The Arbitraries (Create Your Own Year-End Award) 2020

Greatest Gaming Bargain in the History of the World: The Itchio Racial Justice bundle, something like 1500 indie games for as little as five bucks, all for a good cause. It’s like a buffet where I can sample little tastes of things I wouldn’t otherwise. More than occasionally the bundle included gems.

I Surprised Myself by Signing Up: Xbox Gamepass for PC. I have never owned an Xbox and generally ignore MS attempts in at making inroads into PC gaming, but the inclusion of Wasteland 3, Crusader Kings 3 and OOTP in their PC Gamepass offerings got me to sign up for a measly $5 (now $10) a month. I haven’t bought a game on Steam since.

Return to a game I once loved thanks to QT3: @Razgon’s Anyone want to play a game of chess thread got me back into chess (along with the Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit) after many, many years. Now I even watch chess videos on youtube and have dug out my stash of chess books. No early access, no patches, no DLC, no luck – pure strategy and tactics.