Tipa gears up to run Dungeon Crawl Classics’ Sailors on a Starless Sea, with scratch-off sheets sounding fun but regular ones working better.
Shintar argues SWTOR handles currencies better than WoW by retiring old ones cleanly and converting leftovers without making players suffer.
Kimimi makes the case that Angelique Special 2 is hardcore precisely because its romance-sim design trusts players to be curious and attentive.
Nicole digs into Shanghai’s PC roots and why porting the mahjong solitaire hit to arcades and consoles is such an interesting graphics case.
Wilhelm’s Fantasy Critic week swings on Forza Horizon 6’s 91, LEGO Batman’s solid debut, and dropped picks suddenly looking a lot better.
Michael has a delightfully nerdy riff on which musicians behind 90s CD-ROM oddities probably did—or definitely didn’t—play Myst.
Andrew Plotkin pokes through newly ebookified Zork novels and gamebooks as handy-to-carry but pretty puzzling bits of Infocom history.
Warner rounds up links on the boring internet, greatness, religion, and Google AI, with some unease about what kind of web comes next.
Emily argues social media bans and age verification won’t work, stressing privacy, easy circumvention, and the real upsides for teens online.
JJM uses the 10-bands meme to sketch his live-music history, from Metallica and Muse to Bunbury, loud guitars, and a few compromise gigs.
Tim Bray shares a simple browser power move: pin your regular tabs in fixed spots and jump to them instantly with Command-number shortcuts.
Dave Winer bounces from FeedLand and RSS to Alexa annoyances, Claude praise, and a surprise macOS warning for Electric Drummer.