Weekly Recap: 14 June 2026

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

Cassette Beasts, my favourite video game ever, is officially becoming a series, with a new follow-up game coming — Cassette Beasts 2002!

An announcement trailer for Cassette Beasts 2002 was revealed during the PC Gaming Show 2026, which was presented by PC Gamer, one of the largest news outlet for PC gaming. I found it a pleasant surprise that Bytten Studio, the developer of Cassette Beasts got the opportunity to book a slot in an event presented by such a major gaming news outlet, since Cassette Beasts rarely got covered by major gaming news outlets.

After Bytten Sudio announced Cassette Beasts 2002, Jay Baylis, the Art Director of Bytten Sudio, posted on Bluesky:

To get to make your own RPG is one thing, but to get to make your own RPG series is something else.

To every kind word, helping hand, and word of mouth recommendation - thank you all, sincerely. This has been a true privilege to get to work on.

Can't wait for you to see what we've been cooking!

I would look forward to whatever Bytten Studio does next even if it has nothing to do with Cassette Beasts, but it is indeed no small feat that an indie studio managed to make a game successful enough to develop into a series.

I cannot wait for Cassette Beasts 2002!

As part of our ongoing preparation to move to a different residential area, my mother and I had been organising the old books in our current house, and clearing out the old books we no longer want. We gave some of our old books away to relatives, then on Monday, my parents and I visited a recycle centre and sold the rest of our discarded old books for recycling.

I was especially relieved to have finally got rid of the Harry Potter books for good. In case you are not aware, I literally have an anti-Harry Potter masterlist on this website, which should tell you how I feel about the series at this point.

After sending our discarded old books for recycling, we visited a shopping mall, which contains a branch of the Popular Bookstores, the largest bookstore chain in Malaysia. Aside from books and stationery, that particular branch also sells Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, along with some video games for the Nintendo Switch family.

I own a Nintendo Switch, but not Switch 2, so this was a good opportunity to try out Switch 2 myself. The Switch 2 display there also included demos of various games, including the one I am most interested in getting a Switch 2 for, Pokémon Pokopia. My immediate impression on Switch 2 was that its Joy Sticks are more sensitive than those of Switch 1. I am in no rush to get a Switch 2, however, so I have yet to purchase one.

Interesting things I have discovered on the web this week:

• Every Pokémon is someone's favourite — A collective Pokédex to declare your favourite Pokémon, and why the Pokémon is your favourite. You can also browse the Pokémon and see other people's reasons for why their favourite Pokémon is their favourite. I had heard the statement "every Pokémon is someone's favourite" before, and I agree with it, so I am glad that there is actually a website to execute that concept.
• "The Gaming Time Loop" by Inner Spiral — I discovered this article through Aftermath's recent article "I Don't Know If We Need All These Remakes, Guys". I agree with both articles about the issues with the mainstream video game industry's remakes trend.
• Scoped Commits — a loose standard for formatting commit messages in the version control system Git. If you use Git a lot, especially if you have also contributed to open source software projects, you might have at least heard of the Conventional Commits specification, if not using it yourself. I came across Conventional Commits in some open-source projects before learning and adopting the specification myself. However, very recently, I discovered Sumner Evans' article, "Stop Using Conventional Commits", which managed to convince me and led me to find the Scoped Commits web page created by Evans, so I have started to adopt Scoped Commits in my own Git commit logs.