Set up your Chill Corner 2022-12-29 — Vincent Leeuw

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 2022-12-31 — Vincent Leeuw

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 2023-01-01 — Vincent Leeuw

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 2023-01-01 — Vincent Leeuw

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? 2023-01-02 — Vincent Leeuw

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 …

2023-01-02 — Vincent Leeuw

LEGO Hokusai

Both clichéd and nerdy. I love it.

1899 cancelled after one season 2023-01-03 — Vincent Leeuw

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 2023-01-04 — Vincent Leeuw

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 2023-01-06 — Vincent Leeuw

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 2023-01-07 — Vincent Leeuw

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 2023-01-09 — Vincent Leeuw

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 …

2023-01-10 — Vincent Leeuw

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 2023-01-11 — Vincent Leeuw

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 …

2023-01-17 — Vincent Leeuw

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 2023-01-18 — Vincent Leeuw

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 …

2023-01-23 — Vincent Leeuw

First-Person Tetris

Somehow this is less comfortable to play than I expected.

Blizzard uses an employee ranking system 2023-01-24 — Vincent Leeuw

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?! 2023-01-24 — Vincent Leeuw

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 …

2023-01-24 — Vincent Leeuw

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 …

2023-01-29 — Vincent Leeuw

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 2023-02-06 — Vincent Leeuw

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 …

2023-02-08 — Vincent Leeuw

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 …

2023-03-06 — Vincent Leeuw

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" 2023-03-06 — Vincent Leeuw

"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 …