Patrick finds Forgotten Realms: Underdark uneven but increasingly rewarding, especially when its gloriously absurd 3.5 prestige classes get weirdly specific.
Marc traces Taito’s long soccer-game history, from 1967 electro-mechanical tables to Tomohiro Nishikado’s 1973 Soccer and beyond.
Scopique is thrilled Elite Dangerous is getting ship interiors, and sees ED, No Man’s Sky, and Star Citizen converging on similar space-sim feature sets.
Sweetie praises Illusion of Itehari’s gorgeous art and surprisingly gripping political drama, where the otome romance sometimes takes a back seat.
Belghast is still deep in Guild Wars 2—Tequatl, housing chores, world completion—and also grinding Path of Exile II on the side.
Wilhelm digs into Forza Horizon 6’s race-heavy progression, admitting tight, wet night street races and twitchy supercars are absolutely not his thing.
Andrew Plotkin still wants Valve’s new Steam Machine, but $1400 prices him out, so the Steam Deck-on-a-TV plan gets another chance.
Stargrace celebrates 20 years of blogging about games and life, reflecting on moves, studio work, family, and growing into herself.
Frank says GeoGuessr made the World Cup click by turning countries from abstractions into real places, deepening soccer’s cultural and political charge.
Bhagpuss writes from the coolest room in the house during a brutal heatwave, after a storm dumped floodwater into the conservatory.
Axxuy adds blog stats with wc, awk, rg, and bash, a nice reminder that static sites make nerdy word counts delightfully easy.
Dave Winer says coding with Claude demands skepticism: debugging needs proof, not confident AI word salad about bugs it may not understand.