Weekly Recap: 1 March 2026

It is March now, and today being March 1 also means it is Zero Discrimination Day.

After taking one week off to celebrate Lunar New Year, I have returned to school on last Monday, February 23. Aside from that, not much was going on at school last week.

The Pokémon franchise was celebrating its 30-year anniversary on February 27, as 27 February 1996 saw the release of Pokémon Red Version and Pokémon Green Version, the very first Pokémon games.

On February 27, I tuned in to watch Pokémon Presents live on YouTube. Among the announcements made during the presentation, Pokémon Pokopia, a new spin-off game, and Pokémon Winds and Waves, the first games of the tenth generation of Pokémon, piqued my interest the most. However, both are exclusive to Nintendo Switch 2, which I do not have yet, and will not be getting any time soon due to it being too expensive to me, and there is no Switch 2-exclusive games that make me actually want to buy the console for yet.

That said, I am very glad that there is finally a Pokémon based on Pomeranian dogs — Pombon, the Fire-type starter Pokémon in Winds and Waves. Pomeranian dogs are one of my favourite dog breeds, so even though I typically pick the Water-type starter Pokémon when starting to play a main series Pokémon game for the first time, but if I get to play Winds and Waves, I'll make an exception for Pombon.

Naturally, as a huge fan of Cassette Beasts, Pombon immediately reminded me of Pombomb, another Fire-type creature based on Pomeranian dogs in a monster collecting game.

Aside from everything that was announced in Pokémon Presents, logos featuring every Pokémon species to commemorate the 30-year anniversary of the franchise were released. The Pokémon fan wiki Bulbapedia has an article for the Pokémon 30th Anniversary logos.

Scarlet Hollow, an episodic horror visual novel developed by Black Tabby Games, recently released Episode 5, after a hiatus since Episode 4 was released in December 2022 due Black Tabby Games focusing on their other horror visual novel Slay the Princess.

I was immediately hooked again after returning to Scarlet Hollow. There are still two more episodes to be released for the game to be officially completed, but Episode 5 has started to reveal the overarching narrative to the forefront, raising the stakes even higher.

If you are a fan of horror, visual novels, choice-based narrative games, or any combination of the above, I cannot recommend Black Tabby Games' works enough.

Interesting things I have discovered on the web this week:

• Stardew Valley celebrated the 10-year anniversary of its launch on February 26, and Update 1.7 is in the works.
• "Mike Little: the British co-founder of WordPress you’ve probably never heard of (but should)…" — an interview by Nicol Wistreich of Netribution.