Category: Games August 6, 2025 Wander Stars and the Power of Words: How the Japanese Belief of Kotodama Shaped a Battle System Andie GalloArt Director & Narrative Designer, Wander Stars Summary Wander Stars is a turn-based JRPG where you can combine words to create powerful attacks. Kotodama is the Japanese belief that words and names…
“We own Computer Entertainer. And now it belongs to everyone.”. The Video Game History Foundation has announced today that it has acquired the rights to the historic US magazine Computer Entertainer, and is making the entire magazine free for anyone to read or use. Computer Entertainer was a magazine published between 1982-1990, and is significant…
Personally, I’d rather not feed all of my anxieties into a black box of AI modelling like ChatGPT—that’s what my therapist, private Discord server, and locked social media accounts are for. Joking aside, an alarming amount of folks are turning to LLMs rather than fellow humans when it comes to puzzling out personal problems. For…
Every time some new development in AI happens, I’m reminded of Psychonauts creator TIm Schafer’s words on the technology from a couple of years ago. Speaking on the potential for AI to replicate something that sounded like Mozart, he said: “I was like—wow, that’s a really impressive technical challenge, and it does sound like music,…
“The world of mousing around and keyboarding around and typing will feel as alien as it does to Gen Z to use DOS.” So says David Weston, Corporate Vice President of Enterprise and OS Security at Microsoft about the future of Windows. How so, exactly? AI, of course! Oh and FYI, unlimited compute thanks to…
I’ve been told that I play PowerWash Simulator like someone who hates themself. An entirely fair observation, as I have quite a meticulous approach to cleaning every map, working from the ground up and rotating around the objective until it’s entirely clean. “But Elie,” I hear you say, “that’s not efficient and it doesn’t make…
Oxide Games and Stardock’s absurdly massive-scale RTS Ashes of the Singularity is returning. Ashes of the Singularity 2 is expected out next year, a decade after the first game let us cover its war-torn maps with thousands of mechanical units. If you’re all about scale, this might make you very happy indeed. Set in 2031,…
While exploring Brookhollow Park in Grounded 2, you’ll find it full to the brim with natural resources you can harvest, from grass to acorns. While milkweed isn’t the most valuable, as milkweed tufts are only used in a few recipes and chunks in construction, they’re frustratingly hard to find. Below, I’ll go over where you…
Star Fox 64 will be the next N64 game to get a fanmade Dreamcast port. JNMartin’s unofficial Sega Dreamcast port of Mario Kart 64 is getting pretty close to its first public release. However, it appears that its lead developer has already started working on his next port of an N64 classic. The Dreamcast developer…
After US export restrictions were lifted on Nvidia’s H20 AI processors, China’s Cyberspace Administration summoned the company to explain whether or not the chips had any backdoor access. Nvidia denied that this was true, and in a new blog, it not only reiterated this statement but explained why the whole concept of a secret backdoor…