Big week for old video games! This new iOS app is just a simple store for some simple retro games - so far, Snake, Ollie Soars (a Flappy Bird-style game), and a space-explorer game called Tranquility Touchdown. It rules! I’d never even heard of this game, and I loved the doc just the same. (The Verge’s Andrew Webster wrote a great story about it this week.) It’s like a choose-your-own-adventure movie, in which you can pick the parts you care about or just watch the story through - and then play the game at the end. It’s a documentary, and also a video game, about the making of a video game. The app is fairly barebones but already really nice to use. The best way I can describe this one is “Trello meets Pinterest meets Google Sheets” - you can just dump in URLs, notes, images, spreadsheets, whatever, and organize it all in one place, alone or with others. A new app from Rich Ziade and Paul Ford, two people who tend to make good apps. The Verge’s Charles Pulliam-Moore says it’s one of the best anime adaptations yet, and I saw another review that called it a cross between Pirates of the Caribbean and Scott Pilgrim vs. The long-awaited live-action remake of One Piece, a popular manga and anime series, now has its full first season streaming on Netflix. But this is actually a pretty good recap and - call me crazy! - sort of convinced me that Quibi didn’t miss by too much. It’s so perfect and funny that you can tell the whole story of Quibi in one 37-minute podcast episode that is actually mostly just jokes about Quibi’s bad shows.

( MacStories has a good breakdown of everything that’s new.) All the gestures and dials do take some getting used to, but they put a million controls right in front of you as you shoot.

I’ve always been kind of dubious of custom iPhone camera apps - the built-in one is good and so much easier to access and more reliable - but the new Obscura has me reconsidering. MKBHD and Huge If True are two excellent channels, obviously, and it’s fun to hear them talk about storytelling, fighting with algorithms, and not getting stuck.

Can You Start a YouTube channel in 2023? I could watch Marques Brownlee and Cleo Abram talk about the mechanics of running and growing a YouTube channel for hours.Early access is already underway, and the game launches for real on Wednesday. This is more of an “explore the universe” kind of game than a “shoot the bad guy” game, but that’s all the more reason you might find yourself spending way too many hours playing. A big, huge, epic, giant, massive sci-fi game that actually seems to live up to the hype.

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