Syp maps out a summer gaming maybe-list, from ESO and FFXIV to Fallout 76, Guild Wars 2, Outbound, RimWorld: Odyssey, and CRPGs.
Krista breaks down Loftia’s closed beta trailer, spotlighting solarpunk farming, gliding, fishing, and cooperative cleanup ahead of launch later this year.
Sweetie says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 keeps cleaning up awards, even as fan backlash and generative-AI controversy complicate the victory lap.
Wilhelm likes CCP’s EVE Online Atioth infographic, but says the server-crash writeup dodges what players actually experienced at 10,253 pilots.
Michael recommends The Dissident, a short surreal Wavey Games adventure with fair puzzles, CGA visuals, jazzy music, and a dream-hacking tape recorder.
Jamie Zawinski spotlights Noah Hawley’s argument that extreme wealth erases consequences, warps moral development, and turns democracy into somebody else’s problem.
Joar reflects on the weird adjustment from measurable office output to unseen family logistics, and how much validation visible productivity quietly provided.
Jimmy traces how Holy Blood, Holy Grail became a perfectly timed pseudo-history sensation, catching post-Raiders and Masquerade-era audiences at just the right moment.
Warner cheers Joanna Stern’s new independent tech site, praising her knack for making gadget journalism genuinely fun to follow.
Dave Winer riffs on a writer-friendly web platform and imagines AI software clones built around Claude, prompts, and beautifully learnable code.
Tobold makes the simple pitch: use AI data centers’ waste heat for district heating and slash urban heating emissions instead of dumping it.
Andrew Plotkin can’t survey every Hugo category, so he does the next best thing: rapid-fire recommendations spanning novels, Murderbot, Doctor Who, and games.