Tipa dives into Pokopia’s flooded Cerulean City expansion, rebuilding ruins, collecting a separate 50-mon dex, and testing underwater life with Ditto’s new Dive command.
Sey rounds up Wholesome Games Celebration picks, spotlighting fresh demos like Wild n Chill, A Tiny Wander, Tony the Mole, and Jigrift.
Mailvaltar stuck with Wuthering Waves after the Edgerunners collab and ended up loving its flashy combat and enemy-drop Echo grind more than expected.
Wilhelm’s Stardew Valley farm hits summer goals, repairs the bus, nabs a sandfish in Calico Desert, and gets a rude reminder combat has teeth.
Ghastly digs into 3DS upgrade FOMO, pushing back on inflated resale hype and asking whether another handheld is actually worth it.
Tobold finds Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous’ Treasure of the Midnight Isles a neat build-testing roguelike, but too thin on story to stick.
Michael’s take is blunt: game devs should stop using LLMs altogether, citing theft, community pollution, and huge energy costs.
Blockade85 vents about real life slowing progress in Warframe and Final Fantasy VII, while admitting the small gains feel sweeter now.
Joar writes candidly about the ‘empty nest’ not arriving as one clean moment, but as a quieter, messier shift even with a son nearby.
Bruce Schneier flags that ICE is reportedly buying credit-card application data through brokers, which is as unsettling as it sounds.
Brennan reflects on EchoFeed shutting down, blogging’s fragility, and why writing online still matters as a way to leave something behind.
Kimimi finally ships Terror of the Alien Mindmasters, reworking a stalled C64 idea into a browser-playable Twine sci-fi interactive fiction.