Author: Jack Slater

  • There’s a Slightly Better Raspberry Pi 3 Available

    The Raspberry Pi single-board computer has a slight update in the form of the Raspberry Pi Model 3 B+. It has the same processor, but this new + model is clocked 200 Mhz faster at 1.4 Ghz, unless it gets too warm in which case it’ll throttle back down to regular Model 3 speeds of 1.2…

  • Deep Sixed Sounds Like Linux on the Desktop in Space: The Game, But Fun

    A few times a year I spend anywhere from 5 to 15 hours digging through some Linux garbage. Deep Sixed is a spaceship management roguelike game in space about managing a spaceship the way we see in movies. Tom Chick: Deep Sixed also loves that moment in Dark Star. Maybe not specifically that moment, but…

  • You Can Ignore Curators on Steam Now

    One thing I find particularly frustrating in Steam is being inundated with curator recommendations from Gamer Gate supporters like Total Biscuit, well the good news is that you can ignore them now. Of course, Valve has made this incredibly frustratingly only accessible from one page, and only when some algorithm decides to recommend that you…

  • 3D Realms’ Ion Maiden is Surprisingly Good?

    The husk of 3D Realms has published a new BUILD-engine game, Ion Maiden, developed by Voidpoint. In Steam’s Early Access program, It has the atrocious Shelly “Bombshell” Harrison character from 3D Realms’ twin-stick shooter, Bombshell. I completely forgot about that game before it was even released. Rock Paper Shotgun’s John Walker has impressions of what you get…

  • Never Stop Sneakin’ on Steam

    Dean Dodrill’s Never Stop Sneakin’ has finally hit Steam after being released on the Nintendo Switch late last year. It still looks like a brilliant, but perhaps too repetitive, satirical reduction of Metal Gear Solid minus all the complex controls. I’m so glad that this is a thing in the world. Never Stop Sneakin’ is typically $15, but it…