Craig Ideson Craig Ideson

A Small, Self-Reflective Update – 28/7/2025

At the end of June, I hit a kind of emotional wall when it comes to Games, I felt like I was falling back into old habits where I spent more time planning to play a game and optimising my time playing than just sitting back and enjoying it. At the time, I did intend to write an article about my feelings, something along the lines of “How you play Games is just as important as playing them”. The feeling subsided after a few days and by then I thought the article wasn’t worth writing. Fast forward to now, the end of July, I have a different problem forming.

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2025 for CraigPlaysGames
Craig Ideson Craig Ideson

2025 for CraigPlaysGames

Hello and welcome, or hopefully welcome back. Regardless the start of the year seems as good a time as any to lay out plans for the future of this website. My new year’s resolution is to not be too hard on myself when I don’t meet my goals so this list is more of an outline rather than a strict roadmap of things to come.

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2024: A Year in Gaming
Craig Ideson Craig Ideson

2024: A Year in Gaming

Two of Two so far, I’m doing well. A Year in Gaming isn’t about the wider industry as I’m no journalist, that’s a lot of information to trawl through and most of it has been very negative. Think of this Year in Games more as a YouTube Rewind or Spotify Wrapped, but for me and the games I’ve played in the year of 2024.

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5/4/24 - Craig Plays Games: The 3 Month Review
Craig Ideson Craig Ideson

5/4/24 - Craig Plays Games: The 3 Month Review

It’s been 3 months give or take since I replaced my old website TheNerdRock with this site, a way for me to continue talking about games but with a better designed website and renewed vigour and motivation. In a sentence, I think it’s going pretty well.

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2023: A Year in Gaming
Craig Ideson Craig Ideson

2023: A Year in Gaming

Think of this year in Games more as a YouTube Rewind or Spotify Wrapped, but for me and the games I’ve played in the year of 2023.

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