Playing New Vegas on Linux Mint has been surprisingly easy. Minor hiccup setting it up with a mod manager, but mostly smooth sailing. My current setup: OS: Linux Mint 22.3 Xfce 64-bit Game: Fallout:…

People really don't want slop in ScummVM. I know this because I polled my followers, and after forty votes came in the vast majority of people had significant negative feelings about it:

I built Silverstone as a Mario Kart 64 course with GPT 6.1 Sol in Codex cloud environments, then used Max Verstappen’s pole lap onboard to shape the scenery, corner by corner.

sumac - attis' blade i was listening to this as i played Beyond All Reason... my T2 Heavy Tanks started obliterating the front at around 9:00. it felt... really great

Ghost of Yotei is a game that is less than the sum of its parts. In my review of the game last year , I expressed a sense of profound disappointment with it, but afterwards I asked myself if I was…

Transparent objects are sorted back-to-front to ensure the correct drawing order. Learn about alpha blending, alpah clipping, dithering, and the screen texture.

Or, a slew of bad arguments from someone who ought to know better.

Calendar: Year of the Wolf | Autumn Characters: Mr. Slime , Ms. Cat , Powerful Dog , Claw Location: Local Branch , Agglehorn Sea It began as a simple operation, carefully undertaken, until it…

I've played every Ace Combat game and could never figure out why I was so into them. Ace Combat 8 finally made me realize it.

I love my trusty PlayStation 4 controllers, but they're many years old now, and technology has moved on with it. I'm trying out replacement Hall Effect joysticks to see if they make a difference to…

I recently took part in a Pokémon Draft League with some friends and was able to take the title home, so I wanted to write a bit about the drafting process and prep that I did. For the uninitiated, a…

WHAT ARE THE ODDS?: [ PUZ][ PDF][ FULLSCREEN] PROGRAMS: [Across Lite] [Adobe Reader] Little bit of R.E.M. to go along with your solving experience. Enjoy. Share the puzzle. New one on Monday.

CANON FIRE is made possible by the generous contributions of readers like you. Support more writing like this on Patreon. Thank you!Treasure’s last big title before fading into the annals of history,…

Everything else that goes into a design document, why the "no more than 30MB per character model" kind of rule exists, and answers to the questions people always ask about how rigid a GDD actually is.

upsilon The Greek alphabet grid series continues with upsilon. You don't really see this letter used much, and I could see how it would get confused for epsilon. But every letter in the alphabet has…

The Final Fantasy VII Remake project will go down as the most ambitious and likely most expensive remake in gaming history. Treating the original Final Fantasy VII simultaneously as both a sacred…

Red Dead Redemption 2 keeps me caught up in its conversations and cutscenes. Genshin Impact keeps making me wonder when I can play again.

Three game projects with Claude Opus 5.5 changed how I see existing software. The current wave of game mashups, native ports, and application clones explains why.

I brought Mario Kart 64 to my phone with WebAssembly, lighter textures and Tour-inspired controls, then gave the coding agent a way to test its changes before I played them myself.

Indie is not a genre.Nor is indie synonymous with “low budget”, “self published” or “small team”. Each of these definitions have counter examples–I encourage you to come up with your own before…

Another year, another Portland Retro Gaming Expo. This was a year of socializing and spending, for sure. The post Here’s Some Stuff I Bought! Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2026 Edition. appeared…

I found the StarCraft map I made as a kid, used an AI agent to make it playable again, and played it to the end. It was smaller than I remembered, and still worth the trip.

Full-size Atari 800XL announced by Atari and Retro Games Ltd. Plus Phantasia: Zelda-style RPG for the Atari 7800, Hyper Runner - A wicked sci-fi racer for the Amiga AGA by Raster Wizards, Corellian…

Sometimes it’s enough to know that something is possible, even if you never achieve it. I’m drawn back to playing Frontier as a kid. I played a lot of that game in a very shallow way. I travelled…

Ecliptic Mariner: Diaries is something a bit new for the lab - a video game, built in an engine. As most of you know, we’ve built a few game-like and toy like things here in the lab, but I’ve never…

Publisher: Konami (2024). Review posted 2026/10/14.

Fixing a couple scuffs on the Mona Lisa, one mod at a time.

I started speedrunning Minecraft a while ago. It’s an interesting niche with many tutorials and a helpful community, so all the information you need is freely available. But I used to struggle a lot,…

Tomorrow morning, I'm off to Gamehole Con in Madison, Wisconsin, the first of two conventions I'll be attending in the next few weeks. As I did last year , I'll write a post or two about my…

It has taken SO LONG to get to this point, and to be honest I am just very very tired, physically and emotionally. I recently went to some event ion my village where I started to worry if I had the…

A couple of days ago, thanks to some free time on a Sunday afternoon, I got round to setting up my newly acquired Steam Machine . While I don't have a lot to say about it, I thought I'd note here…

This spooky Resident Evil interview with creator Shinji Mikami originally appeared in the January 1999 edition of gM magazine. The post Resident Evil – 1999 Developer Interview first appeared on…

Or how I ended up building a factory game for a 2004 handheld with 4 MB of RAM, with a lot of help from Claude Code Yes, I even made a game card for it. No, it’s not for sale. Download Factory…

What can you build with Untold Engine? Over the past six months, Untold Engine has evolved significantly, bringing together rendering, animation, physics, and spatial computing to power increasingly…

...and then ruining it completely.

I’ve started working on a game about being a frustrated and ineffectual manager of a goblin village. Most of the work is writing narrative snippet and then asking Claude to turn it into code. On the…

Scheduled events have existed in ZenGM for a long time, mostly to support the historical real players mode in BBGM. Beyond that built-in mode, they've mostly been reserved for custom roster file…

In this series of articles we’re going to put together a development environment for making video games as if we were in 1994. For practical reasons we won’t use real hardware, but the emulated…

Sony announced that all games from 2028 and onwards would be digital-only. It seems likely that Xbox will follow and that Nintendo will continue making “physical” releases for first-party games…

I turned a Miyoo Mini Plus into a console a small kid can use alone: turn it on, pick a game, play. Nothing else.

Art by Daniel Vega Well, it happened again. It seems my post from last week about Rogue Trader: Warhammer 40,000 and how its setting, taken in a vacuum, is something very different than what would…

C ame up with a quick one for all those intensely interesting situations where a Brave or Foolish Player decides they are really willing to interact with the environment in the time-honored…

THIS POST WILL HAVE SPOILERS, PLEASE EXERCISE DISCRETION IF CHOOSING TO READ ON. I just finished a Big Walk play through with my brother and wife. If you’ve not played Big Walk, maybe consider…

Up The Vote is a free short "clicker" / idle / incremental game about increasing young voter enrollment in Aotearoa New Zealand for the upcoming 2026 election. It takes about 0-10 minutes to play on…

At the start of the month, developers at Capcom—the team behind one of my favorite video game engines —gave a talk about RE Engine's future. News began to swirl about slides, statements, and…

I like when higher-definition remakes of old games are faithfully awkward and weird to play. The 3D Secret of Mana remake wasn't universally beloved, but I like it because it replicates the, I guess,…

Want a glimpse into the unknown? You might try the Opening The Door ritual game. Here's how to play... if you dare.