Gaming

My daughter (4) is very into exploring cities, homes and villages in Skyrim, feeding aliens in No Man's Sky, and cleaning houses in House Flipper. She gets annoyed in games like House Flipper because she can't leave the property to explore all of the visible houses on the block. I'd like to find other PC games that are relatively kid-friendly (or at least with my guidance and supervision) and easy for her to just wander about and be nosy.

Any suggestions? Simple adventure/fantasy would be great and provide us with something to progress through together, but anything that lets you explore a neighborhood and/or poke around in buildings and such would be perfect. I'm picking up Goat Simulator today for that exact purpose.

I appreciate it in advance.

I found this big chip on this copy of SSX3. I no longer consider it safe to use; don't need it shattering inside my console and ruining that, too.

Edit: For those interested in emulating PS1 through 3 games, you have zero reason not to.
Normally the difficult-to-obtain part is the BIOS as it's proprietary. That normally requires a homebrewed console or questionably downloading it online. But Sony actually lets you download the official PS3 firmware update to your computer. That contains not just the BIOS for the PS3, but also the emulated PS1 & 2 BIOSes.
There's a program a person made that pulls the emulated BIOSes for the PS1 & 2 (I forget the name; it's on GitHub). With those in hand, grab a DVD ROM drive (you can buy an external one for like $40) and download ImgBurn to start ripping your games and creating ISO's.
PS3 games have some extra encryption so they need a different program called PS3 Disc Dumper. You also need a compatible Blu-Ray drive; RPCS3 provides a list of known compatible drives on their site. They mention their list is incomplete, so if yours isn't on it, there's still a chance it will work.
And obviously the emulators for each console (DuckStation, PCSX2, RPCS3). There's a little bit more to it than that, but it's easier than you might think. Just need to do a bit of googling for the things I mentioned. I also recommend checking out each emulators' respective Discord servers. They contain helpful resources.

Happy emulating!

Founded in 2008, Pinball Map is an open source, crowdsourced worldwide map of public pinball machines.

Pay-walled German article by the other reporting partner: https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/the-day-before-exklusive-recherche-game-two,3407568.html

The games for this month have been announced, we got a souls-like, a new IP, and a hidden gem. As always I will cover each game's good and bad to help you choose what game is worth your time.

An MIT biotech researcher has been able to run the iconic computer game Doom using actual gut bacteria. Lauren Ramlan didn’t get the game going on a digital simulation of bacteria, but turned actual bacteria into pixels to display the 30-year-old FPS, as reported by Rock Paper Shotgun.

Specifically, Ramlan created a display inside of a cell wall made entirely of E. coli bacteria. The 32x48 1-bit display may not win any resolution awards, but who cares, right? It’s Doom running on bacteria. The researcher dosed the bacteria with fluorescent proteins to get them to light up just like digital pixels.

The beauty of The Long Dark.

To clear up some confusion: there is an article behind that link and I'm not the author.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1716829

George Lucas be like:

"And they fight."

Shows pages of otherwise blank pages.

(Nobody's gonna get this reference.)

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1716710

Some of the comments be like "We have Hades at home" but honestly most of them seem Sinophobic.

Like, China isn't the only one making rogue-likes by the thousand or whatever they call them; America does that well enough.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1715560

Maybe I'll have a reason to play my PS5 now!

2023 was the year of lay-offs, but that doesn't mean 2024 can't have that title too.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1700516

Damn.

10,000 puzzles and counting?

And I love puzzle games, but this seems excessive (but also tempting).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/8974224

Free is a fair price.