ASUS ROG Ally X review: sleek design, vibrant display, robust performance, long battery life, and immersive audio for portable gaming.

My attention remains on the first draft of Thousand Suns second edition for a while longer. However, for those of you who care about that project, I'd ask you to head over to Grognardia Games Direct…

What if you could strap a full desktop GPU to your MacBook Air? Turns out, you can. Just a quick FTC required note: When you buy through my links, I may earn a commission. Never tell me the odds As…

finished may's vn within the first week lol. here's my thoughts on steins;gate. i liked it, but there's a lot of gender...

What can I say, it was a month where I played a handful of indie bangers.

Last winter I put together a draft of rules for swimming and drowning in His Majesty the Worm because I was running Michael Madsen's Caves of Cowardice module, which heavily features rivers and deep…

Players come and go, but their stories remain. To those who have gone on before their characters' time, and to those who shall, I write this in hopes that some essence of their fragments left in…

These mortality realization fits of mania are manifesting some fantastic toys. Wheels, there are two. And now, there are two accompanying cockpits. Sure, I could've sprung for better everything, but…

Oh no, watch Sly deliver a critical hit in just three words.

There was once a potato who could not go without eating chips. ‘Oh, what does that make me, Mother? A monster’? He trembled at the truth of it. ‘Who knows’, said she as she heated the oil in the pan…

It was my first time going to Gamescom.

Initially serving as a conglomeration of fantasy tropes - it didn't even have a name aside from "that Saturday game" among me and the players until I wrote this post - this campaign has become the…

How I’ve been running Mausritter, part 2A few month ago I wrote about my ongoing open table Mausritter campaign. We play out an episode of it every two weeks with ever different but mostly returning…

This is my entry for this month's bearblog carnival hosted by Kami. I was thinking what I do / like that can be considered niche...at first I thought of Battlerite, a game I used to play (when it was…

This month's Bear Blog Carnival is "Your Favorite...in your niche hobby" . A a fairly avid Disc Golfer who can only play using a forehand I have one disc that is my favorite in all of Disc Golf and…

Right now, on Steam, you can find a free Chinese visual novel called 诛心手术 listed as coming soon. Its English title, displayed on the cover art, reads “A Surgery Beyond the Heart.” That is…

Discover everything about the Bolt Action video game adaptation by Slitherine. Learn about the Order Die system, suppression mechanics, army customization, and what to expect from the 2026 release.

According to shipping manifests, Valve's importing some 50 tons of consoles just one day after the Steam Controller sold out!

Deadlock is a game that is currently still in closed beta, and somehow already has taken over 200 hours of my life. It’s the most recent title by gaming-juggernaut-turned-digital-store-owner Valve,…

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a turn-based strategy revival with tactical battles, kingdoms, and hero progression. There is no native macOS version listed, so I dug through cloud catalogs,…

Far Far West is a co-op robot-cowboy shooter about bounties, magic, monsters, and extraction chaos. I found no native macOS version, so Mac players need workarounds rather than a simple install. This…

Ed Atkins, Flower, 2025About fifteen minutes into a run as Sammy the caterpillar, the phone can go on your lap. The thumb has finished its work. You are still technically playing.Flower (Fitzcarraldo…

Learning about Arcanix Zahrana and her real concern for Kormel (who is growing circuitry on his own!) Finding out about a Starfall happening soon. Setting off to explore the buried town of the…

Well, the results are in from the MSXdev 25 competition . The verdict? Operation Hibernation was selected as the 16th best of the fifty entries, while Eye Brawls nipped at its heels in 17th place.…

Project Pathfinder: Last week, the Herald published its list of the 50 most powerful people in Scottish arts and culture. It was an impressive collection of talent – but it was also a perfect…

Expanding on the perception of risk, how to incorporate it further into a game, and how to reflect it within the core dice mechanics.

It is the nineties, and there is time for pinball.

Hey guys! I've started to try and learn how to use Blender!! Also I'm thinking about porting ROBLOX 2012~2016 to the PS Vita Native UI Works well (iPad 2 supported ROBLOX until 2023 on 512 MB of ram,…

Playing Rocket League and Navigating your Career as a Software Engineer are not so Dissimilar Experiences TLDR - We can shape what tech looks like through collective stewardship, as the people who…

A handful of devs, a million goodbyes.

Let's talk about game simulations. In this special issue we talk about how to handle buffs, modifiers and other stat bonuses.

A few days ago I had a silly idea: what if my homepage had a hidden arcade game? Click a button, and the page turns into Space Invaders - where the actual text on the page becomes the enemies you…

Y'all are being too weird with it, cut it out. No seriously, all those custom classes, monsters, items. Why? Creation is sick and awesome. I wouldn't be here if I didn't like writing new tabletop…

The former Nightdive Studios legend joins us The post Nightdive, Stardock and the Business of Saving Classic Games: Larry Kuperman – The Retro Hour EP529 appeared first on Retro Hour Podcast.

The two games I’ve got my eye on this week both play on nostalgia. Mixtape is set in 1989 and plays heavily on 80s nostalgia. MotorSlice, meanwhile, looks like 2008’s Mirror’s Edge and gives me…

The D&D to OSR to Deep One Cult Pipeline, a Tale as Old as Time

According to this book, the thin veneer of civilization is a perversion of the natural order of humanity. We are born as beasts, and it is only by returning to the way of the beast that truth and…

Not Gruul? Then Die! Goal was to get the cave painting style of the brutal Gruul mtg faction, with each figure representing a notable card from the deck if I revisit this I would likely add some…

Did you wonder ever why explosions and other effects looked so much cooler on the original PlayStation than they did on the Nintendo 64? “Silent Bomber“ for the PSX “Star Fox 64“ for the N64 The…

Look it was either this or the Pac-Man TV show, and I have a lot of crap ahead of me, so I’d rather start by watching something interesting. Tron, released on July 9th, 1982, is the brainchild of…

https://www.illiteracyhasdownsides.com/p/id-still-prefer-if-stormgate-had found this article quite interesting.

This post is part of the Game Boy series (#10). In my last post, I wrote about how retroachievements.org works, and I am currently creating achievement for the GameBoy game Turok: Battle of the…

More links from about the internet. For yet more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival . Bloggie-nominated. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch,…

If you’re going to play a game, it usually makes sense to play the best version of it, doesn’t it? …

Opponents of the dreaded "quantum ogre" argue that players lose agency if you move encounters to whatever path players choose. Breaking down encounters into the separate components of the eight steps

The Battle Before Dawn from Fire Emblem: Blazing Blade is my favorite map in the game, maybe the series

Just a few shots of Cinnamon Swirl. I'm not sure I'll keep it in its slumber island slot, but I had fun toying around with the idea of a swirl pond and filling the rest of the slumber island with…

Price: $7.99 USDConsole Archives Release Date: April 23rd 2026Original Platform: Nintendo Entertainment SystemOkay, here we go. The last handful of Console Archives releases have had limited appeal…

I am sharing a little Dungeons & Dragons encounter calculator I wrote in Elixir as an exercise. In the last two months I did two things: D&D and Elixir. It was only a matter of time before they had a…