Videogames
Bo is a hand drawn Metroidvania that just got support from Humble Games and lets you play a Kitsune spirit. I may have supported it on Kickstarter
Blackfinger JET is a run and gun game just announced
Winnie the Pooh Horror game
Atari has a platform runner
Greedvatory is a very interesting looking game.
Arcane Diffusion introduction
Review of Ravenlock
Cyber citizen Shockman coming to everything soon.
Warhammer Boltgun
Uprising is getting a big update with extra castles and monsters.
The hand drawn FPS Mouse looks fun.
The new Pharaoh looks nice.
Terra Nil a green city builder
Park Beyond is a theme park simulator that lets you enjoy the rides.
Grave Parks is a farmer simulator where one of the characters is a serial killer
Videogames: Culture
A ton of information on videogames in Japan by the numbers
There's a bar inside Nintendo
Sonic themed Crocs to be released soon by SEGA
Videogames: Zelda
The newest Zelda sold out in 24 hours.
The creator of Street Fighter bought a copy of Zelda for all of his staff.
This is actually propaganda by other companies. The newest Zelda works way better on emulation. Don't buy it, just steal it and play on your PC.
This article was released before the game. Big dungeons promised for new Zelda.
Videogames: Business
Embracer group lost a $2 Billion investment.
Capcom has had its best year ever.
Tunnels and Trolls acquired by company that made Sniper Elite
Hogwarts Legacy sold over 15 Million, and WB hopes Superman does the same.
Sony stopped a group from hacking the PSVR2 to work on PC
Activision is making more money on PC than console
Videogames: Unity Business
The company fired an exec who said it was out of touch
Unity is firing more people in the name of growth.
Videogames: Nintendo Business
The Nintendo Switch has sold more than 125 Million units
There will be a slow down in console sales this year warns Nintendo to investors
Switch sales are sliding by the Mario Movie is doing great
More false rumours of Nintendo Switch replacement. The big N is always planning another console, that doesn't mean it gets released.
Nintendo will have a big show in September with themed areas, games to play, merch, and more. They don't need E3, they can do it on their own.
Videogames: Specs
The 100 GB game is upon us, and no one is really prepared for that.
4K Gaming requires a lot of VRAM
Videogames: Creation
New 3D engine released
VFX in Unreal Engine
Designing props in game
Kitops add on for Blender
Videogames: Classics
A nice supply of CD ROM games on archival site.
The Castlevania Shooter Arcade game has been dumped and can be emulated finally.
Explaining why Fallout has Vaults. They're spaceships.
Half Life 2 still awesome
Videogames: Mods, Fan Made
Doom on teletext
Driv3r modder takes away bugs and adds stuff to make a definitive edition
Skyrim mod returns dropped content for vampires
Duke Nukem restoration mod eing worked on. This is an earlier edition for an earlier engine.
Bethesda adding classic game WADs to Doom and Doom 2
A life sized recreation of Mars on Unreal Engine
Minecraft with actual geometry and buildings
Interview with modern game creators for the Sega Genesis.
Videogames: Graphics
A stylized medieval village. The water isn't perfect, but I enjoyed it.
Skyrim mod that makes everything look amazing. I am having a hard time finding a modern beautiful game I want to walk through just for the view.
A forest in Unreal Engine 5.2
The entire earth with every building, town, and mountain placed in Unreal Engine
A medieval cinematic abbey in Unreal Engine
Studio Ghibli area
Awesome Unreal Engine demos
Film and TV
The little Mermaid Remake made nearly $100 Million it's opening weekend. Guardians of the Galaxy 3 made nearly $300 Million in 4 weeks. I suspect neither movie will not make their needed sales point.
Next big screen attempt at Hell Boy is arriving soon.
Sesame Street has its first Filipino muppet. Will it be shorter than the other muppets? Will it have a pet chicken? No, it will just say it's Filipino.
WB to create its own free streaming service.
Kamala Kahn to replace the position held by Peter Parker in the MCU.
Gargoyles is coming back!
Fans demand Witcher writers be fired
TV: Winchesters
The show was cancelled as the CW tries for something completely different.
The Winchesters was canceled but the producer had a 5 season plan for the characters.
Film and TV: Disney+ Hulu
Hulu and Disney+ will become one app in the USA.
Iger admits content was not getting subscribers for D+
Hulu may be acquired by Disney
VR AR MR
Fortnite is a successful Metaverse.
The argument for large multi screen use in AR. It's an office in your glasses!
This VR game teaches about racism.
Meta Quest 3 will bring Mixed Reality to the masses. This is from an interview with the meta cto.
Quest 2 has been the inspiration for the next up and coming headsets.
Smartglove to enhance experience.
A history of the CAVE.
Watching TV while playing a game can be very different in VR.
Meta shutting down scheduled events on dying product.
Best games on PSVR2
AR game for the perfect TTRPG set up
Star Wars VR games
VR is growing but not through Meta
AR MR: Google
Taito making Space Invaders AR game.
Google has a new AR set up ready to go. I suspect it's also MR, and the reporter doesn't know the difference.
From Google itself. Yeah, there's some MR in there.
Themed Experiences and Parks
Universal Florida has rethemed an area to become Minions Land.
The Scandinavian part of EPCOT at DisneyWorld is slowly becoming Frozen land.
MagicBox provides planning and preparations for conventions.
A space hotel that is cheaper and nicer than the star wars hotel
You can pay for your toddler to be a custodian at DisneyWorld. This is actually similar to something they had years ago that I never saw in person.
Star Trek hallways. I just discovered thread reader so I use that and then archive to properly link to Twitter stuff. You may notice it isn't consistent with this list, and that's because I was half way through when I found it.
Universal will have Mario celebrations at their parks.
Big Horror Houses coming to Florida
Inflatables, LEDs, and AI used for this experience
Arcades
The super Deluxe Versions of arcade games
Part 2
Pinball is doing better than you expect.
The new Initial D was shown off with a Toyota Supra on display
History of the Tracerdo in London.
Architecture
Organic tree restaurant
Beautiful but purposeless building in Korea.
Giant open modernist barn house
Giant open building in Algonquin mountains
Houses with moving parts
A chicken coop with Japanese Shrines as a theme.
$100k small homes residence. It looks like an upscale trailer park.
How Zaha Hadid renders designs
Architecture: Planned Cities
Telosa, the planned city in the US
15 minute cities
Books and Comics
Viz to make its own app for reading comics.
Mike Mignola to start new universe
Best Dystopian comics
Good luck on the thesis!
Thank you. I got most of the literature and methods done, I just need the committee and paper.