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I’ve been hooked on Caves of Qud lately, and I wanted to move off of the default starter character builds. Here’s one that I’ve been having fun with lately; It gets me into tinkering pretty quickly, and getting two extra random mutations makes it a really different run every time.

Today’s game is some more Halo MCC. I went back and finished the Backrooms mod with my friend. It definitely wasn’t what I was expecting. I’ll spoiler things for anyone that might want to check it out, because it’s like a short 25 minute romp that’s free. But: Spoiler It throws “entities” at you midway through. It honestly starts out throwing one at you that kind of startles you. It did this with a narrow hallway. After that though you open up into a larger room and just start mowing them down. Honestly it was kind of cool for a mod that was probably made by someone who was passionate about Halo and the Backrooms.

Today’s game is Pokemon Platinum. I did the whole Distorted World quest. I have to say that this is by far one of my favorite areas in the game along with the northern snow region. I love how it makes use of the camera angles. It’s a lot more impressive I feel for a 3DS Game. On top of that I love the theme music for the place. There’s something super calming about it yet so eerie.

The detailed sourcing directly attacks Sony’s legal claim that a reasonable person wouldn’t expect to own their digital purchases on the PlayStation Store.

Today’s game is Halo MCC. I played some 8v8 PvP with a friend. It felt good to be back playing Halo. Halo to me is that game that just feels right to play. I could come home and turn it on and it’s like this deep seated feeling that everything will be okay, because I’m in my place. I think it’s fascinating that a game can produce that kind of effect.

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Today’s game is Assassin’s Creed 3. I’ve been putting this off for a while. Mainly because all I’m really doing right now is finishing the last 20% of my last save. It’s mostly tedious work, collecting the damn feathers and stuff. But I’m making good progress. The collectibles are almost all done. And thankfully they’re no where near as bad as say, Unity.

I’m glad it’s highlighted on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown in particular, because that was the first game I’d bought from Ubisoft in years, and the extra launcher deterred me from considering buying any of their other games for a long while still. EA still has launchers on older games like It Takes Two and A Way Out and Dragon Age II and Inquisition that create obstacles for LInux compatibility and offline play, but newer titles like Split Fiction and The Veilguard no longer have the extra launcher problem. It’s good to see Ubisoft following this trend, and hopefully they can stop standing in the way of their own success.

After a long research journey I ended up with the Mobapad M12 S. A bit surprised how few mainstream media sites gave any coverage to Joycon replacements. But the small YouTuber community was a buzz with how great these were. So I took the plunge and spent my own money.

I’ve got about 20 hours in. So far I’m loving it. I’ll get into more detail if we have back and forths in the comments.

Today’s game is Halo. I admittedly didn’t have much I did today. I ended up booting Halo to play campaign. I figured I could grab some of the loose stragglers I have in terms of achievements for fun. I accidentally booted it up without Anti Cheat though. And that’s when i remembered “Oh yeah. I have mods”. I ended up spending all day just exploring them.

I am currently working on a game and I am collecting some feedback to improve the game. Hoping to get best possible demo for the Steam Next Fest on October. Any feedback is appreciated!

Valheim 1.0 has arrived!

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Today’s game is Mario Kart 64. You know what I had? A bunch of cool stuff about Pokemon Platinum I was going to share. My flash cart though isn’t a fan of taking screenshots when the screenshots Archive was made on the 3DS and I switched it back to my DS Lite. So basically all the ones I took were gone. Thankfully, I was uploading some stuff to my Jellyfin server and was playing Mario Kart 64 while waiting. So I have that to talk about.

You can now AI slop and yassify everything on your computer and the entire internet including things that require invasive age verification in some US states and the UK!

Was a wild couple of hours on gamingleaksandrumours on the forbidden site. Somehow Final Fantasy 7 and Code Veronica stayed safe.

There’s a special edition of the Switch 2 in relation to commemorating the 40th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, which is expected to release around October 29 2026. Keep in mind this is discussing the Region Locked version of the console rather than the Global Switch 2 everyone else owns. I mean, you can import it upon release but comes with caveats (must have a JP Nintendo Account and speak / understand Japanese).

WonderThunder has archived the entirety of Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls in an offline capacity, uploading their work to The Internet Archive. Currently, the game can only be played on macOS, but WonderThunder suggests that Windows, iOS, and perhaps Android versions will be available in the future, preserving one of the smaller pieces of the Castlevania continuity for future generations. Stellar work.

Today’s game is Minecraft. “What is that monstrous monolith” you might be asking? Well. That’s my Childhood Minecraft world I built with my sister way way back on the earliest version of the Xbox 360 edition. I’ve been wanting to back this up for a while before that thing bit the dust. Let me tell you. It was a nightmare. I first, had to transfer it to my Xbox one. Thankfully I had already done that back in 2018. Then I had to transfer it to Bedrock edition. That butchered it a little. But that’s fine. It’s still mostly the same.

I had the chance to interview Mike Miller, the developer behind Halo: Combat Devolved, an ongoing project that aims to bring Halo: Combat Evolved to the Game Boy Color (and retro handhelds) using GB Studio. I’ve been playing through it on my Brick Hammer, it really feels at home on there.

…, the airport’s centerpiece would be a display aircraft wrapped in Vice City logos, alongside a GTA 6-inspired baggage claim, customized baggage carousels or column wraps, themed luggage carts, limited-edition luggage tags, or coordinated airport signage. Arriving passengers would see “Welcome to Vice City” messages when disembarking their planes.

The games will vary in obscurity, but I promise each would have had a North American release.

Today’s game is Minecraft Legacy Console edition. All this Pokemon and Assassin’s creed I’ve been playing lately has left me wanting to play something a little calmer. I remembered the PC decomp of Xbox 360 Edition and booted it up with a world and just took it easy.

Today’s game is some more Pokemon Platinum. I’ve crawled my way all the way to the 7th gym today and stopped there. I spent a lot of time though working on filling out the Pokédex. There’s a ton of evolutions I can nab currently for the Dex that I’ve been training. I got some friends to play back to back with me so this really works out great as it gives them time to catch up to me.

While in the first installments of the game trilogy, the character of Miller was a fictional synthesis of various traits, in the final chapter — Metro Exodus — a real person named Pyotr Sherekin became the prototype for the colonel’s refreshed appearance.

I might make a future post about how much I struggled to get my game out there and the non-game dev stuff that slowed me down (like losing my job because our company decided to dismiss 50-60% of its work force).

The games will vary in obscurity, but I promise each would have had a North American release.

An Astra remake of the 1977 text adventure, created with Threejs. It lacks polish but compares favorably with some early 3D games. Quite amazing.

Today’s game is Project Zomboid. Me and some friends got back on our world and even got a new person on. I took the chance to blacksmith them a weapon and even build a fancy new materials cabinet. I asked them what they wanted and they said a machete, so i tried to make one for them. It was a little more of a headache finding the materials, but i did eventually get there.

Donald Trump’s White House has launched Arcade.Gov, a site with mini-games where you catch and deport immigrants, or use Tetris blocks to build a border wall.

Today’s game is some more Assassin’s Creed 3. Admittedly I was originally going to do some more Pokemon Platinum, but the SD card I was using with my FlashCart failed me. it’s my fault. I should have known better than to trust the cheap no-name Chinese SD card that was giving me issue after issue. Nonetheless though, I was able to save my save file so all is good.

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Sony went on to say that it takes a “firm stance” against such behavior, which includes examples like “persistent and repeated, or prolonged, demands, excessive or unreasonable demands for compensation or apologies, and abusive language, threats, slander, and other similar behaviors.”

Today’s game is some more Pokemon Platinum. I was actually going to play Assassins’s Creed 3 (the other game I decided to commit too as a project), but I ordered a flash cart (DSPico) so I could play the game on original hardware. I don’t want this to be considered a “review”, but for anyone curious it has been serving me well. I have had a few hiccups but I suspect it’s the cheap no name microSD card included with the cart rather than the cart itself.

The very bad news is, Nvidia says turning DLSS 5 on will currently reduce performance by 50-60%. And that’s across the board—no matter the game.