I will not lie to you, gentle reader. When I first laid eyes on Secret Door’s Sunderfolk, while lurking to the rear of a gaggle of journomancers at a preview event last week, I let out an ostentatious sigh. Fortunately, I still mask up to preview events, and am thus free to adopt all kinds of snotty facial expressions without being set upon by burly PRs and shoved into the minifridge for later disposal. To sum it up, Sunderfolk is a hex and turn-based 2-4 player digital boardgame with fantasy animal characters and deckbuilding elements, reminiscent of Gloomhaven. Conceived during the pandemic lockdowns as a way to “bring back game night”, but without the traditional 30-minute unboxing ritual, it’s played on the big screen but controlled using a dedicated smartphone app, with players stroking and swiping to move characters and play cards.
Microsoft’s new emulator could bring more games to Windows on Arm
This will allow Qualcomm's new chips to run more types of apps that don't have native ARM64 versions and previously weren't usable with emulation. It could even enable games that use AVX2 Starfield And Helldivers 2, to work under Windows on Arm. With this update, Microsoft's emulator opens support for 64-bit x86 software to use … Read more