Hi!

I don't often make announcements here, but I wanted to share that all week next week, starting on Tuesday I'll be streaming Senran Kagura Estival Versus [PS4] on Operation Rainfall's Twitch channel ( twitch.tv/operation_rainfall ) to promote the release of the game. I'll be going through the entire story, so those who don't like spoilers may be best off ignoring that portion of the stream.

I invite you to come play with us when we do multiplayer, it supports up to 10 people and it should be a crazy good time.

I also have something special planned for the channel's 3 year anniversary -- a retro gaming marathon where I play the third title in a given game series one by one and see how many I can do before the day ends. I call it the "Three is a Magic Number" marathon. The date for that will be announced soon, I won't be so swamped with reviews in April but I will have PAX East to worry about. If you're going, come say hi! I'll be there on Friday and Saturday.

That's all for now.

Thanks for the support as always!
-- Joe

Stream is live at twitch.tv/eritach

Hey ya'll. Next Saturday is going to be an Arcade Night with the new Gauntlet game, I'll likely start the cast at 4PM and play for a few hours with viewers. If you want to participate, it'll be first come first serve and I'll try to rotate players to give everyone a shot at playing together. So that should be taking place on the 4th, be sure to mark your calendars and get some practice in!

Hey everyone. I wanted to let you know that I and my fellow streamers HaxinJackson and Rej72380 are participating in this year's Final Fantasy V Four Job Fiesta. What is that, you may ask? It is a challenge run of Final Fantasy V where you are assigned four job classes from each crystal in the game and are forced to use them for the entirety of the run. More information can be found here: http://fourjobfiesta.com

Anyone can participate in this, and there is a charity involved -- Child's Play. A donation widget has been set up on the Four Job Fiesta website, which I will link in chat using the !fourjob command. Child's Play is a wonderful charity that donates game consoles, toys, books, and related equipment to children's hospitals, you can learn more about them here: http://www.childsplaycharity.org/about

I have until September 1st to complete the run, so Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne will be briefly placed on hold, as I have a policy not to play more than one JRPG at once (Though I probably already broke that by not finishing Final Fantasy X, if you want to get technical. :P) Anyway, it should be good times. I love Final Fantasy V.

Everyone, after much deliberation, I have decided to take a one week hiatus from streaming.

The recent events have caused me a lot of emotional, and even a little physical pain and I'm doing my best to cope with it all. I'm not ready just yet to tackle another large JRPG right now, especially if it's in order to entertain you. And that's my goal, really, to have fun with you guys, make jokes and be silly. But I can't do that right now, I'm still too distracted by worrying about Alice's condition and how I'm going to face the attacker's mother. I'm going to need everyone's support for a little while, and I'm going to make myself available on twitter and ask.fm to answer any questions you might have. A lot of things are still up in the air -- I don't know what's going to happen with Alice, whether there's going to be a funeral, and if I'm even going to be invited to something like that. I'm in kind of a "wait and see" mode.

If that was tl;dr for you, I'll just say this: I need some time, and we will come back when I can be at my best for you. Thank you all for being really cool to me.