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As I replay through New Vegas, I keep coming back to the TV show and what it did.

2024-05-11 by XCVG Uncategorized

The Fallout series is a sequel to the games

…and I kinda wish it wasn’t. I’m deeply divided on the Fallout TV show, because I love it as an adaptation, but I don’t love it...

2024-04-28 by XCVG Commentary Long Form

Apparently the Fallout series is canon and set after the games? I have some Thoughts ™ on that… but I’ll reserve judgement until I’ve finished watching...

2024-04-20 by XCVG Uncategorized

I’m (still) disappointed by the Halo show

I’m fashionably late to the party, but I can’t not talk about the Halo show. While I was writing this, it was tentatively titled I don’t...

2024-04-07 by XCVG Commentary Long Form

CommonCore R6 Released

CommonCore R6, formerly known as CommonCore Firene, is now released! This release marks a change in nomenclature and a change in how it will be released...

2024-04-05 by XCVG Game Dev

The Eaget Box: A Thrift Store Curiosity

I found this weird thing at the thrift store. A box in the electronics section, with some USB ports, AV jacks, an a hard drive bay....

2024-03-17 by XCVG Long Form Tech

Happy St Patrick’s Day!

2024-03-17 by XCVG Art

The Thunderbolt Compatibility Conundrum

This looks like it should work, but it doesn’t. It’s not because I’ve used an outright wrong adapter, say a USB-C to mDP adapter in the...

2024-02-25 by XCVG Long Form Tech

Happy Lunar New Year!

2024-02-10 by XCVG Art

Style, Setting, and Sequels: Musings On John Wick

This is (obviously) not the long-promised “shrinking as a creator” post. I will get to that one, but to open 2024, I wanted to do something...

2024-01-08 by XCVG Commentary Long Form

It’s not quite 2024 for me, but it is for some folks. Happy New Years, everyone! (4/4 of the Holiday 2023 art series)

2023-12-31 by XCVG Art

It’s almost the end of 2023, which means it’s time for the yearly status update! https://www.xcvgsystems.com/2023/12/end-of-year-2023-status-update/

2023-12-28 by XCVG Site News

3/4 of the Holiday 2023 art series

2023-12-24 by XCVG Art

Gap Year Part 2: Pandemic Time

The second part of Gap Year, a three-part illustrated novella that ties into the Outliers and Outsiders series of games, is out now- just in time for Christmas!...

2023-12-24 by XCVG Uncategorized

2/4 of the Holiday 2023 art series

2023-12-12 by XCVG Art

A special art series for the Holiday 2023 season, this is 1 of 4

2023-12-10 by XCVG Art

I’ve unpublished the last of my Android games from Google Play. Most have probably been hidden for a while since they all target outdated API versions....

2023-11-12 by XCVG Game Dev

CommonCore 6.0.0 Preview 1, the first preview release of the Firene (6.x) series, has been released https://github.com/XCVG/commoncore/releases/tag/6.0.0-pre1

2023-11-09 by XCVG Game Dev

Minor updates to Safety and Security at the Liberty Macvonden Building, The Crystal Tower, and Shattered 2 have been released. For the most part, these are...

2023-11-06 by XCVG Game Dev

Happy Halloween!

2023-10-31 by XCVG Art

I wanted to love Starfield

Or, how to break your game loop

2023-10-29 by XCVG Commentary Long Form

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after months of work I have a slap fight

2023-10-23 by XCVG Game Dev

SE7ENGOKU Economy Update Demo Released

A new SE7ENGOKU update is out, bringing in an inter-level screen and upgrade system! https://xcvg.itch.io/sevengoku/devlog/618610/se7engoku-economy-update-devlog

2023-10-09 by XCVG Game Dev

I really wanted to love Starfield, but in the end I merely liked it

2023-10-08 by XCVG Commentary

So, Unity has backtracked. What does that mean for me? Not much, really, so I’m not going to do a big long post on it. I’m...

2023-09-27 by XCVG Game Dev