Spinning Magnets Do Your Dice Rolling For You

Dice are about the simplest machines possible, and they’ve been used since before recorded history to generate random numbers. But no machine is so simple that a little needless complexity ca…

Portable, Full-Size Arcade Cabinets

Believe it or not, there was a time when the only way for many of us to play video games was to grab a roll of quarters and head to the mall. Even though there’s a working computer or video g…

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition free from Epic Games store

Take to the stars in a steam train with this week's Epic freebie Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition. Link Details: - Account/DRM required: Epic Games (NOT Steam) - Offer good through July 4, 1600 GMT - Steam store page for evaluation. Next week, The...

Islands of Insight free in the Steam Store

You have until Steam Dawn tomorrow to claim a free copy of Islands of Insight in the Steam store. Link borsdy sighted this one from the island. Thanks! LH Why? Who knows why, just grab it.

Torment Poor Milton With Your Best Pixel Art

One of the great things about new tech tools is just having fun with them, like embracing your inner trickster god to mess with ‘Milton’, an AI trapped in an empty room. Milton is trapp…

2024 Business Card Challenge: Integrated Game Card

[Dan Schnur] has a simple strategy to ensure their business card stays on the client’s desk and doesn’t just get lobbed in a drawer: make it into a simple gaming platform. This entry in…

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Freshly Frosted free from Epic Games store

Head off to the donut factory for this week's Epic freebie Freshly Frosted. Link Details: - Account/DRM required: Epic Games (NOT Steam) - Offer good through June 27, 1600 GMT - Steam store page for evaluation. There's also an in-game currency...

Easy Retro 3D Look With Voxel Displacement Renderer

Voxels are effectively like 3D pixels, and they form an integral part of what is commonly referred to as a ‘retro 3D’ look, with pixelated edges sharp enough to cut your retinas on. The…

Redout 2 free from Epic Games store

Start your engines for Redout 2, free this week in the Epic store. Link Details: - Account/DRM required: Epic Games (NOT Steam) - Offer good through June 20, 1600 GMT - Steam store page for evaluation. There's also a free DLC pack for Idle...

Tight Handheld CRT Asteroids Game Curses In Tuscan

How many Arduini does it take to make a tiny CRT Asteroids game? [Marco Vallegi] of MVV Blog’s answer: two. One for the game mechanics and one for the sound effects. And the result is a sweet littl…

Baldur’s Gate III Comes To The TRS-80 Model 100

To say that Tandy’s TRS-80 Model 100 was an influential piece of computer hardware would be something of an understatement. While there’s some debate over which computer can historicall…

Neues Videospiel über Literatur: Zocken mit Kafka

Franz Kafka erlebt anlässlich seines 100. Todestages einen regelrechten Hype. Dazu gehört nun auch das Videospiel „Playing Kafka“.

Happy Birthday, Tetris!

Porting DOOM to everything that’s even vaguely Turing complete is a sport for the advanced hacker. But if you are just getting started, or want to focus more on the physical build of your project, …

Foosbar: The World’s Best* Foosball Robot From Scratch

[Xander Naumenko] is back with another bonkers project. This is the same creator that built a working 32-bit computer inside a Terraria world. This time it’s a bit more physical of a creation…

Marvel's Midnight Suns free from Epic Games store

The final Epic Mega Sale freebie is Marvel's Midnight Suns. LINK Details: - Account/DRM required: Epic Games (NOT Steam) - Offer good through June 13, 1600 GMT - Steam store page for evaluation. Next week is back to regular scheduled non-mystery...

Tarzan, Lost Since 1983, Swings Back Onto The Atari 2600

Computer gaming history is littered with tales of fabled lost hardware and software. Some of them are very famous such as the E.T. cartridges buried in a desert landfill or the few prototype SNES/C…

2024 Business Card Challenge: Snakes On A Business Card

Once [Lambert the Maker] saw the Arduboy, he knew the thing was ripe for remixing into a business card with an 8×8 LED matrix instead of an OLED screen. [Lambert] already has a PCB business ca…