Sey’s roundup spotlights Bugscraper, A Fighter’s Nova: Mindara, Deer & Boy’s soundtrack, a Sonic 2 anniversary cartridge, and this month’s TUNIC club.
Magi digs Dead as Disco’s beat-'em-up-meets-rhythm premise and style, even if the Early Access execution doesn’t fully keep the groove.
Bhagpuss bristles at Steam’s alarmingly punitive 'REVOKED!' wording for a key notice, and the subtext is really the whole rant.
Kimimi falls hard for Escalator Action, praising its Elevator Action riff, twin-stick mouse aiming, recoil, and varied guns.
Mailvaltar breaks down low-spender gacha math, using Genshin Impact and Neverness to Everness to argue there’s a middle ground beyond whales or F2P.
Wilhelm shares co-op Stardew Valley discoveries with his daughter, including a missed luau redo and other first-time 1.6-era surprises.
Jamie Zawinski runs through recent watches, especially loving The Bride! and Mother Mary, with side praise for The Peripheral on rewatch.
Thomas is adding film deep dives and older-movie reviews to the site, while keeping gaming as the main course.
Warner ties Apple’s Mac and iPad price hikes to AI-driven memory shortages, and thinks this squeeze is only getting started.
Bruce Schneier points to a million leaked passports as a nasty example of high-value IDs getting exposed by a low-value verification system.
Dave Winer mourns Om Malik, riffs on Claude as an alien pair-programmer, and argues interop matters more than open source alone.
Brennan argues conventional Git commit types flatten writing work, and makes the case for commit messages that fit bloggers better.