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“The desire for a world you can escape to is stronger than ever”: How MMORPGs are flourishing in a multiplayer landscape dominated by live-service shooters
GamesRadar reports that MMORPGs are continuing to thrive despite a multiplayer market led by live-service shooters. Developers behind Final Fantasy 14, The Elder Scrolls Online and Warframe argue that players still value persistent online worlds, long-term communities and the chance to escape into shared virtual spaces. The article presents the genre’s resilience as driven by…
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4 Classic Country Songs From the 70s That Sound Great in Any Dive Bar
This article recommends four 1970s country songs as especially suited to a dive-bar or honky-tonk atmosphere. The selections centre on heartbreak, drinking and country-music heritage, illustrating the enduring appeal of emotionally direct, barroom-style country. – ‘Whiskey River’ by Willie Nelson: a heartbreak song in which whiskey offers relief from painful memories. – ‘You Never Even…
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Pictures show firefighters at woodland blaze as cause confirmed – thestar.co.uk
Firefighters attended a woodland fire, with photographs showing crews tackling the blaze. The report says the cause has since been confirmed, providing clarity on how the incident began and underlining the importance of preventing fires in vulnerable outdoor areas. The available article text does not include the location, timing, scale of the fire, confirmed cause…
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Dave Davies reignites feud with The Beatles: “John Lennon didn’t like The Kinks”
Dave Davies has revisited the long-running rivalry between The Kinks and The Beatles, saying John Lennon did not like his band. The comments revive a familiar account of competitiveness and personal friction between two major groups of the 1960s British music scene. Davies recalled encounters in which Lennon was dismissive of The Kinks and protective…
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10 Dark Fantasy Video Games That Are Perfect From Start to Finish
Collider ranks ten dark fantasy games it considers exceptional from beginning to end, highlighting the genre’s bleak worlds, moral ambiguity and survival-focused stories. The article argues that the strongest examples pair oppressive atmosphere with memorable gameplay and storytelling. – ‘Fear & Hunger’ (2018): an uncompromising, independently made survival-horror dungeon crawler praised for its punishing difficulty…
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Nintendo needs more Splatoons, and to get out of its comfort zone more
Nintendo’s new Splatoon Raiders is presented as evidence of the company’s capacity to refresh familiar game genres with distinctive ideas and style. The article argues that Splatoon transformed the competitive shooter through its ink-based territory mechanics, visual identity and fictional culture, and that the new spin-off similarly takes Nintendo into the unfamiliar looter-shooter genre. It…
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Modding wizard creates Grand Theft Auto multiverse that lets players travel instantly between Rockstar’s first three games: ‘We got inter-GTA portals before GTA 6’
A modder has created a Grand Theft Auto “multiverse” that allows players to travel instantly between Rockstar’s first three GTA games through in-game portals. The project has attracted attention because it links separate classic games in a way Rockstar has not officially offered, prompting jokes that fans received inter-game portals before GTA 6. The available…
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3 Southern Rock Songs That Prove Three Guitars Are Better Than One
American Songwriter highlights three Southern rock tracks whose layered, three-guitar passages demonstrate the genre’s expansive, high-energy sound. The article argues that interwoven guitar parts can create greater texture and impact than a conventional single-guitar solo. – Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” is praised for its celebrated closing guitar section, primarily played by Allen Collins and enhanced…
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The 1968 prog turned protest instrumental, courtesy of Keith Emerson
The article revisits The Nice’s 1968 instrumental version of ‘America’, arranged by Keith Emerson, as an early example of progressive rock being used for political protest. Its anti-Vietnam War message and confrontational performance style made the adaptation significant beyond music, anticipating punk’s willingness to use provocation and anger as political expression. Based on Leonard Bernstein…
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“Steve was so paranoid that someone would leak it onto the internet, and probably with some justification”: The Iron Maiden album that was “locked in a vault” for two years
Iron Maiden completed recording their 17th studio album, Senjutsu, in 2019, but delayed its release for two years because of the pandemic. The band kept the finished record secured on a laptop, reflecting concern that it could be leaked online before an appropriate release could be planned. The delay left singer Bruce Dickinson frustrated as…