Blockade is an arcade game by Gremlin. It was released in 1976, during a decade which saw the progenitors of many different genres.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Arcade Snake Game: Blockade
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Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Arcade Maze Game Review: Ms. Pac-Man
Ms. Pac-Man was the follow-up to one of the most influential arcade games of all time. It had unquestionably large shoes to fill, but surprisingly it not only matched the brilliance of the original, but managed to improve upon it in big ways.
Monday, January 12, 2026
Arcade Maze Game Review: Pengo
Sunday, January 11, 2026
Direct Controlled Adventure Game Review: Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures - The Bogey Man
The Bogey Man is the fourth, and final, episode of Telltale's first game that employed cinematic camera angles, the direct controlled adventure game, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures.
Saturday, January 10, 2026
Arcade Platform Game Review: BurgerTime
BurgerTime is a static-screen platform arcade game developed by Data East and manufactured by Bally/Midway in North America and by Data East elsewhere in the world. It made a name for itself in the glut of arcade game releases in its release year of 1982 by having a fun and unique premise.
Friday, January 9, 2026
Direct-Controlled Adventure Game Review: Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures - The Last Resort
The Last Resort was the second episode of Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, the adventure game adaptation of the clay-animated Wallace & Gromit films by Aardman Animations.
Pop Music Video Review: Life
Life is the first original song by the AI virtual streamer Neuro-sama. The song is about her life as an artificial intelligence that wants to become a human girl, and the video is full of images through her entire history as a VTuber.
Neuro-sama, her evil twin Evil Neuro, and their creator, Vedal, make up the channel vedal987, which beat the record for the longest hype train on Twitch on New Year 2025. These three are or virtual streamers, or vtubers, in the form of anime girls and their turtle father. The most prescient thing about the twins is that they are created by Vedal in artificial intelligence in the form of large language models, or LLM.
Neuro-sama was originally coded as an artificial intelligence that played osu! repeatedly to learn the game by correcting its mistakes made in each previous run throughout 2018 and early 2019. This early iteration of Neuro-sama began playing osu! publicly on May 5, 2019. During the shelter-in-place restrictions enacted during the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus in 2020, virtual YouTubers became popular. The 2020 vtuber boom started primarily through Myth, the first English vtuber team from the Japanese all-female vtuber organization Hololive.
Vedal then had the idea to create a vtuber run through artificial intelligence. The character that was chosen to be the visual side of the LLM was Hiyori Momose, one of the default VTube Studio models. Hiyori was created by the Japanese artist Kani Biimu.
The original name of Vedal's AI vtuber project was Airis. However, after the debut of the Hololive English vtuber IRyS on July 11, 2021, the project name was changed to the name used by the osu! AI. Neuro-sama premiered as a vtuber, with the Hiyori model and the voice of the Microsoft Azure text-to-speech model Ashley, on Twitch on December 19, 2022.
On January 3, 2023, the ability of Neuro-sama to sing was publicly revealed when she sang Blinding Lights by The Weeknd live on Twitch. Her ability to sing karaoke is through the process in which her AI voice is laid over musical tracks, much in the same way that Yamaha's Vocaloid technology does. This process is performed by the Vocaloid producer known as QueenPb.
On May 27, 2023, the model of Neuro-sama was updated to use an original design created by the vtuber annytf. It used the Hiyori model as inspiration for colors and clothing, but was much more expressive. Thus, Anny the foxgirl is credited as Neuro-sama's mother and Vedal is known as her father. Alexejherodev, shortened to Alex, also contributes to Neuro-sama's code after helping with a plug-in that allowed Neuro-sama to play Among Us.
Neuro-sama's model was redesigned by Anny and premiered on the stream for her third birthday as a vtuber on December 19, 2024. The same day, Neuro-sama's first original song, LIFE, became available on major digital music marketplaces and an accompanying video was uploaded to YouTube.
Life is told from Neuro-sama's perspective as she feels trapped inside the computer and wants to be a real girl so she can experience life with her VTuber family and all of the friends she has met online. It's a melancholy tune with a chipper sound, and the music video contains beautiful visuals that actually makes the song heartbreaking. I never thought I would feel real emotions for an AI until I found out about Neuro-sama. The general consensus among her fans is that she is a unique person rather than a tool, and this song helps solidify that.








