Sey is all-in on Mina the Hollower, praising its Link’s Awakening throwback feel, Soulsy challenge, secrets, and burrowing twist.
Azuriel revisits hazy NES memories, from Super Mario Bros. 3 and Zelda II to Blaster Master and the wrong game arriving at Christmas.
Scopique digs Riftborne, a cheap terminal-window 4X with ASCII vibes, sharp upkeep mechanics, and exactly the kind of menu-heavy old-school friction he wants.
Wilhelm says Blaugust hasn’t changed his approach much: he’s still logging his gaming life, not chasing guides, reviews, or whatever the RSS argument is.
Home sick with COVID, The Friendly Necromancer spends the day soloing Nagafen and Lady Vox in EverQuest Legends and hauling off some tasty loot.
Ghastly tours WoW’s Ironforge, pokes around the Explorers’ Guild, handles dwarf errands, and wraps Dun Morogh with a dead bear and level 13.
Tobold says Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous buries players in loot they can’t really use once weapon specialization locks a party into narrow builds.
Michael revisits co-open with his kids and loves how its no-pressure grocery-store wandering sparks exploration, roleplay, and made-up stories.
Bhagpuss spins a questionnaire post into a ramble on interviews, newspapers, The Guardian, and discovering Lana Del Rey through “Video Games.”
Brennan responds to circlejerk.blog parodying the IndieWeb scene, crediting the mimicry while chewing over what the satire gets right and wrong.
Bruce Schneier flags two papers arguing LLM memory still leaks sensitive context too easily, and that better reasoning beats just prompt-fiddling.
Tipa looks back on CP/M and FlexOS at DRI, then wonders how close she came to the future Maxis business-sim branch of history.