YouTuber The Swedish Maker wears a Meta Quest 3 VR headset for his entire woodworking project and miraculously emerges with all fingers intact

We’ve all seen those Meta Quest adverts, in which a practically-challenged human being wears a VR headset for basic construction tasks, like building a crib, with great success. However, The Swedish Maker has taken things further by several orders of magnitude—by wearing a Meta Quest 3 for the entirety of a woodworking project, including while…

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Shovel Knight artist says throwback games need ‘retro authenticity’ but can’t coast on nostalgia alone: ‘Part of the appeal of the NES era of game making was that everything was a new idea’

Ahead of the Shovel Knight: Steel They Shovel live concert series coming to New York and LA in the next month, I got the chance to talk to Yacht Club artist Nick Wozniak about the indie game’s legacy and the state of games today. Wozniak understandably had a lot of thoughts on nailing an authentic…

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Maybe I’ll finally stop getting lost in Fallout: New Vegas’ Bison Steve Hotel thanks to this new minimap mod

Earlier this month, modder Stentorious on the New Vegas Nexus graced us with one of those “oh my god, why hadn’t somebody done this already” quality of life tweaks for Obsidian’s open world classic: Modern Minimap, a handy, legible minimap for navigating the Mojave’s twistiest interiors. New Vegas’ floating quest markers are good enough for…

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