Category: video games
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MiSTer FPGA Developer Sergey Dvodnenko in Occupied Ukraine
Sergey Dvodnenko is a software developer living in a city in Ukraine that is under the control of occupying Russian forces. Dvodnenko is behind software cores for the MiSTer project with a focus on the Sega Saturn and he even recently released a core for Sega’s 32X during the occupation. His most recent update to Twitter…
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Bonesweeper in Development
Last year I wrote about the prototype Josh ‘Cheeseness’ Bush’s created for Bonesweeper, a game that’s a little bit like the classic Minesweeper but looking for fossils instead of digging for mines. So you’ll hear a soft crunch instead of a game-ending boom when you make a small mistake in deducing which squares are safe…
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Chess.com Becomes NFT Grifting Site
Users of the Chess.com were surprised today to find out that their previously played games could be minted on a blockchain as part of an NFT grift. Chess.com has an announcement about the scam, and the only way to opt-out of having previously played games minted is buried at the end of a support document…
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Teardown Exits Early Access
Teardown is a blocky destruct-em-up from Tuxedo Labs that was in early access for a long while and has just hit version 1.0 today. It’s a lot of fun and I’ll stream the campaign and sandbox mode a bit tonight to see what’s changed since I’ve last played Teardown. Teardown is $20 on Steam for…
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Cook Serve Forever, Announced
Cook, Serve, Delicious!, already has three games in the series and now Cook Serve Forever (maybe it should have been Cook Serve 4Ever?) is on the way for early 2023 with promises of local co-op through the campaign about a food-cart chef who wants to be a celebrity chef like their hero. It looks like Cook…