I had a nightmare last night in which I was underprepared for an upcoming D&D session. Because I am underprepared, I guess, but mostly because I was ill and sleeping badly anyway! | Continue reading
Built to the highest standards and software-customizable to your heart's content. | Continue reading
It is hard to get people excited about VR. Even at its best, it is an isolating experience - that's why Zuck is pushing the social features of The Metaverse so hard. But, worse still, it's hard to show people what the VR experience is like. If your friend buys a 4K laser projecto … | Continue reading
There’s a lot to like about Laya’s Horizon, the brand-new mobile game from Snowman that’s available today on iOS, iPadOS, and Android via Netflix. However, it’s the game’s control scheme that elevates it to unique heights. Laya is by no means the first game to employ a simple two … | Continue reading
Cheating in online games is a huge issue these days — just ask anyone playing PUBG. Cheaters aren’t difficult for players to spot but vendors oftentimes don’t do enough to punish these villains. Krafton recently announced they would start banning cheaters by hardware ID, which go … | Continue reading
Microsoft has unveiled a special edition Xbox controller made partly from recycled plastic, including surplus old controller parts that have been reground. One-third of the green-hued Xbox Remix Special Edition controller is made from a mix of post-consumer recycled resins and "r … | Continue reading
Today we are going to make a DIY ball and cup games by raiding the recycling bin! Kids of all ages can help make and then play with this simple team or solo sport craft. Playing the ball and cup game is entertaining and helps kids develop gross and fine motor skills. DIY Ball and … | Continue reading
Enjoyed this one by Karl Schroeder a lot. A fun extrapolation of “not your keys-not your crypto“, set in a society in ecocollapse with AI automating most work, institutions both public and private holding on to their assets while they disappear and crumble, surveillance everywher … | Continue reading
Internet lore tells us the story of Cheapass Games, founded by prolific gamemaker James Ernest in 1996 ... JHarris posts about Ernest's new (2020) Crab Fragment Labs, "offering an array of both pay-what-you-want-to-print and paid-for-physical products: card games, board games, qu … | Continue reading
The New York Times decided to copy the numbers game from “Countdown” with its new Digits puzzle. Five math puzzles per day, with stars awarded based on how close you get to the target number. Fun and straightforward, but it is no Numberwang. ⌥ Permalink⌥ Permalink | Continue reading
Adds some much-needed grippiness and drop protection for when you hand the Nintendo Switch to a kid. | Continue reading
This texture rubbing art matching game is a great rainy day indoor activity for the kids. Make texture rubbings all over your home to play. The post Texture Rubbing Art Matching Game for Kids appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
I know I’m late to this, but Mika Pikazo’s character designs for Fire Emblem Engage are so cool! In an increasingly bland and monochromatic world, nobody does colour quite like her. You can buy the game in physical stores, and online. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2023-03-30. | Continue reading
An addictive and approachable tile-laying treasure hunt that fans of Carcassonne will enjoy. | Continue reading
Source: 8BitDo 8BitDo, a popular maker of game controllers, announced today that six of its products now officially support Apple hardware: 8BitDo Ultimate Controller 2.4g 8BitDo Pro 2 8BitDo SN30 Pro + 8BitDo Pro 8BitDo SN30 Pro for Android 8Bitdo Lite SE The controller firmware … | Continue reading
Two pieces of mobile gaming news caught my eye this morning. The first was an interview that Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, gave to the Financial Times. The annual Game Developer Conference began today, and Spencer wants developers to know that Microsoft intends to publis … | Continue reading
After a long hiatus, Codex has returned with a vlog about Satoru Iwata's history as a game developer. Nostalgic fun. | Continue reading
Rachel Ashcroft, Current Affairs: But by December 1982, things had turned sour. The market was overrun with poor-quality games. Consumers regularly complained about low-budget titles with poor-quality graphics or stories that were too easy to complete. There was also an overabund … | Continue reading
A few things have kept me sane during the last sad few weeks: tinkering in Go and Pizza Tower. It’s been a while since I shared a soundtrack is amazing post—the last one was Shredder’s Revenge in June last year. Thanks to a golden tip from Simon Vandevelde, I played Pizza Tower o … | Continue reading
An epic adventure across the land and skies of Hyrule awaits in this much-anticipated sequel to Breath of the Wild, releasing on May 12th, 2023. | Continue reading
I was looking to buy the latest Zelda game for my wife as a present (Shhh! Don't tell her!) and it was SIXTY BLOODY QUID! For a video game! That seems extortionate. I remember, when I were a lad, video games cost... wait? Do I remember? Or is it just rose tinted glasses? I rememb … | Continue reading
Tackle over 40 beautifully designed, encrypted logic puzzles, each one open-ended but always solved by decoding a specific word or phrase. | Continue reading
Angry Birds was a defining game of the first decade of the App Store, so fans and game preservationists applauded Rovio in 2021 when it announced that it was rebuilding the 2012 version of the game and relaunching it on the App Store and Android as Angry Birds Classic. The game w … | Continue reading
I’ve seen the future of Mac gaming, and it’s not Metal 3 or Apple silicon. It’s a PC sitting in a Dallas data center with an NVIDIA 4080 GPU. That’s the data center my Mac connects to when I log into GeForce NOW Ultimate, the top tier of NVIDIA’s videogame streaming service. NVID … | Continue reading
Teardowns are great because they let us peek not only at a product’s components, but also gain insight into the design decisions and implementations of hardware. For teardowns, we’re used …read more | Continue reading
Even though ChatGPT and similar “AIs” don’t really understand anything, they can still be fun to play with. On a whim, I asked ChatGPT to be my dungeon master for a quick game of Dungeons and Dragons, and it went … Continue reading → | Continue reading
We have a thing for DOOM, and we admit it. The source was released, and clever hackers have ported the engine to every system imaginable. It’s a right of passage, when hacking a machine, to r… | Continue reading
I went down to reception last night to pick up a parcel that was delivered while I was at work, and had become lost in the sorting process. The receptionist on that night look valiantly for it, before finally finding it in a different sorting box from what he expected. While sear … | Continue reading
Not only a blast from the past in terms of looks, but also designed with modern high-level gamers in mind. | Continue reading
I’ve talked about how I dual-boot my FreeBSD tower with Linux to play games. I moved from Kubuntu back to Fedora that I used to run for years, and stuck with it since. This has lead to a few questions asking: Why would you run Linux to play games? Is it worth it? Should I switch … | Continue reading
From one of his most recent streams: By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2023-01-19. | Continue reading
Essentially dry erase boards in miniature form — useful for jotting down notes, sketching out designs, creating flash cards for studying, tracking game points, and more. | Continue reading
Ryza has done so much for the visibility of the Atelier franchise, for reasons I suspect everyone can grok. Her personal popularity has also been cemented with more figures than I can count on two hands, which is highly unusual outside blockbuster anime series, or enduring charac … | Continue reading
I have once again been on an “Only Connect” binge, through which I learned about PuzzGrid. You can play the wall round in user-submitted games. My only complaint is the vast gulf between the best “Hard” games and the “Fiendish” ones. Otherwise, it follows the same rules as the sh … | Continue reading
I’ve been through dozens of additional press releases and stories from CES and have collected all of the smart home, electric vehicle, and gaming news that has caught my eye since yesterday’s story on displays and TVs. Smart Home Source: Nanoleaf. Nanoleaf, which introduced some … | Continue reading
Albums This was difficult to get down to ten, it's been a another good year for music. I might just give in and make it a top 20 next year. (I link to Bandcamp pages where possible, my local music shop Truck where not. Pay artists.) Belief - Belief Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mou … | Continue reading
With the introduction of the App Store, mobile gaming took off, quickly becoming the number one driver of revenue for the store. By the time Apple Arcade was released, more than a decade later, mobile games were dominated by free-to-play titles supported with ads or In-App-Purcha … | Continue reading
One of the best parts of gaming is gaming with friends, but often this requires everyone involved to have the same expensive piece of hardware. Almost everyone has a computer with a browser already… | Continue reading
There is no divide between people who play games and people who don’t; we all play games, or at least have played them in the past. But there clearly is a divide between people with varying amounts of experience of different sorts of games, and hence different expectations; betwe … | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter, Browser based games that don't require commitment or much attention? | Continue reading
To see the pace at which the English language is evolving, though I’m not sure evolving would be everyone’s verb of choice — change, or even devolution, might better fit the bill — look no further than the latest batch of words that can now be used in popular word game Scrabble. … | Continue reading
With December coming to a close, your calendar is likely chock full of get-togethers, whether they be traditional feasts with family or fun holiday parties with friends and strangers. Now I don’t know about you, but for me, one of the most important parts of any holiday get-toget … | Continue reading
The yearly Game Of The Year (GOTY) voting threads are starting to pop up everywhere, I think I might even be quite late to the party! As a retro gamer, GOTY lists merely amuse me, and the ones coming up on top are usually big budget AAA games that rarely tickle my fancy. Still, i … | Continue reading
Today’s Music Monday has Jeanne Alter quoting the legendary French electronica band. Kinda. And… why does she still look so unimpressed!? Jeanne Alter is still my favourite Beserker in Fate/Grand Order. I always play defensive in everything (you could probably read something into … | Continue reading
In November, HandyGames released Wreckfest for iPhones and iPads. The demolition racing game was originally released by Bugbear Entertainment on PC in 2018 and the following year on PS4 and Xbox One. Since then, the game has been brought to current-generation consoles, streaming, … | Continue reading
Everdeen Mason, New York Times: Now we can shift our work to editing the puzzle. Tracy Bennett, who joined The Times as an associate puzzle editor in 2020, will be the editor of Wordle. The game will have a Times-curated word list and will be programmed and tested like the Spelli … | Continue reading
Source: Apple. Apple has revealed its annual App Store Awards winners, recognizing the standout apps and games of 2022. This year, the company picked a collection of 16 apps and games from among the millions available on the App Store, naming them the Apps of the Year. The compan … | Continue reading
Baby development activities are actually a fancy way of saying play activities for infants! Babies learn through play and you can help your baby develop coordination and skills by assisting their exploration and play. These fun developmental activities for newborns are great for … | Continue reading