We have very recently entered an affiliation with the people at CinemaQuestria. A bit of cross-site friendship, acknowledging each others positions in the community and directing a bit of traffic back and helping each other out. So without further ado, we have an announcement of theirs to bring you.

Tomorrow, or Today, the 11th of November, CinemaQuestria is having another go at their recurring segment, Friday Game Night. As you might already have figured, this time around it's gonna be a jolly session of the large scale fps PlanetSide 2. It is a perfect opportunity to pop in for a relaxed game with like-minded fans of the small horse. Details below

Game: PlanetSide 2

• Server: Emerald
• Faction: Vanu Sovereignty

Join in at the usual CinemaQuestria Stream, at http://cinemaquestria.com/stream/.
Event starts at 9:30 pm EDT or 2:30 CET on the 12th for us in Europe.

Want to get even more involved? Join their Steam group, where the organize the events, which you can get notifications about. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/cinemaquestria

Equestria Gaming had a long break. A visible decline all throughout 2014 with the final abandonment in 2015. Of course it was not because nothing was happening, so this segment, The Forgotten Era, is to shed light onto the news that never got covered during this time. Won’t it be a bit pointless to report on months and potentially years old material? Perhaps it is, but it shows respect to the creators who couldn’t get their hard work out into the world and show a broader audience what they have achieved, while this outlet was out of commission.

These are not going to be done in any specific order. Just random picks from the backlog, rather that any sort of attempt at doing these chronologically. Our list is only covering what I imagine to be a fraction of the last year’s happenings, so feel free to send in any news and whatnot that never got their chance to get covered here. Now without further ado, let’s have a look at the first entry to this recurring segment.

I know we're late to the party, but darnit.

Through the channel of Yudhaikeledai, of Pony Sims fame, FanatSors have announced an open test session of his game, Pony Room Online, over the course of a few days. I have personally never heard of this project before now, but having spent a few hours, I can tell you it's a pretty enjoyable little MMO in it's very early alpha stages. Unlike Legend of Equestria, it has actual gameplay beyond phasing through fellow ponies and dancing in line in front of sugarcube corner. Stay tuned for a more in-depth piece about it the upcoming days.

You can go to the video description and find the downloads, along with a link to the accompanying Discord server, where the developers and anyone enthusiastic about the game hangs out for those delicious instant updates on the thing. I've got to mention, as a short disclaimer, there is currently only Windows versions available, but that's what most of you use anyway, so oh well.

Admittedly we are already two-three days late with this announcement and we don't have a definitive time frame for when the server is gonna be shut down. However it is still running as this moment, so if you are quick enough pop in and boop some snootles before it is too late!

It's been almost two years (wait, already? Wow!) in the making, but we finally have a sequel to the adorable Applejack Pony Petting Simulator! Mechanically-speaking, it's much the same as the last simulator, though it's tuned and tweaked slightly to make it more unique to Fluttershy's personality; for example, as EwoudCP states in the game's description, you have to earn her trust before anything else! Otherwise, you know the drill: pet the horse properly, and everything's wonderful! Continuously poke the horse in the eyes, though? I mean, you can do that, but come on, internet! I know you wouldn't do something like that, would you?

But really, all fun aside, it's pretty much everything you'd want in a colorful horse petting simulator. Very well done!

...What are you waiting for? Go click the link and pet the colorful horse, already! You know you want to!~

The guys at A Little Bit Different released the first gameplay trailer, for their game, Ambient.White, previously known as Ambient.Prologue.

With this new trailer they are showcasing story, environments and world and, of course, some gameplay. I’m a horse of the gameplay, a game lives or dies on that, in my book. It is just a shame that it hardly displays any gameplay then, despite apparently being a gameplay trailer.

In the four years at this point that I’ve happily been a part of this colorful horse cult we call a fandom, I, like many, have partaken in countless amounts of fan media of almost every single stripe. I’ve got loads of images, stories, music and a bunch of other little digital pony knick-knacks stored across an untold number of places, and like many I’m finding and collecting more every day. I suppose sacrificing loads of precious storage space is but one part of the price we pay for our (or my, at least) obsession! So it goes!

Some time ago, a neat little Cookie Clicker clone made it's rounds around the fandom. EQD Clicker allowed anyone to finally grab a slice of that sweet, sweet horse fame, providing it wrapped in the form of an endearing, snarky clickfest. You can't deny that it's a neat little idea at the least, yeah?

Commonly, and as expected, a lot of folks simply referred to it as Equestria Daily: The Game. I mean, that's accurate, right? That’s what it is, after all.

Well... not quite, actually.

Before the original incarnation of Equestria Gaming folded, and before this subsequent revival, I'd paid the arcade quite a bit of attention following the release of EQD Clicker. Somehow, smaller-scale fangames had gone under my radar for quite some time, and I was going on one hell of a binge after discovering it. In my journey through the Equestria Gaming Arcade, I discovered that another game styled as Equestria Daily: The Game actually exists, made all the way back in halcyon days of 2011.

By some strange, interesting twist of fate, we have two Equestria Daily games, made four years apart (in almost two completely different pony fandoms, really!), and with vastly different styles and approaches! You have to admit that’s at least a little bit neat, y’all. C'mon.

Naturally, this begs at least a few questions: Why, for one? How do these two compare? Which game, and which developer, did this incredibly silly concept the...proper justice, I suppose you'd call it? Let’s take a look at these below the break and find out!

As of now, the team is having some public relations issues, as the official Ponykart forum had a severe failure, leading to the loss of the past years messages and whatnot. The team is not in a state to release anything "visible", like a video or some screenshots, which only adds to the feeling of negligence.

Despite all this, the game is still being developed, and the developers deserve to be acknowledged for their efforts. You can also read more about the situation directly from one of the team members as he/she posted in a thread over at the MyLittleGameDev forum.