Going through my old files, I found the one and only time I was able to use an HD DVD product. This was the Digital Leisure release of Dragon's Lair, and this coincidentally was my first time ever playing the game.

my small, vain hope is that the rerelease of beyond good & evil signals some change of fate for BG&E2. what we've repeatedly seen has been a gross homunculus of numerous corporate initiatives grafted together into something wholly unrecognizable from the original game. they so, so desperately need to scrap all that and pare back to something on the scale of prince of persia lost crown

that game shows there's still a beating creative heart inside of ubisoft, it's just being smothered by the ownership's endless obsession with contemporary fads like nft's and AI

Backloggd has this 2014 Replay event going on right now, it’s basically a retrospective GOTY awards thing for all the games now turning a decade old. Seemed like fun so I came up with my own picks, and I challenged myself to pick something different for every category.

Extended thoughts (and honorable mentions) below!