The excellent Rebel Galaxy and its even better sequel Rebel Galaxy Outlaw from Double Damage Games are arcade space adventure games more in the flavor of space trader games like Elite with a set of story missions added in. The ships fly like the old X-Wing and Tie Fighter games …
The recent 40th anniversary celebration of the Elite franchise came along with a sale on special ruby-red skins for various ships. They weren't cheap - 10k ARX each if memory serves - but I ponied up a stack of real money to buy ARX to get several of them. One of them …
The final week of the 4th Quadrant Expedition Leg 3 Middle Spiral ran from June 7th to the 13th, 2024 and featured some interesting biological finds. This new-to-me biological variant called fungoida stabitis jutting out of the soil in a dark crater is one such example on Plio Eurl BT-U …