Nimgimli spent the holiday indoors juggling Neverness to Everness, Wuthering Waves, and Octopath Traveler, and honestly seems pretty happy about it.
Shintar says SWTOR feels welcoming again, with returners logging back in, Legacy of the Sith wrapped, and another expansion on the horizon.
Mailvaltar got pulled toward Wuthering Waves by its Cyberpunk: Edgerunners collab, with Lucy, Rebecca, and Night City doing the heavy lifting.
David recaps a Battle Brothers session of bargaining, gear shopping, and manor exploration before the Slug House fight really kicks off.
Wilhelm checks in on No Man’s Sky’s long-running Swarm expedition, where an eight-hour mission timer has made Countermeasures feel like a slog.
Tobold says Pillars of Eternity outlasted his fun threshold, which neatly explains why Deadfire can wait.
Michael spotlights a hunt for possibly pre-Caper in the Castro queer games, including Vapor Palace and an unnamed Tom of Finland title.
Jamie Zawinski is turning Cyberdelia into a rowdy cult-movie run with Hackers, Conan the Barbarian, Evil Dead, The Crow, and Batman Returns.
Warner laments Maestral’s shutdown, since the lean open source Dropbox client beat using Dropbox’s own heavier software.
Dave Winer argues WebSub should meet RSS halfway, saying web interop matters more than forcing Atom baggage onto feeds.
Pixel One remembers Belghast as a constant, generous voice whose blogging and Blaugust helped make game writing feel communal.
Tipa serves up a tense microgravity murder mystery where a desperate lunar slingshot surgery is somehow the crew’s best shot.