After NASA's OSIRIS-REx arrived at asteroid Bennu in early December, its ground team quickly started measuring and mapping out the celestial body. They needed all the information they could get in order to enter Bennu's orbit, since the asteroid has...Sega has a penchant for rock ballad-esque Sonic theme songs and this new Team Sonic Racing is no exception.
It's called "Green Light Ride," and you can listen to the short version below ahead of the official full release on various music platforms like iTunes. The song is by Crush 40, Jun Senoue's musical collective that's basically dedicated to Sonic and NASCAR music (it's wild). It's Sonic as hell, but I dig it.
Team Sonic Racing is out on May 21, 2019 on PC, PS4, Xbox One and Switch. I love writing Switch last by the way: like "with very special guest...Switch."
It's now particularly easy to donate to a worthy cause. Google Assistant has quietly introduced support for donations, whether it's through your phone or a smart speaker like the Home Hub. Ask Google to "make a donation" in the US and it'll let you...Ever wanted to play a different game each day? Sounds like it might be an expensive prospect, but things get easier when you expand your net to include indie and experimental titles. But there are so many! What should you play?! Deciding that might be a little bit easier this year in light of a just-launched new project from Vlambeer's Rami Ismail.
Titled Meditations, the project was originally conceived in early 2018, and consists of an free launcher that will, for every day in 2019, unlock a single short game created by one of hundreds of developers Ismail collaborated with over the course of last year. The games themselves were all developed in under a day by their respective developers, last just a few minutes each, and have varied mechanics, topics, and approaches, ranging "from curious small puzzle games and challenging little platformers to personal games about life and loss and happiness and love and death and everything." The launcher is already available to download from the Meditations website, and the first "Meditation" of 2019 is Tak's Tempres.
Each game is available only on the day it unlocks (in the GMT timezone, at least), and goes away at the end of that day, encouraging players to check in with Meditations as a habit of sorts. In essence, Meditations is a sort of indie-game equivalent to those "daily meditation" booklets you might find yourself or a loved one using as part of their morning or evening routine. Without knowing more about the games themselves, I think it's a fine idea, and a fun little way to discover more indie developers, especially if you're interested in the more experimental side of the scene.
Check out this Twitter thread for more from Ismail about the project, or get more details at Meditations' FAQ page.
Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Welcome to a new year. The calendar rolling over means we're within just a few days of CES, but until then we do have a few other intriguing bits of information to discuss, like a Nokia leak and what's going on...
One Cut of the Dead, a comedic zombie film that has been making waves on the Japanese film circuit, was briefly available to stream on Amazon Prime Video yesterday. Just one problem: it was never supposed to be. Third Window Films, the distributor of...
While we rang in 2019 on the East Coast, Netflix decided it was time to drop a new detail about one of its most-anticipated series, Stranger Things. An 80s-era rendition of Dick Clark's New Year's Eve broadcast revealed a premiere date for the show's...
