Tipa revives a beloved Dinokun virtual pet, revisits Geocities-era fandom scars, and spots 8-Colors Star Guardians as a very her thing.
Bhagpuss gets Stars Reach running, then runs into a tutorial vibe that feels determined to scare off anyone hoping for a relaxed good time.
Shintar is having a good time with WoW Midnight's endgame, especially the weekly story cadence, even if raid-story spoilers are a mess.
Wes digs into ReXGlue, the open source Xbox 360 recompilation project pushing native PC ports beyond simple emulation talk.
Sweetie unpacks the copycat debate around Genshin Impact, Breath of the Wild, and The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin without flattening them into clones.
Belghast checks in on Last Epoch's Shattered Omens season, celebrates new content, and admits the game's little companion menagerie still rules.
Wilhelm dips into Monsters & Memories and finds a very deliberate old-school MMO vibe, with character creation and zones screaming early EverQuest.
Thomas likes what The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is showing so far, pitching it as the modern Mass Effect-style space RPG we never really got.
Cliffski finally gets a heat pump into a drafty 1750 house, with plenty of bureaucratic nonsense and grant-chasing along the way.
Jamie Zawinski gets a Spotify ad rejected for containing only music, which says a lot about where online advertising has ended up.
Dave Winer wants an AI helper to rate Netflix picks via Metacritic and remains unconvinced Bluesky's AT Proto fixes the silo problem.
Andrew Plotkin pops up in Ludic Narrans, a free game-studies interview collection about play that comes in two differently structured editions.