Azuriel spotlights Claire Obscur: Expedition 33’s Picto system—Materia-like passives, Luma point-buy, and juicy synergies—and uses it to dunk on “customization” in The Outer Worlds 2 and Avowed.
Kimimi revisits The Chaos Engine’s Bitmap Brothers swagger, from co-op that makes you compete for loot to a “sorry” box-note password change—annoying, sure, but it looks and sounds gorgeous.
Krista says Under The Island nails that Saturday-morning-kid nostalgia, sending heroine Nia (and reluctant ally Avocado) across Seashell Island’s biomes, puzzles, dungeons, and monsters to stop it’s-s
Luna teams up with eight writers to reflect on 2025 gaming habits—buying fewer hype recs, getting better at reading trailers, leaning on solid character writing, and finally making peace with demos.
Shintar reacts to WoW’s Midnight pre-patch “ability pruning,” finding Prot Warrior mostly fine but Holy Priest gutted (goodbye Shield, Renew, Mind Blast), and worries the simplification makes some DPS
Ellie explains why the familiar LEGO formula still hits for her, tying LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean to comfort-gaming and her complicated history with completionism (plus there’s a podcast version).
Wilhelm jumps into No Man’s Sky Expedition 21: Remnant after patches land, runs into contradictory expedition messaging, and discovers the new planetary garbage/waste-removal twist.
The Friendly Necromancer takes a $10 gamble on Quinfall, praising the surprisingly deep character creator while side-eyeing the wonky VO lore and familiar MMO mashup vibes.
Bhagpuss riffs on running out of blog ideas, detours into a newly surfaced early Talking Heads demo, and admits he needs a steady drip of new music to stay engaged—even with all-time favorites.
Belghast drops a new Mixtape Mondays entry inspired by friend Mallow’s playlist, anchoring a 15-song mood around how Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, and She Wants Revenge flow together just right.
Bruce Schneier argues “prompt injection” is just step one, proposing a seven-stage “promptware kill chain” for LLM attacks—especially nasty indirect injections via retrieved web/email/docs (even image
Dave Winer says his Twitter/X account got hijacked and asks for it to be shut down, then cheers a new micro.blog RSS “mentions” feed from Manton Reece as web-by-RSS working right.