Today's game is AC Shadows. I got started on the the last 2 targets of Act 2 today. It took me to the eastern region of the game, which is covered in this pretty forests with lanterns.

It was also home to quite a few shrines, which are my favorite locations in this game because it blends the nature and the architecture together really well. Of course, this shrine was the same size as all the others. You want to know what shrine wasn't the same size as all the others?

This one, which was massive and sprawling. It was about the size of a small town in the game. It had a massive pond that covered the courtyard and this pretty walk-through section that divided up the courtyard. I thought it was going to be leading up to a Stealth Section, but unfortunately it didn't. Though, i have some suspicions it will be used for the assassination event with the target.

The mission took me further into the woods to recover a scroll that was stolen by a clan that wanted the scroll to keep from peace being made. The wind was blowing really hard around this time, and it was a really cool sight to see. The screenshot cannot do it justice, but this game has some of my favorite wind physics i've ever seen. Everything seems to interact with it. The Ocean, Hair, Clothes. It's like how Red Dead 2 had amazing horses. This game has amazing wind. And somehow it doesn't lag my mid tier PC to hell and back.

The mission took me to this tomb with a bit of water surrounding it. The thieves were just outside. They out leveled me though so i had to get a bit creative with how i fought them.

My current loadout was built for double assassinations. In this game if you want to do double assassinations you need a Tanto in one of your weapon slots. It's honestly an interesting idea because it means you can trade Combat for Stealth, or vice versa.

Using the double assassination i snuck up behind these guards who'd patrol and then join up. I took them out, and the third guy saw me. I tossed a smoke bomb and led him on a goose chase through the woods, and then circled back to grab the scroll and then booked it back to turn it in to finish the mission.

After that, i called it quits for tonight because i just wasn't feeling up for anymore after 3 missions. I think the game has a pacing issue with Act 2. A few of these targets i feel really didn't need to be here or were trimmed to meet deadlines, which, i mean, these things happen in games. It does hurt the experience a bit though.

Design constraints:

• The solution path is from the outside opening to the large courtyard in the middle (or the reverse depending on how you look at it)
• no walls meet at a checkerboard / catty corner angle. All corners are solid L-shapes
• no 4x4 empty spaces outside of the entrance and nine courtyards
• no loops where you can return to a point without retracing your original path
• all small courtyards have an entrance and exit and are part of the solve path to the center
• all large courtyards (I'm going to put side goals / easter eggs in them) have only one entrance and are reachable as a branch of the solution path after the small courtyard that they are clockwise from.

If you're curious, the center is a witch / wizard tower covered and filled with plants with a ground floor that's an open arboretum kinda thing with stairs leading upward and a 2-level loft kinda thing up top with the bed / bath etc. When I used to play the sims the occupant would be a completely leveled up witch / wizard. Even if they don't officially add a magic mechanic in Inzoi I'm sure there will be a community mod at some point...

Blueprint / Solution:

EDIT: Removed / rearranged accidental Swastika just to the right of the lower-left large courtyard. original below.

80s and 90s kids will remember this, and it's making a comeback as a novelty item. No storyline, no visual and auditory stimuli, just a simple challenge to hook all the rings in the posts (extra points for achieving color patterns), so it's up to your imagination to fill in the rest. Real randomness, too, not subject to some random number generator. A real zen gaming experience.

Pros: no batteries needed. Cons: risk of water spillage, occasional refills needed.

I want to play some free, maybe even open-source Minecraft clone that is available on both Windows and Android.

Luanti (formerly Minetest) is not an option for me because its controls aren't really optimized for phone gaming. Are there any other options?

I just want to play survival in this kind of game

thanks!! xD

(Edited) I founded Bloxd.io. Just a great browser-based Minecraft-like game with active servers, lots of players, and a big community

Today's game is Halo Infinite. I managed to drag my friend and a few siblings out to play a few matches with me and we did a classic 8v8 in matchmaking. The screenshot above was taken during one of my favorite kills in the match where i got in a Banshee and rammed a guy under an overpass with it in an improvised kill. (right after that i got it stuck in a cave trying to pull a move i'd always pull in Halo 2)

at another point in the match i nabbed a warthog and got my friend and one of my brothers in with me. We didn't make it far before bumping into a tank and everything going to shit. We ended up being chased by it in a scene that looked like it'd be in an action film, up until we were blasted by a banshee. We all 3 had a lot of fun being chased though. The whole match to be honest was a lot of fun, even if it revealed we suck ass at PvP.

a little after they all went to bed, i decided i wasn't quite ready too yet, and hopped into another lobby on Sandtrap. I originally was planning to do ranked, thinking it'd pair me with people of a similar skill rank, but rank is locked until 50 matches. So instead i settled for another 8v8. The best play i made in the game was a kill (and embarrassingly the only kill) where i took another player out from the air. It was a really cool moment that brought me back to memories of PvP in Halo 3 multiplayer as a child.

Finally, After my horrible performance in that multiplayer match, i decided i should play the tutorial to see if there was some part of all this i was missing (besides practice). While going through it i noticed the facility the tutorial's story takes place in is named after Sgt. Johnson, which i thought was a cool detail. Another cool detail i liked was that there is a bit where you pick up your companion AI, and the whole way it's laid out it's made out to be like this is your AI. Which to me felt really cool and personal. One thing i wish they'd do though is open the customization options up to Forge, or at least open up the options that only the player can see. It'd be sick too be able to make your own AI using by adjusting the pitch and stuff (similar to how the armor cores work), or alternatively make your own entirely from scratch using sound clips online.

So I got really into CIV 6 recently. And of course I built a huge army and started steam rolling everyone around me and made the ENTIRE WORLD furious, which apparently isnt the point of the game.

So is there a similar 4x game where I can be a warmonger and not be shunned?

I am part of an event called "nethackathon" where multiple streamers hand over the same character/savegame to the next person in the schedule, like a relay race. What other games do you think would be good for a similar kind of event?

Nethack is ideal for a few different reasons:

• it has a clearly defined objective (win the game)
• permadeath means there are real stakes, we care if each character lives or dies
• a winning run usually takes about 10-20 hours, short enough to be done in the weekend of the event, but also long enough that it can't be completed by a single person and requires multiple streamers in 2 hour "shifts"
• transferable savegames (we play on a common server)
• the game itself is interesting and deep

What other games do you think would work well in this format and why?

Eurogamer understands Bethesda's current plan is to shadow drop the game next week on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, including via Xbox Game Pass.