Videogames
Inkbound is a rogue lite MOBA with turn based combat.
Sky of Tides is a narrative based top down game about a world that has literally fallen apart. Your character explores all of these former parts of the same world.
GTA Online can be played single player. Also, it's ten years old and still getting updates and new missions.
Square Enix released an artsy horror game.
Spaceborne 2 looks like the space exploration game we all want.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MdlOG5XjKKY&feature=youtu.be
Someone mentioned the games by Yahtzee. Here they are and ready to be played for free.
https://archive.org/details/chzomythos
Some great Computer RPGs.
Wild Hearts is a Monster Hunter and Dynasty Warriors match up.
Etrisn Odyssey will allow touch controls on Switch.
Videogames: Business
Legend of Zelda is sold out before it has even been released, and sits on the top Amazon sale item for Japan.
Yu Suzuki is selling NFTs.
Hollow Knight: Silksong has been taking so long, the promotional site went dead.
Videogames: GenZ and Millennials
Less youth play videogames now.
People try to use gamification and VR to appeal to Gen Z. It really is that dumb, and could also be found in propaganda
Videogames: MMO
MechWarrior MMO gets a new name and a bunch of updates.
World of Warcraft player spends ten years earning a nye impossible achievement.
Videogames: Archives
A map prototype for Super Mario World has finally been patched together to be seen. It's not playable, but it gives an idea of what it looked like.
Videogames: Mods and Fan Made
Battlefield 1942 now has an 11 GB graphical update.
A beat em up for the amstrad just got a sequel. This one has scrolling backgrounds.
AR VR
Sony will be making the screens for the Apple XR goggles. This basically shows that PSVR2 is an advertisement to other creators.
Goggles continue to have the same problems they've had the entire time. You get motion sick, and can only use them for a few hours at best.
AI
More on the updated MidJourney.
AI: Opinions
Prompt Engineer won't be a thing. People using AI to do stuff will.
AI will be common to the next generation.
Film TV
The Winchester's is the story of Dean trying to stop Supernatural from happening after he died. Yes really.
Another Dark Tower adaptation is being made.
Film TV: Star Trek
Check out Star Trek Phase 2, which turned into the first movie and inspired TNG.
Replicas for starships from Star Trek shows are now for sale.
Comics
Detective Comics goes through a restructuring, and several jobs lost. Their parent company hopes to save $4-$5 Billion dollars.
Music
Nickelback won a lawsuit against them saying they stole someone else's song.
Politics
A deaf student was about to graduate highschool when it was discovered a) he only had a third grade reading level and b) his aide didn't actually know sign language. The family is suing and demanding parents be able to control this insanity better. It is appearing before the Supreme Court.
This one is weird. Michael Jordan is about to sell his share of the Charlotte Hornets to the guy who lost all the money trying to shortchange GameStop.
Nuclear Power plant leaks 400,000 gallons. It was reported to authorities and mostly taken care of in November of last year, but they waited to make it public until now. So far, no cool mutants.
Propaganda
Phoenix is being taken over by homeless villages.
A Library Director tried to move a evangelist reading his children's book to a church. She feared the library couldn't handle the capacity. She was fired.
UBS is close to buying Credit Suisse. The company is worth $9.5 Billion, which is really small when you think about it. Yesz someone else posted before I did.
Fertility rates are down in every developed country except a handful. Want to save your country? Screw like the Danish.
The US has shown that Russia is using Chinese ammunition and weapon systems.
A bill in Congress would give all teachers a raise. $60,000 base pay with insurance and stuff for signing up.
TikTok owns you, even if you never installed it.
Propaganda: Trump
Manhattan DA will not be intimidated by protestors. Especially the kind Trump asked for. He may bend the knee when BLM show up though.
Lots of grandstanding about Trump being arrested.
Tech
YouTube TV is $73 a month. Why would anyone buy this?
Microsoft Surface Pro X being sold for $549 right now.
A 486 computer on a breadboard.
Google has ended it's trip itinerary system.
Huawei say they have replaced all the banned parts in their phones.
Social Media
You know how everyone laughed at Twitter charging for a blue check? Facebook just started doing the same.
Mastodon is beating Twitter and just gained One Million Users!
I wish they’d make all the RDO content available solo, none of my friends play it and I hate working with randoms.
That would have been nice.
Japs don't understand that their nation is one of the only with a population density so high that all these "social games" can work. Even during the big Pokemon boom on the Gameboy, you might have a total of like 8 kids in a huge area who played it at all to trade with. And trading was the entire point of the game.
Shit, look at how much content for hundreds of games was locked behind things like StreetPass, a system that most of the West could maybe get to work at airports of conventions, that they just kept chugging out.