NST #1436: Dead Island 2 (2023)
A few classic variants appear in Dead Island 2 (Dambuster Studios/Deep Silver, 2023).
The Strong Announces 2026 World Video Game Hall of Fame Inductees
The Strong National Museum of Play announced the 2026 inductees to its World Video Game Hall of Fame on May 7. Source
v0.7.5 Custom team logos
Long awaited and finally released: Every image can be used as a team logo! Simply go to the editor, open a data pack and in the team editor click "Load custom logo". Over the past weeks the game got…
'Mortal Kombat II' Is a Cautionary Tale About Being Too Faithful to the Video Game
David reviews the new 'Mortal Kombat' film
2026 Tips for making your tweets go viral
IndieGameJoe is the only person I know who can actually make twitter work. Nobody else can tweet once and earn a game thousands of wishlists. 4 Years ago I talked to him about going Viral on Twitter…
Learning to dad through play
I've been not playing RPG for 20-or-so years, after having played a bunch as teen. This year, I got into the hobby again, after stumbling on the Die comics and getting super curious about how RPG had…
The Best Wargames Of The Last Decade
Just from the title alone, you already know this one is going to be a fun one. I'm of the firm opinion that the last decade, from 2016 to 2026, has been really nice to the wargaming genre, and that…
Alabaster Dawn – Early Access out NOW!
Hello everycabbage, The dawn is upon us. The… ALABASTER DAWN … Early Access Version. You can now buy it on Steam, here: Okay let’s move on! Why Early Access You might be wondering why we are using…
Jedi’s Honor (1990)
Luke on his own is...kind of insufferable. The post Jedi’s Honor (1990) appeared first on Vintage RPG.
#27: Thunder Road: Vendetta (Mark's Top 100 - 2026)
Thunder Road: Vendetta BoardGameGeek rank: 228 rating: 7.9 published: 2023 <sp
Game #191: The Bulge – Battle for Antwerp (1985)
[MC Lothlorien, Commodore 64] It has been some time since we talked about MC Lothlorien , one of the oldest and most prolific British wargame…
Broken Crown - A procedurally generated roguelike for the Commodore 64 by BarracudaBits
The Commodore 64 homebrew scene has another roguelike to be enjoyed, as developer BarracudaBits has officially released Broken Crown, a procedurally generated roguelike that pays homage to the…
Unearthed Arcana: Villainous Options Part 2, The Lich
Who even needs feats, really?
Played Quacks!
I recently played Quacks, the re-release "All-In Edition". It's really good! I'd played it previously, but this version, as far as I can recall, has better pieces? It's still a ton of fun to play. I…
marathon is funnnn
Played a bit of marathon after doing some chores and getting ready for work tomorrow. Wanted to try out the harder map cause I wanna learn more about it and I had so much fun playing on it tonight!…
In Defense of Empty Hexes
In this post, I argue that hexcrawls don't need to have a key for every hex, and might even be better if they don't. 1 My perspective on this is influenced by my experience running Antarctica jam. 2…
Dev Journal #116: The Tech Tree in the Room
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Marc Andreessen Egg Game
Marc Andreessen Egg Game helps you make eggs that look like Marc Andreessen.
Frontier fan fiction
Lately I found myself having a lot of fun with Frontier Elite II on my Atari STe and I found it brought me back to some twenty years ago, when I played that game first. Then, the somewhat extreme…
jama - DLSS 5: The Shape of Things to Come
Just because we can, doesn't mean we should.
Spring games of the id
The common thread this time is "the id". I don't mean the games are horny; they're not. (Although PSI has "flirt" dialogue options.) I mean somebody wanted a specific thing and made a game that…
Aks plays EVE, part 10: Rip hookbilly
There it goes... Welp, RIP the 6 killmark hookbill. You will be missed. https://zkillboard.com/kill/135293342/ I fought an artillery thrasher, but I did bunch of mistakes while flying, so I couldn't…
Old hidden-object games
I was trying to remember the name of some old hidden-object games I used to play as a kid, and after a while and some searches I got it! The two main series I liked were Mystery Case Files…
Playdate (PD) Dev Series 2: About JustOne
Developing for the Playdate part 2
A Structure for PC's to Prepare for a Mission
A system for resolving Cyberpunk mission preparation fast.
S1E19 – Reviving Backyard Sports (With Lindsay Barnett and James Deighan)
In this episode, I spoke with Lindsay Barnett, founder/CEO of Playground Productions, and James Deighan, founder/CEO of Mega Cat Studios, about the return of the Backyard Sports franchise of games.…
I Have Watched An Anita Sarkeesian Video
Anita Sarkeesian is a name that should not be unfamiliar to anyone who was in the gaming sphere around 2014. She was an outspoken feminist who made a video series about women in video games, and…
Linux gaming and resolution scaling
Deep into tinkering with gaming on Linux using Bazzite 44. The problem I’m wrestling with is that fullscreen games are guessing a different resolution than they should. my screen is…
Star Marauders pregens
Jark Scarpo Stamina 9 Breather Mask Ox-Tank Eggshell Armor, Protection 3 (1-in-6 chance of breaking) SMG, Lethality 5 1d6+1 bursts Claymore Shield, Protection 1/Lethality 6 Shoot 3 Brain 2 Jark is 89…
Re-thinking Sci-Fi Space Battles
I don't watch a lot of YouTube anymore, and I'm trying to bring my TV watching down by a lot and read more. But one of my guilty pleasures is Retro Badger Gaming. This guy uses variants of the Bridge…
The Teleport Contest
(and Dealing With LLM Religion) I am opening an LLM coding contest, and I want you to enter it. Four days ago NetHack 5.0 was released, the newest major version of a 46-year-old open-source roguelike…
Elementallis
PC, Switch, Xbox, PlayStation Imagine if I’d brought you here today to tell you that I knew about a massive 2D Zelda-like RPG, packed with towns, dungeons, puzzles and exploration, and…
Darkness, Magic, and Retro Hardcore: Storming Castle Bloodstone
The post Darkness, Magic, and Retro Hardcore: Storming Castle Bloodstone appeared first on ZX Online - Modern ZX Spectrum Games.
Eleven Days at #1: What KONAMI Knows About Japan That Your Localization Brief Doesn’t
On March 28, the Japanese games-business site Gamebiz published a one-week recap of the App Store sales ranking. The headline was a number. Pro Yakyuu Spirits A, a baseball mobile gacha that you…
Evil Versions of Hawkman
Over the last few decades. DC Comics has published some events that depict our favorite heroes as evil versions of themselves. The first version we saw was the Crime Syndicate in Justice League of…
Circuits and Rallies
I'm back from holiday! I guess coming back to familiarity after a few weeks of novelty got me thinking. Sometimes you repeat the same stuff over and over. Sometimes you breeze past stuff, never…
How deep the bench of legacy D&D players?
Troy Press published a piece "D&D Rules, According to Past Players" based on a survey they did - and I am fascinated by the 'mentioned in passing' implication of a huge amount of non-active D&D…
CatGun: Victory Mission G
CatGun: Victory Mission G was a manga-style shoot-em'-up game developed around 1995-1996 by the game developer duo PixelHazard (consisting of programmer Arjen Wagenaar and artist Luc S. Verhulst, who…
Twilight Sword (Solo)
[I've backed Twilight Sword by Two Little Mice last year and just recently the beta PDF of the core rulebook was released. According to the rulebook, Twilight Sword is inspired by a number of classic…
Automating CPU-to-GPU Acceleration in ECS Game
Most ECS-based games run entirely on CPU because writing compute shaders by hand is painful boilerplate that most developers avoid.The Starting PointThe project began from a real codebase — an…
FreeSpace 2 updated
The build of FreeSpace 2 Source Code Project for FreeSpace 2 has been updated to version release_25_0_1 of the project
The Untapped Economics of Minor League Broadcasting
The FAST-era distribution stack has quietly inverted the unit economics of minor league broadcasting — most of the teams we already cut were already in the black, and nobody had the measurement layer…
Announcing Berroku
Sudoku, meet Minesweeper. A berry-themed logic puzzle game I built with Claude Code, now live on the App Store.
Practicing writing about games
My favourite way to discover new things is by other people . I don’t want to find my next game through an algorithm that looks at what I’ve played and what others have played and by making weird…
Zuma updated
The build of Zuma Portable for Zuma has been updated to version 0.5 of the project
A Hollow Vengeance, Session 2
Playing with "Hollow Hike", a pocket-sized Soulslike TTRPG by Jake C-B (RollForThings), available on itch.io Previously Estrid of the Eadgyth People, short on memories, departed from the relative…
Aks plays EVE, part 9: How is my ship still working?
Woah. My ship didn't explode. Twice. I've been roaming a bit of lowsec again in my hookbill. I managed to reach 6 killmarks today! So that's 6 kills in this one ship, which of 4 were today. Holy…
The most anticlimactic first Warhammer post
I love Warhammer, it’s so over the top. I enjoy painting the models, working on armies and lists, and occasionally I enjoy playing the game. I was going to post about last Saturday’s…
The Island Formerly Known As Paradise
The players come upon an island. It used to be this place: <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8XCHBvIebNbJJ1l4B0hHslW3W2GOys2CQvhUDIKQGHJ1Hx7RbpfS6na4ChI_2A_7SaOenE0s…