Category: WRUP

WRUP: 2025 Edition

Another year, another WRUP. How's 2025 treating you thus far, Twinstiquers? I'm going to go ahead and refrain from touching on any recent political stuff, even though there is more than enough to write about for days, because frankly, that's not what we come here for. But please feel free to share any thoughts and/or feelings in the comments. We won't judge. So what's the latest in the gaming world?

Well, let's see. There were three words in that last sentence, and this WRUP post is purporting to contain some sort of gaming intel, so...Half-Life 3 confirmed? Well, maybe not quite, but rumors are starting to swirl once again. Who knows? We may actually be closer than ever before to an honest to goodness Half-Life sequel with the number 3 in it! Here's an article from Ars Technica with more speculation and/or details about that.

Also, the Switch 2 has finally been officially revealed by Nintendo after years of being incredibly tight-lipped about it. But, true to form, Nintendo has even somehow managed to keep pretty tight-lipped with the reveal itself, forcing fans to wait yet another several months for additional information. Maybe they just like torturing us?

What's everybody planning on playing this weekend?

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Save the WRUP for me, Clark.

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?

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Who WRUP’d This Here?

What is up fellow human people of the world? It's the weekend and I'm not exceptionally busy... yet. But that'll change I'm sure. You guys watching the Olympics? I know there's a lot of controversy over the games in general and for a lot of real reasons, but I'm an Olympics stan. I don't care too much about sports overall but when the Olympic games roll up I'm glued to everything I can take in. Anyway, we're not here for that, but I do hope you're all enjoying the games. Sorry for everyone in Paris who can't travel anywhere they normally would because every popular route is blocked by stadiums and lines and venues. Read more

If It Looks Like A WRUP…

Hello everyone on a strangely cool July morning. Welcome to the WRUP once again. It's that time again. The summer Olympics have started and yeah I know it's an incredibly corrupt organization that has evolved over the decades to push people out of their homes and cost hosting cities and countries to pay extortionate amounts of money to build athletic facilities to be used for a very short time, but I do really love watching the games. Whether it's winter or summer. The opening ceremony was yesterday and it was really something to see. No stadium for the athletes to walk into, instead it was a river boat procession down the Seine with performances and celebrations happening all around. There was even a bit of metal opera performed by Gojira involving some pyrotechnics and theatrical set pieces. It ended at the Eiffel Tower with an epic laser show and the Olympic flame was lit on an old style dirigible balloon in the place where the first hot air balloon flight ever took place. The whole thing was amazing to watch and I look forward to seeing the games over the next 16 days. Read more