I'm pretty sure there's a term for it. Google did it with shopping and images, Instagram changed the home button with some advertising thing (dont remember the exact details).
I've tried several games like it. Arcanum being one of the most similar but I just can't get into that style, no matter how many times I've tried lol. Same reason I won't play Planescape: Torment. Just not for me. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Democratic governors lashed out Friday against a report from special counsel Robert Hur, which cleared the president of wrongdoing on his handling of classified information but took digs at his age and memory....
He should've primaried Biden. I've written it so much but if it came down to him vs Trump he'd win instantly. He is the only non-controversial Democrat that can replace Biden.
The typically-dry Badwater Basin salt flat at the bottom of Death Valley has for months been teeming with water after record rains and flooding have battered eastern California since August....
The Zelda games on the Game Boy and Colour are unique within the Zelda series as a whole. Strange plots, enemies, music, mystery and even gameplay plague the three games. Hell, in Link's Awakening half the enemies are straight up from Super Mario Bros. And the oracle games come with novels and feature interconnected password...
Alone: The Horror Begins is allegedly (more on that later) a J2ME game developed by Centrescore, a company I can barely find any information about. This company is hard to track down. After scouring their old website I still can't figure out where they were even located. I guess somewhere in the U.S.A. but even then all the info...
Thanks for the information! You wouldn't happen to have a copy of the game would you (JAR or BAR files)? Or at least know if Alone was a BREW or J2ME game? Either way I'm going to update the article with this new information. It really seems like Centrescore had a lot of cool games, though nearly all of which of lost now.
I'm also going to reach out to Andy Weir and see if he somehow has a copy. Either way thanks for the tip.
And now that I know the game was actually released I'm way more confident it can be found!
From the github description: "A Virtual Boy emulator for the Nintendo 3DS continuing mrdanielps's work on r3Ddragon, which is itself based on Reality Boy / Red Dragon. It uses a dynamic recompiler with busywait detection and a hardware-accelerated renderer to achieve high performance on the 3DS's limited hardware."
Nintendo claims that Yuzu actively assisted in piracy of Tears of the Kingdom. They say that Yuzu violates Nintendo's copyright by decrypting their games to run....
I wrote an article arguing that Web1.0, 2.0 and Web3 are all incorrect and inaccurate ways to categorize the web's history. Originally I was just going to write a post about how I didn't like the term Web3 but after reading about Web1.0 and 2.0 I don't like those either. It feels way too high level and ignores that the Internet...
Web1.0 = 1969 - 1980 - Birth of ARPANET to birth of Usenet.
Web2.0 = 1980 - 1993 - Birth of Usenet to the Eternal September.
Web3.0 = 1993 - 2008 - Eternal September to birth of Chromium, end of GeoCities and the 2008 economic crash.
Web4.0 = 2008 - 2020 - Chromium, GeoCities and the 2008 economic crash to the COVID-19 pandemic and big tech hires.
Web5.0 = 2020 - present - The COVID-19 pandemic to where we find ourselves now.
Anyone have any comments? Only thing I couldn't fit anywhere was the Internet of Things. That's not really something that peaked in any era.
Here is the complete announcement: https://commaful.notion.site/commaful/A-Heartfelt-Goodbye-and-a-New-Beginning-at-Commaful-a31080180fa647f5ad69eac89fa6b532...
There's a whole timeline for the shut down but after Feb 24, and apparently the site will remain up for the time being. Authors can save their own stories and most stories are downloadable.
There are currently no plans I can see to mirror the site via Archive.org or the OTW. The creators are moving onto something called CharacterHub.
Just a heads up in case someone was looking to download stuff from here and didn't do it.
Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. (programming.dev)
Switch to Linux!...
New Crazy Taxi Game Will Be Live Service with a '100-Person Survival Mode' (insider-gaming.com)
To nobody’s surprise, Sega has enshittified its beloved Crazy Taxi IP.
I feel called out (sh.itjust.works)
Analogue's Nightmare: This FPGA Game Boy is Half the Price (youtu.be)
India may block Proton Mail (techcrunch.com)
Disco Elysium standalone expansion reportedly cancelled and quarter of staff facing redundancy at ZA/UM (www.eurogamer.net)
‘I smell a rat,’ says Dem Gov. Pritzker of special counsel report on Biden (www.politico.com)
Democratic governors lashed out Friday against a report from special counsel Robert Hur, which cleared the president of wrongdoing on his handling of classified information but took digs at his age and memory....
'Extremely rare event:' Satellite images show lake formed in famously dry Death Valley (www.usatoday.com)
The typically-dry Badwater Basin salt flat at the bottom of Death Valley has for months been teeming with water after record rains and flooding have battered eastern California since August....
Anyone know any other games similar to the Oracle ones? Already have a few (Anodyne, Lenna's Inception), looking for more.
The Zelda games on the Game Boy and Colour are unique within the Zelda series as a whole. Strange plots, enemies, music, mystery and even gameplay plague the three games. Hell, in Link's Awakening half the enemies are straight up from Super Mario Bros. And the oracle games come with novels and feature interconnected password...
Alone: The Horror Begins, the first ever J2ME Horror game.
Alone: The Horror Begins is allegedly (more on that later) a J2ME game developed by Centrescore, a company I can barely find any information about. This company is hard to track down. After scouring their old website I still can't figure out where they were even located. I guess somewhere in the U.S.A. but even then all the info...
Programmer Skyfloogle, has released Red Viper, an updated virtual-boy emulator for the 3DS. (github.com)
From the github description: "A Virtual Boy emulator for the Nintendo 3DS continuing mrdanielps's work on r3Ddragon, which is itself based on Reality Boy / Red Dragon. It uses a dynamic recompiler with busywait detection and a hardware-accelerated renderer to achieve high performance on the 3DS's limited hardware."
Remedy Entertainment buys Control series rights from 505 Games for €17m (www.eurogamer.net)
Alan Wake developer Remedy Entertainment has announced it's acquired the full rights to its Control series from publish…
Nintendo launches lawsuit against the devs of the Switch emulator, Yuzu. (www.theverge.com)
Nintendo claims that Yuzu actively assisted in piracy of Tears of the Kingdom. They say that Yuzu violates Nintendo's copyright by decrypting their games to run....
An Argument for Web5.0 (medium.com)
I wrote an article arguing that Web1.0, 2.0 and Web3 are all incorrect and inaccurate ways to categorize the web's history. Originally I was just going to write a post about how I didn't like the term Web3 but after reading about Web1.0 and 2.0 I don't like those either. It feels way too high level and ignores that the Internet...
Commaful, a website specializing in short fiction stories will shut down on February 24, 2024. (commaful.notion.site)
Here is the complete announcement: https://commaful.notion.site/commaful/A-Heartfelt-Goodbye-and-a-New-Beginning-at-Commaful-a31080180fa647f5ad69eac89fa6b532...
https://medium.com/@charinusraps/a-retrospect-on-links-awakening-0af2035f183e
I wrote an article covering the Unreal remake of Link's Awakening and similar 'Lozgbc'-type games.