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 …
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 …