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Starbound is a sandbox adventure/building/mining/etc. game in the same vein as Terraria. It was founded and developed by some primary ex-Terraria devs, along with some new faces (thus a much bigger team than Terraria's development had). It is essentially the spiritual successor, but with a HUGE amount of awesome changes.

Primarily, EVERYTHING is randomized (items, weapons, worlds, even mobs themselves!), and it is built in a way that makes world exploration more of a focus and integrated properly into the game. Instead of having a single world, or moving your character to a new one via generating a new game, you have a spaceship that you take around the universe to coordinates that generate a seed for the world (thus giving the coordinates to other people will let them visit the same thing, but in their own game).

There are hundreds of other differences (better graphics, being able to walk up single-step slopes, proper water physics, a MUCH nicer and more robust wiring system, etc.) and the whole thing is much more of a proper game than Terraria was. Comparatively, Terraria was almost a prototype.


Videos (they are kinda old and mostly tech demos to show off how some of the mechanics work)

Screenshots (again, kinda old... follow the dev twitter for current stuff, or check the roadmap as many sections have screenshots to show it off)

The game is due out this year and has finally been opened up to pre-orders (with stretch goals being added as milestones are hit)! As of this writing they are already at $313k, with a new race being added at $500k (I doubt this number will be accurate for long... only a few hours ago it was at $110k). Pre-ordering will also get you access to the beta once that's out. To see their current progress, check out the awesome roadmap they made. Note that the roadmap will very likely start progressing MUCH faster now that preorders are allowed and some of their staff that had to work 2nd jobs can focus 100% on the game.

I know I'll be playing the hell out of it, as will many people I know (and probably quite a few from WoW-V/SICKind).

If you aren't aware, "cutthroat" is a game type that makes it so other people can join your instance. You drop all gear upon death, and PVP is enabled everywhere except town. It is one of the most brutal and interesting modes that PoE plans to have, and the above video is Kripparrian doing a 1-hour race of it back in closed beta.

I, for one, cannot wait for them to start doing CT races in ladder season 2 (or in the few weeks between seasons, where they said they will probably do short test races of new gamemodes so they can tweak the balance).

Hey there boys and girls, let's discuss good retro games from the golden age of consoles.

I've always been a huge ROM enthusiast, and with projects like HyperSpin it is incredibly easy to browse through the full collections of games (in English (by default, language options, or translated ROMs), or not needing to be translated to play) with short looping videos to give you an idea of what it plays like. I used to use emulator frontends like QuickPlay and whatnot that gave you an organized list of your ROMs, with the ability to rate and organize them... but it just doesn't have the zazz that a proper HyperSpin setup has. Mind you most HS users are building arcade cabinets, but it works just as well on a desktop with USB or bluetooth controllers.

Here's a long ass video showing off what HyperSpin looks like in action with a bunch of the different systems you can hook up to it (though this guy's setup is running a fair amount slower than it normally would):



Anyways, I currently have the full HS setup, aside from the cd-based systems that I'd need a new computer to get and run properly (PS1, Dreamcast, etc) and am going through the games to find hidden gems that most haven't heard of.

There are the known classics of the Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Earthworm Jim, Kirby, Metroid, Star Wars, etc. franchises that many of us grew up on, but there are some really damned fun ones out there that didn't get as much press. Stuff like Zool, Mohawk & Headphone Jack, Plok, Pocky & Rocky 1 and 2, Soulblazer, Sparkster, BlackThorne, Demon's Crest, Shadowrun (drastically different on SNES and Gen), and Comix Zone, just to name a few from the SNES/Gen systems. And if you ever have MAME stuff and enjoy beat-em-ups, try Ninja Baseball Bat Man... it's such a weird acid trip of a game that you'll have fun just seeing what weird ass enemies and bosses you'll fight next.


So what are your favorite (ideally lesser known) retro console/arcade titles? I'm looking specifically at the NES, SNES, Genesis/Master System, N64, MAME (arcade), etc. era. While I have all the older Atari, Wonderswan, etc. stuff, that's more just about having a massive collection to show off as they're just too damned retro to play unless really trashed and with lots of friends. And PS1 or higher stuff requires too beefy of a computer for me to play.

And if you have no experience whatsoever in ROMs, emulators, HyperSpin, etc. by all means feel free to ask. I've got a lot of experience in the areas and I love helping people get access to the golden age of gaming.

We are 7 years old now! Here's to another 365 days of WoW-V goodness and SICKind shenanigans. Enjoy the cake.

And if you're looking for something creative and new to mess with, we are running our own custom Castle Doctrine server through SICKind. We'd love for you and your friends to come and join us in some burglary/trap-based mayhem! (it doesn't cost anything, real money or SICKles, to play)