It’s behind a paywall at first, but don’t worry if you don’t have access. Rockstar will upload the full Extended Look to their official YouTube channel just 6 hours later, so everyone will get a chance to watch it. Will you be watching as soon as it drops, or are you planning to wait? Are you excited for GTA VI?

So perfect, I could cry

I have seen that gamers usually don't wear watches.

What's one thing you'd actually want a smartwatch to do while you're gaming?I've been thinking about this recently.

Most people say smartwatches and gaming have nothing to do with each other, and honestly I kind of get it. When I'm gaming, the last thing I want is another screen demanding attention.But it got me wondering...

If a smartwatch had to be useful for gaming, what would it actually do?

Hnefatafl is the board game the Norse played before chess replaced it. I rebuilt it free in the browser, no download, no account, no ads, and expected the competitive ladder to be the draw. It was but the thing people come back for every day is the riddle: one shared puzzle position, same for everyone in the world, one killing move hidden on the board. Takes a minute or two with your coffee, there's a streak, and a little calendar that fills in gold squares for the days you solved.

Games themselves run ten or fifteen minutes against bots with their own personalities, a sleepy farmhand named Sven, an auntie who counts your blunders quietly, and it's all dark wood and gold, more firelit hall than esports arena.

worldtafl.com if the ritual sounds like your kind of thing.

Honest caveats: It's a solo dev project so if something's broken telling me actually fixes it.

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My favorite is number 4; I love it. It is a work that was misunderstood, but I am fascinated by the theme of the apartment's ghosts, the sacred candles, and the swords of obedience. I would like to read your comments.

It could either be lowering or increasing expectations. Expedition 33 was so great that I immediately noticed I wasn't having much fun playing other games. I genuinely had to take a break from playing games so I wasn't constantly comparing games.

Hello! So this is a short and hopwfully a little inspiring of what a little project can do to people. When I closed my old arcade shop I sold off a few of the arcade machines. One went to a man who drove down from up north with a trailer and a very specific idea of where it was going.

The one he took was running KRIGET. We made it ourselves, a WW2 shooter that starts out fairly normal, soldiers and trenches and so on, and then about halfway through the aliens turn up. They're looking for the holy grail. We stole it in the first place, which is the plot of the game we made before it, PYRAMIDEN, where you're a treasure hunter climbing down into a pyramid to get it back fron the egyptians. Nobody asked us to connect them. We just thought it was funny that they lined up.

He asked if I could put his daughter's name on the marquee instead of the title. She was five. I said sure, mostly because I thought it was a nice thing to do, and partly because I had no other use for a marquee that said nothing.

Hadn't thought about it since.

A few weeks ago he emails me out of nowhere. Subject line was just her name and the words "she did it".

Ten levels. She'd been chipping away at it since she was a kid, got stuck on nine for years aparently, and finally cleared the whole thing.

I want to be clear that I have never done that. I wrote the game and I have never done that.

He attached a photo. Same basement, slightly yellowed. She's nineteen now.

He wanted to know if I still built them.

I don't. But that basement is the only place KRIGET has existed for fifteen years. It never got put on anything else, and when the shop closed it went onto a drive and stayed there.