Stories tagged with Gaming, curated through a biblical lens.
Donkey.bas, the 131-line BASIC driving game bundled with the original IBM PC, has turned 45. A retrospective walks through the code line by line.
Thirty years after Quake redefined what a 3D engine could do, an official new mission pack adds maps and mechanics to a game that has never really stopped being played. The release lands in a modding community that has been shipping its own expansions continuously since 1996.
An Xbox service outage left players unable to launch games they owned on physical discs, because the console verifies entitlements against Microsoft's servers before letting a disc run. The episode is a concrete demonstration that "owning" a disc now means owning a license key a remote server has to approve, and that offline play is a privilege the platform can revoke by accident.
A review finds Alienware’s AW2726DM QD-OLED monitor delivers high refresh rates and strong contrast at an unusually low price. Reviewers noted the panel’s brightness in HDR as the main compromise. The price undercuts most competing OLED gaming displays.
A developer built Isopolis, a browser-based isometric pixel map of San Francisco rendered block by block. The project blends real geographic data with hand-styled tile art. It is free to explore in the browser.
The designer behind Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion announced that production has begun on a sequel to Thimbleweed Park. The original was funded by backers who wanted a point-and-click adventure made the old way.