Screenshot from Dune Awakening showing two ornithopters approaching a downed Spacing Guild Highliner in the Deep Desert.
Dune Awakening: Finished Chapter 3
I'm at the end of the current story content, and I am a little upset.
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6, 5, 6, 2. Decent roll!
Stargrace wasn’t fully feeling the auction grind, but WoW old-world recipes, transmog, and a few big sales still brought in nearly 2 million gold. Syp eases into WoW: Midnight, juggling housing touches and Silvermoon sightseeing instead of rushing straight to cap and weekly rewards. Tipa is all in on Tactichord, a 1995-set tactics game where a glam metal band fights with power chords and cool-factor style points. Krista dives into Collector’s Cove, a cosy seafaring farm sim about shipboard crops, exploration, fishing, and creature-collecting with animal pals. Luna spotlights more Steam Next Fest demos, from The Last Gas Station’s mystery sim loop to Everything is Crab’s weird, evolutionary roguelite charm. Margot rounds up standout Steam Next Fest demos, praising everything from REPLACED’s gorgeous cyberpunk storytelling to Goldman’s demanding platforming. Wilhelm drifts back to Valheim for fresh exploration, tweaking new world modifiers and reviving a mod setup after burning out elsewhere. Thomas celebrates Stellar Tactics finally hitting 1.0 this month, right alongside Xenonauts 2, for a very good spring for turn-based sci-fi fans. Anarchae’s weekly digest mixes exhausting apartment-hunting, reading notes, and assorted media and game links, with the housing search dominating the mood. Joar lays out why resume-polishing, networking, and forced positivity fall flat when a career transition is really about uncertainty and a changed market. Dave Winer pitches a pay-per-article news EZ-Pass, notes NetNewsWire’s nod, and remains sharply skeptical of Bluesky’s distributed-social claims. Roger makes the case for bringing back the blogroll, both as community support and a practical way to send readers toward fellow bloggers.
It's Dromedary Day at the #DailyBlogroll with new stories from Tipa, TAGN, @scripting.com, Joar, Roger, Luna, Krista, Syp, Anarchae, Stargrace, Margot, Thomas and more!
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“Comically unqualified, intensely partisan, and unflaggingly devoted to whatever ridiculous thing bubbled out of Donald Trump’s mouth five minutes ago” - @paulwaldman.bsky.social unpacks the general traits of a prototype member of Trump cabinet - the worst in U.S. history. Via @atrupar.com
A digital scene depicting a stylized music rehearsal space. The layout includes instruments, a stage area, and characters positioned to perform and move within the space. Objective prompts highlight mission details, and a grid indicates possible movement paths.
Tactichord: Glam Strategy
Mix X-COM with Mötley Crüe and this is what you get -- a hair metal band on its way to its first gig... if they can get by all the haters.
https://chasingdings.com/2026/03/10/tactichord-glam-strategy/
More Weird Spinny Dice Kickstarters? Yup.
Kickstarter now thinks I need to see ALL the weird dice projects. Today: Cardyhedron Fold, Astronomical Clock, Steampunk Dice STL and Revolution Dice.
Frostilyte shares hard-won Timberborn starter advice, especially on storage placement, hauling, and keeping your beaver logistics from quietly collapsing. Azuriel’s early Slay the Spire 2 take is cautiously whelmed: familiar classes, wild balance, and combo-heavy runs that already feel a bit overtuned. Magi digs BOSSGAME’s blend of challenging boss-rush combat and lesbian romance, with messenger-style storytelling adding extra charm between fights. Bhagpuss, freshly done with Baldur’s Gate 3, spirals through Steam indecision and stalled installs while figuring out what to play next. Joar survives house photo-day chaos, then unwinds with WoW progress through Eversong and into Zul'Aman on a Demonology Warlock. Oya says Return of the Obra Dinn rewards patience with deeply satisfying deduction, even if its stark 1-bit style takes some getting used to. Ellie finds Haiku, the Robot a stripped-back metroidvania that wears its Hollow Knight love proudly and makes Arcadia’s ruined machine world inviting. Wilhelm dives into Pokémon LeafGreen for the series’ 30th, mixing remake history, handheld nostalgia, and a fresh return to Kanto. Emily likes Discord Quests in theory, but wants more flexible ways to earn orbs than grinding multiplayer games she’d never actually play. Bruce Schneier flags a sharp dependency problem: F-35 buyers rely on US software support, prompting talk of jailbreak-style third-party access. Dave Winer wants a simple app for linkable, context-specific word definitions, and also cheers Manton Reece’s experimental RSS reader Inkwell. Tofutush reflects on relating to Harmony in Spy School, tracing that connection to friendship, impostor syndrome, and the strange intimacy of writing.
Tuesday's child reads the #DailyBlogroll and finds great stories by Dave Winer, TAGN, Ellie, Tofutush, Oya, Magi, Joar, Azuriel, Emily, Bhagpuss, Frostilyte, Bruce Schneier and more!
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Ready to learn more about Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age ahead of the campaign launching next Tuesday? You're in for a treat. Check out this feature article from @ICv2 with some more information.
Read more here: https://bit.ly/4ljgrWh
Who's following the campaign already? ✋
I'd like to announce I have a new(ish) Podcast! It's called GameDev Unsung Heroes, and it's basically interviewing all the names in games you don't know about what they do, their career path, a few stories along the way. All free.
Here's the link gamedevunsungheroes.com
I could use re-posting :)
Tipa breaks down her Malifaux Colette 2 crew, why decoy tricks rule, and what made facing Jakob Lynch’s Honeypot feel new. Kimimi argues Resident Evil Requiem’s split between Grace’s horror and Leon’s action keeps it from fully committing to either mode. Shintar finds WoW: Midnight’s early access and launch oddly empty, especially while juggling expansion time with SWTOR. Sweetie misses the weird, maximalist magic of old gaming ads, from Final Fantasy VII phone tie-ins to the opposite of Switch 2 minimalism. Belghast and crew bounce through Path of Exile, Everything is Crab, Pokopia, Steam Next Fest demos, and a surprisingly chill WoW vibe. Wilhelm recaps a big Fantasy Critic week, with WoW Midnight confusion and strong early scores for Pokemon Pokopia and Esoteric Ebb. Tobold enjoys Pauper’s Ladder’s swingy Amerigame feel, especially compared with getting crushed in Eurogames by players who know them cold. Michael finds Rocket Riot a fun but repetitive arcade jetpack shooter, with the missing multiplayer on Steam really hurting the package. Brennan urges men to confront misogyny, stop offloading emotional and hermeneutic labor, and do the hard work themselves. Warner’s weekly roundup threads asteroid nudges, war, McCarthyism, and AI anxiety into a reminder that we’re not the universe’s main character. Jamie Zawinski spotlights secrecy around AI data center water use, warning the numbers are probably awful if companies fight this hard to hide them. Dave Winer says AI still can’t hold whole apps in its head, and pairs that with a pretty bleak read on tech’s moral collapse.
It's a dark Monday morning but the #DailyBlogroll is bright with stories by Wilhelm, Dave Winer, Tipa, Shintar, @warnercrocker.bsky.social, Sweetie, Brennan, @virtualmoose.bsky.social, Kimimi, Belghast, Jamie Zawinski, Tobold and more!
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Quest 64 on a game shark in an n64
gir waving at the sea and cheerfully proclaiming "he's gettin' eaten by a shark"
End text crawl of Quest 64
I had to feed poor Brian to a shark to fix a soft lock, but the Quest (64) is Complete.
A game of Malifaux, showing various units among scattered terrain.
Malifaux: Collete du Bois, Smuggler vs Jakob Lynch, Dark Bet
It was our second open game day at Twilight Cards & Games in South Windsor. It was there I met a shady gambler...
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#Malifaux #TabletopGames #colette #honeypot #JakobLynch #performer #TwilightGames
Maybe, but it just seems like a kind of thing the governor would want to be involved in.
A dice spinner with eight spinning faces shown twice.
This was the picture that ended me. "Front" and "Back" are literally the exact same picture.
I just backed Nexus Cube: Your Very Own Infinity Dice Cube. on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/-on...
Backed for $1. I just gotta follow this through.
Can a mayor really declare martial law? That sounds like a stretch.
New blog post! A what-if scenario where we try to see how a home computer designer might've dealt with the field-sequential color television, had the Korean War not stopped that standards' rollout. Enjoy! nicole.express/2026/the-app...
Stargrace turns EVE Online cache maintenance into a quiet meditation on burnout, patience, and reaching 300 tasks one careful jump at a time. Aywren finally earns her FFXIV Red Mage Obscurum Phantom Relic after a long roulette grind, and already has White Mage in mind next. Shintar rounds up SWTOR 7.8.1’s big bits, from Darth Nul story teases to Galactic Seasons remixing old rewards. Margot’s back in Breath of the Wild, cooking, farming arrows, unlocking the map, and leaning fully into wandering Hyrule over rushing Divine Beasts. Wes spotlights DREAMM 4.0 making old LucasArts PC games easier to run, while shelving a deeper Segagaga translation piece for later. Wilhelm eyes EVE Online’s 53 hidden starter systems with curiosity and a groan, since CCP is once again reworking the new-player experience. Naithin’s February was mostly Nioh 3, with Crimson Desert hype rising and March plans for Resident Evil 2 Remake and The Division 2. Thomas is torn on remakes, but this fan-made Star Wars: Republic Commando intro animation sure sells the dream of a real one. Anarchae walks through low-drama grocery and meal routines shaped by AuDHD, IBS, lactose intolerance, and a deep dislike of cooking. Nicole spins a nerdy alternate history where the Apple ][ grows up with CBS field-sequential color, weird spinning discs and all. Dave Winer pushes back on claims RSS ever went dormant, while also grumbling about Claude outages and Industry season 4’s rough start. Tim Bray compares Because Internet and Algospeak, praising Gretchen McCulloch’s linguistics and mulling how the internet reshaped informal writing.
Sorry, overslept, #DailyBlogroll almost became DailyBrunchroll. Enjoy stories by Dave Winer, Wilhelm, Naithin, Wes, Nicole, Tim Bray, Margot, Stargrace, @aywren.bsky.social, Shintar, Thomas, Anarchae and more!
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Shitty Kickstarter Follow-up: the Return of the Nexus Cube
It was obvious that I couldn't be done with the Nexus Infinity Cube until I tried it myself.
Syp is dragging a Minstrel through a rough LOTRO expansion zone, but a gorgeous dwarf city briefly cuts through the slog. CrazyKinux impulse-bought Planet of Lana II off four gorgeous screenshots alone, sold on its hand-painted look and short puzzle-adventure vibe. Frostilyte’s February was slowed by illness, with The King is Watching landing more lukewarm than its demo despite that clever watched-workers hook. Heartless says ARC Raiders’ optional character reset makes loot and progression feel exciting again, especially with fresh loadouts and nastier ARC robots. Bhagpuss points to AdventureQuest Worlds Infinity as proof MMORPG Kickstarters can work when a studio like Artix has years of player trust. Belghast finds World of Warcraft heroics surprisingly chill lately, and wonders if the usual elitist dungeon energy moved on elsewhere. Wilhelm runs through gaming annoyances, from Highguard flaming out fast to Tencent panic and Steam’s latest lawsuit over marketplace gambling claims. Jamie Zawinski nerds out over Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ rebuilt season 2 title sequence and its split-timeline visual storytelling. Bruce Schneier brings the weekly squid oddity, this time on Byzantine monks keeping squid on the menu through taxonomic confusion and a handy recipe. Dave Winer jumps from politics to Industry and The Pitt, while also asking for help getting his real X account back. Tobold argues AI answers are turning SEO into winner-takes-all AEO, where being in the chatbot summary matters more than ranking on page two. Tipa is done with security upsells and hosted-blog headaches, and is eyeing a rebuild with Hugo, GitHub Pages, and more control.
Saturday's #DailyBlogroll has stories by Wilhelm, Dave Winer, Heartless, Frostilyte, Bruce Schneier, Tobold, Syp, @crazykinux.bsky.social, Tipa, @belghast.com, Bhagpuss, Jamie Zawinski and more!
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Just in time for GDC: The Deductopia full demo is out now! Featuring three scenes, new music, updated art, new QoL features, and much much more!
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You always have the best jiffs :-)
This is what 20+ years of blogging looks like
The slow, slow conversion of my main blog to a static site begins. Job 1: Category normalization.
I love Funspot. We had our honeymoon up in Lake Winnipesaukee. Magical.
John says The Dark Rites of Arkham leans hard into Lovecraft while pointedly confronting his racism through two detectives investigating a gruesome occult murder. Tom bounces between World of Warcraft’s fun-but-empty leveling loop and Final Fantasy XIV’s long Endwalker march, with Delves as WoW’s bright spot. Sey rounds up indie highlights including FROGGONIT’s launch, Slay the Spire 2, Bel’s Fanfaire Kickstarter news, and a new Chicory soundtrack project. Kimimi celebrates Colony 28 hitting Steam at last, praising the 1996 Czech sci-fi adventure’s open exploration, scarce ammo, and clever cover-based combat. Krista spotlights Lost & Found Co as a cute hidden-object puzzler where Ducky reunites Plumville’s lost items through hand-drawn scenes and light magical chaos. Luna kicks off a Steam Next Fest favorites roundup with inKONBINI’s cozy store-management vibes and The Eternal Life of Goldman’s hand-drawn platforming. Mailvaltar contrasts Resident Evil 4 remake’s action-adventure feel with Resident Evil VII’s brutal, Baker-family horror, while Diablo II Resurrected keeps stealing his free time. Wilhelm’s Guild Wars Reforged group tweaks henchman positioning, gripes about ANet’s moved mission button, and fights through undead on the road to Lion’s Arch. Nimgimli reflects on aging, work guilt, and the surprisingly freeing realization that free time can just be for games, TV, beer, or even naps. Michael says Mastodon’s weekly #Monsterdon watchalong, usually with free-to-stream B-movies, has made Sunday nights fun again. Dave Winer says Claude and ChatGPT still want to take the wheel with his software, then quietly plugs the Scripting News nightly email. Blockade85 thinks eye strain is zapping his energy for Enshrouded, Dune, FFXI, FFXIV, and even Doom, so an optometrist visit feels overdue.
There's around 85 blogs in the #DailyBlogroll as of today! Enjoy these blogs by TAGN, Dave Winer, Mailvaltar, John, Tom, Blockade85, Sey, Nimgimli, Michael, Kimimi, @lunasgaminglog.com, Krista and more!
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This is delightful. Pomeroy Art Academy on the new Gorillaz animation.
Dungeon Siege and Homeworld -- excellent choices
A halfkin, a short person with a backpack and twigs growing from their head. Carries an axe and sickle
It's time for another Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age thread. This time we're talking character creation. Got those six-siders to hand? 🧵
Behold! I have re-invented Sokoban! #7drl
(I'm not going to proc-gen full sokoban puzzles; I'm not going to have time during the jam)
