Okami Sequel Announced, Will Be Directed By Hideki Kamiya

Jen-Hsun Huang might be ‘Taylor Swift but for tech’, but did you know he was once praised in Sports Illustrated as being ‘perhaps the most promising junior ever to play table tennis in the Northwest’?

Yep, it’s true. Zuckerberg might call him “Taylor Swift, but for tech,” but back in 1978 someone was calling now-Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang “perhaps the most promising junior ever to play table tennis in the Northwest” in a letter to Sports Illustrated. Lou Bochenski wrote in to the mag (archived here), explaining: “In mentioning promising…

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Shortly after Concord’s resurrection by fans, it looks like Sony might be about to kill it again: ‘Due to worrying legal action we’ve decided to pause invites for the time being’

Concord wasn’t great, by our account. It was also one of the biggest black holes for development time and money in our medium’s history, collapsing into dust a couple weeks after it came out following eight years of buildup. Its few fans brought it back though, despite all odds; but if you were interested in…

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D&D is ‘here to earn your trust, not ask for it’, starting with making Beyond’s maps software free, brushing up the SRD, and sharing ‘third-party creations across our official channels’

If you know any of my writing on this site, you know I’ve been just a wee bit critical of Dungeons & Dragons—while I did like the 2024 ruleset overall, I have larger structural issues that have more to do with Hasbro’s bungling of just about everything—and the idea of D&D as a whole stagnating….

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Mewgenics’ latest update makes one of its most unpredictable fights a bit fairer, and includes maybe the best patch note of all time: ‘Fixed case where a non-binary cat with dwarfism would crash the game if playing in Brazilian Portuguese’

The stream of post-launch patches for Mewgenics has been pretty constant since its release last month. With a game this big and full of overlapping systems, unleashing it on the general public was always going to reveal an explosion of bugs and issues, and it seems like developers Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel have been…

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