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This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam Archive — The Last Historian of Humanity What if history wasn't discovered... but selected? History is often treated as something permanent—something waiting to be uncovered. Archive asks a different question: What happens when humanity loses the ability to tell the difference between truth, memory, and fabrication? You play as the final Archivi…

This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam Link to Game Home Page - here Link to Game Docs - here What I Built Heliograph is a short 2D solar-noir platformer. You are a courier who wakes with no memory on the summer solstice , the longest day of the year — the one day the sun is supposed to never quite die. A cracked handheld computer flickers on in your hand and tells you the truth: ton…

How I Built a Digital Chinese Temple No frameworks. No ads. No signup. What It Does Moon Block Divination (Jiao Bei) - 400-year ritual Virtual Incense and Prayer - 16 deities 16 Deities Encyclopedia - Cai Shen, Guan Yin, Monkey King Chinese Zodiac - 12 signs with mythology Prayer Wall and Vow Fulfillment Tech Stack Vanilla HTML+CSS+JS | Vercel | GoatCounter | Ko-fi eastmythos.com

American wins second title with wire-to-wire victory Crowd cheer mistakes as Clark shoots 73 on Sunday Wyndham Clark arrived at the 1st tee for the final round of the US Open on Sunday afternoon with six shots in hand and two wildly divergent outcomes before him. He could complete a wire-to-wire victory and capture America’s national title for a second time. Or he could equal the largest final-ro…

Screen technology threatens Pixar’s old-school playthings and an aging outlaw seeks to make amends

Woody, Buzz Lightyear and Jessie are all back on the big screen in "Toy Story 5." The latest addition to the 30-year-old franchise earned $312 million at the global box office this weekend. The release marks 2026's biggest box office debut yet.

28-year-old is first US player to win at Halle since 1993 Tiafoe will climb to No 19 as Wimbledon nears Frances Tiafoe beat fellow American Taylor Fritz 6-4 6-4 to win the ⁠Halle Open on Sunday, sealing the biggest title of his career and becoming the first American since 1993 to lift the ATP ⁠500 grass-court trophy. Tiafoe ⁠set the ​tone early, breaking serve in the opening set and remaining com…

Applications Open for Two Prestigious British Library Research Fellowships The British Library has officially launched applications for the highly anticipated Joanna and Graham Barker Fellowship Scheme 2026–2027, offering two funded fellowship opportunities for postdoctoral early-career researchers who are passionate about cultural heritage, archives, artificial intelligence, digital discovery, a…

María’s House was born without a budget, in an adverse context, but with a clear purpose. Located in the working-class neighborhood of La Gatazo, in southern Quito , it emerged in the aftermath of the pandemic as a response to the neglect and vulnerability of an elderly woman whose home was on the verge of collapse. The project was conceived as an exercise in empathy, understood not only as desig…

At 80, SF author M John Harrison is producing some of his best work. He talks about finding his voice, alien intelligence and the advice from Iain Banks that still spurs him on Three years ago, in a greasy spoon on the fringes of the City of London, M John Harrison – Mike to his friends – told me about the novel he was working on. Rather than describing its plot or characters, he spoke purely abo…

As phrases like easter eggs and looksmaxxing enter everyday language, what other words from the world of video games might soon be mainstream? Twenty years ago, video games were seen as a niche hobby dominated by hardcore enthusiasts, tucked away in obscure online forums and gaming meet-ups. Back then, the idea that governments would use footage from Call of Duty and gaming terms such as “killstr…

Grange Park Opera, West Horsley, Surrey With its aquatic opening, magic tricks and grand procession across a rainbow bridge, Charlie Edwards’s production manages to remain clear-sighted despite modest budgets One hundred and fifty years on, Wagner’s Ring Cycle remains the most ambitious project an opera company can undertake. It doesn’t seem to have phased Grange Park Opera, however, as the compa…

The actor has a knack for playing characters that test viewers’ loyalties. As the Game of Thrones prequel returns, she talks problem fans, ‘boy mums’ and why the arts should be for everyone House of the Dragon is a massive television series. Over two seasons, the prequel to Game of Thrones has seduced viewers with its plotting, backstabbing, candlelit meetings about war, and massive sheep-munchin…

This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam What I Built I built Yötön Yö (Nightless Night), an interactive 2D time-management game set during a traditional Finnish Midsummer ( Juhannus ). The sun never fully sets during the solstice in Finland, creating a beautiful and frantic twilight. As a player, you must survive the nightless night by managing multiple classic midsummer chores before…

The disco-pop great salutes the sexiness of Marvin Gaye and the spirituality of Amazing Grace. But which of her own hits does she sing at karaoke? The first song I fell in love with I grew up in Newark, New Jersey, with five brothers and one sister, so there was always music in the house. I remember my mom singing Willow Weep for Me when I was five or six. There was something about the sadness in…

An exhibition in Florence that pairs his giant canvases with Renaissance religious art brought me to the edge of tears. It is the perfect refuge from the infinite scroll As an unbaptised agnostic raised with no religion, the closest I ever really come to a spiritual experience is when I’m standing in front of an artwork. Last week I went to Florence to do exactly that, drawn there not by Michelan…

Food is more than something we eat. It carries memories, traditions, comfort, and connection. This week’s Heart List celebrates five artists who use food as their subject, transforming ordinary meals, seafood spreads, fried eggs, and ice cream cakes into captivating works of art filled with color, storytelling, and emotion. The post 5 food paintings we’re savouring on our Heart List this week app…

This is what happens when a fledgling talent ages a little, and begins serving food with cool, clear, adult direction The Golden Tooth , on Green Lanes in north London, sounds as if it could be a pirate’s watering hole in Penzance, filled with wooden-legged rascal seafarers. It is, however, a pub and restaurant 10 minutes from Canonbury station, serving Hereford wing-rib with smoked bone marrow b…

The animated sequel sets up a tug-of-war between physical and digital play for children but is still eager not to be an anti-tech screed For more than 30 years, Pixar’s signature Toy Story series has been entertaining children while giving voice to their parents’ anxieties. This is especially pronounced in the film’s sequels, as the living toys who dedicate their lives to the happiness of their o…