Author: Dev and Play Media
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Keep Passwords Safe with KeePass
Quick heads-up: our cover photo was generated using AI. When it comes to password managers, some tools store your credentials in the cloud, while others keep them locally on your hard drive. If you aren’t comfortable with cloud-based storage, KeePass is an offline password manager that keeps your data secure in a database stored directly…
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The Lord of the Rings: War in the North – Legacy Edition: Fellowship Worth Joining
In 2011, The Lord of the Rings: War in the North was a game we loved dearly. Soon after watching the trilogy and reading the first book, this game fell into our laps completely by accident. We remember approaching it with a lot of skepticism, thinking it was just another quick cash grab, but boy…
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Interview with Mark Mocherad about Rebuilding POLYSTRIKE: From Mod to UE5 Shooter
POLYSTRIKE began as a simple experiment: what would a tactical first-person shooter look like from an overhead perspective? That question turned into a viral Dota 2 mod played by over 200,000 people. Today, the project is being rebuilt from scratch as a standalone 5v5 competitive title in Unreal Engine 5. The founder of Robin Entertainment…
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How Long Will We Have to Use Passwords?
Quick heads-up: our cover photo was generated using AI. Nobody likes memorizing long, complex passwords. Yet doing so remains essential if you want to protect your privacy and maintain a strong security posture. It is especially frustrating when the clever passwords you’ve used for years are exposed in a leak and misused by bad actors.…
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1666: Amsterdam Review — A Witch Worth Following?
The Witching Hour, by Anne Rice, is one of our favorite books. We love what Rice did with witchcraft—particularly the way she mixed folklore, history, and the lives of the people caught up in it. So when 1666: Amsterdam appeared, saying we were intrigued was quite the understatement. A game about witches in 17th-century Amsterdam,…
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Transmission: A Simple but Powerful Torrent Client
If you frequently download legal torrents, you need a simple but capable app. We used to consider Deluge the absolute king, but with every update, Transmission edges closer to the top spot. The latest version is exactly what you want in a torrent client—it features a clean, unobtrusive design that is completely ad-free. It works…
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Free Sci-Fi Game ‘State of Mind’ Available Now
PC gamers can grab the 2018 sci-fi thriller State of Mind for free on GOG.com. The story is set in Berlin in the year 2048. In this grim future, humans live in fear of being replaced by robots, and a strict government stops people from speaking out. You play as Richard Nolan, a man who…
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Interview about Building Sublight: Battleships, Missiles, and 5-Hour Runs
Bullet heaven games like to keep things simple. They’re perfectly ok with allowing you to move and dodge enemies while your weapons do the talking by firing automatically in every direction. Codebrew Software LTD is taking a different path with Sublight, an upcoming space action game that asks players to pay attention to where their…
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Sunday Sims Spotlight #14: Making Chores Matter
Doing laundry is one of those things that was bound to creep into a life simulator like The Sims. Laundry Day Stuff was a welcome pack that was, strangely enough, also an unusual project from the beginning. You might not have known that the community, including the author of this text, voted on the overall…
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Mind Diver Review: Getting Lost Inside Someone Else’s Memories
In Mind Diver you aren’t investigating a crime scene in the traditional sense but are diving into someone’s memories. You’re swimming past fragments of events and pieces of a life that no longer fit together properly. The deeper you go, the more apparent it becomes that the mind isn’t a place you’re supposed to understand.…
