Stargrace heads back to Wurm Online’s Friendship Bay Summer Impalong, a five-day community event full of item improvement, contests, and player generosity.
Kimimi expected Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary’s twenty rulesets to be a mess, then found a playful puzzle party full of delightful weirdness.
Zack returns from burnout with a broad gaming-industry check-in, led by worries over Sony ending physical game production in 2028.
Wilhelm maps out EVE Online’s Alliance Tournament XXII buildup, a months-long bureaucratic odyssey before the finals finally land around Halloween.
Thomas is hooked by The Alters, praising its existential sci-fi setup and unusually strong choice-and-consequence writing.
Scarybooster remembers Belghast and other gaming bloggers as friends, collaborators, and the people who made the old blogosphere feel like home.
Jeff checks out QuadRF, a Raspberry Pi 5 and FPGA phased-array radio that can track drones and visualize WiFi through walls.
Bruce Schneier highlights Daniel Solove’s case that AI privacy needs company accountability, not just putting personal-data control on users.
Dave Winer keeps iterating on rss.chat with feed icons, server setup tweaks, and even a little Gemini help for images and descriptions.
Aywren announces Blaugust 2026, honoring Belghast’s memory while inviting creators to join a community-first month of blogging.
Brennan gets candid about the daily costs, mixed genres, and decidedly unromantic realities of sustaining a serious writing life.
Jeromai shares an AI-written pep talk about work and worth, then notes Blaugust 2026 is coming and signups are live.