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Club Soko is cartoonishly dark and splattered with beer – and it’s a wonderful puzzler, too
Club Soko is a Sokoban-style puzzle game set in a grimy, cartoon nightclub, and Eurogamer’s impression is strongly positive. Its nightclub setting gives familiar block-pushing challenges a distinctive sense of place, making the puzzles feel like navigating a sweaty, crowded club rather than an abstract grid. Players manoeuvre around dancers, bouncers and staff with different…
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The Most Divisive Time-Travel Movie of the Century Is Officially Back on Free Streaming
The 2002 film The Time Machine has returned to free streaming on Pluto TV, prompting a reassessment of its divisive but ambitious take on H. G. Wells’ classic novella. Polygon argues that the film’s central idea — that some tragedies are unavoidable ‘fixed points’ in time — gives the story emotional weight and makes it…
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WhatsApp Gets a Handy @all Feature for Group Chats
WhatsApp is gradually introducing an @all mention for group chats, allowing users to notify every member, including those who have muted the conversation. The feature is intended for urgent updates such as changes or cancellations, but its design also reflects concerns that it could be misused for spam. In groups with more than 32 members,…
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Nintendo players share weekend gaming plans for 8 August
Nintendo Life invited readers to share their gaming plans for the weekend of 8–9 August, alongside accounts from two of its editors. The post serves mainly as a community snapshot of current Nintendo interest, while also drawing attention to recent Nintendo news including a Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave presentation and added Virtual Boy titles on…
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Data centers are a political issue crossing party lines, driving voters to candidates
Opposition to large data centres is becoming an electoral issue in the United States, cutting across party loyalties and influencing primary and midterm candidates. Residents in both conservative rural areas and Democratic-leaning communities are pressing politicians over the facilities’ potential effects on electricity prices, water supplies, farmland and local control, forcing candidates to respond. The…
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Apple TV’s Smartest Sci-Fi Thriller Is Officially One of Streaming’s Biggest Hits
Apple TV+’s Severance has become a major streaming success, according to the article, after initially attracting limited attention when it launched. The workplace sci-fi thriller has since entered wider popular culture through its unsettling premise and growing audience interest, making it one of the platform’s most prominent series. Created by Dan Erickson and executive produced…
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Longley Park blaze was “started deliberately,” say South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue
South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue says a blaze at Longley Park in Sheffield was started deliberately. The incident is significant because deliberate fires can endanger the public, damage local green spaces and require investigation by emergency services. The available article text does not provide further details about when the fire occurred, its scale, any injuries…
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Senate tables hemp amendment at center of funding fight, allowing one-month delay of ban
The Senate has set aside a proposed amendment concerning hemp-derived THC products during a dispute over government funding, delaying an anticipated federal ban by one month. The move matters because it temporarily preserves the legal position of a market for intoxicating hemp products while lawmakers continue negotiating a broader spending measure. The amendment was at…
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Why Super Furry Animals joined music’s dash to cross over football’s vinyl frontier | Emma John
Super Furry Animals have become shirt sponsors of Cwmbran Celtic, a recently relegated Welsh club, in a move that reflects a growing link between musicians and football teams. The article argues that such partnerships are increasingly about reaching shared “adjacent audiences” and selling merchandise, while still drawing on the nostalgic appeal of local musicians supporting…