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Dwarf Fortress kicks off another year of bonkers patch notes with the saddest 6-word story ever told: 'Mothers no longer seek ghostly babies'
19+ hour, 40+ min ago (207+ words) For sale: baby shoes, haunting ignored. However, while DF's patch notes often skew towards absurdist comedy, update 53.09 features a bugfix that's raw tragedy: "Mothers no longer seek ghostly babies." Sorry, baby shoes. We found a sadder six-word story. And if…...
Roblox ban sparks protests in Russia
3+ week, 3+ day ago (944+ words) Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there he graduated to the glory days of Sierra Online adventures and Microprose sims, ran…...
From today, Australian teens and children under 16 can't sign-up to Twitch and 9 other social media platforms, as world-first ban takes effect
4+ week, 2+ day ago (409+ words) TikTok, Kick and X are also among those banned, and the rest of the world is taking notice. The world-first ban includes 10 platforms, including the below: According to Australia's eSafety Commissioner, the ban is designed to "protect young Australians from…...
Hero modder who started the Thomas the Tank Engine meme with Skyrim thumbs his nose at 'legal threats' and 'black vans with the Mattel logo' by modding Thomas into Morrowind: 'I have issues with authority"
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (461+ words) For many years now, the children's character Thomas the Tank Engine has been something of a modding phenomenon. You can find Thomas in everything from Hogwarts Legacy to Elden Ring, but it all began with a 2013 Skyrim mod that replaced…...
When do Black Friday sales end in Australia? If you're shopping for PC gaming deals, the answer is complicated
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (556+ words) Maybe they will simply never end. Fair enough, but perhaps the most critical question is: When does all this end? People waiting for a pay cheque before they can take advantage of the Black Friday bargains might reasonably ask this…...
Skyrim's hardest quest is raising my Fat Idiot Son
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1134+ words) That's not a judgment. That's literally his essence. When my 11 year old son took a guard's arrow to the dome, it occurred to me I had failed as a parent. Rufus is'was, before the arm of the state converted him…...
No amount of money can buy being goated with the sauce
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (282+ words) Not a must cop. I miss the days when TV, movies and advertising were aware that videogames existed, but found them so impossible to understand that they represented them in only the most baffling of ways. A Doom 2 arcade cabinet;…...
Wuxia MMO Where Winds Meet is full of AI chatbot NPCs, and people are doing all the standard obscene stuff to them: 'I made him think that my character was pregnant with his child"
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (508+ words) Justin first became enamored with PC gaming when World of Warcraft and Neverwinter Nights 2 rewired his brain as a wide-eyed kid. As time has passed, he's amassed a hefty backlog of retro shooters, CRPGs, and janky '90s esoterica. Whether he's extolling…...
'The return of baby driver': The Dwarf Fortress Siege Update briefly reintroduced an old bug where dwarf babies pilot their moms like mech suits until they die of dehydration because babies don't know what drinking is
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (354+ words) It has been 0 days without dwarven baby disasters. One of the interesting complications added by the Siege Update, however, is an unintentional one. Shortly after the update went live, players started reporting on the Kitfox Games Discord that, inexplicably, dwarves…...
Roblox, which is being sued by 2 US states for endangering children, earns praise from the US Attorney General Alliance for 'promoting safe, more positive digital experiences"
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (215+ words) Roblox is an inaugural partner in the new Partnership for Youth Online Safety initiative. The Partnership for Youth Online Safety project "aims to reduce online harms through the development of practical, collaborative, and measurable design-based safeguards while also sharing best…...