The annual weeklong speedrunning event for charity has officially kicked off on the Games Done Quick Twitch channel. This year’s event promises to be a good one — I wrote some few runs I’m excited for here. But it will also be a little bittersweet, given it’s the last event for GDQ founder Mike Uyama, who spoke with my colleague Ash Parrish about his departure.
Card Shark made our list of ten recommendations for games from 2022 to try on your Nintendo Switch. And now, a sale has dropped its price from the usual $19.99 to $13.99.
As Jay Peters explained in his review, it’s good not only because it’s playable in short bites, but also because cheating is encouraged.
The cheats start small, like wiping the table in a certain direction to tip off what your opponent’s strongest suit is, but, by the end of the game, you’re stringing together multiple techniques in a row in complex schemes to win a round.
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The creator of Baba Is You, a brilliantly creative puzzler, has released a free tax-themed spinoff, Baba Files Taxes, on itch.io (though it’s only available for Windows). Our friends at Polygon say you can beat the game in about 10 minutes.
I don’t have a Windows machine so can’t vouch for it myself, but it looks delightful. Also, I guess I should start thinking about tax season.
For CES 2023, Sony shared some footage of its virtual production tools, which include a giant “LED wall” that can display remarkably believable settings that are entirely digital. This type of technology isn’t new — The Mandalorian also uses similar tools — but it continues to blow me away.
