Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Like most newly-published authors, Andrew Groen has spent a lot of time lately doing talks and trying to get the word out about his new project. He’s travelled to popular destinations, and done his best to convince people to buy his history book. The difference is that Groen isn’t traveling the real world; instead, he’s…
Ever since Hearthstone‘s Blackrock Mountain adventure add-on released earlier this year, there’s a single deck that has completely dominated the game: the Grim Patron warrior. Today, Blizzard announced a major change that should significantly diminish patron warriors, if not knocking them out of the game altogether. What’s the problem? Here’s how it works: Grim Patron is a…
The only objective in Rust, a popular online video game, is to survive in the wild. But now, some players will have no other choice than to survive as female characters. Plenty of fans, voicing their discontent on Reddit and video game forums, are not happy about it. In the newest update that the developers…
When people talk about No Man’s Sky, the upcoming space-exploration game from Hello Games, they tend to focus on the sheer scale. This is a game with 18 quintillion planets to explore, after all. But much of its appeal also lies in the vibe created from the sound and visuals; it looks like a playable…
(Twitter) There are literal textbooks for online harassment, the original dating back to 1999. These “ruin-life” guides include tactics from doxing and SWATing to placing endangering or annoying ads in online classifieds. As popular as those techniques remain, however, online harassers have learned that they can cause far more damage with a slightly less flashy…
‘Supermoon’ is taken from the new 65daysofstatic record, ‘No Man’s Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe’, the official soundtrack to the procedurally generated science fiction computer game ‘No Man’s Sky’. Pre-order is available now with exclusive an second album of soundscape/sound design from http://www.lacedrecords.com http://www.65daysofstatic.com Sweet 2016/04/08 12:40:54 +0000 I love it. So very much!…
Baldur’s Gate expansion developer Beamdog today faced a barrage of heated online criticism about Siege of Dragonspear‘s inclusion of a variety of characters in a fantasy world, including a powerful woman and a trans woman. Since the expansion came out last week, it has become the latest focus for reactionary outrage about video game narratives that…
On Mar. 31, Nintendo’s first mobile app, a strange question-and-answer social network called Miitomo, launched in the US. It’s been available in Japan for a few weeks, and according to Nintendo, it was downloaded over 1 million times in the first three days there. Nintendo, which pretty much single-handedly created the portable video-game industry with…
Miitomo offers a disquieting prophecy of social networking’s future, one in which we largely cede the actual labor of interacting with other people to the networks themselves.Nintendo On Sunday, a new co-worker wearing a pair of cat ears dropped by to say hello. I would have liked to offer her a drink, but I…
Image: Gizmodo The Oculus Rift is starting to ship, and we’re pretty happy with it. While it’s cool, like any interesting gadget, it’s worth looking through the Terms of Service, because there are some worrisome things included. Quite a few of the items in the document are pretty typical in any sort of Terms of…