Stargrace’s Wurm Online Friendship Bay trip wraps with forge-side socializing, named animal prizes, and a very relatable ready-to-go-home energy.
Tipa says Captain Sonar was a total hit: turn-based tutorial maps, surprise torpedoes, and a kid-friendly party game nobody checks their phone during.
Wes rounds up early PlayStation 5 emulation buzz, plus more N64 recompilation, fan-translation, and MiSTer save-sync chatter.
Ashley Schofield argues Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike’s parry system is the real masterpiece, even if the roster and balance are gloriously messy.
Scarybooster turns Soulframe into pure battle-poetry, riffing on Wrath, Death, Doom, parries, mounts, and going full wildfire across Midrath.
Ellie finds Viewfinder’s climate-collapse story gives its puzzle-box simulation real weight, making this bleak little puzzler stick harder than usual.
Wilhelm crunches his 2026 gaming spreadsheet: EVE Online leads, but Stardew Valley, Forza Horizon 6, and Windrose are the ones still gaining ground.
Bhagpuss freewheels through a grab bag on memory, vaudeville, and music hall with the kind of digressive charm that makes the whole thing work.
Warner marks turning 70 with a short Sunday reading list on kids, meaning, politics, and Google’s culture, all filtered through birthday perspective.
Bruce Schneier’s weekly squid check-in points to Cape Cod’s beached squid and opens the floor for whatever security news he missed.
Jamie Zawinski responds to a new WordPress exploit with the nuclear option: disable REST, XML-RPC, oEmbed, JSONP, and even WordPress AI support.
Dave Winer shares rss.chat’s new firehose and JSON RSS experiments, then gives devs a pep talk about AI collaboration and protecting interop.