While the world is preoccupied with the Nintendo Switch 2 and the continuing rise of more powerful PC gaming handhelds, Panic's Playdate remains such a weird and wonderful anomaly where some of the most unusual indies are being made within the console's unique constraints. Perhaps the strangest of these is Blippo+.
It's not exactly a game in the traditional sense but rather a window into the alien planet of Blip, albeit seemingly not too dissimilar to ours, as you get to know them through the medium of television, via a cable TV guide interface – or the EPG (Electronic Progam Guide). Despite the lo-fi nature of the Playdate, it turns out it's capable of video playback through that 1-bit resolution, but it can also stream it live so that everyone is essentially tuning in to watch the same programme at the same time, which then changes every week.
