{"id":3654,"date":"2011-08-29T06:21:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T10:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3654"},"modified":"2011-08-29T06:21:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T10:21:29","slug":"videogame-overload-%e2%80%93-it%e2%80%99s-raining-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/08\/29\/videogame-overload-%e2%80%93-it%e2%80%99s-raining-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Videogame Overload \u2013 It\u2019s Raining Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife is probably going to look at me a little squirrely \u2013 Amazon has just shipped backorders of <em>NIER<\/em> and the <em>Tomb Raider Trilogy<\/em>, and has also informed me that <em>Captain America<\/em> will be arriving by Wednesday.  Let\u2019s not forget that Madden Day is tomorrow with the \u2018official\u2019 release of <em>Madden 12<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>When I explain that two of the games (<em>NIER<\/em> and <em>TR Trilogy<\/em>) were heavily discounted, and that the <em>Captain America<\/em> game was purchased at its first significant price drop, she is going to look at the stack of backlog games I have just waiting for some TLC.  Yep, I\u2019m fucked.  It doesn\u2019t really matter that <em>Captain America<\/em> will most likely be tucked away until Christmas for my little guy.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t help my cause that <em>Iron Man 2<\/em> (sort of, kind of, purchased for the younger guys), and another Cabela game (<em>Cabela\u2019s North American Adventures<\/em>), along with <em>Kung Fu Rider<\/em> showed up last week.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great to stock up on hours and hours of future gaming action, but \u2026 there is really no justification for the onslaught of games raining on my front porch.  I think survival is going to require a couple of these are going to have to team up with <em>Captain America<\/em> is the \u2018Christmas\u2019 box.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife is probably going to look at me a little squirrely \u2013 Amazon has just shipped backorders of NIER and the Tomb Raider Trilogy, and has also informed me that Captain America will be arriving by Wednesday. Let\u2019s not forget that Madden Day is tomorrow with the \u2018official\u2019 release of Madden 12. When I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/08\/29\/videogame-overload-%e2%80%93-it%e2%80%99s-raining-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Videogame Overload \u2013 It\u2019s Raining Games<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-3654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-ps3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3655,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}