NYT tech workers are making their own games while on strike

Striking New York Times Technicians have created a Guild Builds page dedicated to strike-themed games you can play, including a spin-on variant Wordle, a word search and the custom Connections I already reported on it today. As part of its strike announcement on Monday, the New York Times Tech Guild urged people not to cross … Read more

The creators of What Remains Of Edith Finch are making a weird and alarming biology game inspired by Ghibli and Attenborough

What Remains Of Edith Finch is a very upsetting collection of interactive short stories about the brief, tragic lives of a cursed family who live in a monstrous treehouse. It’s also a wonderful show of experimentation, switching genres from story to story – one minute you’re a playable bestiary on shuffle, the next you’re beheading fish in a cannery as the worktable disappears beneath your scrolling daydreams. The developer’s next project seems to be pursuing a similar balance of whimsy and darkness. It’s another anthology experience, which casts you as a field biologist studying “the strangeness of organic life”. Also, chicken-legged houses.

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Netflix is making it easier to bookmark and share your favorite parts of a show

Netflix is ​​introducing a new feature called “Moments” that lets you save and share bookmarks at a specific point in a show or movie. The feature seems like a very useful way to share parts of something you're watching with friends or on social media. To capture a moment, tap the screen while watching something … Read more

The Tales Of Kenzera devs are making a Gothic horror RPG beat ’em up where two characters fight over one body

The creators of “beautifully designed yet imprecise platforming adventure” Tales Of Kenzera: Zau are working on an Afrofuturist gothic-horror RPG with isometric visuals and a body-sharing dual character premise. Currently known as Project Uso – the Swahili word for ‘face’, ‘appearance’ or ‘surface’ – it’ll take place in the same world as Kenzera, and will take inspiration from Surgent Studio founder Abubakar Salim’s experiences of parenthood. Providing, that is, the developers can find enough money to make it.

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