JLSigman

To the surprise of exactly no-one, BioWare is shuttering Anthem in January https://www.ea.com/games/anthem/news/anthem-game-update

Diablo Immortal has added Druids to the roster.

Living Colour on Tiny Desk goes hard as FUCK https://www.npr.org/2025/06/25/g-s1-70062/living-colour-tiny-desk-concert?jwsource=cl

Steam Summer Sale is here to steal your wallet

Read the first volume collection of X-Force, and wow they really made Forge into a complete dick

According to Crate entertainment - "As of now, a late Fall/Winter 2025 release is within the realm of possibility, but as the team is still very much in “but what if we also did…” exploration mode, which predictably blows up schedules, we are reluctant to make firm promises. So I would not be surprised if we slip to Spring 2026, or even early Summer if we need more time to polish."

....why is there a live action "Cells at Work"?

Foundation season 3 is go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-M7G6Uc0dQ

And another one! Neverwinter Nights 2 Enhanced Edition drops July 15th https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wO0yHwBETE

Couple interesting to me upcoming games: Failbetter Games (aka the Fallen London folks) are making a farm sim. Just.... watch the trailer. https://bsky.app/profile/failbettergames.com/post/3lr4o2n3g7c2j Relooted, made by Nyamakop in South Africa, is making that reverse Indy Jones game we've all wanted: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3255890/Relooted/

Because, unfortunately, people want Reynolds and not NPH

Reading The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, and this is an excellent, tightly written horror thriller. I'll have to go look up his other stuff.

Right now (8:30am Saturday morning) taking a little time to load, and also I get errors when trying to react to some posts (but not others, as shown in this thread).

Gonna be on all platforms 9/30 - https://bsky.app/profile/square-enix-games.com/post/3lqsszkjnyc26

Nioh 3 is on the way, and there's already a demo https://bsky.app/profile/gameinformer.com/post/3lqssdlir432l

...that's an awful looking Hawkgirl

Equal parts "What the fuck" and "Yeah I'm so there" - Official Frankenstein on Netflix trailer

For May , some highlights - Re-read of N. K. Jemisin's excellent "Inheritence" trilogy, plus the newer novella. - Void Rivals, which is in the same universe as the new Transformers comics (and the GI Joe comics I probably won't read), was really good. - Out There Screaming, an anthology edited by Jordan Peele with stories by most every amazing Black author you can think of, was really good. Only a couple misses in the whole thing. - The first collection of Gail Simone's Uncanny X-Men was good writing, OK to eh art. Yes, I'm picky about the art.

Oof, good luck with that. *hugs if you want them*

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1466060/Tainted_Grail_The_Fall_of_Avalon/ Noodled around the demo for this, and it is painfully Oblivion coded, and wonderfully Oblivion coded. If I could pull back out of first person mode I'd like it better.

After throwing almost $500 at the 17+ year old HVAC, it's definitely dead. The compressor needs to be replaced, then a leak needs to be found, and oh the board basically immediately fried itself as soon as they put the new one in. So I'll be getting a couple of window units, because who's got $10k lying around? No this broke lady.

I finally got around to playing the demo for Tower of Kalemonvo and I really liked it. It's gone to the top of my "Buy when I'm not throwing hundreds of dollars at the house" list. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2351860/Tower_of_Kalemonvo/

Peter Morwood, author of many books, including several with his wife Diane Duane, died last night after a short illness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Morwood#Bibliography

Read 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson. It was OK. My library has reduced the number of Hoopla borrows a month to 3, which sucks. Currently reading Seraphina by Rachel Hartman, technically a YA fic that deals with some pretty heavy themes (self hatred, self mutilation) wrapped in an amazing amount of interesting world building. Really enjoying it.

The problem is that as time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin' you have folks like Magneto who would be nearly 100 by now, going from his original origin. So you have to do things to keep characters, especially ones as complicated and important as him, in the modern era. And since many (most?) comic fans are resistant to passing the torch to the next generation, you have to remake the backstory, or bring them back from the dead, or clone them into a younger body, etc.