Author: Padraig Fahy

  • [The JukeBox] #98 – Casiopea – Time Limit

    [The JukeBox] #98 – Casiopea – Time Limit

    I previously covered the history of Casiopea almost 2 years ago in #82 highlighting Galactic Funk, but this time, I’m highlighting their first track of their very first album.

    Their self-titled album, released in May 1979 was released 2 years after their on-stage debut.

    Oricon didn’t create an albums charts until 1987, so we do not know how well the album did.

    The song would be re-released on their 1982 live album, Mint Jams.

    Official Cover of Casiopea’s self-titled album
    Early promotion/pressing of Casiopea’s self-titled album.

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  • Spotify 2025 Playlist is live!

    Spotify 2025 Playlist is live!

    Quick post to say that my 2025 Spotify Playlist has been created. There is nothing on there right now, but you can follow it and check on it throughout the year for new music that I add to it:

    I have a list of all the yearly Spotify playlists that I have created since 2017 over on the Spotify Playlists page.

  • New & Updated Websites

    New & Updated Websites

    In my quest to expand my personal brand (Read: Just register domains that are padraig.<tld>) for 2025, I have decided to update some of my websites.

    • Introducing: https://padraig.social
      • This is replacing my solo.to page and has all my social links.
    • Updated: https://pf.ie
      • This has finally been moved from a bespoke HTML website to WordPress.

    With the exception of crakila.com (which is built on HTML) and 39.ie which is running Discourse, all of my active websites are running on WordPress.

  • Gaming News – 21st December 2024

    Gaming News – 21st December 2024

    • Paramount has announced that the Sonic 4 movie in 2027
    • Nintendo has reportedly fixed the stick drift in the Switch 2.
    • GSC has released its first major patch for Stalker 2 with over 1800 fixes. Patch Notes
    • The Game Awards had 154 million global livestreams, making it the most watched show.
    • Microsoft is working on a new cross-platform UI for Xbox.
    • 3 days ago, Marvel Rivals hit 20 million players.
    • Killzone 2 skins and banners are coming to Helldivers 2 on Monday.
    • Microsoft has announced that there won’t have console exclusives going forward and will be time-exclusive.
    • Jo Wyatt will not be voicing Ciri in The Witcher 4. She has been replaced by Ciara Berkeley. Ciara is from Dublin, who achieved a 2:1 in English Literature in Trinity College. She recently appeared in an ad for Yuno Energy.
    • SEGA is reportedly working on a new subscription platform for their games, according to SEGA president Shuji Utsumi.
  • The Game Awards 2024 Notes

    The Game Awards 2024 Notes

    • Trailer for Ninja Gaiden Ragebound – Developed by the same devs as Streets of Rage 4 – Trailer
    • Best Fighting Game Winner: TEKKEN 8
    • Trailer for One Move Away coming in 2025 – Trailer
    • Trailer for Slay the Spire II – Coming in 2025 – Trailer
    • Best VR/AR Game Winner: – Batman: Arkham Shadow
    • Trailer for Dave the Diver DLC – In the Jungle – Coming late 2025 – Trailer
    • Trailer for Thick as Thieves from the creators of Deus Ex – Trailer
    • Best Esports Game: League of Legends
    • Best Esports Athlete: Faker
    • Best Esports Team: T1*
    • Trailer for a new Pac-Man game by Bandai Namco – Shadow Labyrinth – Trailer
    • Trailer for Steel Paws – Coming to Netflix in 2025 – Trailer
    • Games for Impact Award: NEVA
    • Trailer for Tales of the Shire – Releasing March 25th – Trailer
    • Trailer for Stalcraft Operations – Coming in 2025 – Trailer
    • Gameplay trailer for a murder party game – Midnight Murder Club – In Closed Beta – Trailer
    • Innovation in Accessibility Award: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
    • New game from the creator of Core Keeper – Kyora – Available to wishlist now – Trailer
    • Best Family Game – Astro Bot
    • New trailer from the studio who brought you Sifu – Rematch – 5-a-side soccer game – Trailer
    • Trailer for Solasta 2 – Early Access coming in 2025 – Trailer

    Main Show:

    • Todd Howard and Troy Baker on stag to present the first award. Harrision Ford is also here. Harrision is clearly drunk.
    • Best Performance Award – Melina Juergens for playing Senua in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
    • First world premiere: Trailer from CD Projekt Red – The Witcher IV – Ciri is The Witcher – Trailer
    • “New standalone game”: Trailer from Bandai Namco & FromSoftware – Elden Ring Nightreign – Co-op action game – Coming 2025 – Trailer
    • Advert for FINAL FANTASY VII Rebirth – Releasing on PC on the 23rd January 2025. Trailer
    • Advert for Indiana Jones & The Great Circle – Available now.
    • Advert for Catly – Coming to Steam, Nintendo Switch, Apple i-Watch – Trailer
    • Advert for Path of Exile 2 – Early Access is available now.
    • Best Action Game – Black Myth: Wukong
    • Trailer from the creators of ICO, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian – Project: Robot – Trailer
    • The Game Awards orchestra performing the theme for Sid Meier’s Civilization VII – Releasing February 11th 2025 – Crossplay between PC and consoles.
    • Trailer from Obsidian – The Outer Worlds 2 – Releasing in 2025 – For Xbox, Playstation and PC – Trailer
    • Josef Fares on stage to announce Hazelights newest co-op game – Trailer for Split Fiction – Play one level in Si-Fi and the next in Fantasy – Releasing on March 6th – Trailer
    • Advert for Fragpunk – Releasing March 6th Trailer
    • Advert for Killing Floor 3 – Coming March 2025. Trailer
    • Geoff talking about the layoffs in video games. – He introduces the first TGA Gamechanger award. – Amir Satvat who has helped people who have been laid off to find jobs in the industry.
    • Advert from War Gaming – Steel Hunters – Beta now available. Trailer
    • Blackfrost: The Long Dark II – Early Access coming in 2026 – Trailer
    • Randy Pitchford with the trailer for Borderlands 4 – Coming 2025 – Trailer
    • Clive Rosefield from Final Fantasy XVI is coming to Tekken 8 – Releasing December 16th – Trailer
    • Most Anticipated Game – Grand Theft Auto VI
    • Best Multiplayer Game – Helldivers 2
    • Best Community Support – Baldur’s Gate 3
    • Best Art Direction – Metaphor: ReFantazio
    • Advert for Splitgate 2
    • Advert for Dragon Age: The Veilguard
    • Advert for Mechabreak – Coming 2025
    • Advert for Star Wars Outlaws
    • Advert for Fortnite OG
    • Live performance for Arcane by Twenty One Pilots
    • Trailer for a new Virtua Fighter game from RGG Studio in development. – Trailer
    • Trailer for another RGG Studio game. Project Century – Also in development. – Trailer
    • Hideo Kojima is on stage talking about the last 10 years of TGA. He is here to announce the Best Game Direction Award.
    • Best Game Direction Award – Astro Bot
    • New trailer from Saber – Turok Origins – Trailer
    • A guy on stage in a Helldivers suit introducing a new trailer for Helldivers II – Omen of Tyranny update trailer. Available now – Trailer
    • New trailer and release date of Warframe: 1999 – Releasing tomorrow (13th December) – Trailer
    • Advert for Wuthering Waves for PS5 – Available January 2nd 2025 – Trailer
    • Adverts for Xbox.
    • Creators of Shovel Knights on stage to introduce:
    • Best Debut Indie Game: Balatro
    • Trailer for a new Capcom game Onimusha: Way of the Sword – Coming 2026 – Trailer
    • New trailer for The First Berserker: Khazan – Release date: March 27th 2025 – Trailer
    • New trailer for a new gacha game from Nexon – Arad: Dungeon & Fighter – Trailer
    • New trailer for Dying Light: The Beast coming out in the summer – Trailer
    • Best Action Adventure Game: Astro Bot
    • Best RPG: Metaphor: Refantazio
    • Content Creator of the Year: Caseoh
    • Best Sports/Racing Game: EA Sports FC 25
    • Best Sim/Strategy Game: Frostpunk 2
    • Ad for “Post Malone’s Murder Circus” update for Hunt: Showdown – Trailer
    • Trailer for Squid Game: Unleashed available on December 17th on Netflix Games – Squid Game Season 2 is out on December 26th – Trailer
    • Snoop Dogg on stage to introduce Best ongoing game.
    • Best Ongoing Game: Helldivers 2
    • Trailer for a brand new game from the creators of Overcooked – A new co-op game Stage Fright – Trailer
    • Trailer for a HBO/Warner Bros game – Game of Thrones: Kingsroad – Trailer
    • Ad for Double Dragon: Revive – Releasing October 23rd 2025. Trailer
    • Ad for Screamer coming 2026 – Trailer
    • Trailer from Naughty Dog – The Last of Us Part II Remastered coming to PC on April 3rd 2025.
    • Both the voice actress and actual actress for Ellie from The Last of Us game and HBO show on stage to introduce:
    • Best Adaptation Award: Fallout
    • Gameplay trailer for Den of Wolves – Trailer
    • New trailer for Zenless Zone Zero – New character
    • New trailer for Honkai: Star Rail Version 3.0 update – Trailer: Trailer
    • Snoop Dogg performing a song from his new album which releases tonight
    • Ad for LEGO Fornite Odyssey
    • Ad for Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
    • Khalid introducing:
    • Best Score/Music: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
    • Teaser trailer for Sonic Racing: Crossworlds – Trailer: Trailer
    • Trailer for Mafia: The Old Country – Releasing this summer – Trailer
    • Best Independent Game: Balatro
    • Best Mobile Game: Balatro
    • Best Audio Design: Senu’s Saga: Hellblade II
    • Players’ Voice: Black Myth: Wukong
    • Trailer for Infinity Nikki which has had 20 million downloads
    • Laura Bailey and Aaron Paul on stage introducing a game that they have worked on together – Dispatch – Releasing in 2025 – Trailer
    • Sam Lake on stage for:
    • Best Narrative Award: Metaphor: Refantazio
    • Live performance to introduce Okami sequel from Capcom and Hideki Kamiya – Trailer
    • Trailer for the Pearl Abyss title Crimson Desert – Releasing later 2025 – Trailer
    • ONE MORE THING:
    • From Naughty Dog & PlayStation: Intergalatic: The Heretic Prophet – Trailer
    • Swen Vincke from Larian Game to present
    • Game of the Year Award: Astro Bot

  • Gaming News – 9th December 2024

    Gaming News – 9th December 2024

    • Square Enix has announced that the next season in Foamstars will be its last.
    • Rocksteady has announced that the current season of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will be its last. There will be an offline mode coming next week.
    • CDPR has revealed that they are working on Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2 and more information will be released in their live stream on Tuesday 10th December 2024 at 4:00pm
    • Gameplay for Borderlands 4 will be shown at The Game Awards this Thursday night.
    • Former art director for God Of War Raf Grassetti has joined Naughty Dog.
    • Marvel Rivals has hit 10 million players in 3 days.
    • Nexuiz, Friday The 13th: The Game developer Illfonic has announced lay-offs. It not currently know how many people have lost their jobs. According to VGLayoffs, 14,600 people have lost their jobs in the gaming industry this year.
    • RPCS3 (A PlayStation 3 emulator) has announced that the emulator now runs on arm64 architecture on Windows/Linux/macOS. So if you have an M-series Apple Mac device or perhaps a device with Snapdragon or similar processor, you can now play PS3 games on it.
    • Mafia: The Old Country has confirmed that the game will be at The Game Awards.
    • Google has extended the deadline to convert Stadia Controllers to Bluetooth mode until December 31st, 2025.