games
Friday, January 30, 2026
Sunday, February 1, 2026
that was the spiritual remake of that old MMO right
this is a funny last update, from Thursday this last week
As someone who follows a fair number of these old-school MMO projects
they all have this issue that they have enough money for their team to fuck around; seemingly forever
but as soon as they "launch" they immediately put themselves on this money timer where they're always 1-month from shutting down if they don't hit some absurd revenue goal
That's proven wrong by every gacha ever though
the issue isn't getting players into a new game, it's having the right mix of launch content, consistent updates, and the general sandbox to keep anyone invested
Most of these MMOs are privately funded by people with too much money pre-launch
but then when they're pushed out of the nest to survive on their own, they can't help but crash and burn because they're either developed by Koreans or graybeards (who are equally out-of-touch in their own ways)
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 As someone who follows a fair number of these old-school MMO projects
The only old-school MMO project I've looked at at all is Erenshor :p
I'm not exactly sure what happened
I might still be in the call?
I can hear Polu saying cute and funny
Over and over again
Monday, February 2, 2026
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Bloomberg sucks for how their URLs and paywalls work
but once you get past this being a pretentious Jason Schreier article, there's some good info in it
tldr; Obsidian Games is fucked
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Unironically, this was Blizzard's big announcement
also, they have officially given up being creative
The new hero is literally named "jetpack cat"
Tiny it's even funnier
they're starting over at "season 1" again
Marvel Rivals is MUCH bigger now, but Overwatch still has a solid playerbase
I just can't imagine there's anything that will actually bring people back to the game
feels like they'd have been better off actually making an Overwatch 3 at this point
Friday, February 6, 2026
yeah this map doesn't account for the rich diverse landscapes of my homeland either
Saturday, February 7, 2026
Loop Hero, Balatro, and Inscryption
it's always some combo of those 3