Big news for VF fans. Yes, both of us.

In all seriousness, this is probably my favourite 3D fighter and I'm eager to see how it comes out!

Lately I've been thinking about Voxatron, an incomplete yet fun little top-down-ish shooter game from 2011. I love the way it looks and plays, so I've been wondering if there are any other games with the same aesthetic?

It's a bit hard to explain, but what I liked specifically about Voxatron was how the characters and the environment were animated. Everything seemed to snap to an invisible three-dimensional grid, or in other words, voxels didn't rotate. Here's an example.

What I'm not looking for is a game that is made of voxels, but is animated like polygons, if that makes sense. Like this. I'm not really sure what term to use, because searching for "voxel games" was not very fruitful for me. Search results encompassed everything from Minecraft to Severed Steel.

I imagine animating a game in such a way would be super time consuming, but I still have to ask: are there any games that fit this criteria?

So, really, a win for everybody.

FYI, the article is in Spanish: https://www.hobbyconsolas.com/noticias/desarrollador-summerfall-studios-carga-bobby-kotick-1385082

For those unaware, The Triple-i Initiative is a group of indie studios whose purpose is to highlight fan-favorite games and hype up established indie classics as well as new IPs.

So, without further ado, here are the trailers. Names in bold are new releases, the rest are updates to existing games:

• Slay the Spire II (Reveal Trailer)
• Risk of Rain 2 (Free Content Update ft. Dead Cells Crossover Skin & More)
• KILL KNIGHT (Announcement Trailer)
• Shadows of Doubt (Console Announce + Sharpshooter Assassin Launch Trailer)
• My Time at Sandrock (Cross Platform Multiplayer Announce Trailer)
• Dinolords (Teaser Trailer)
• Gestalt: Steam & Cinder (Release Date Trailer)
• Vampire Survivors (Operation Guns DLC feat. Contra + Playstation Announce)
• Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn (Composing Vengeance Trailer)
• Never Alone 2 (Game Reveal)
• Cataclismo (Hogar's Hope Trailer)
• Death Must Die (Act II Reveal)
• Endzone 2 (Gameplay Trailer)
• Dyson Sphere Program (Free Content Reveal)
• UnderMine 2 (Announcement Trailer)
• Norland (Early Access Release Date Announcement)
• WHAT THE CAR? (Steam Date Announcement)
• Darkest Dungeon II (New FREE Game Mode 'Kingdoms' Coming in 2024)
• RKGK (Developer Intro & Game Reveal)
• Broken Roads (Official Launch Trailer)
• Ravenswatch (Fall of Avalon Update)
• Cat Quest III (Opening Animation Reveal)
• Hyper Light Breaker (Mini-boss Reveal Trailer)
• The Last Spell (Dwarves of Runenberg DLC)
• Laysara: Summit Kingdom (Surprise Launch Trailer)
• Wizard of Legend 2 (First Look at Gameplay)
• Let's School (Beloved School Management Sim Announced on consoles)
• Brotato (Abyssal Terrors DLC & Local CO-OP Update Announcement Trailer)
• Tchia (Nintendo Switch Release Date)
• Streets of Rogue 2 (Official Gameplay Trailer)
• Old World (Behind The Throne DLC Announcement
• Palworld (Arena Trailer)
• 33 Immortals (Beta Gameplay Trailer)
• MOUSE (Spike-D Gameplay Teaser)
• V Rising (Legacy of Castlevania Gameplay Trailer)
• The Rogue Prince of Persia (Reveal Trailer)

Not to say I hate the genre, I actually love me some Dusk or Turbo Overkill, but why, oh why are they called Boomer Shooters?

These games clearly took inspiration from 90s FPS games, which 👌, but they were played mostly by Gen Xers and Millenials, not Boomers. When games like Duke Nukem 3D or Quake were out, Boomers were what? 30 to 50 years old? I'm sure some of them played FPS games, but there is no way they were the majority.

Whenever I see the term Boomer Shooter, my mind goes to games like Shootout! for Magnavox Odyssey. Can't we call them something else, like Retro FPSes or something?

Anyway, rant over. Thank you for your time.

EDIT: We decided not to pursue further diagnosis, because we wouldn’t know what the hell we’re doing anyway, and decided to start the RMA process instead. It might not even be the reason why the PC won’t turn on, but I’m not comfortable with putting that CPU back into his PC again. Once we get a replacement, we’ll see what happens. If it’s still busted, we’ll just take it to a local shop. Thank you everyone for your for your suggestions and insight, they are very much appreciated.

My friend called me to take a look at his PC that wouldn’t turn on. Upon inspecting his CPU, I noticed a silver bump at the bottom. I’ve never seen this. Can anyone tell me what it is?

Archive.org mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20230914133443/https://www.eurogamer.net/unity-bosses-sold-stock-days-before-development-fees-announcement-raising-eyebrows

This shit can't be legal. Do we have any lawyers on here?

So, I heard several people now mention HAARP as the cause for all the natural disasters that have been happening lately. And here I thought the cause was rampant pollution and global warming!

But seriously, I'm looking at the HAARP page on wikipedia and it seems to be an array for studying the ionosphere? How in the hell do you go from "we're using this to see what's happening way up there in the sky" to "this causes tornadoes"? Who even started this garbage?