Old-school vibes from Elsewhere in the Night
Elsewhere in the Night is bathing gloriously in its '80s adventure game vibes. Looking forward to this releasing later this week on December 6. It'll be a …
Strange New Worlds is… good?
I had kind of given up on any of the Kurtzman Trek series ever becoming good after Discovery took nose dive after nose dive after nose dive. But having finally …
Vtubers will inherit the earth
Portable full body motion capture for consumers? Only Sony.
Weekplay 202247
I haven't been playing games much in the past few weeks. I've been mostly reading a lot and listening to podcasts. That said, listening to podcasts usually …
E-ink playing cards
Wyldcards are small plastic cards with e-ink screens (like a Kindle). When placed onto a plinth, the image on the card can be changed by a hidden computer. The …
Make a Minecraft world out of a SimCity
MineCity 2000 is a program that converts SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft (Java Edition) worlds.
Cyberpunk RPG title incoming
I've been working through the Blades in the Dark rules and it's a very interesting system that seems to hold the middle-ground between Dungeons & Dragons …
Shredded headed to PS5
Look, it's clearly no SSX, but I'm still very much intrigued by this title. During the Xbox 360-era I did get some quality time in with Stoked and Stoked Big …
Beast Wars enter the Bayverse
Not bad. Really happy this new instalment of the Transformers movie series uses Bumblebee-esque designs. You can actually see what’s going on and how stuff is …
Human Chess
Human Chess has the same rules as normal chess, with one additional mechanic. Starting from move 2, players can claim their opponent’s last move was a top …
An occidental gaming look at Christianity
Super Bunnyhop takes a look at the deeper religious elements that are all over Bayonetta. It's an interesting piece on its own, but I was kind of smitten by …
Sad EU metaverse party noises
Only five people showed up Tuesday evening to a party hosted by the European Commission’s foreign aid department in the metaverse to get young people excited …
The mathematical beauty of paper size
I invite you to take a rectangular piece of paper that is not A4 shaped. You can always just tear a bit off your A4 paper and then neaten it up to a rectangle. …
GitHub releases Mona Sans and Hubot Sans
Over the years, we’ve developed our own fonts that are sprinkled across everything you experience with GitHub, and we’re excited to release two variable open …
Terraforming Mars movie in the works
While we're still waiting for the Monopoly movie and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is slated for 2023, someone seems to have picked up another …
The existential in Red Dead Redemption 2
There is one notable exception to my ambivalence towards video games, however. A game which I played for hours with thorough enjoyment and zero regret: Red …
The making of Dune II
‘In order to give us the most freedom to take the IP into military ground combat realm, we decided to have Dune II take place thousands of years prior to the …
UnDUNE II for PICO-8
Speaking of Dune II, here's a demake for (of all things) the PICO-8 called UnDUNE II. It's actually pretty neat to play!
Weekplay 202248
I've been playing Sokpop's latest Springblades (SD). It's a Japanese console role-playing game, but heavily streamlined. There's a map on which you can move …
A Christmas tree bauble that plays Doom
Christmas is coming again, and generally that means christmas trees and everything in it: lights, streamers, and ofcourse baubles. The holiday is all very …