Brigador: Great Leader Is Dead, Solo Nobre Must Fall
A tactical mech game where you flatten a neon city block by block, and the city remembers. Steep learning curve, excellent synthwave soundtrack, very satisfying once it clicks.
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Vapor: Custom Steam Library Artwork Without the Tab Hoarding
Vapor is my open-source Python app that pulls grids, heroes, logos and icons from SteamGridDB and applies them to your Steam library, one game at a time or in bulk.
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Wobbly Life: Getting Kicked Out by Grandma Never Felt So Fun
A cheerful physics sandbox where you deliver pizzas, fight fires and dig up treasure instead of stealing cars. Proof that chaos doesn't need violence.
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Star Trek Online: War Is Good for Business
The most authentic Star Trek game around, stuck inside an aging MMO that really wants your money. Great ship combat, rough everything else.
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The Big PS4 Games Still on My List
My PS4 shelf is full of indie shooters and metroidvanias, which means I skipped a lot of the console's big games. God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Red Dead Redemption 2, Sekiro and the rest of the list, and a sensible order to tackle them in.
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Close Everything Before a Game, Without Killing Windows
Politely close your open apps (and, if you ask, tray apps and named services) to free up memory before a game or a long render, while Windows, your security software and the terminal you're typing in stay put.
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Every Zelda You Can Play on a Switch, and Where to Start
The Zelda games you can play on a Switch or Switch 2, whether they're a full release or part of Switch Online, roughly how long each one takes, and the order I'd suggest for a newcomer and for someone who's played a few.
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Human Fall Flat: So Much Fun Failing Basic Motor Functions
A physics puzzle game where you control each arm separately and fall off almost everything. It's best with friends, and it's funny every single time.
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ICON: Swapping Desktop Shortcut Icons for SteamGridDB Art
ICON is my open-source Python tool that scans your desktop shortcuts, finds square artwork for them on SteamGridDB, and replaces the icons, with a backup you can restore from.
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Rain World: Life Is Hard When You're a Slimy Little Guy
The most beautiful way to suffer ever made. Rain World will break your spirit, then slowly teach you how to survive in a world that doesn't care if you do.
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Balatro: Just One More Hand
What if poker was actually fun? A roguelike deckbuilder about building ridiculous hands and watching the numbers go into scientific notation. It will eat your evenings.
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Moving Epic Games to a New Drive Without Re-Downloading Them
Epic Games Transfer is my open-source PowerShell and Python tool that rewrites the Epic Games Launcher's manifest files after you move your games, so the launcher finds them instead of downloading them again.
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The Handhelds That Didn't Win
Microvision, Lynx, Game Gear, Neo Geo Pocket Color, WonderSwan and N-Gage. The handhelds that took on the Game Boy and lost, what each got right, and a timeline of how handhelds got from LCD segments to PC chips.
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Animal Well: 34MB of Pure Magic
A tiny download that holds one of the densest, most rewarding exploration games I've played. It keeps going deeper, and deeper, and deeper.
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Marvel Rivals Stands Tall in Overwatch's Shadow
A free hero shooter with a huge roster, team-up abilities and a real sense of polish. It doesn't reinvent the genre, but it does the familiar stuff really well.
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Picking One Android Handheld for Emulation and Movies
One device for PS2 emulation and my own movie files, smaller than a Steam Deck, with a microSD slot. The shortlist, the detour into phones, and where I'm leaning.
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Modding Shadow of Mordor in 2026
A twelve-year-old game, a proxy DLL, a ReShade preset and a trick for hiding the HUD. The Shadow of Mordor mod setup I put together this month.
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My Cyberpunk 2077 Mod Loadout
I bounced off Cyberpunk once because the guns felt stiff. Here's the mod list I'm running on the 2.3x Steam version now, and what all those frameworks actually do.
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Deckport: Getting Native Linux Games Onto the Steam Deck Without the Busywork
Deckport is my open-source Python tool that registers portable native Linux games as Steam Deck non-Steam shortcuts, with artwork, so they show up in Game Mode ready to play.
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WeatherStar 4000: The '90s Weather Channel on a Raspberry Pi
My open-source Python and pygame recreation of the WeatherStar 4000, built for Raspberry Pi and CRT TVs, with live weather data and 26-plus display modes.
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An Arcade Cabinet With a 4:3 Monitor, and Why I Went With CoinOPS on a PC
Notes from an arcade cabinet build in progress, on why the monitor is 4:3, and why a PC running CoinOPS won out over a plug-and-play Pandora-style board.
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Gorilla Tag: My Furniture Evolved, but Backwards
A VR game of tag where you move only by swinging your arms. It's brilliant, it's exhausting, and your furniture will not survive it unchanged.
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Switch Games for Two, Four and Eight on One Couch
My Nintendo Switch shortlist for local multiplayer, sorted by how many people are on the couch, from two-player co-op games that need teamwork to eight-player chaos.
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Door Kickers: Think Twice Before You Kick Down Every Door
A top-down SWAT tactics game where every mission is a puzzle and the planning is half the fun. It rewards patience and punishes you for rushing.
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Forgotten by Time, Still Good: PS3 Games That Fell Out of the Conversation
Eleven PS3 games that reviewed well, sold fine and then quietly vanished, from Binary Domain and Enslaved to Split/Second and Blur, with what happened to the studios behind them and where you can still play each one.
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Portal 2: I'm Making a Note Here, Huge Success
Brilliant writing, clever puzzles and a co-op campaign that tests friendships. My only real complaint is that I can't play it for the first time again.
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The Steam Deck and EmuDeck Hotkeys I Actually Need
One page of the Steam Deck's built-in shortcuts and the hotkeys EmuDeck sets up for RetroArch, Dolphin, PCSX2, DuckStation and the rest, in tables you can glance at mid-game.
Thread: The emulation bench ↗4 min readRead note
Move a List of Folders to a New Drive with PowerShell and Robocopy
Hand a list of folders from several drives to robocopy in one go, keep their structure on the new drive, catch name collisions before anything moves, and get a log per folder.
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Loop Hero: Time Is a Flat Circle and I Can't Stop Playing
You don't control the hero. You build the world around him, one card at a time, and watch him walk the same loop until something kills him. It's weirdly addictive.
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Quest 2 After a Swim: Stuck Boot Dot, Buzzing Controllers, and What I Tried
My notes from trying to bring a water-damaged Meta Quest 2 back to life, what each symptom probably points to, and where I'd go next.
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Homeworld Remastered: Still Beautiful After All These Years
Two legendary space strategy games in one remastered package. Not a perfect remaster, but still the best way to play the games that made fleet combat in 3D feel possible.
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Space Marine: A Great Game at a Bad Price
The 2011 Warhammer 40K action game still nails the power fantasy of being a Space Marine. The price jump right before the sequel is the hard part to swallow.
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PS3 Hidden Gems: The Games That Deserved a Bigger Crowd
Fourteen quieter PlayStation 3 games from my list, averaging 81 on review scores, from Vanquish and Valkyria Chronicles to Folklore, Tokyo Jungle and Puppeteer, with who made them, why they got missed and where you can still play them.
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Spider-Man: Miles Morales Is Short, Stylish and Worth It
A shorter, snowier Spider-Man game that makes up for its length with Miles's powers, gorgeous winter New York and one of the better PC ports I've played.
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Emulation Handhelds Sorted by Chip, Not by Brand
A quick way to make sense of the flood of Anbernic, Miyoo, Retroid and TrimUI handhelds, by grouping them by the chip inside, plus the custom firmware worth knowing and why the shape matters more than the spec sheet.
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Inscryption: The Less You Know, the Better It Gets
A card game that isn't just a card game. I'm going to tell you as little as possible, because that's the best way to play it.
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The TurboGrafx-16 and PC Engine: NEC's Brilliant Middle Child
The console that was a hit in Japan as the PC Engine and an also-ran in America as the TurboGrafx-16. Its odd 8-bit and 16-bit hardware, the first CD add-on, the games worth playing, and how to play them now.
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En Garde! Have Fun Storming the Castle
A short swashbuckling action game where you parry, kick guards down stairs and throw buckets at their heads. I wanted more of it, which is the only real complaint.
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Sizing Up a $250 Used Gaming PC
How I worked out whether a used RX 570 and Ryzen 3 gaming PC was worth $250, what it can actually run, and the checks and questions I'd use on any used PC listing.
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The PS3 Heavy Hitters I Still Haven't Played
The big, famous PlayStation 3 games sitting on my to-play list, from The Last of Us and Red Dead Redemption to Metal Gear Solid 4 and Demon's Souls, and where each one is easiest to play now.
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Apex Legends: It's Complicated
The best-moving, best-feeling battle royale I've played, wrapped in monetization and server problems that make it harder to recommend every season.
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The Golden Age of Arcades, 1978 to 1983
The five or so years when arcade games went from a novelty to everywhere, from Space Invaders to Dragon's Lair, the technology that changed on the way, and why it all fell off a cliff in 1983.
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Slime Rancher: Just One More Harvest Before Bed
A farming game where the crops are bouncing slimes and the farm tool is a vacuum. Sixty-three hours in, it's still the game I put on when I want to unwind.
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