Happy December, Twinstiq troop! It's AJ, back with another WRUP because it's long overdue. Hopefully everybody is still doing well and getting into the festive holiday spirit, assuming that's your kind of thing.

I don't have much in the way of news to share, except that it is starting to appear that stores in the US may be scaling back on physical Xbox games. I happened into a local Target store recently and they didn't have a single physical Xbox game to be found. That entire section had simply been removed by the store. They still had plenty of Switch and PlayStation 5 titles, however.

While this doesn't appear to be the case with every Target location in my area (although the ones that do still carry them definitely seem to have scaled back the selection), and this reporting is purely anecdotal, similar reports have already came out of Europe earlier this year. If major US retailers are indeed in the process of 86ing Xbox options in the near future, that would signal a very interesting shift in this generation's console battle. Here's hoping the Xbox brand itself won't be disappearing anytime soon.

But enough about that, what is that we are playing this weekend?

AJ: Double Dragon Gaiden is a beat 'em up blast! I think I'll be playing that a good bit this weekend. Also, probably, some Starfield.

Greywolfe: It's DOSEMBER! So that means lots of DOS games through all of December. At the moment, I'm playing "Don't Go Alone". In one of the retro communities I run in, this turned out to be a favorite of one of the folks there who passed away this year. So, trying it in their memory. So far, it's quite a laid back, beginner friendly '80s RPG and I'm largely enjoying it.