Turns out my save file is tied to Microsoft’s service forever. What’s worse, Lies of P is no longer on Game Pass. So if I just wanted to get my save file using a trial of Game Pass, cancelling it, and transferring the save to Steam, I would need to buy the game first. Even beyond the ethics of suppo
Project Defiant seems similar to many of Sony’s hardware outings from the little we know about it. It claims to use the proprietary PlayStation Link format for low wireless latency. The product page says it has toolless swappable gates on the stick, meaning you can have your stick movement as either
It is fair to ask, “who is Nightreign for?,” and I’m shocked to report that it’s a game for me. I’m happy that Nightreign is a lumpy but interesting game, because FromSoftware was built on those. The FromSoft that existed before Miyazaki started hitting it out of the park was a lot of fun; that’s a
Nightreign is condensed and distilled Elden Ring. It even takes place in a smaller version of the Lands Between. But that distillation also makes it faster, denser, and even more challenging. As weird as it is to describe any FromSoftware game this way, Nightreign makes Elden Ring look positively co
Not only is it the main pick for the best air conditioner for The Wirecutter, Wired, Tech Gear Lab, and various other publications, but The Wall Street Journal ran a glowing profile about the four years that went into its design.
Darumi will frequently name drop her favorite erotic games, forcing your character to play them should you interact with her, often in ways that foreshadow narrative events in the game. It gives me no pleasure to admit that she has frankly fantastic taste in the genre.
The HÅG Capisco looks bizarre. Unsurprisingly, it was designed by a Norwegian industrial designer, Peter Opsvik, who also designed several chairs for children, kneeling chairs, and a lounge chair named “Garden” that looks like a tree with a bunch of orbs. I have often described the Capisco as “the a
If you are 30 or 40 years old, or a strange younger person who watches old footage of game shows, you probably remember Bob Barker’s long ass microphone. This thin, telescoping rod a few feet long was a staple of game shows from the 70s. They haven’t made that microphone, or really any like it, for
The ZD-0+ Excellence is a tinkerer’s dream, S-tier in repairability, close to the quality of an Elite for half the price and compatible with already existing parts on the market. It’s Taobao excellence, a potential Forever Controller, the dream of a thousand Reddit posters and Discord lurkers.
After 162 hours I have finally “beaten” Blue Prince, or at least I think I have. I know that I have wrapped up the puzzles and discovered and solved the
Being a writer in any reliably compensated position is rare and getting rarer. Reporting and media criticism is rarer still, and the number of people who get paid to write
What if Riven was a roguelite? What if Telling Lies was a deckbuilder? What if Pipe Mania was themed like The Masque of the Red Death? What if the board game Carcassonne was also a mystery novel?
