Videogames
Turn based dodgeball game
Armored Core 6 Trailer
10 upcoming strategy games with demos
10 Cozy Games for Switch
Be a mushroom delivering the mail in an easy going 3D platformer
Trinity Trigger is a classic JRPG with a mega man weapon style for enemies.
Strayed Light just released
Wartales is a lot of things, and fun
Asura Striker is a 3D shooter soon to release in the US
A ton of articles with different things in them. SupMarBros - how you say Super Mario Bros in japan- will get sequels. Atomic Heart sold over 5 Million copies. Tutorials on fog effects.
Videogames: City Builders
Build a city that can survive in a forest filled with Slavic monsters.
A city builder on floating islands
Videogames: Fan Made and Mods
This is a three part post, but it's the same subject. Devil May Cry Symphony of the Night
Skyrim skeletons have had facial software used to see what they looked like
Persona 5 mod lets you be a girl.
Gaming PC that looks like an angry watermelon.
Unreal Engine 5 concept version of Mafia 5
*Videogames: Classics Fan Made: Zelda CD I Demake
Someone took the Zelda CD I game that lets you play Zelda, and made it for the GameBoy. It's based on Link's Awakening so the improvements are grand.
Here is the game with details on why he made it.
https://john-lay.itch.io/zeldas-adventure
Videogames: Indie
Interview with creators of Cassette Beasts about the Godot Engine
4 Free games made by the creators of BugSnax
Hamster Playground description and story by one of its creators.
Videogames: Business
Microsoft Gobsmacked about the denial of merger with Activision
A game that was funded entirely by a crypto company has gone under.
As a promotional stunt, clothing designers were 'inspired' by the games Redfall and Starfield. The money was very inspiring.
Videogames: Opinions
Too many things are punk now.
Deep Rock Galactic has a happy Community
The archive program got several articles. Really it's the first and last I am referencing. The first is how gamers over 50 are feeling pushed out of their hobby. The last one is how gamers have fond memories of playing games with their parents.
Videogames: Speculation
The next Mortal Kombat could have a Dragon Ball playable character. Buu I say, buuuuuuuu.
Hiring boards show Nintendo may be working on a new console.
https://archive.ph/aF20e Videogames: Classics
Oregon Trail gets a new add on
Psychonauts was cool to reviewers.
Masahiro Sakurai shows off the original documents for Kirby
Galaga '88 is one of the first remakes.
Videogames: Demo and Graphics
Ancient tower
Lense distortion tricks in games
The Unrecord game has a demo and Unreal Engine add on to let others do the same graphics.
Watch Jedi Survivor with all the bells and whistles on.
Large scale Cyberpunk city by one guy
Videogames: Emulation
Yuzu has been updated so games like Mario Odyssey will work 50% better.
Yuzu says Legend of Zelda Tiers of the Kingdom will be playable day one.
Mame has been updated and now works with a system used in the 2000's.
TV Film
Evil Power Rangers Anime coming soon
James Corden's Late Late show cost more than it was making. Expect to see articles on how terrible he is and that he shouldn't get expensive contracts. It happens whenever someone is up for renewal. I personally never laughed at his jokes, and Craig Ferguson was hilarious.
Beetlejuice 2 is coming.
Amazon bought some shows that were going to HBO Max and got cancelled.
The Princess Bride being played by multiple celebrities
Film: Wonka
Wonka is being shown off. It's a prequel to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. There are a lot of references to the most recent film.
It's about Willy Wonka fighting off the big business chocolate cartels to make his magical sweets.
TV Film: Fake Nostalgia
I've found a few articles about how watching TV was better back in the day. It comes with a push to have more commercials and less choice.
Old shows getting renewed are because the new shows aren't making as much. This article tried to obfuscate that.
Nostalgia for regular TV in streaming.
TV Film: Disney
The Mandalorian shows and spin offs are heading in the same direction as the marvel stuff. Preplanned interconnected story Arcs that require you to buy every comic, I mean watch every show to fully understand what is happening.
A Star Wars movie was canceled last year for reasons unknown.
Major jobs at Disney+ have been lost but Disney claims it's still important.
TV Film: Star Trek
A documentary about the various designs of the Starship Enterprise.
More on the archives. This one talks about a virtual tour of various enterprises narrated by John De Lancie
It seems to be a lot, there are multiple things being displayed.
TV Film: Videogames
The game Vampire Survivors is going to get its own show.
Twisted Metal!?
TV Film: SupMarBro
Super Mario Bros is about to pass $1 Billion.
An interview with Shigeru Miyamoto shows he's kind of shocked at how well everything turned out.
A translation of the interview in question
Arcade
Arcade1Up home Fast and the Furious racer can hook up to four units.
EXA Arcadia is awesome and perfect for an actual arcade. It takes cartridges and has multiple formats like the Neo Geo cabs of old.
A Milwaukee man makes an arcade out of his collection. This is actually pretty common but doesn't get talked about a lot in console circles.
VR has arcade kiosks for specific games.
Arcade: Atari Game Boards
Atari is offering new PCBs of old games like Black Widow.
Another article on the subject.
VR AR MR
Eye of the Temple is a room sized VR experience
3 location based VR companies that are doing well.
Sony's PSVR2 is nice but has no games to come back to.
Magic Leap 2 can use Open XR.
A bunch of info about AR stats
VR AR MR: Business and Propaganda
Spatial ops and others show how MR should be done. Basically, all of these companies need a game that shows how a game should be played. Think how Doom or Quake introduced FPS, or Mario 64 showed 3D games. MR and even VR haven't had that yet. That's what I want to make.
VR is slumping as it enters into a new slimmer field. Both in lense size and expectations.
Virtual is the future. Can also be found in AI. Definitely a propaganda piece.
You know that military goggles thing that got postponed? Here's the same idea for emergency responders
Metaverse: Cannon Kokomo
Cannon is the type of company that buys and then destroys it's competition. So, it started a Metaverse. Companies should be very careful around it.
VR: Super Resolution
Super Resolution in Quest 2
Another article about super Resolution
MR: Meta
Meta Quest 3 should be about $400
You can now update Meta Goggles while shutting them down. Something phones and PCs could do.
Zuckerberg says they will continue with Metaverse, but have it more for games. Also, AI is their new big thing.
Meta lost $4 Billion last year
MR: Apple Goggles
Apple Goggles could make sports viewing even better! The ideas in the article are terrible.
Apple Goggles will have a short battery life
Books and Comics
IDW is being delisted from stock profile
A nice review of the Phantom
Keanu Reeves in a comic book
Neil Gaiman
I couldn't find a proper place since Gaiman has done so much and the articles cover a lot of it. Here is an interview about his latest lyrical music album with Four Play
An interview with Neil Gaiman. He seems to dislike cancel culture and has levelled out a bit since breaking up with his wife.
Art, Design, and Architecture
A Twitter thread on horror pictures
A school turned into an apartment complex.
BMW has an Immersive car themed art display.
Edward F Howard has some great art.
https://www.efhoward.com/illustrative-works
A cool design for a resort. Ringed designs.
This history museum looks really nice.
A simplistic house that's probably terrible to live in.
Modern Art and Polyptichs, or multi picture art.
A photographic tour of the green side of the Northwest.
Architecture: AI
Architectural Design using AI.
Zaha Hadid the company is designing stuff with AI.
Mayan Pyramids designed to be retail and office space in AI.
Coachella with wacky inflatables
Themed Design and Parks
Proposed Theme park for Mall of America.
A space Themed indoor water park
The Holy Land, a Christian themed park where they had Christ die on a cross in several designs, is being torn down. It hasn't been updated in 10 years and the insides have been looking g worse and worse.
Vloggers are annoying people going into theme parks
Theme Parks: Nintendo
An argument against a Super Mario World theme park
Zelda could replace a part of Islands of Adventure in Universal Parks Orlando. It's complete speculation, but interesting to read.
Music
Music accused of stealing. Compare them to their copy
Toys
Donkey Kong Country Lego set
Godzilla Lego set
Can you elaborate on this?
By 'Malignant Empathy" I mean the identification with the oppressed/marginalized, to the point of ignoring the why of their being an outgroup in the first place.
You see it both in mercy for criminals and the 'equity' of the marxists/maoists. In the former case, the one who has done wrong receives empathy, which amounts to injustice towards their victims. In the later case, those who have received an advantage (justly) have it stripped in the name of empathy & 'fairness,' which is unwarranted injustice against those who have done nothing wrong.
I see a likeness in both cases, where an argument from emotion/empathy causes unjust results.
[Edit:I suppose another example would be the unchecked xenophila which leads lefties to support illegal immigration. It's this rose-tinted sort of naivety which blinds to the practical results of favoring outgroups.]