1930s

News Tower, from four-person developer Sparrow Night, tasks you with saving a sinking 1930s newspaper. The game’s early access release feels more like an extended demo, but it’s one that definitely has me intrigued about the future.  The game begins with you inheriting a small newspaper business from your uncle. The paper publishes each Sunday, so you need to start sending out your small team of reporters to find stories immediately. Every story is marked by tags – like crime, politics, or sports – that correspond to the…

Kev Craven is a cartoonist from the city of York in England, who is known for his fascination with the aesthetics of 1930s animations, also known as "rubber hose." He experiments with this style a lot by drawing famous characters and, this time, famous rock stars in the form of cartoon characters.Bored Panda reached out to Kev, and in the interview, the artist shared what initially sparked his interest in perfecting his skills in such an old-school style: “I’ve been drawing since a very young age and always had a taste…

Written by Jasmine Walls and illustrated by Teo DuVall, with colors by Bex Glendining and letters by Ariana Maher, Brooms brings vivid characters (queer, broom-racing witches) to life in an equally vivid setting (1930s Mississippi). The graphic novel will release in October, but io9 has a special preview to share today.First up, here’s a summary of Brooms, including some quick introductions to the protagonists:It’s 1930s Mississippi. Magic is permitted only in certain circumstances, and by certain people. Unsanctioned…

South African music is a confluence of paths; a plethora of hands, feet and voices crossing and moving ever forward, yet still interconnected. For that reason, attempting to unravel those strands and arrive at some singular core is a dizzying prospect, but the word “mbube” was at the heart of that inextricable weave during the earliest days of the country’s popular recorded music.Today, mbube describes a specific variety of South African choral music composed of multipart a cappella harmonies, usually sung by men, and…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Eighty years after the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) carved up the nation's metropolitan neighborhoods into redlined maps, researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine performed an autopsy on the discriminatory lending practice. Specifically, researchers…

The warm 1930s and heat extremes. (a) Season average MJJA mean surface air temperature anomalies (°C) relative to 1901–1930 over the continental U.S. (black line) and the Great Plains (red line) using the BEST observations. Gray shading denotes the Dust Bowl years between 1932 and 1939, and horizontal lines indicate the maximum MJJA value during that period (occurring in 1936) for both U.S. (dashed black line) and Great Plains (dashed red line); (b)…

Following losses of £1.5bn in annual fare revenues incurred during the pandemic, Transport for London recently signed a deal with the U.K. government for emergency funding. The agreement ensures that new train orders, bridge repairs and tube upgrades will continue as planned. It also will lead to tube fares rising and bus services being cut. …

Spoilers ahead for Mafia: Definitive EditionAt the very end of Mafia: Definitive Edition — 2K-owned developer Hangar 13's remake of the 2002 critically-acclaimed original — the cabbie-turned-mobster protagonist Thomas “Tommy” Angelo (Andrew Bongiorno) notes that family is everything. On his deathbed, Tommy is at peace, for his family's safety and financial future are secure, even as he might have spent most of his married life chasing fellow mobsters or in jail to ensure that outcome. But the ending's familial focus feels…