Tag: author_name|Cheyenne MacDonald
You can keep your favorite Disney/Pixar characters as virtual pets with the new Bitzee
The Bitzee virtual pet line is expanding to bring some familiar characters into the family, plus some all new ones. Spin Master, which introduced Bitzee to the US last summer, is now gearing up to release two new versions of the device later this year: Bitzee Disney and Bitzee Magicals.…
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A popular Japanese digital pet with the weirdest mode of interaction is coming to the US
Japan’s hit virtual pet, Punirunes, will be released in the US this summer and I can almost guarantee most of you have never seen a toy quite like this before. A play on the Japanese mimetic word for “squishy” (punipuni), Punirunes has a design quirk that sets it apart from…
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Pikmin Bloom has been helping me meet my outdoor walking goals for years
Over the past few years, I’ve developed a peaceful little routine to make up for time spent cooped up inside working on sunny days: after I’ve closed my laptop for the day, I throw my sneakers on, open Pikmin Bloom on my phone, and go for a long walk to…
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Crow Country is a darkly meditative callback to survival horror’s past
Is it blasphemous to call a survival horror game “cozy”? Maybe so, but while thinking back on my playthrough of Crow Country, the word popped into my mind more than a few times. From the jump, there’s no question about Crow Country’s PlayStation 1 influences, which its creators at SFB…
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Blue Origin successfully sends tourists to the edge of space again after a long hiatus
Blue Origin is back in the space tourism game. Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company successfully flew six paying customers to the edge of space and back this morning, breaking its nearly two-year-long hiatus from crewed missions. This was Blue Origin’s seventh trip with humans on board. The mission — a quick…
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Indie developers are trying to make horse games that don’t suck. It’s not easy
Video game horses tend to play a fairly uncomplicated role, at least in mainstream titles. Like semi-sentient meat bicycles, they often exist as little more than a way to make the player travel faster, jump farther or occasionally defy the laws of physics. With the exception of Red Dead Redemption…
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