster Hunter Rise and Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town both release at the end of this month, and I’ll be playing both live on Twitch. Since I played the demo of Monster Hunter Rise over on the GRcade channel, my first play of the full game will be there. Story of Seasons will then follow the next day on my own channel. First Impressions articles will then be published a few days later.
 
I’ve got another DiRT 5 stream coming this month, playing some more races from that game just as I did with Wreckfest last month. In terms of videos, I’ve got a RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 video coming up that builds off what I ended up doing when I streamed it. That being making a rendition of London within the area that the Switch version allows. While I won’t be building it in the video, I’ll certainly be showing my creation off.
 
Next month is Star Wars Month, and since Republic Commando has been announced as coming to the Switch, I know what will be seeing a full playthrough during the month. I’m not spoiling anything else, though, so you can be waiting next month for that.

It’s very possible Power Rangers will become a fourth core franchise for me. I’m also expecting news from my three cores this month. There’s already been the start of that for one, with a new Sonic the Hedgehog series announced to be coming next year on Netflix, which is possibly what led to Sonic’s voice actor – Roger Craig Smith – being retired from the cast.
 
Pokémon Day is at the end of the month, which is sure to bring the next lot of anniversary news with it. That news is sure to bring a trailer for the next main game, which is likely to be a remake of an older one. Or perhaps, a certain collection is true after all. Depending on when the game releases, more information from LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga should also be coming soon. I’ll be talking of both when they happen.
 
Despite playing Hitman 3 last month, there was a lack of a first impressions article. I decided to forgo that in order to talk about the series as a whole – or at least this current trilogy. The story of how I got into it is much the same as with Farming Simulator, so like with that series, I decided upon an experiences article, which would allow me to talk of that story and my first experiences of the series up to this current point.
 
As for videos and streams, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury is releasing this month, and I’m ready to get into it. The Bowser’s Fury content should give a few hours’ worth of content easily able to fit inside a single stream, and then it’ll be onto the main game. If a certain point needs to be reached before getting to the Bowser’s Fury content, I’ll get to that off stream so I can jump straight into the new stuff. There’s every possibility of a full playthrough of the main game as well.
 
There’ll be a lot more variety this month with those streams, as I’ll be returning to Farming Simulator 19, getting some more Hitman played, along with several other Switch games. There’s also my Friday streams over on the GRcade Twitch channel, which have now started to be uploaded to my stream archive along with those from my own channel. Those are usually focused upon GTA V Online, and should I return to doing them, will be where the streamlists get hosted.
 
Overall, I expect February to be packed of content to make up for the lack of anything across these last few months, and that will be the same for March and April – which will be bringing a new Star Wars Month of content.

My Youtube channel has seen growth, however little that has been. The highest number of videos uploaded to it, bringing in almost 200 more views than in 2019, and another three subscribers. But my personal growth in terms of videos will be felt this year. Having gained enough confidence in my voice to want to use it, I jumped on Twitch and started streaming. More on that in a bit, though, as I want to talk of my success on Twitch.
 
In just a third of a year, I’ve seen 237 unique viewers joining me for some fun, with 43 of those joining further for a bit of a chat. And in just those three months, I’m more than halfway to affiliate. Through starting difficulties as I learned how to set things up right, getting a new microphone and capture card to bring higher quality streams, and then enjoying the time I spend streaming playing around in various games, it’s been a great time and I want to continue. Summer might prove an interesting time and a block to getting live, but I’ll see about figuring that when the time comes.
 
Thank you to everyone who has been checking out any of the content of mine. It really means a lot. This year I aim to provide plenty more, with more streams, videos, and articles that involve the media that I enjoy. And that all starts with this month and what I have planned.
 
For articles, I’m looking ahead to what this year will bring in the form of video games. There’s quite a number of them that we know of, after all, and a fair few that I’m personally interested in. There’s also those we sort of know will happen, but not in any detail, such as with Pokémon and Sonic the Hedgehog. And then there’s getting into wishlisting territory. It’ll feature more than ten games, and it’ll be coming within the next few days.
 
For videos, there’s one coming today. This is what I meant when I talked of growing confidence. No doubt you’ve seen a few videos that bring highlights from Twitch streams to the channel, where my voice and face are seen within them. The one coming today uses both voice and face but is not from a stream. Recorded while the snowfall of Los Santos was still in effect, it showcases three races from other creators, along with the new toy I’d recently bought. Most videos should now be following the stream-style of content even if they weren’t originally from one.
 
As for streams, a new full playthrough is coming. Sort of. For as much as I enjoy the Kingdom Hearts games, the story isn’t really one of them. Don’t get me wrong, interactions between various characters can be fun, and I do know enough about the events that are happening to sort of follow along. But I’ve always been there for the gameplay and Disney properties. So when I start this full playthrough of Kingdom Hearts 3, don’t be surprised to see me skipping a few cutscenes.
 
I’m expecting quite a few things to be announced this month, so articles about such information will also be posted if it’s of interest to me. Once again, a Happy New Year to you all, and I hope this year sees plenty of positiveness come your way.

The closest you’ll be getting to a multi-stream game is GTA V Online. The new DLC of the Cayo Perico Heist comes out on the 15th, which brings with it a new location to explore in a heist that can be done solo that should be the most open of all the heists in approach. As long as I have the buy in for it, I’ll be streaming my attempts to get that heist complete on the day. If not, can always swap out for another game. Once the snowfall of Los Santos drops, I’ll also be exploring the winter-themed map. And there’ll still be the streams over on GRcade’s Twitch featuring the game.
 
As for other games, there’s a Steep stream, another Go Vacation stream focused entirely on the winter mountain resort, and I’ll be featuring games in a looking back at what I’ve been playing across this year. After all, there has been a lot that hasn’t been featured by me this year – especially since I only started streaming three months ago. There will be some Star Wars Battlefront to end the month out, as well.
 
There won’t be any new articles, I’m pretty sure, as I work through getting those that were delayed finished and posted. There’s always a chance for something new if I decide to feature it, however. For next year, I will attempt to get even more content written and published to this site. It’s been a wild year that’s felt like a lifetime and a month at the same time. Next year should settle down, hopefully, with the risk being nullified that it barely gets felt.

The Watch Dogs Legion first impressions article will be arriving soon, as will the look at The Force Awakens novelisation. Since I’ll be looking at the trilogy, I felt it worthwhile to keep them contained within a single month. They’ll also be going under the name of Book vs Film, even if I don’t use the name again for a while. Such a series is something I’ve been wanting to do for a while, so this gives me the opportunity to do so.
 
DiRT 5 will release this month, and I’ll have a first impressions of it out once I’ve had a play around with it. I’m looking forward to this one more for the playground mode it will feature, but I also want to get driving around on those tracks. I’ve only seen a few of them from the likes of FailRace (that demo was what boosted my interest in the game), and I’m sure there’ll be some returning tracks from previous games along with the new. I’ll be featuring it on stream about a week after it releases to share those things I like about it.
 
And speaking of streams, this first week is starting off a new full playthrough. That being Starlink: Battle For Atlas. In fact, this first week will see a focus on the Nintendo Switch as I’ll also feature Go Vacation as well. For the second week, it’ll see a focus on Xbox. Along with DiRT 5, there will be the third Farming Simulator Feeding Cows For Christmas stream, and more Watch Dogs Legion. All using the power of the Series S.
 
The GTA V for that week over on the GRcade channel will still be using the One, though. I’m not zapping a quarter of the internal storage on that game, no matter how much I play it. And the One will probably stay in circulation for most games. Besides, there’s another Rockstar game that’ll be taking the space. I’ve yet to play Red Dead Redemption 2, so I’ll be giving my experiences of that.
 
Also releasing this month is Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. Same as DiRT 5, it’ll see a first impressions article and also feature on a stream. Since this is going to be a one-shot, don’t expect me to feature much in the way of the plot. Once the game is out, I’ll have a good idea of how I’m going to be doing that.

I’ll be giving my thoughts on that comic once I read through it again, as playing through the story on Battle for the Grid has me wanting to read it again. And doing so and not sharing my thoughts wouldn’t feel right when I’d already talked of it on stream. As for the book I’ll be talking about, it relates to Star Wars, and the sequel trilogy. I’ve already talked of the Revenge of the Sith novelisation, so now I’m tackling the sequels. Can all three of them repeat what that one managed to?
 
In terms of streams, over the last month I’ve found myself getting a new microphone and fine tuning the quality of it to allow my voice to be louder and clearer with fewer audio interferences from things such as the fan of my laptop or the audio from my TV. Button presses on controllers will still be a thing, simply owing to the proximity between controller and microphone, but I will try to fix such as best as I can.
 
Over the last month, I’ve also found a schedule that works best for me. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 20:00 BST (soon to be GMT, once the clocks go back). It’s been a lot of fun over this last month streaming some of my favourites (as well as the unknown that had been Mask of Mists), and there’s plenty more to come. The full playthrough of LEGO City Undercover is continuing, I’ll be returning to Super Mario Sunshine, as well as bringing out yet another favourite with Forza Horizon 4.
 
While I had said videos without commentary would still continue, I think such will be retired except in a few circumstances. Since I am mixing full playthroughs and singular plays, converting those streams down to videos would be best, as it allows a better way of showing my thoughts of them than just a small entry within the description of the video – especially if I don’t feature them in an article.
 
As ever, there’s always room for more things to come, so keep an eye on Twitter for all new updates. And speaking of, Facebook is now being retired (well, it kind of unofficially was a month or two back) as a place I’ll be posting to. The only social media presence I’ll have will be on Twitter now, though Reddit is also a place I’ll be posting to. It’s always good to focus on a few than dilute yourself with many. Such a change should allow me to focus on slightly differing content across both.
 
And as you can see, I’ve changed the top banner to provide links to both Twitter and Twitch, as well as my Amazon Author Page. The final few parts of the site should be changed this month, including the pages detailing the timeline of my original works and the current ones. For now, keep an eye on Twitter for all the coming updates on here along with everything else I’m getting up to on there, and make sure to check out my Twitch channel for the latest streams.

This is just the start, as I plan to bring a full playthrough of a game I featured last month on my site. LEGO City Undercover is my current favourite of the LEGO games, with the great humour it has along with the entertaining story and set pieces, and I plan to make it my first full playthrough because of that. At present I don’t really have a schedule, though I am most likely to appear at around 20:00 BST / GMT whenever I do go live.
 
On the articles front, I don’t have much planned. I will be giving some experiences on a few games, and that LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga article that was meant to be posted in June will be up this month, but there’s not a lot going up on the site this month unless there’s news that interests me. October, though… That’s going to be another busy month.
 
Star Wars Squadrons at the beginning of the month, Dirt 5 in the middle of it, Watch Dogs: Legion at the end. All three will get first impressions articles, and will feature on a video or stream. Along with that… Well, let’s save that for monthly update at the start of October. Just look out for posts on my Twitter for when I go live on stream, as well as new articles and videos.

And within that news I hope for LEGO. The Skywalker Saga game is set to be releasing in a matter of months, and there’s been very little we’ve seen of it still. My assumption was always that we’d get a panel at Celebration to draw the attention of all Star Wars fans. After all, this is the largest LEGO game to date, and a celebration of 20 years of LEGO Star Wars.
 
When such news hits, you can expect an article about the game. But I’m giving a bit of a celebration on LEGO games, with the first up being City Undercover. That is the other video that I’ll be featuring on my channel, and to go with it will be a Moonlit Critbit. I’ve always said that City Undercover is my favourite of the LEGO games, and while some of that can be attributed to it being an original game, it’s much more besides. Or at least, it being truly original brought out the best of TT Games.
 
Other articles will bring another game concept of mine, this time focused upon Power Rangers. Two, in fact, within the same article. A large scale project and a smaller one. Along with that will be some articles within the books and comics section. One of these is something I had planned to put up last year during Star Wars Month. The other is a review, but this one is not related to Star Wars.
 
There’s also to be a new What I’m Waiting For, but this will be a bit different. Only one game will see a recap to get removed from the waiting for list, but only two new games will get added to it. With Watch Dogs: Legion and LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga yet to be released, there would be five games to clear from the list should I feature three new ones here. It’d take a few new entries before it got back to normal, and that’s not considering future articles where more than two games get added.