Topic: Gaming – Ctrl blog

Everything or Nothing: The missing James Bond theme song

2022-04-06T23:45:00Z

Every now and then I lament about the digital licensing hell that’s constantly eating our shared cultural history. Or maybe I’m just angry at entropy and lack of foresight with digital archiving? None the less, I’d like to talk about a 20-year-old James Bond song you probably haven’t heard before.

PlanetSide 2 is now available on Linux

2021-12-14T15:24:00Z

PlanetSide 2 (PS2) is a free-to-play/pay-to-customize massively multiplayer online first-person shooter game. It was released for Windows in 2012 and three years later for PlayStation 4 in 2015. Now, nine years later, it’s debuting on Linux through the Proton Compatibility layer in Steam.

Why Windows failed to display Microsoft and Xbox sign-in dialogs

2021-12-01T09:15:00Z

For about a year, I couldn’t use any Windows 10 apps or Xbox games that required me to sign in with a Microsoft Account. I also couldn’t add any email or other online accounts to my Windows account. For whatever reason, all the Microsoft Accounts Control and Windows Web Account Provider dialog windows refused to open.

Timberborn: a cute beaver colony sim with an unrewarding late game

2021-10-18T11:48:00Z

I love colony simulation games like RimWorld, Patron, and Surviving Mars; and I’ve sunk way too many hours into these games. My latest obsession is Timberborn — a vertical city builder inhabited by intelligent beavers that have inherited the Earth after humans are long gone.

Kitty Letter word-scrambled my brain

2021-03-24T03:08:00Z

Kitty Letter is a free mobile game from the creator of The Oatmeal webcomic. It’s a simple word game that quickly engraved an obsessive repeating pattern into my brain. Here’s my cautionary tale about the game.