Oh Darling! I Hate To Tell You This...

Hello, pinch, punch and all that, and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Marie goes thrifting, Connor discovers the virtues of oxcarts, Dom goes back to an all-time favourite, and Kelsey gets cosy with... nautical horror? Sounds about right. Read more

N++ is an absolutely stellar game. I even like the unconventional name and appreciate developer Metanet Software's continued embrace of the N name first used for its original Flash creation more than two decades ago. But it's also a name that comes with some issues, perhaps best demonstrated by the game's name on Steam being followed by "(NPLUSPLUS)." So what do you do when you're making a multiplayer follow-up and need to come up with a name? "It's always been hard for us to name these things," Metanet's Raigan Burns said when asked about the name of the newly announced N+ Infinity Times Two.

Idols of Ash is $3, has over 2,000 Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam, and is one of my favourites so far of 2026.

Terraria has sold over 70 million copies across PC, console, and mobile, making it one of the best-selling games of all time.

It's increasingly looking like nobody remembers how videogames work—or cares to.