(Advisory: No news from 31 December 2018 to 1 January 2019 as we take our New Year celebrations break. We’ll resume on the 2nd of January) 2018 is a year of mixed blessings; though overall, it is something that we would rather put behind quickly and moved on to 2019. With the state of current affairs around the world, we are actually surprised that there is still some sanity left.

Hopefully, 2019 will bring more that, sanity, to the world and bring us some normalcy in our daily lives.

But in airsoft, it is actually not a bad year. We have seen the community growing and more airsoft innovations being introduced. From boutique airsoft shops to the big airsoft brands, innovation is being introduced. In matter of choices, we are spoiled. Many airsoft guns to choose from, even if most of them are M4s, but we can opt  for power sources --- spring, electric, gas and HPA. In each these, a number of companies compete for our money and attention.

With such competition, we get even more quality airsoft guns and entry level prices. It’s something we welcome as it will introduce new airsoft players to better airsoft guns than what we have been accustomed to.

We hope that trend continues and with airsoft companies now working harder to improve the playing experience, we expect more of these next year.

But apart from that, what we sincerely wish for everyone, especially our dear Popular Airsoft readers, is good health, prosperity, and happiness come 2019.

Happy New Year!