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Warp Point is a new website that Wes Fenlon introduced in his wonderful Read Only Memo newsletter like this: In January 2024, just a few weeks after I decided to ditch Substack over its unwillingness to kick Nazis off its platform, I jotted down this half-formed thought in a scratch pad:What if we banded together [ ]
Last week Sony announced, almost simultaneously, that they will stop making physical PlayStation 5 game discs in 2028, and that their digital stores for the Vita and PlayStation 3 are shutting down. Sony had initially threatened these store shutdowns way back in 2021. These stories are laughable. How can anyone trust that games purchased online [ ]
You don't hate AI enough.
In 2018 a journalist walked into the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, excited about finalizing the papers for getting married to his fiancee, but worried that he might be abducted due to his criticism of the Saudi Arabian government. He was right to be concerned, they tortured and dismembered him in retribution for speaking out [ ]
My biggest personal complaint about Blue Prince was that it was completely inaccessible without typical color vision. I had to ask people watching my stream to help with more and more of the game as it went on. When I wrapped up Blue Prince in October it felt like the accessibility options promised in the [ ]
Coincidence Games, nuZachtronics, announced a new engineering puzzle game today called U.V.S. Nirmana. We won t have to wait long, it ll be out next week on May 4th on Steam for Windows, macOS, and Linux. No price yet. The folks at Coincidence say U.V.S. Nirmana is about conduits and the energies that flow through them. that ll [ ]
Remember how early this year we were supposed to get a new Steam Machine, Steam Controller, and VR Headset called the Steam Frame? Well, at least the controller is going up for order on May 4th through Valve directly and it ll be $99. Everything else is still stuck in AI-induced RAM-and-storage shortage hell that has [ ]
Zachtronics puzzle game Opus Magnum is almost 9 years old, but it just got a new mini-campaign for $13 called De Re Metallica and a Nintendo Switch port that includes it for $30. All of the above are currently discounted. This is surprising since most of the Zachtronics crew moved on to Coincidence Games after [ ]
Bungie s Marathon shipped earlier this month and on a whim I picked it up when there wasn t another multiplayer game that was working for me. As with almost any Bungie game, they ve nailed the style and tone with fantastic designs and a wonderful dynamic soundtrack. Playing Marathon isn t terrible, either. It s a modern extraction shooter [ ]
There has been a lot of bad news around the world already this year, but one good part has been this stirring performance of Bread and Roses by Lucy Dacus during the inauguration of Zohran Mamdani that s been stuck in my head for days.