I can’t compare my experience writing a review for The Splintered Sea, the first paid expansion for the dastardly clever physics puzzle builder Besiege, to that of a journalist keeping a diary facing deadly storms on the horizon. But if we take for granted the idea that a review is only really valuable as an insight into the player’s experience, I haven’t felt particularly good this week. That in mind: Splintered Sea is more Besiege, carefully applied to the already extensive toolkit. More importantly, it’s currently bringing me deep and much-needed moments of untainted, childlike, vaguely-Orcish joy.
The ‘sticky valve’ on Boeing’s rocket ship that trapped astronauts in space
Boeing’s Starliner was sitting on the Cape Canaveral launch pad in Florida when a small but critical problem with the spacecraft’s 200-foot (61-meter) booster rocket brought the countdown to a halt. The American aerospace giant was hired by NASA to transport two astronauts – Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore – to the International Space … Read more