This week included Christmas Party #2. Drinks were free all night and there were no queues for them – just pre-made cocktails ready on the bar. Perfect 👍 I’m told that some people were kicked out but I witnessed no real drama, unfortunately. Charlotte and I made a plan to … | Continue reading
typing by Kiran Foster (cc by)Go ahead and cancel your plans for the next few hours 'cause Kattullus has posted about an addictive game you can play. Best part is that each game only lasts 20 seconds!Prompt. Type. 20 seconds passes. REPEAT! | Continue reading
I’ve always felt like escape rooms occupy a similar mental space as fantasy books. There’s something thrilling about walking into a room full of puzzles and curious trinkets, then solving a series of riddles to free yourself and your friends from the clutches of whatever narrativ … | Continue reading
It’s that time of the year—the time to publish the yearly notes summarizing playtime statistics and providing a personal opinion on recent and vintage Game Of The Year (GOTY) contestants. In 2022, TOEM and Shredder’s Revenge were examples of superb recent games, while Axiom Verge … | Continue reading
Today's links An Epic antitrust loss for Google: They can't help but put it in writing. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading An Ep … | Continue reading
image via generationamiga.comZ303 has crafted an amazing megapost on demoscene history, techniques, creations, social scene, and more. | Continue reading
Source: Annapurna Interactive. Stray, a high-profile and well-regarded videogame that debuted in 2022, is now available on the Mac. Initially launched on PlayStation and Windows, followed by an Xbox version this past August, today’s Mac release is available on both the Mac App St … | Continue reading
Mouse-and-keyboard gamers deserve to play from the comfort of their couch or bed too! | Continue reading
Dear Friends, It's been almost two months since I've written to you. Partly this was due to receiving guests and writing secret things in the woods, and partly due to being in the streets demanding ceasefire now and a cessation of the ongoing genocide of Palestinian | Continue reading
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Adds some retro gaming flair to your MagSafe iPhone while giving you easy access to two of your most used cards. | Continue reading
More cuts likely as troubled engine maker seeks to "increase our focus on our core." | Continue reading
screenshot of opening level of the game I Have No Mouth, And I Must Create Blocks On All Sides Of Me"charming, handcrafted, fiendishly difficult puzzle games with a retro 8-bit feel": Lovingly Crafted Puzzle Games Since 2013, a passel of Puzzlescript, iOS and Android games to whi … | Continue reading
The MIT Game Lab helps students think critically about the games they’ve often been playing for years, and prepares them to engage in thoughtful design practices themselves. | Continue reading
The underground world of creating and streaming Super Mario World-based ROM hacks continues to gain popularity. This popularity is a tribute to the creativity of gamers and the quality of the original 30 year old video game’s mechanics. Over the past decade, incredible ROM hacks … | Continue reading
Cognitive scientist Tomer Ullman, head of Harvard’s Computation, Cognition, and Development lab, may have inadvertently blundered into an untapped vein of LEGO Icon inspiration when his interest in AI led him to stage recreations of famous psych experiments. If you think Vincent … | Continue reading
For anyone waiting with bated breath for my third yearnote, I’m moving it to the end of the calendar year because I can’t be bothered with it yet. Three years of writing every week though! Still going strong(ish). I haven’t missed a week yet – I know myself and skipping just one … | Continue reading
In comparison to recent weeks things have been slower over here at thejaymo.net. I've even found some time to start playing a bit of Boltgun on the Switch. The post Boltgun appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
Exploring blockchain's shift from finance to creating games in digital universes. A look at this tech's new role in gaming and virtual worlds. The post Autonomous Worlds: Misusing The Money Machine | 2339 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
Federico’s setup (left) and John’s (right). Setup optimization is a never-ending journey at MacStories. We’re always looking for the fastest, most efficient, and often, most portable way to do everything in our lives. The result is constant change. Hardware and apps are swapped i … | Continue reading
I have always been a huge fan of city-building games. The first video game I ever played was SimCity 3000, on my uncle’s bulky PC running Windows 2000. I then went on to play SimCity 4 throughout middle and high school. Sadly, EA’s reboot of the franchise in 2013 was a sizable di … | Continue reading
Today, Apple announced the finalists for its App Store Awards, a selection of apps that the App Store Editorial team picks each fall to recognize “their excellence, inventiveness, and technical achievement” in ten categories. Introducing award finalists is a departure for Apple f … | Continue reading
Tears of the Kingdom on my iPad Pro. Those who have been reading MacStories for a while know that I have a peculiar obsession for portable setups free of the constraints typically involved with working at a desk or playing games in front of a TV. It’s not that I don’t want to hav … | Continue reading
In a Q&A, the MIT junior describes how all the pieces fell into place as he captured the Tetris world title. | Continue reading
This week my Youtube channels speedometer clicked over 500 subscribers AND 50,000 views. The post Milestones Past appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
The iconic Star Wars ship portrayed by one of the most popular gaming mice out there. | Continue reading
Ever since WWDC 2022, when Apple showcased Resident Evil Village, the company has been eager to highlight console and PC titles that are coming to its platforms. Sometimes, it can be a little hard to keep track of what’s coming, so today’s Game On focuses on recent big-title rele … | Continue reading
It’s now our third year playing Minecraft, and we’re still on the same Kiriben server and map. This year we went out to our jungle biome and planted a flower garden to celebrate :’). I forgot to post our second anniversary, but this was our first. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2023- … | Continue reading
I saw this meme floating around again, so I thought it’d be fun to try out. BSD Games. They taught me that we haven’t entirely engineered fun out of our systems, despite the best efforts of certain people. I consider them essential, because even server sysadmins need a console g … | Continue reading
Edge Magazine put out another ranking, this time the 100 greatest video games of the past 30 years, which yet again fueled my obsession with lists. The list is—of course—depressingly inaccurate, with giant holes in it such as Diablo II or Final Fantasy VI. And then someone at Mas … | Continue reading
Are you looking for a fun way to pass the time but also a boost your hand-eye coordination, fine motor… The post Dot Game Printable appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
People keep asking for a quick-and-easy guide to setting up a cloud hosted FoundryVTT server. So I wrote one. | Continue reading
Mikhail Madnani wrote for Toucharcade Back in June 2017, SEGA announced its SEGA Forever initiative to bring its classic games to iOS and Android as free to start games with a no ads IAP. Each game was to be adapted for mobile while remaining faithful to the originals. We saw the … | Continue reading
Fresh off of duplicating the math round from “Countdown”, the New York Times decided to take the Connecting Wall round from “Only Connect” and subtly rebrand it as Connections. It was released in June, but I only learned about it today via Andy Baio, who points to Conlextions by … | Continue reading
Two all-new professional gaming/streaming mics with designs respectively based on the iconic Blue Yeti and Blue Snowball. | Continue reading
Apple published an extensive support document about the USB-C connector on the new iPhone 15 lineup (we should be receiving our new iPhones later this week at MacStories, so stay tuned for our coverage), and a few details about compatibility with external displays caught my atten … | Continue reading
Songyee Yoon PhD ’00, president and chief strategic officer of NCSOFT, has been appointed as the MIT School of Engineering Visiting Innovation Scholar for the 2023-24 academic year. | Continue reading
Widgle is a collection of four simple puzzle games for the iPhone and iPad that integrate with your photos. As I mentioned in connection with Widgetsmith’s Tile game, interactive widgets’ system-imposed button and toggle limitation severely constrains the kinds of games that can … | Continue reading
I don’t need another mobile game in my life, thanks to Fate/Grand Order. This isn’t from a lack of desire however; friends have tried repeatedly to get me into Arknights, Honkai Star Rail, Genshin, and Time-Strapped Ruben. But I’ll admit, Blue Archive’s art won me over two years … | Continue reading
Oof a lot of incidents this week! Tiring but I think I’m good at making calls with this stuff and I don’t really get stressed about them. “Nobody dies if the FT goes down” is my mantra. One of the issues was a pretty nasty XSS attack which was quite a fun one to fix. We were also … | Continue reading
Sure, you probably know there are major and minor scales. But unless you're really into music theory you might not realize those scales come in a whole variety of flavors called "modes"... Goofy, threatening, mysterious, devastating, relaxing: Zargon X posted 8-Bit Music Theory's … | Continue reading
Today's links Saturday linkdump, part the sixth: The new digital disorder. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Saturday linkdump, part the sixth (permalink) I usual … | Continue reading
Jonathan Knight, head of games for The New York Times, has a few rules for new games. The game should be very approachable. “You should be able to hand your phone to someone without explanation,” Knight said, “and they should, relatively quickly, after a little bit of trial and e … | Continue reading
Have you played Connections? Read about The New York Times’ new hit game and then play the Nieman Lab version here. Want more? Go ahead and get the real thing over at the Times. | Continue reading
Disney Lorcana, the new Disney-themed trading card game, is a hit, but as it goes into wide release at stores like Best Buy today, scalpers are already snapping the cards out of the hands of real fans, leading to a reprint to meet demand. The Details Disney Lorcana originally sof … | Continue reading
A more eco-conscious remote control made from 50% recycled plastics and features a built-in rear solar charging panel. (Releases November 11th, 2023) | Continue reading
Over the course of three days, I completed excellent 4-letter-word-puzzle-game Woodward Draw, and I think you should give it a go too. | Continue reading
For Eastern Europeans, arcades elicit a healthy dose of nostalgia—perhaps even more so than people from other places with a history of arcades. In Eastern Europe, arcades survived well into the 2000s as a viable business model. Often in the form of mobile arcades that drove aroun … | Continue reading