Welcome to another week, and welcome back to our daily open thread. Social distancing is starting—or continuing—to wear on me. Nothing’s really changed where I live, but the string of days stuck at home is starting to take its toll. My apartment, particularly my couch, looks lived in in a way no amount of cleaning…
Lightsabers are temporarily back in Fortnite, Epic announced in a tweet today. Just in time for Star Wars Day, so far I’ve found one in a chest.
The weekend is for making apple butter out of my abundance of farm share apples, just in time to get more apples and have to figure out what to do with those. It’s also for playing video games. I went on a rant about how great Euro Truck Simulator 2 is to a Jalopnik colleague…
In case you hadn’t guessed, there won’t be a 2020 Fortnite World Cup, the Fortnite Competitive Twitter account announced today. In a Twitter thread, the account provided more details about Cash Cups and FNCS.
GDC Summer will be a digital event, the organizers announced today. The August 4-6 event was initially planned to be an in-person event in San Francisco. “While we very much look forward to meeting again in person as soon as possible, we are moving forward with a plan to transform GDC Summer into an all-digital…
It’s a very rainy Thursday where I am. Welcome back to our daily open thread. Yeterday’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla tease got me thinking about the trip I took to Norway a few years ago. In Oslo, there’s sort of a peninsula with a bunch of museums on it—I had been determined to make it to…
Following a leak this morning, Fortnite’s latest mode is now live in the game. The Party Royale mode features a small new island map. Instead of building and shooting, players go fishing, do time trials, and just hang out. Rumors of Party Royale spread this morning following Fortnite’s 12.50 patch, with some saying the new…
I’ve been hankering to play some Cities: Skylines lately, so May’s PlayStation Plus games feel like eerie perfect timing. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus subscription. May’s PlayStation Plus games are: Cities: Skylines Farming Simulator 19 Both games are available from May 5 to June 1.
We’re halfway through the week! Welcome back to our daily open thread. I picked up my last CSA box yesterday, and since then I’ve been really excited about the dinner I’m going to make from it tonight. Most of the things I’m looking forward to are hazy future possibilities, so it feels really nice to…
Apex Legends’ Battle Armor event starts today and lasts until Season 5 begins on May 12. Over the next two weeks, players will begin matches with a specific piece of armor, which will change as the event goes on. As developer Respawn explained in its post about the Battle Armor event, armor is now removed…
Many of us have plenty of time to play games these days. If you’ve exhausted your backlog (ha), May’s Xbox Live Games with Gold has some new stuff to try. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription. May’s Games with Gold are: Xbox One V-Rally 4…
It’s a sunny Tuesday where I live, which seems like a cruel joke. Welcome back to our daily open thread. Last night I had a long Zoom call with a friend I usually hang out with on Mondays. It was a little awkward at first—on video calls, I either spend the whole time staring at…
Welcome to another week, and welcome back to our daily open thread. I got a 30 day free trial to Showtime last week, so I’ve been watching a lot of the shows I’ve heard people talk about but never seen. Over the weekend I finished Kidding, a Jim Carrey show that features puppets. (I am…
GOG Galaxy’s latest update lets users search and add games from their subscription services. It also adds the ability to “link multiple executables” such as mods. GOG Galaxy is still in beta.
The weekend is for having gotten a trial Showtime subscription, so binging all those tv shows everyone was talking about years ago. It’s also for playing video games. I’m excited to play Cloudpunk, a cyberpunk driving game that came out yesterday. Also, my internet bugged out while watching last night’s Fortnite event, but the couple…
Happy Thursday! Welcome back to our daily open thread. I made some apple muffins yesterday with the over-abundance of apples I got in a temporary CSA share. (I’m really excited about this: I’ve always wanted to do a CSA but thought it was too much food for one person, but now I’m home all the…
It’s Wednesday; we’re halfway there! Welcome back to our daily open thread. None of us really know what the future holds—I guess that’s always true, but it feels especially true now. I’m a big planner, so I’m finding this a bit difficult. For instance, I’m supposed to run my first marathon in the fall—I have…
The week continues. Welcome back to our daily open thread. I have a lot of new games to play, but last night I decided to tinker around in stealth game Mark of the Ninja, which I haven’t played in a while. It was fun to remember what I’d loved about the game, as well as…
It’s Monday. Welcome back to another week of living in this particular version of the world, and also welcome back to our daily open thread. I had a pretty good weekend, all things considered. I spent most of Sunday working on a novel I’ve been kicking around. After spending my working hours in non-fiction, it’s…
The weekend is for needing to cut my hair, something I’ve been doing for years but which never leaving the house has caused me to put off until it’s actually going to be a pain to do. The weekend is also for playing video games. Fortnite’s season getting extended gives me more time to catch…
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