I won't apologize for playing the unconscious game that we're designed to play.
I won't apologize for playing the unconscious game that we're designed to play.
A bit of a lighter week here on The Review. We had three articles that all did decently well. We would have had more but I got sidetracked by some _major_ client stuff and it was absolutely necessary to focus on those tasks. Now that that stuff is mostly done,
A fast-paced week full of content drops, an exclusive subscriber post, a deeply personal and introspective article, and some fun stuff!
And make sure you check out the end of this article where we drop some sneak previews of upcoming posts and break down this week's analytics!
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Thanks to the open source community - Slay the Spire II is on your phone before anything else!
And a Steam Controller, too!
In the summer of 2005, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was already a phenomenon. It was controversial, sure, but no more than you’d expect from a series built on crime, chaos, and pushing boundaries. For Rockstar Games, outrage wasn’t
Making use of your bottom screen for more than DS & 3DS games?
Forza Horizon 6 is coming soon, and this time it’s taking players to the neon-lit streets and winding mountain passes of Japan. The setting alone is enough to get car enthusiasts and racing game fans excited: Japan’s iconic automotive culture, from midnight street races to drift
Retro handhelds have _always_ worn their inspirations on their sleeves. For years now, companies have been building new devices in the image of old, well-loved hardware. Sometimes subtly, sometimes not at all. You can see it in the clamshell revival of the Game Boy Advance SP, the endless reinterpretations of
Cannoli is a new and deliberately minimal, so-called 'opinionated' frontend for Android handhelds, designed to strip away the clutter of traditional emulation setups and replace it with a fast, cohesive, console-like experience.
Built around simplicity and smart integration: like seamless RetroArch support and wireless ROM management, it rethinks
On the PortMaster suggestions page, _Dead Cells_ sat for a _long time_ with 178 votes and a feasibility rating of “Low.” It wasn’t a dismissal, but it _was_ a feeling that everyone seemed to share. The community wanted it. They just didn’t believe it
The RG Vita is very clearly modeled after Sony's PlayStation Vita handheld (even taking its name) and it feels decently similar. But what it has in familiarity it lacks in performance.
It's a tough question to answer, but realistically it might just win out.
There's just something about this game, guys. It's so rich. So special to me already. As of writing this, there are only a few more days until the 0.9 update on February 23, 2026, and I'm so excited to see what it has to offer.
On the PortMaster suggestions page, _Dead Cells_ sat for a _long time_ with 178 votes and a feasibility rating of “Low.” It wasn’t a dismissal, but it _was_ a feeling that everyone seemed to share. The community wanted it. They just didn’t believe it
A playable glimpse into the future of gaming, unfiltered by the larger games industry
I'm a Type 1 Diabetic. I been on a journey with the Eversense 365, an implantable continuous glucose monitor that lasts an entire year.
I'm happy to say that I've had my new sensor for almost a month... and the readings are still quite
Clapshot is a very interesting FOSS project that works much like frame.io (without being tied to Adobe's openly hostile cloud services). Here's how I set it up on my homelab using Docker, OPNSense, and NGINX.
You've probably seen the raging debate among gaming enthusiasts: emulation – right or wrong?
With the rise of powerful gaming handhelds like the Steam Deck and readily available emulators, this debate has only been inflamed.
While some argue that emulation is a legitimate way to exercise your rights
We're celebrating one year of The Bryant Review this week (which you might have noticed). This has been _an extremely exciting week_ for a number of reasons... and the biggest change to the site has got to be the addition of the _Daily Sums beta!_
Daily Sums is
I'm a _huge_ fan of Scrubs. It's one of my top five favorite comedies series of all time. Scrubs told the story of Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital in Los Angeles. The star of the show is Dr. John Dorian a medical intern, his friend and
If you didn't know, Apple was recently forced my the European Union to allow alternative app stores on iOS. This is a huge anti-enshittification win!
I've been an advocate for third-party app stores (and third party clients in general) for many years and for a number
In 1995, _Star Fox 2_ was essentially finished. That’s the strangest part of this rabbit hole we went down while writing this. This wasn’t a vague prototype or a half-baked proof of concept buried in a vault somewhere. By most accounts, the game was _fully playable_
I discovered a company that Nintendo's lawyers need to go after.
This company directly profits from enabling software piracy. Going so far as to sell emulators and emulation hardware and distributing illegally obtained Nintendo ROMs.
These products are, according to Nintendo's own words, enabling wanton theft
I didn’t grow up with EarthBound.
I wasn't there to have that oversized box on my shelf. No super well-worn strategy guide with scratch-and-sniff cards half-peeled from their pages. I didn’t name Ness after myself, and I wasn’t part
The last seven days saw a lighter assortment of articles published on the site. But what we lacked in quantity, we made up for in quality!
Make sure you check out the end of this article where we drop some sneak previews of upcoming posts and break down this week&
In addition to my narrative feature sharing the story behind iiSU and the developers building it, I've got the full interview with two of the project’s contributors: Nathan (eldermonkey), the project’s lead developer, and Harsh, who works on iiSU’s backend systems and
I've seen a truly puzzling trend sweep across Facebook lately. I've seen lots of folks giving ChatGPT access to their Facebook pages and asking it for a caricature...
Create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me. <link to
In this blast from the past review/retrospective, I take a look at my personal "holy grail" of an MP3 player from the year 2000.
Late last week I covered the update surrounding Valve's delay of the Steam Frame and Steam Machine – their upcoming first party hardware. This was due, of course, to the supply chain shortages and increased prices of RAM and storage.
This delay has not stopped Valve from talking