Oisin Kuhnke writes Upcoming Cat Simulator ‘Stray’ Release Date Possibly Leaked: If a leak is to be believed, the cyberpunk adventure cat game Stray might be releasing this coming July. According to the Twitter account PlayStation Game Size, the PlayStation Database currently has Stray releasing on July 19. This would certainly line up with what…
Games/Puzzles
Cats, Games/Puzzles
Friday Catblogging: Stray Walkthrough
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Game producer Swann talks about the world of Stray, as well as what to expect with gameplay and characters you’ll come across as a cat. Coming early 2022 to PS5, PS4, and Steam. The good news: it looks exciting. The bad news: it’s not out until early 2022. (Time to revise one’s 2021 Christmas list.)…
Cats, Games/Puzzles
Friday Catblogging: ‘Stray’ Launches This Year, Sony Confirms
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Ewan Moore, writing at Gaming Bible, reports that Backpack-Wearing Cat Detective Simulator ‘Stray’ Launches This Year, Sony Confirms. Moore, with an admirable sense of what matters most in the gaming scene, writes that Stray might genuinely be the only video game I care about anymore. Seriously. You can keep your sequels to Horizon Zero Dawn…
Cats, Games/Puzzles
Upcoming PlayStation 5 Game Allows You to Play as a Mystery-Solving Cat
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Cameron Frew reports New PlayStation 5 Game Stray Allows You To Play As A Mystery-Solving Cat: Forget Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Resident Evil 8, because upcoming Playstation 5 title Stray puts you in the paws of a cat trying to escape a cybercity. Last night, June 11, we finally got a peek at Sony’s next-generation…
Games/Puzzles, Legislature
On Card Games at Work – Simply Tell Them to Stop
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There’s a story in the State Journal about Sen. Nass’s concern that legislative pages (mostly part-time pages and part-time students) are playing card games during working hours: A Republican state senator is complaining about legislative pages using work time to play a card game that pits fascists against liberals trying to root out a “secret…
Cats, Games/Puzzles
Friday Catblogging: Real Cats React to Video Game Cats
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????????1??????????????? pic.twitter.com/enczhP93Cg — ?????? (@kanata_610) January 26, 2018 There are lots of things in Monster Hunter: World for humans to like. But what are cats into? Meowing, that’s what. Cat owners are seeing what their feline friends do when Monster Hunter’s Felyne characters get vocal. Via Real Cats React To Monster Hunter: World‘s Meowing.
Games/Puzzles
Nigeria’s Scrabble Master Doesn’t Mince Words
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Culture, Games/Puzzles
Words of Advice from One of Britain’s Finest Philosophers
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Someone mentioned to me today that she would like to play Pokémon Go, but that she was worried that she’d seem silly to others. I replied that as long as she enjoyed the game, and walked about safely, others’ views of silliness shouldn’t matter. She needn’t have accepted my word for it, however. Noted British philosopher…
Games/Puzzles, Technology
So What’s Pokémon Go?
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It’s two things: a game one plays with one’s smartphone (as CNET explains in the video embedded above), and a reworking of an old set of characters in a new format. The original characters were interesting to millions before, and remain interesting, making their revival in a new format a good bet. If the characters…