Videogames
Double Dragon Gaiden gameplay footage
Limited Run Games had a E3 Direct. Top games were Castlevania, Shantae, Jurassic Park, Gargoyles Remake, and clocktower.
Yohane parhelion is a 2D game by Into Creates
Cataclismo is a castle defense game
Homeworld 3 will have units talk and respond to each other.
Full Void is a cinematic Platformer
A chicken game
An Avatar the last Airbender game is being released on Switch
10 awesome kickstarted games
A new Blade Runner game
Medium Cloud Version announced for Switch
Roguelike Horror game Haunted House by Atari
VG: Skylines 2
The youth in the game are going to appear less because it's all based on reality
Skylines Cities 2 lets you track every single NPC.
VG: Business
I don’t really know where to put this, but think its brilliant. Super MArio Bros Oreos is actually a game in itself.
Half the fans are paid shills or bots
A girl was found because her Switch could be traced.
A new Chinese made PC console
Sony and Microsoft sign a deal for Call of Duty
Minecraft makes more on Switch than XBox or PlayStation
Nintendo has a bad word blocklist
VG: Business: Disbanded
The company making the new Knights of the Old Republic has been disbanded. The game was given to another group
Team that made Gollum has been disbanded
VG: Business: Nintendo Shareholders meeting
Approval ratings of directors
Nintendo on Switch technical performance
Nintendo investor asks about wage increases at the company
VG:Opinions
In praise of the middle length game
Microsoft buying Activision is bad
VG: Leaks
Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake
A Most Wanted remake may be happening.
The Microsoft lawsuit brought out information that showed the company had people guessing when a new console by their opponents would release. One of those is the Switch 2.
Far Cry 1 source code is fully released
VG: Classics
Street Fighter 2 Documentary
9 out of 10 games are commercially unavailable
Interview with Alexi Pajinitov
Mister now allows neo Geo CD
Gulf War Game Boy still have works but is getting retired
Some guy is slowly selling a crate full of classic computers box by box
The FamiCom is 40 years old
Sega wants to make a Saturn Mini but it's a bit difficult
A section of the autobiography of John Romero
VG: Design
Cascadeur is a animation rigging suite that seems to do the job well for free.
Remote teams using cloud based systems to design videos and games.
Human based meshes for Blender
VG: Mods and Fan Made
Build your own pinball table. It's a kids project but still cool.
Trench Foot is a WWI Doom Mod that looks amazing
Ghouls and ghosts with new armor
Fans are using spicy peppers to bring back revalis gale in the new Zelda.
Harthstone Island is a new mod conversion for Skyrim by students.
Red Alert fan remake
Cyberpunk 2077 has a ChatGPT add on that can create missions, and talk to you.
The Axem Rangers in Super Mario RPG have special jobs
Factorio in Unreal Engine 5
Sonic on the Amstrad
Some guy let his viewers play an ocarina online.
VG: Scenes
Old church
Cross roads
Misty Castle
Forest Creek
VG: Graphics
This car video
Stylized paint shader
Photo realism from blender on a 1650
The DS has the best looking 32 Bit games
VR AR MR XR
Full body motion capture from Quest headset
Taito AR Space Invaders has released
A new gaming VR headset that has a great screen but is weighty
XR: XReal Reviews
XReal Air glasses review
Another review with talk about the new Sony system afterwards
XR: Vision Pro
Anchored locations for the Vision Pro
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10082/#
Vision Pro can't do full room VR
Can the Vision Pro win audiences? Especially in a market that can't win the home market at all.
Film TV
Felicia Day still exists and is doing radio plays
FreeVee expands
Roland Emmerich supporting Space Nation with TV, Film, Comics and MMORPG
Disney admits that Lightyear was a failure… sort of.
Red Dwarf and good science fiction
Brad Pitt's F1 movie has been put on hiatus. Check out the headline for it.
Film: Geek Stuff
Vin Diesel was supposed to start the Valiant Comics Cinematic Universe. I would have loved a Shadowman movie.
Masters of the Universe getting a reboot
Power Rangers production leaving New Zealand
Star Trek is a shit show because the producers didn't know what they were doing. They just wanted more Trek
Film TV: Videogames
Super Mario Bros is still setting records
Twisted Metal TV Show
Witcher Rats likely to be edited down for Netflix
Film TV: Disney+
Sci Fi Africa
John Carter is getting a TV show for Disney+
TV: Disney+: Canceled Show
Disney axed a show and then removed it from all streaming services.
More on that show
Theme Parks and Experiences
Universal is updating a bunch of stuff.
Walt Disney World may destroy areas that have been around since it's inception to expand for more experiences
New hotel area with deep man made beach near DisneyWorld is opening soon
https://archive.ph/jQDV2#selection-447.143-447.157
Peppa Pig to get theme parks
Harry Potter: Visions of Magic
Opinion: Being Gay at a haunted attraction.
Speculation on the death of the McDonald's play place
Donald Trump is actually Hillary Clinton with a wig at the Disney Hall of Presidents
Galactic Star Cruiser hotel to be changed somehow
Arcade FEC Social Gaming
Drakon is doing on site testing.
Fighter Dynamite Bomb
There are some really amazing digital pinball machines out there. This list does not include them.
Arcade: Bowl Expo ‘23
Bet you didn’t know there are expos for everything. There is an expo for bowling companies. This one has arcade games, so its all good. Here is an overview of stuff on display.
Last Thoughts of show
Touch Magix Immersive Pool design was on display.
Architecture
Awesome round tiny home with shipping crates.
130 Williams is a concrete facade apartment complex
A coin shaped building
Floating lenses in the desert? Yeah that's a fire waiting to happen
Black on the outside, white on the inside.
3d printed wind turbine that looks like a flower
Twisting towers
This home has curves
Chilean Guest House
Architecture: Old as New
A cool retro style
Old and new styles combined
Japanese Beach House
C House
Some cool Japanese photography
This Spanish Art studio
Inuit Heritage Center
Books and Comics
Some comic book history
A perfect description of Superman
Neil Gaiman and Art Spiegelman to talk at Orlando
Sci Fi books like Black Mirror. One of them is probably a basis of Black Mirror..
TTRPG
Some board games with miniatures that looks cool.
Cars
Used Celica Supra for sale
500 CC engine in a Miata
700 Horse Power Porsche Project
Cars: Lordstown Bankruptcy
Lordstown declares bankruptcy. It was an electric car company
A more propaganda article blaming trump
Cars: Flying Car
First flying electric car
Another article
I dont understand what their point was in this article. They literally made a single blurb about how it is unfortunate that transportation (both private and public) will have a money cost to it, and that this is somehow unfortunate because younger citizens are the ones most affected by it. Then it just starts doing quotes from the dev diary that have nothing to do with their stance.
Personally, I am pretty hyped for the game, and from what I have seen with the Dev Dairies thus far, they are set to revolutionize the city building genre yet again after doing it with the first game. Which also involves dabbing on the corpse of SimCity because Cities: Skylines 2 is essentially looking like it is going to be everything SimCity 2013 wanted to be and do it better, while still not having to be force connected to the internet.
The City Building game style is a lot of fun for me, but also a time sync I have to figure out. From what you say though, it sounds like fun.
I would definitely recommend looking at the Dev Diaries if you want to know the exact changes they make or are adding. So far, they are making a ton of huge ones compared to the original game, most notable ones being things like:
Demand for different land value properties to reflect people's money needs for housing or apartments (instead of just trying to max out everything for the most taxes).
Significantly larger and more realistic sized city services, especially for power plants and airports. (Just to visualize scale, here is a Nuclear Plant in CS1 vs. the Coal Plant in CS2)
Telecoms now being a city service that needs to be provided for, which has never been a consideration in previous games of the genre.
There will be a much more complex economic model, where there are significantly more options for the goods Factories will make, markets can get saturated if you overproduce, and Offices now have output that follows the same demand laws (meaning there is actually a purpose to have both industry and office in a city).
They are yoinking the modular/upgradeable buildings from SimCity 2013, and putting them in a game that deserves such a feature.
And I know what you mean about time sink. But for me, that is part of the appeal. I like to play them while I am watching a movie, or on Youtube, or watching Anime. Because then I dont have to take my eyes off of the thing I am watching to babysit my game constantly.
That is one of the enjoyable things with games like this, the ability to watch a city. Can we go down to citizen level and just walk around? I hope someone adds mods to drive vehicles and fight off zombies. That has been my desire since Sim Copter was announced.
Actual walking? No. But you can get the camera down to street level, so you can at least see the city from the POV of your own citizens.
That sounds like fun as well.
Re: Pinball, some of the modern virtual pinball machines people make are pretty crazy. They use 4k displays to make them look photo-realistic, they put knocker solenoids in to simulate the feel of the flippers and bumpers activating, they use multiple monitors so they can also display the backdrop and the backdrop lighting patterns some games used. Some of them even have a third screen to simulate the dot matrix display below the backdrop.
Here's an example, but there are many others. About the only thing they don't simulate is wear on the playfield/components the more a particular game is played, but I'm sure someone's working on that somewhere.
Wow... that's awesome.
Only $6,500? That's a steal for 1,100 games and the kind of quality you get.
If I had the room I would definitely look into getting one.
That is awesome and I guess I need to add it to the next big list. At arcade shows I always made sure to play Doom.
https://youtu.be/GYyNW3O6mB0
From the gameplay this looks like an homage to Blood? That's the actual redbook music from Blood. It starts in a tomb like Blood, with the first thing the guy says being a (grammatically incorrect) paraphrasing of the first thing the guy from Blood says ("I live again").
It probably is a homage.
Hah, called it! Now I wanna hear them admit they provided those donald duck protest costumes too.
I'm sure Bob Iger will be selling them soon.
I tried to find another article talking about it, but couldn't.