UltrViolet rounds up a low-energy month with FFXIV Evercold news, Wartales revisits, and Battle Brothers mercenary runs getting absolutely wrecked.
Sey packs the roundup with Phonopolis, ZERO PARADES, PEAK merch, Mario & Chill 3, and a Disco Elysium Gaming Club push.
Bhagpuss says Neverness To Everness hides character-defining backstory in Hotta’s messy sprawl of videos, so players are missing context if they skip them.
Shintar revisits Mists of Pandaria Classic’s temporary Battlefield: Barrens event and finds an interesting proto-world-quest idea in a mostly empty zone.
Marc digs into Compile’s oddball history through Wonderland of Carbuncle, tying Disc Station experimentation to today’s indie-dev spirit.
Wilhelm checks back in on NetHack 5.0 and the old ASCII roguelike still feels like a milestone with four decades of history behind it.
Thomas says Vultures: Scavengers of Death nails the old Resident Evil vibe through top-down, turn-based survival horror and rewarding exploration.
Brennan turns an IndieWeb Carnival prompt into a wide-open thank-you note to Netlify, Unix-like systems, internet infrastructure, and the people behind them.
Dave Winer documents an RSS 2.0 inReplyTo addition and shares how Claude found a sneaky typo in seconds when his brain stalled.
Patrick celebrates Doom of the Dark blowing past its Kickstarter goal, unlocking better print quality and maybe a more playable interlinked PDF.
Warner finds Putu Wijaya’s OH uncomfortably timely in rehearsal, a reminder that theatre from far away still lands painfully close to home.