CrazyKinux argues the real EVE Online story isn’t CCP becoming Fenris Creations, but the new Google DeepMind partnership behind it.
Dodo finds Titanium Court a weirdly compelling mashup of match-3, base defense, and roguelike structure, even if repetition sets in fairly fast.
Shintar says Blizzard’s recent willingness to follow player feedback makes a WoW Classic+ announcement finally feel plausible.
Wilhelm says EVE Online’s Warpath event mostly repeats the election event, but with way more grind, a little extra PLEX, and easier hacking.
Michael enthusiastically recommends PARA//LLAX, a browser interactive fiction game whose asynchronous two-column storytelling and 27 endings sound genuinely wild.
Roger reflects on UK local-election tactical voting as a grim but practical way to block Reform UK with the least-worst option.
Jamie Zawinski spotlights a satirical anti-war arcade stunt, Operation Epic Furious, installed at the D.C. War Memorial and briefly playable online.
Warner argues nobody in politics or tech will seriously kill spam, because too many of them benefit from the same incentives driving AI and junk outreach.
Belghast shares a skater-punk mixtape steeped in 80s and 90s skate culture nostalgia, with plenty of affection for thrashier sounds.
Brennan sped up an Eleventy build fivefold by profiling bottlenecks, especially a costly git-based lastModified filter spawning hundreds of processes.
Scopique offers an approachable rundown on IEMs, from planar versus dynamic drivers to the rabbit hole of portable audio obsession.
Dave Winer plugs WordPress News in FeedLand, wants Beeper to support RSS, and keeps chasing a near-realtime Claude workflow for messaging.