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 …
PS Bath
What it says on the tin, really. https://memewhore.tumblr.com/post/702916237821362176
Transformers-ish co-op game?
Deep in Hasbro HQ:
A museum dedicated to mistranslated Japanese phrases
The pop-up museum, being held at Tokyo’s UltraSuperNew Gallery in Harajuku, features some classics such as “please urinate with precision and elegance” and …
Armored Souls VI
In case you weren't hyped yet for Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, here's VaatiVidya doing his lore-magic on the little info that's out there. Damn, he's …
Dungeons & Dragons executives think “the brand is really under monetised”
Ao save us all… She and Cocks spent the next nine minutes explaining how Wizards of the Coast might solve this corporate conundrum, and much of the initial …
I like bulky bots and I cannot lie
Since October 13 artist Alex Pelayre has been sharing his concept art for the cancelled Transformers: Heavy Metal game that was being developed by Niantic …
24/7 Twitch
Across a broad range of streamers—gamers, dancers, political commentators, or those “just chatting”—it’s common to spend eight, 10, or 12 hours per day on …
The gamification of everything
Hon offers a more technical formulation: Working as a Turker essentially means living “below the API,” or application programming interface. As he writes, “If …
Weekplay 202250
Only took me seven years, but yes, I've finally started playing The Witcher III: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition (PS5). My first encounter with The Witcher was …
A deep dive into every Yakuza minigame
I was already intimidated by the amount and depth of the mini-games in Yakuza Kiwami. And the management min-game in Like A Dragon was just interesting enough …
Weekplay 202251
Courtesy of Eyepatch Wolf’s year overview I decided to give Fear & Hunger (SD) a spin. And oh boy, does it punch you in the face. Both Eyepatch Wolf and …
cleaner7
Did you know there was a mod for Max Payne 2 being worked on to turn it into killer7 wholesale? No? Well, now you do.
Hidetaka Miyazaki sees death as a feature, not a bug
“I’ve never been a very skilled player,” Miyazaki told me recently, via Zoom. He was sitting in his office, a book-lined room in the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo. “I …
Set up your Chill Corner
Thanks to GAME Watch for pointing out Chill Corner, a free "game" by Vietnamese developer Low-Hi Tech in which you decorate a room and earn currency to …
Yearplay 2022
Looking back at 2022 is a bit strange. There's a black hole of a game in the early months and after that I found myself drawn towards the smaller and often …
2022's actual resolutions
I don’t like new year’s resolutions that much. It feels like an arbitrary date to start doing whatever you wanted to do anyway. And if we’re going with …
Way, way too much information on Pac-Man
It wasn't too long after the release of Pac-Man when word began to spread of players occasionally passing straight through a ghost unharmed, seemingly at …
How many layers does it take to get to the UI center of a Windows 11?
It’s 2023, and Windows 11 is finally a mature operating system that most people would be happy to use. Sun Valley has finally arrived, and it’s all about a …
1899 cancelled after one season
Netflix won't renew the mystery sci-fi series 1899, the co-creators said Monday via Instagram. Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar, who co-created 1899 and Dark …