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 …
Generative AI & optimised content
You thought the first page of Google was bunk before? You haven't seen Google where SEO optimizer bros pump out billions of perfectly coherent but predictably …
If you set up your PS5 vertically, you're gonna have a bad time
However it appears that several cases have shown that the PS5’s “seal” between the APU and its cooler can sometimes move or be damaged. When that is the case, …
The end of Minecraft
In 2016 Microsoft bought all of Minecraft. Well, not entirely… A particular little part of it called the ending wasn't. Background/Recap: Eleven years ago, I …
On the origin of the California Roll
Tojo: I came 1971 to Vancouver. That time, no sushi restaurant. Canadian people no eat raw fish. Sometimes they like to say, "I'd like to try same thing that …
Weekplay 202301
The inclusion of its soundtrack in our latest Dungeons & Dragons-session was responsible for putting Blasphemous (PS4) back on the menu. I still had some …
The D&D-license kerfuffle
Despite the stinginess of the OGL, it provided legal certainty that many individuals and small game publishers used to make new games and new material for …
Weekplay 202302
I've seen Astalon: Tears Of The Earth (PS4) flutter by, but apart from looking like a run-of-the-mill 8-bit platformer, it didn't really caught my attention. …
How “Battle Royale” took over video games
Takami’s premise was well suited to video-game adaptation. The rules were clearly defined, the setting neatly contained, and competitive violence had been one …
First-Person Tetris
Somehow this is less comfortable to play than I expected.
Blizzard uses an employee ranking system
In 2021, Blizzard, a unit of Activision Blizzard Inc., implemented a process called stack ranking, in which employees are ranked on a bell curve and managers …
Shadowgate… II?!
Oh my torch! They are making an actual sequel to the one point & click NES game I owned that was both extremely unfair and extremely illogical. It's called …
Weekplay 202303
I’ve been playing more Astalon: Tears of the Earth (PS4) in the past week. It is too comfortable for me to ignore especially considering it ticks so many …
The Dungeons & Dragons Computer Labyrinth Game
At its heart overall gameplay is, as the name suggests, a turn-based maze crawl in an eight-by-eight dungeon. The raised indentations between board spaces are …
Spider-Man: The Musou
This week on The Story Arc, we shall be making a Musou roster out of Marvel’s Spider-Man! In preparation for writing this article I decided I would become a …
Weekplay 202305
Marie Kondo may have thrown in the rolled-up-and-vertically-stored-in-a-cardboard-basket towel, but developer Futurelab (previously of Velocity 2X-fame) has …
Spelweek 202309
Terug van weggeweest. De laatste paar weken waren best druk op zowel werk als op persoonlijk vlak, met als gevolg dat ik het bloggen even achterwege heb moeten …
"Walking Zelda"
I want to elevate all those I encounter along the road because a long time ago I felt elevated by Link and his shields and swords and the Triforce. Craig Mod …
CRPG vs. JRPG vs. WRPG
James Stephanie Sterling geeft een dieper kijkje achter de schermen van de term JRPG, oftewel "Japanese role-playing game. Een term die in Japan zelf meer als …
Gamer Edition Transformers
O nee. Hasbro heeft een nieuwe reeks Transformers-figuren op de planning staan die allemaal gebaseerd zijn op de ontwerpen uit High Moons Transformers: War for …
Hoe Hollow Knight diens wereldkaart kreeg
Pellen: [In the original game jam version] the idea was, and obviously we abandoned this, we'd make all these prefab rooms and they'd be rearranged, so the …
Waarom is Unititled Goose Game niet op iOS?
Post by @cabel@panic.com View on Mastodon Via Daring Fireball. Kijk, ik vind Apple's iOS erg goed werken en ik snap dat de populariteit ervoor zorgt dat er een …
Achter de schermen bij Chrono Cross
Een bijna uur lang interview met regisseur Masato Kato, componist Yasunori Mitsuda en producent Koichiro Sakamoto over de game Chrono Cross, de 32-bit opvolger …