The Dink Review: Pickleball Gets the Last Laugh
Dusty Boyd has spent half his life mistaking a broken wrist for a stolen destiny. Once a junior tennis prodigy...
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The promise of building a K-pop group suggests control: choose the trainees, define their personalities, shape their image, and watch the result arrive onstage. K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut offers only part of that fantasy. Its strongest ideas concern scheduling, money, exhaustion, and the compromises behind a polished debut. Its weakest choices restrict the group itself. Developed by Wisangeni Studio, the game places the player inside WG Entertainment after their previous company closes and its idol group disbands. Project KIS offers a second chance. After selecting a management style, such as Marketer, Realist, or Risk-Taker, the player chooses a...

Six hundred black-and-white fragments are arranged until the twentieth century begins to look like a machine dreaming of its own destruction. Maciej J. Drygas constructs Trains from material drawn from 46 archives, stripping away narration, interviews, spoken dialogue, and almost every written explanation. History passes through windows, stations, factory floors, military camps, and freight yards. The images are left to accuse one another. A Franz Kafka quotation appears before the machinery starts moving: “There is plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope... But not for us.” Drygas then shows workers assembling a steam locomotive piece by piece. Metal plates...

Dusty Boyd has spent half his life mistaking a broken wrist for a stolen destiny. Once a junior tennis prodigy known as “The Hammer,” he now teaches indifferent nine-year-olds at the club owned by his father, Chuck, and repeats the story of Andy Roddick’s alleged sabotage with the conviction of a man defending national history. His vanity plate still reads “DE-HAMMR.” His assistant PJ still listens. The rest of the world has moved on. That arrested identity gives The Dink its strongest idea. Josh Greenbaum’s comedy places a man built around force inside a sport defined by touch. Pickleball, with...

Three weeks after Andrija dies by suicide, his school sends the people connected to his suffering on a class trip. Grief has already been converted into scheduling. The adults wonder privately if the excursion is wise, then board the bus anyway. Miroslav Terzić establishes this moral climate through an apartment fire. Tzotza (Jovan Ginić), Andrija’s closest friend, watches flames tear through a building while the surrounding estate remains strangely empty. No neighbours gather. No sirens approach. The image is blunt, perhaps excessively so, yet its accusation is clear: destruction can become ordinary when responsibility belongs to everyone in theory and...

The golden spork tells you almost everything about the tone of Chickenhare and the Secret of the Groundhog. It is a ridiculous treasure, treated with enough sincerity to power a trap-filled escape, and it later proves useful rather than remaining a disposable gag. Benjamin Mousquet’s sequel works in much the same way. Its bright animal designs and broad comedy suggest lightweight children’s fare, yet the story keeps finding practical uses for ideas that initially look silly. Chickenhare returns as the adopted son of King Peter, now established as an adventurous relic hunter alongside Meg, a martial-arts-trained skunk, and Abe, a...

Releasing the wrong trigger in Heave Ho 2 can drop an entire team into a pit. The mistake takes half a second. The laughter lasts much longer. Le Cartel Studio’s sequel keeps the original game’s sharpest idea intact: movement depends entirely on two arms, two hands, and the players operating them. The analogue stick points both limbs, while the shoulder buttons control each grip. Hold the left trigger and the left hand clings to a surface. Release it at the correct moment, rotate around the right hand, and momentum carries the character across a gap. Mix up left and right...
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Six hundred black-and-white fragments are arranged until the twentieth century begins to look like a machine dreaming of its own destruction. Maciej J. Drygas constructs Trains from material drawn from...
Dusty Boyd has spent half his life mistaking a broken wrist for a stolen destiny. Once a junior tennis prodigy known as “The Hammer,” he now teaches indifferent nine-year-olds at...
Three weeks after Andrija dies by suicide, his school sends the people connected to his suffering on a class trip. Grief has already been converted into scheduling. The adults wonder...
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