A Happy New Year to everyone! 2024 was a great year for me, with this site seeing record viewing figures, so I’m very happy about that. There was plenty of games and a good range of TV & Film that I experienced across 2024, and a few stories I’d written, too. Quite a lot of that fed into the content on the site, alongside the concepts which include the Switch Successor Launch Line Up (Of An Alternate Reality) series.

This year, I want to see those figures further increase, so I intend to keep writing articles about all that I experience across this year. What’s going to help with that is the Switch successor launching. Up until the end of March is when Nintendo said it will be announced, yet there’s some hope of it being announced this month. After all, technically, this is the month the Switch was announced with that info blowout event.

There’s going to be plenty of games coming for the successor to the Switch in its launch year. Especially if Nintendo have been working hard to have a schedule that sees a game release every month for it. I’ll be doing some speculation for it in the gaming look ahead to 2025 article coming very soon. And should the announcement happen this month, I absolutely will have an article talking about it.

It’s not just games I’ll be looking ahead with, as there’s plenty of TV & Film content already announced for this year. Though interestingly, pretty light in terms of my cores. Only two Star Wars series are dated for 2025. Power Rangers is on hiatus. And there’s likely nothing for Sonic this year after a packed 2024. But I’ll still feature them all, and everything else I’m wanting to enjoy, with that look ahead article.

I also have plans for an article offering up a plan for this year. Half way through 2024, I had such an article talking of plans. The article where I announced that Space Race Championship was being physically published. And it’s coming this year. So that’s going to be an exciting one. I want to put a lot of focus on the Alternate Halesowen and Beyond universe this year, as you’ll see with The Story Planning of 2025.

For other articles of the month, Skeleton Crew will be ending this month. This Star Wars series has been one of the best. Every episode has been full of action and characterful moments, and things are really getting interesting as it reaches the final episodes. The full series review should be up on the day of that final episode. I really can’t wait to see how it ends.

There’s a few games this month interested in getting to. Dynasty Warriors: Origins will provide the usual hack-and-slash gameplay the series is known for, while increasing the number of units visible on the field. It’s been seven years since the last main game, so it should feel like an expansion on what came before. It will be fun to cut through swathes of enemies once again.

Aspyr are still bringing more classic Star Wars games to new systems, with the latest being Jedi Power Battles. This Phantom Menace tie-in game features a lot of characters to be fighting through its levels as, including some weirder additions being added to the remaster. It’s going to be a riot when I get to it. And I’m hoping for more classic games to come from Aspyr across this year.

At the end of the month, so it’s unlikely I’ll be covering it this month, is Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap. Having played the previous game just last month, I enjoyed it a lot. So I’m very excited to get into this one. The same tower defence gameplay of that previous game, there should be a lot of action when it comes to defending against the orcs.

And that’s just the known stuff. I’m still formulating plans for content, plans for concept articles. A few of which might just slot into this month. The same can be said for the first short story of the year, so keep an eye out for that. I hope you’ll have a great 2025, and that some of it will be spent in my little corner of the internet.