A few days ago I watched part of a video from a very small (822 subscribers) Youtuber with the title "How Fields of Mistria made me HATE Stardew Valley". Stardew Valley (SDV) is an indie farming simulation game created by Eric Barone, also known as ConcernedApe, and it's my top favorite and most-played game. So of course I had to click on the very click-baity video to see what her complaints were. I will freely admit I did not finish the video, because the opening six minutes were enough for me…

You have probably heard of this one, it is an award winning title that came out around 2019 and has been making the rounds as one of the best videogames of all time. I had heard of it when it came out, often confused with Outer Worlds which came out in the same year, but other than it being about exploring space, I didn’t know much about it. Last year, when I beat 1000xRESIST—another incredible game you should definitely play—my friend Jeremy kept pushing me to try this one next. I completed…

Recently I completed in my first game jam, where people complete games within a strict time limit to a certain theme. inkJam is one such jam for games writing in...

The makers Straftat, an incredibly zany and low-stakes 1v1 shooter where you jump one after the other into random arenas, recently released a first person platforming game called Vholume. It's good!! On days when I work at home, I've been playing like 15 minutes of it as soon as I wake up. It has a coffee-like impact on my wakefulness, haha. Straftat had similar art direction, but Vholume is just super fucking good at achieving the kind of degraded, surreal, monumental brutalist visuals I've…

There is a name blogwagon declared by Sundered Shields and Silver Shillings. However, I was a bit early on blogging a d100 list of names. And my typical method for naming NPCs in my home games is not particularly novel: it is a combination of the advice from Perilous Wilds (choose an analogous real-world language or culture for the group of people and use their names or names that sound like those names with some consonants shifted) and, for names I need to improvise, some combination of Method…

I'm on a real WW1 aeroplane kick at the moment, so I'm taking advantage of it while it lasts.This next one is the Siemens-Schuckert D-III, from very late in the war. It was very fast and manoeuvrable, and could climb like a rocket, but its huge 4-bladed propeller meant that it had to have very tall undercarriage, making it tricky to control on the ground, and the powerful engine was prone to overheating. The overheating issues were solved in the D-IV, but by then the war was pretty much over.

Socialism In Space, Cosmic Horror Penguins and Godzilla Fighters, oh my!! Gamescom just happened (maybe is still happening??) and while I'm basically paying zero attention to it as a conference, it does mean that things are being announced and despite having very little time for them until we move, several things got either added to my wishlist or new details / trailers about games already on it, so I figured I'd write a little bit about things I'm stoked about seeing soon. I don't wanna make…

I read an August 31, 2026 article in SoraNews24 titled Tamagotchi evolves into a ring for its 30th anniversary, preorders now open. I had a Tamagotchi at some point in the 90s, but I do not think it left a big impression on me. But this headline made me think. Pokémon celebrated its 30th anniversary on February 27 of this year. Is Pokémon older than Tamagotchi? I would have probably tentatively guessed “no” had I been asked before seeing this SoraNews24 article, but the headline suggests that…

A zine chronicling the Conquering the Barbarian Altanis D&D campaign. This issue includes sessions 120, and 121. Adventurers return to civilisation, at last! You can download the issue here. Overlord's Annals zine is available as part of the Ever & Anon APA, issue 15: #Zine Subscribe to get the latest post in your inbox. No spam. Comments rootringPrev · Random · Directory · Next

I tried to write about Mewgenics a couple of times now and failed — there’s so much going on in this game that makes it challenging to write about! But that’s been my go-to game for a long time now, and it’s time to try again. Oh, and in case you forgot: all the games I write about work on Linux through Steam’s Proton, as this is the only way I play (no Windows, no thanks). Mewgenics is… a dungeon crawler. Kind of. But it’s also a very simplified turn-based tactical RPG. But it’s also a…

Thomas Mahler of Moon Studios—the creators of the Ori games—has made a new review aggregate site called Video Games Critic. The whole pitch is to reflect the current state of a game instead of the launch state. Here's Thomas in the announcement tweet: "The other big problem: Those sites rate a game once, at launch, and then never really touch it again. But that's not how games work anymore. A game can launch rough and get patched shortly after, but on Metacritic and OpenCritic it carries that…

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As part of my weekly Endless Eon game, the party eventually gained access to the aid of the wise man Jake, an orthodox adherent of the Emulators of Jake. Conceptually, he's a high-level cleric, but I didn't want to write out a list of prepared spells or give him the potential to solve too many problems, and I knew the players were mostly interested in his ability to heal HP, so rather than make him a leveled figure with spell slots, I just ruled that he could heal any number of people of 1d6…

Portuguese I tried writing several posts and gave up on them all halfway through, so I'm going to talk about something I love. Pokémon! How it started.Since I was little, I was big fan of the anime in my childhood, with Dinosaurs King and Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. Only God knows how many times I watched the first season. (I'm seriously thinking about rewatching the series and the movies, to be honest.) However, my passion only increased when I was about 15 years old. I found a YouTuber who was doing a…

GAMBIT & PSYLOCKE MARVEL MINIMATES (DIAMOND SELECT TOYS) And here we are, with another Friday! Alright. Friday. End of the week and all that. So, let’s go for that flashing back thing, and jump back into the world of Minimates with a return look at Gambit and Psylocke! When in doubt, I always turn to Minimates. I find the reviews to generally be a bit easier to write and I can be a little more enthusiastic about them, so they make for better writing in general (at least I sure hope so…). Today…

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I have been tracking my gaming for a long time now, and now I have consolidated everyting. Over the last few days I have backfilled the lifetime totals from my Steam account (which I have had since 2009), extracted my 15 year old Activity Log data from my 3DS as well exporting monthly totals from my Switch. In total, it comes to roughly 4,600 hours across 535 games. I obviously like slow, single-player, low-stress affairs. The cosy life-sims for pottering: Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley.…

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Join us next week for two Nintendo Direct presentations! The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on Sept 8 at 7am PT (Approx 30 mins) Nintendo Direct on Sept 9 at 7am PT (Approx 45 mins) Sony gives us two mediocre State of Plays yesterday. Nintendo said hold my Lon Lon Milk.

We’re still in “low effort” mode here while DragonCon is going on, so here is a video list (2 hours 26 minutes long) of U Can Beat Videogames‘ 100 “top” secrets in games, whatever “top” means here. Most popular? Most famous? Can’t say. It does serve as an entertaining condensation of years of UCBVG’s strategy videos. Watch it directly to remember old games, or leave it on in the background while you do other things.

Trading Pokémon between an original GBA and a Switch 2 😎😲 My GBA-to-Switch trade adapter is working! Still plenty of work ahead, but seeing a real GBA communicate and trade with the Switch is pretty incredible. Drewworks on Twitter shared a video of little board connecting a Game Boy Advance to a Switch 2 to trade Pokémon between the FireRed and LeafGreen games. There is hope for the OG trainers out there that still play on GBA for after Pokémon Bank shuts down next year. I wish The Pokémon…

I've done a couple of 1/144 Albatros D-II, one with the side-mounted "ear" radiators, and one with the centrally wing-mounted radiator perfectly positioned to spray boiling water straight into the pilot's face if a bullet goes through it.I haven't tried printing them yet; probably tomorrow.

PC One of the most exciting areas of new, lesser-known gaming right now is in the so-called “incremental” space. These are games that exist in the aftermath of the clicker genre, or “idle games”, a bizarro (and often excellent) world of games about unlocking new skills in order to unlock new skills, all with the ultimate goal of watching numbers go up. As with most genres that strip away many layers of complexity, there will always be a following generation of developers who want to slowly…

Jabba the Hutt is, aside from Vader, probably the mode iconic Star Wars bad guy. I've wanted to make a Jabba and entourage for my Bob Olley themed Star Wars project for a long time, but I was struggling to work out exactly how.Luckily a friend of mine donated me a failed 3D print of the seated genestealer patriarch (yes, I know this is morally suspect), and that was the start of Jabba as imagined by Bob.Read more »

And just like that, the offseason is upon us. Wasn’t it just a few weeks ago that the IndyCar transporters were headed to St. Petersburg to kick off the season? It sure seems like it. We do have one more race to run before the NTT IndyCar Series hunkers down for a long winter’s nap. […]

So Marvel unleashed its “Ultimate” Universe in 2000/2001, starting with Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men, partially out of a need to have some “new reader friendly” material on the stands too imposed by the deep continuity in the regular Marvel Universe. Also, a collapsed comics market and Marvel being on the verge of “going away” for good probably helped push along any desperate ideas to keep them afloat. Whatever the reason, the Ultimate books came out, giving fresh starts to their…

First impressions of Zangeki no Reginleiv are… let’s say not great. Sandlot’s (you may know them as the Earth Defense Force developer) fantasy action game plays like someone got paid by the novelty Wiimote gimmick: there’s a lot of pointing at the screen and swishing a cursor around when a button or two could have easily done a better job. It’s an unwelcome reminder of the Wii’s lowest lows, and not something I can completely avoid no matter how much I’d like to. Even though there’s an…

I love the Souls-games by From Software, not only for the satisfying gameplay, but also for the incredible worldbuilding that I’ve never experienced the likes of in any other game series. There are some things in Demon’s Souls (the first Souls-game I played) game design that simply amazed me - I didn’t know NPCs were allowed to do act like that it games! Also, there’s something to be said for game developers willing to put big portions of a game on the other side of hidden walls that a player…

A couple of days ago we decided to repeat the experience of loading games from tape, but this time with my ZX Spectrum+. It is evidently a different system. Which is a funny thing to say because when I had my ZX Spectrum +2A almost 40 years ago I didn’t really know there were different systems, I just had a “computer”. In this case, the biggest change is that the ZX Spectrum+ doesn’t come with a built-in tape drive, so I had to find one I bought a few years ago and I had misplaced somewhere.…

Seven years after its release, the GOTY winner Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is still, among all the now-mainstream soul-like titles, a one of a kind masterpiece.