I continue my Metroid Prime retrospectives with its sequel. Metroid Prime 2 Echoes
#metroidvania #MetroidPrimeRemastered #metroidprime #metroidprime4beyond #NintendoSwitch #NintendoSwitch2 #nintendo #Youtube #metroidprime2 #metroidprime2echoes #Retrospectives

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Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 Over the past few months, I've spotted something a little odd and unexpected happening to Sony's old PlayStation Portable. There's been no corporate push, no announcement of the truly portable Sony ha...

Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026

Over the past few months, I've spotted something a little odd and unexpected happening to Sony's old PlayStation Portable. There's been no corporate push, no...

#Retrospectives #PSP #RetroGaming #BryantReview

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Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript JavaScript's Date object has been a source of bugs for three decades. Temporal, which just reached Stage 4, is a modern replacement with immutable types, first-class time zone and calendar support, and nanosecond precision. This is the story of how Bloomberg, Igalia, and the TC39 community sp…

Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript, by @jason-williams.co.uk (@bloomberg.com):

https://bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post/temporal/

#javascript #time #apis #retrospectives

The Digital Plague: When World of Warcraft Accidentally Simulated a Pandemic In 2005, a bug in World of Warcraft turned Azeroth into a virtual pandemic, and gave scientists a rare glimpse into human behavior during an outbreak.

The Digital Plague: When World of Warcraft Accidentally Simulated a Pandemic

In 2005, a bug in World of Warcraft turned Azeroth into a virtual pandemic, and gave scientists a rare glimpse into human behavior durin...

#Retrospectives #Gaming #BryantReview

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Celebrating One Year of The Bryant Review It has been one year since I started this site. Originally, I intended it to be nothing more than a WordPress site; "The Bryant Blog" as I initially called it. But then it took on a life – and an aud...

Celebrating One Year of The Bryant Review

It has been one year since I started this site. Originally, I intended it to be nothing more than a WordPress site; "The Bryant Blog" as I initially called it.

#Retrospectives #News #TheReview #BryantReview gardinerbryant.com/celebrating-...

Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later — Smashing Magazine Many product teams still lean on usability improvements and isolated behavioral tweaks to address weak activation, drop-offs, and low retention – only to see results plateau or slip into shallow gamification. Anders Toxboe updates persuasive design for today’s reality, clarifying what has actuall…

Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later, by @smashingmag@mastodon.social:

www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/03/persuasive-desig...

#design #hci #retrospectives

Seaman: The Weird History of SEGA's Strangest Game Half man, half fish, half sea-monkey (featuring Leonard Nimoy)

Seaman: The Weird History of SEGA's Strangest Game

Half man, half fish, half sea-monkey (featuring Leonard Nimoy)

#Retrospectives #GameDevelopment #Gaming #BryantReview

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GoldenEye 007: The Accidental Masterpiece Trapped in Licensing Limbo The Impossible Shooter In 1997, a first-person shooter based on the latest James Bond film launched for the Nintendo 64... and it somehow managed to alter the trajectory of console gaming forever. O...

GoldenEye 007: The Accidental Masterpiece Trapped in Licensing Limbo

The Impossible Shooter

In 1997, a first-person shooter based on the latest James Bond film launched for the Nintendo 64... and...

#Retrospectives #RetroGaming #Emulation #BryantReview

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Star Fox 2: The Game That Waited Two Decades 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 ...

Star Fox 2: The Game That Waited Two Decades

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...

#Retrospectives #Emulation #retrogames #nintendo #SuperNintendo

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PSP-1000: The Handheld That Redefined Portable Gaming The Vision of a Portable PlayStation In the early 2000s, Sony Computer Entertainment was riding extraordinary momentum. The PlayStation brand had reshaped the industry in the late ’90s, and the Pla...

PSP-1000: The Handheld That Redefined Portable Gaming

The Vision of a Portable PlayStation

In the early 2000s, Sony Computer Entertainment was riding extraordinary momentum. The PlayStation brand had reshaped the ind...

#psp #RetroGaming #Retrospectives

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Interop 2025: A year of convergence Interop 2025 has come to a close, and the results speak for themselves.

Interop 2025: A Year of Convergence, by @stubbornella@front-end.social (@webkit@front-end.social):

https://webkit.org/blog/17808/interop-2025-review/

#interoperability #webplatform #browsers #retrospectives #metrics

Almost at the big 1000 milestone. I want to thank everyone who has been following my content and if you're following me on here and haven't subscribed to the channel, I post videos there regularly if you're looking for some long form reviews and retrospectives.

#gaming #reviews #retrospectives

The Wheel That Went to Court Pixar just turned forty. Which, depending on how you measure time, is either a blink in studio years or an eternity in computer graphics. When they began, digital animation was still experimental: glo...

The Wheel That Went to Court

Pixar just turned forty. Which, depending on how you measure time, is either a blink in studio years or an eternity in computer graphics. When they began, digital a...

#Retrospectives #DeveloperStory #RetroGaming #SuperNintendo

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Creative Nomad IIc: When Music Was Still Physical 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.

Creative Nomad IIc: When Music Was Still Physical

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!

#Retrospectives #Reviews #MP3Players #nostalgia #2000s #windows98 #IBMAptiva #retro
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Pocket Legends: Exploring Forgotten Handhelds Handheld gaming history is really just told through the winners. The Game Boy line, the DS, the PSP, the Nintendo Switch. The machines that sold in the tens of millions and became cultural furniture. ...

Pocket Legends: Exploring Forgotten Handhelds by Dash

Handheld gaming history is really just told through the winners. The Game Boy line, the DS, the PSP, the Nintendo Switch. The machines that sold...

#Retrospectives #handheldgaming #handheld #RetroGaming

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The State of WebAssembly – 2025 and 2026 A comprehensive look at WebAssembly in 2025 and 2026, covering browser support, Safari updates, WebAssembly 3.0, WASI, .NET, Kotlin, debugging improvements, and growing adoption across edge computing and embedded devices.

The State of WebAssembly—2025 and 2026, by @unoplatform@mastodon.social:

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#webassembly #retrospectives #outlooks

What Happened to Extreme Sports Games? Where art thou?

Sprint Retrospectives: The 30-Minute Habit That Makes Teams 10x Better (Without Working Harder) Most engineering teams don’t struggle because they aren’t talented. They struggle because they...

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#sprint #retrospectives

🚀 pnpm in 2025 | pnpm 2025 has been a transformative year for pnpm. While our primary focus was redefining the security model of package management, we also delivered significant improvements in performance and developer experience.

pnpm in 2025, by @kochan.io (@pnpm@fosstodon.org):

https://pnpm.io/blog/2025/12/29/pnpm-in-2025

#pnpm #retrospectives

A Decade of Accessibility Weekly Curated accessibility links from a human.

A Decade of Accessibility Weekly, by @davidakennedy.com:

davidakennedy.com/blog/a-decade-of-accessi...

#accessibility #retrospectives

Mirror’s Edge Was Never Meant to Slow Down There’s a moment, early on in Mirror’s Edge, where the game stops explaining itself and lets motion do the talking.

Mirror’s Edge Was Never Meant to Slow Down

There’s a moment, early on in Mirror’s Edge, where the game stops explaining itself and lets motion do the talking....

#Retrospectives #electronicarts #mirrorsedge

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A SHMUP Renaissance An ode to one of the foundational video game genres

"A SHMUP Renaissance" by @hi-tech-lo-life.com

An ode to one of the foundational video game genres... #Retrospectives #SHMUP #PCGaming #indiegames

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What’s !important #2: Conditional View Transitions, CSS/SVG Text Effects, the Best of CSS Bluesky, and More | CSS-Tricks 2026 is almost upon us. I know we’re all itching to see the clock strike midnight (cue The Final Countdown by Europe), but not without recapping the best CSS-related things that happened over the last two weeks!

What’s !important: Conditional View Transitions, CSS/SVG Text Effects, the Best of CSS Bluesky, and More, by @dxnny.fun (@csstricks@mastodon.social):

https://css-tricks.com/whats-important-2/

#css #retrospectives

Insights from 100 site speed reviews in 2025 Over the course of 2025, I have completed 100 site speed reviews at DebugBear. This is a free service we offer to trial accounts looking for a brief assessment of their current web performance. Requests consistently come in from small independent websites to much larger teams, across a wide range o

Insights From 100 Site Speed Reviews in 2025, by @perfplanet.bsky.social:

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#performance #retrospectives

A Year Of Vibes A personal recap of 2025 and a year of a new style of engineering.

A Year of Vibes, by @mitsuhiko@hachyderm.io:

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/12/22/a-year-of-vibes/

#ai #retrospectives #wishlists

Trends That Defined JavaScript in 2025 Despite AI and the push for simplification in web development, JavaScript frameworks aren’t quite ready to yield their hold on the frontend.

Trends That Defined JavaScript in 2025, by @lowrain@sunny.garden (@thenewstack@hachyderm.io):

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#javascript #trends #retrospectives #react #frameworks