🌦️The Weather & Worlds Desk

A puddle, a broken hydrant, a cop who wrecks himself before he reaches you — that's not luck. That's physics running under the pretty reflections. Here's how to read it, and how to use it.

Most games have weather. Very few have a weather system. Here are the exact tells that separate a screensaver from a mechanic quietly deciding your run.

The clouds are identical. The world underneath them is not. The international beat on why a game — and its weather — arrives as a different experience depending on where and how you play it.

Two games can both have 'rain' and mean opposite things by it — because what a storm actually does is decided underneath the sky, by the engine, the physics, and the way the world streams in around you.