Tag: Games
ShoreTiles brings deep sea dread to city builders
The best indies you should check out this week Sept 4, 2026.
Blood Dungeon takes Meshoff back to their roots
The best indies you should be playing this week, Aug 28, 2026.
May 29, 2026 - Burrowing heroes, cozy cities, and shape-based deckbuilding
The best indies you should play this week
Dice inquisition, Brinepunk, and family friendly cleanup
The best indies you should check out this week
#oneaday Day 818: Gaming is doing everything it can to drive its oldest fans away
I've been playing video games for as long as I can remember existing. I grew up playing games on the Atari 8-bit and ST home computers, and since then, I have followed along with the explosive growth and technological advancement of the medium every step of the way. And yet today, in 2026, I feel...
Games Are Allowed to End
PEAK has had its final major update. That doesn’t mean it is abandonware.
#oneaday Day 814: Death of a publication
I've finally finished my efforts to catalogue all the games-related articles (including roundups, re-reviews, type-in listings and issue disk bonuses) from Page 6/New Atari User. My data sheet has over 2,000 rows in it, though some of those are repeats. Even so, that's a lot of material to work with. As I found myself reviewing...
#oneaday Day 811: Playing a game with no "point"
While out on a walk this evening, I was listening to the soundtrack of a game that I really love, played a lot some years ago... and haven't really touched since. That game is A Valley Without Wind. As my thoughts wandered during my little 2km circuit of the Common, I started to think about...
Introducing Trezy's Pets
A Delightful Game About Caring For Your Pets
All Games Are Zero-Player Games
A meditation on what happens before the button is pressed, if it ever is
#oneaday Day 806: Absolute Direction (5 points)
We had a second game of Big Walk today, and one thing I appear to have impressed on the rest of my group is that I have a very good sense of direction, even in a virtual space. This is not something I tend to brag about -- because why would you? -- but it...
#oneaday Day 805: Quarter-circle forward
I have long been intimidated by fighting games. I'm not sure exactly when this started, and there are still some fighting games I do enjoy -- most notably the Dead or Alive games, which I've always felt have been the closest I've come to genuinely "getting" one of these games. And I would love to...
#oneaday Day 804: More like Golden Shower
A new trailer for an upcoming animated series based on Sega's classic arcade game, Golden Axe, came out today. It is... not good. And I am not surprised. Disappointed, yes. But not surprised. For some reason, a lot of people making animated series seem to have fallen into the trap of thinking there is only...
pckt logo design
I really like the pckt logo design. i was wondering about its origin and inspiraton. i see some resemblance to the Super Mario World Logo design for the SNES. It fits very much into its playfulness and the color scheme is also very similar. I was kind of surprised that the logo is public domain since the logo image consists only of simple geometric shapes or text. It does not meet the threshold of originality needed for copyright protection, and is therefore in the public domain. Does the same r...
#oneaday Day 801: Eeeeeeees
After getting what I thought was "caught up" on the series a few years back (correction: a decade ago. Fucking hell), I am now very behind on Falcom's excellent Ys series. And, despite already having two "big games" on the go -- Suikoden and Yakuza 6 -- I am severely tempted to start correcting that....
#oneaday Day 795: Titties - deal with them
There's been Discourse happening today! Specifically on that strange intersection between the "cosy" and "wholesome" spaces, and weird misogynistic, sexphobic, neo-Puritanical behaviour. Much has been written by people much smarter than me about how the "cosy" and "wholesome" spaces are actually not all that wholesome at all -- and in fact can harbour some of...
#oneaday Day 794: Motivational music
It will probably not surprise you to learn that I listen to a lot of video game music. Not only that, but I use video game music as an accompaniment to things that are not video games -- most notably, exercise. On my walks on the Common, I have been rediscovering some of the playlists...
Media Diet #3
Kurzer Realitätsabgleich: In wenigen Wochen kam doch erstaunlich viel Medienkonsum zusammen.
#oneaday Day 793: The Web is so broken even offline copies of pages are fucked up
Hey! Did you know the Internet is so broken that even a locally saved copy of something can be unreadable without a bunch of annoying "tinkering"? 'Cause it fuckin' is. Prior to USgamer's closure in 2020, I backed up most of my articles that I could find and/or remember. I saved them as local copies...
#oneaday Day 787: Friendfreeslop
I read an interesting piece earlier on the phenomenon of "friendslop". This is a term I'm not overly fond of, but it serves a purpose as there appears to be a somewhat amorphous if commonly agreed sort-of definition. The piece explores how despite appearances, "friendslop" is something that continues to drive a bit of a...
#oneaday Day 786: Lunchtime games
I apparently completely forgot to write anything yesterday. To be fair, I was mildly hungover and thus didn't really want to do much other than play Terranigma, which I made some excellent progress on. I think I'm coming towards the end of that game, so I'll have more to write about it over on MoeGamer...
Why Games?
"This was fun"
Halo: Campaign Evolved's Secret Difficulty Modifiers
Halo: Campaign Evolved hides most of its Difficulty Modifiers. Enable superspeed, low gravity and active camo by editing one config file.
#oneaday Day 778: That feeling you should be doing something
I'm having one of those days where my brain feels restless, where it feels like I "should" be doing something, but as far as I am aware, I have no commitments this weekend whatsoever, so I should just be taking the time to relax, enjoy myself and mentally prepare for the week ahead. (There's nothing...
#oneaday Day 776: Splatting Salmonids
Splatoon Raiders arrived yesterday, a day earlier than I was expecting it, and I've been playing it. It's a good time! It's the latest in an increasingly long line of titles from Nintendo that feel like video games used to feel like. It's not trying to be a movie, it's not trying to be an...
50 things i won't build on atproto
but maybe you should?
My daily word games
Every day, for the past couple of months, I have been playing the same three daily word games: Wordle, Keywords and Ribbit. Usually, playing them forms part of my morning routine when I first wake-up, and wait for the shower to become free. Wordle You must know this one. Started by Josh Wardle five years...
#oneaday Day 764: Just games
There was yet another round of Tedious Discourse™ today over what the word "retro" really means, if anything, when it comes to video games. As always, there were lots of varying definitions, no agreement, and a bunch of people getting in a bit of a flap about it when their definitions of "retro" didn't line...
Reinventing a city simulator
Libreopolis began as an attempt to understand an old game and became a compatible city of its own.
Modern warfare in a world made of blocks
Why Minecraft turned out to be such an interesting home for radar, missiles, drones and all the systems between them.
#oneaday Day 762: Some nice things
I started typing out a post about how shit everything was. I got to about 600 words, and I even found a really good stock image of some horseshit. Then I looked at what I had written and thought, "no, I should not give in to despair, even if it does seem like it has...
#oneaday Day 761: The depths of the id
I think one of the hardest things to watch during the latest of myriad sessions of layoffs over at XBOX, The Everything Console has been seeing id Software be gutted. Everyone has That One Company who always made stuff that they liked, which has been there since their childhood, and for me I think that...
#oneaday Day 760: My own feelings on old games
First up, here's a good piece that I read earlier today, and which my resharing a clip of on Bluesky did Numbers to such a degree that I had to mute the thread. I stand by my comment of "fucking preach" about it, however, particularly the paragraph about today's games having their roots in older...
Notes for July 5 2026: Listening to Converge and playing Gato Roboto
I talk about my new obsession with the band Converge and the retro metroidvania Gato Roboto.
#oneaday Day 756: Video games like they used to be
Around the same time Sony is doing its best to completely murder the traditions and culture surrounding video games, and Xbox continues to implode, Nintendo has gone and put out multiple games that feel... almost out of their own time. And I mean that in a very complimentary way; both Star Fox (released on the...
i guess it’s better than Nothing?
Microsoft will likely soon follow Sony and stop the production of physical discs for Xbox games. But instead of leaving physical discs behind entirely, sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell me the company has quietly been working on a disc-to-digital feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections. Xbox employees...
#oneaday Day 754: Late '90s promise
As I absorb the news that Sony is giving up on physical releases of games -- something I have had a good rant about at much more length over on MoeGamer, so please go read that -- I can't help but think back to the time PlayStation hit the scene, and the incredible amount of...
🎶🎮 June 2026 Roundup
Getting closer to musical overload...
benefits of optimizing games for lower-powered devices
so for the last few years we've had to listen to developers absolutely losing their minds over how the xbox series s is supposedly "holding back the generation" and honestly? it's getting kind of old like, i get it. you want to use the shiny new unreal engine 5 features to render the individual pores...
#oneaday Day 753: Finding the Fun Factor
As I often do on my regular trips in to the office (when I'm driving, anyway), I listened to a bunch of the Fun Factor podcast over the last couple of days. If you're unfamiliar, this is an excellent show hosted by sports writer Ty Schalter and video game critic Aidan Moher where the pair...
#oneaday Day 747: Grand Theft Auto VI can eat my ass
To no-one's surprise, it has been revealed that Rockstar's upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI will be $80 on release for its regular version, and $100 for the "Ultimate" version, because of course there's an Ultimate version. Hilariously and/or tragically, the "Ultimate" version even goes so far as to lock you out of specific shops in...
#oneaday Day 745: Cost-effective gaming in 2026
Valve apparently announced the price of their long-awaited Steam Machines today and, unsurprisingly, given the general price of tech right now, they ain't cheap. They're "starting at £879" not cheap, and that only gets you 512GB of storage; they break the £1,000 mark if you want the 2TB model, though both are expandable with microSD...
#oneaday Day 742: Crash and burn
There is increasing talk of the video games industry staring down an honest-to-goodness crash -- and this time around, unlike the notorious Great Global Video Game Crash of North America from 1983, it looks very much like it could be one that will happen across the world. All this said, I feel like, at this...
#oneaday Day 739: Occupying yourself while your life is on hold
If you're anything like me, when you encounter a period of great uncertainty or emotional turmoil in your life, it can feel like your brain has pressed a big old "pause" button, making it near-impossible to even contemplate going about your life as normal. Your job feels like the least important thing in the world,...
We Build Worlds That Last, So Why Don’t Our Jobs?
Games are built to endure. So why do we treat the people who make them as expendable?