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I’ve started a row on my bookshelf for a games library. I used metacritic’s all-time highest rated database as a guide. I went down the list and picked games that I wanted to play again and ones I’ve been desperate to play for years. Here’s the list I made from page one.

That means 90 emeralds left on the 1000 emeralds achievement for Minecraft Xbox One Edition. I tried something new this time instead of just working my system from previous days. It didn’t really work too well. Here’s why.

I made some serious progress on Minecraft's 1000 Emeralds achievement the other day. I broke my own record and now the end is in sight. Here’s how it went.

I cleared off all my toys-to-life stuff from my gaming rig the other day and prepared my system for a new focus on a games list I made up. I was prepared to play the first game on the list when Minecraft happened. Mark was playing it when I got to his place, so I jumped in and it became a kind of obsession to make progress on the 1000 emeralds achievement. I have 11 days left if I want the rewards points as well. 

This week’s gaming included two long deathful sessions with Witcher III and Minecraft, then a crashing demo and a deathful indie game.

I played a bunch of stuff, chasing Microsoft Rewards points and playing one co-op game.

I got through the main campaign of Skylanders: Swap-Force the other day. This is now my second completed game of 2020. Of course, I’m not done with it yet.

This decade may have been about the rise of mobile and free-to-play gaming, but for Mark and I, it was about bigger and better versions of games we had been playing since the 90s: FPS’s with attitude, action RPGs and reckless racing. The only new type of game we played a lot this decade was Minecraft. Here’s a year-by-year breakdown of the games we played in co-op or just in tandem.  

I finished the last two episodes of Life is Strange 2 today and got a lot further in Skylanders Swap Force. I'm going down the games I have currently installed on Xbox and clearing stuff off the hard drive as I finish them. Swap Force just happened to be next in line. 

I played through episode 2 and 3 of this today. I'm honestly not a big fan of these TellTale style games because there's not a lot to do in them but watch and choose paths in the story, but I found myself moved by the end of episode 2 and torn by tough decisions in episode 3. It's really well done for what it is.