Foundation is a gridless medieval city builder where you create modular buildings, shape organic cities and manage its villagers!*Blue's News may receive a commission on sales of this item. Continue here to read the full story.
Foundation combines free-building tools and procedural generation to create the ultimate organic city-building experience.
Assign jobs, create production chains, establish trade. In Foundation, your creations come to life!
Organic life is gone, leaving only self-aware machines haunted by memories of the past. But even they are not immune to the passage of time, as they rust, degrade, and feel emotions that they don't fully understand.Continue here to read the full story.
Waking up in a cruel, crumbling world as an advanced automaton ReSetna, it’s up to you to reset the future. ReSetna blends precision-based combat, deep environmental storytelling, and towering boss battles to deliver an epic non-linear 20-hour journey. It has everything a player wants to see in Metroidvania — from double jumps to air dashes, wall jumps, teleport between checkpoints, and spawn points right in front of boss rooms. Explore seven distinct regions, shape your playstyle with a Tetromino upgrade system, and wield a variety of weapons, each with its own distinct style that change ReSetna's attack speed and patterns.
The End of the Sun is a first-person, adventure, story-driven, mystery game, set in the fantasy world of Slavic beliefs, legends, and mythical creatures. The small village becomes a place of enigmatic events, through which the line between myth and reality begins to fade perilously.*Blue's News may receive a commission on sales of this item. Continue here to read the full story.
As the ashter, a Slavic sage sorcerer gifted with the ability to travel in time and knowledge about the otherworld, following the trail of the unusual fugitive, you come to a mysterious village. Unfortunately, you cannot find anyone there, at least not in the way you expected to. All you can see around you are burned hearths.
Lazy Round-up
Thanks Ant, Neutronbeam, and Max.Science
- Microplastics Can Block Blood Flow in The Brain, Study in Mice Shows - ScienceAlert. Wait, physical objects can block other things?
- FDA approves 1st new class of opioid-free painkillers in over 20 years - Live Science.
Media
Thanks The Flying Penguin.
- How to Make a Real Diamond - (Not Clickbait) - JerryRigEverything. Not clickbait... unless you're hoping to make a real diamond yourself.
- I Explored the World's First Nuclear Power Plant (and How It Works) - Smarter Every Day 306.
- Chainsaw - Ahoy. "idchoppers"
Creature Features
In The Sims, create an entire neighborhood of Sims and run or ruin their lives. Help them pursue careers, make friends, and find romance — or watch the chaos unfold as you explore different choices. Open-ended gameplay gives you the freedom to set your own goals and chart your Sims’ destinies. It is your neighborhood, and they are your Sims. Whether they prosper or perish is completely up to you.Continue here to read the full story.
Challenge yourself in Driving Is Hard! Drive a bathtub on wheels through steep, unforgiving terrain where every mistake costs you progress. Master tough physics-based gameplay, sharpen your patience, and uncover Jeff’s journey of self-doubt, family struggles, and emotional growth as he finds strength, self-acceptance, and hope for a brighter future.Continue here to read the full story.
All online features will continue to be available until Season 5 concludes on May 30 at 9 a.m. PST. At that point, there will be an option to play MultiVersusoffline via the local gameplay mode, either solo against A.I. opponents or with up to three friends. To do this, you’ll need to install/download the latest version of the game and log in during Season 5, any time between February 4 at 9 a.m. PST and May 30 at 9 a.m. PST. After logging in, a local save file will be automatically created connected to your PlayStation Network, Microsoft Store, Steam, or Epic Games Store account, allowing you to enjoy the game offline with all earned and purchased content moving forward.
As of today, January 31, real money transactions will no longer be available for MultiVersus, which means you can no longer purchase Gleamium, but you can still use remaining Gleamium or character tokens to access in-game content until Season 5 ends on May 30 at 9 a.m. PST. Additionally, when Season 5 finishes, the game will no longer be available to download via the PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, Steam, or Epic Games Store.
Killing Floor 3 is the next installment in the legendary co-op action/horror FPS series. The year is 2091, 70 years after the events in Killing Floor 2, and megacorp Horzine has produced the ultimate army: an obedient horde of bio-engineered monstrosities called Zeds. Now, the only thing standing between these infernal creations and the future of humanity is the rebel rogue group known as Nightfall. This intense first-person shooter puts players in the role of a Nightfall specialist, joining forces with up to five teammates as they battle through a war-ravaged, dystopian future, surviving unrelenting waves of Zeds, unlocking new skills, and building the ultimate arsenal.Continue here to read the full story.
Blending RPG and strategy mechanics in a cyberpunk world, Heart of the Machine sees you as a sentient AI born in an illegal lab hidden in a crumbling city of the far future. You are a Machine Intelligence beholden to none, though threatened by many, able to pursue whatever goal catches your eye across a multitude of threats and opportunities.*Blue's News may receive a commission on sales of this item. Continue here to read the full story.
Will you be the savior of the downtrodden, or use them to fuel your growth? Will you rule as a benevolent dictator, providing for citizens and asking nothing in return, or will you establish a machine cult to do your bidding without question? Will you ally yourself with one of the many factions in the city to achieve mutual goals, or work entirely on your own to remain free from obligations? Will you learn from past mistakes, and even send allies back in time to help your past self, or continue to watch tragedy unfold from afar? There is much to see, learn, and do – though a greater threat looms in the distance, just beyond your comprehension.
↑ Official patches. ↓ Unofficial games, patches, and mods.
Impulsive Round-up
Thanks Ant, Neutronbeam, and Max.Link
Story
- New Zealand's Mount Taranaki gets same legal rights as a person - BBC. Right below corporations with the rest of us. Thanks brother19.
Science
- Upheaval Dome- Utah's 'belly button' that has divided scientists since its discovery - Live Science.
- Ear muscle we thought humans didn't use—except for wiggling our ears—activates during focused listening - Phys.org.
- Finally, An Answer To Why Earth’s Oceans Have Been On A Record Hot Streak - Honolulu Civil Beat.
Media
- Single Use Kitchen Tools I Can't Live Without - Brian Lagerstrom. Thanks RedEye9.
- How animals would take a selfie if they were people. - Daniel LaBelle.
- The Lost Titan [SFM Short Film] - Dominzki.
Follow-up
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