You Up?: What to Play, August 21
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Freshly Baked Games serves its King's Field revival crunchy
The dev jokes that teeth would wear down chewing on this game—Dark Souls's first-person ancestor finally gets an heir, and the demo is out.
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A Sea Made of Plastic [Podcast]
We go in on a police station built wrong on purpose, films rebuilt as late-'90s games nobody can play, and why Mario 64's water still felt like water.
The Little Database expands into a desktop directory
A year after the University of Minnesota Press book, UCLA's Danny Snelson rebuilds its resources as a clickable fake OS—podcasts, reviews, and dozens of small archives included.
The health packs in POLYMORPH have to die first
Intron Interactive's biological roguelike casts you as a cancerous pathogen; the comments immediately turned healing into a moral problem.