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GamesCD Projekt is going back to The Witcher 3, eleven years later
Songs of the Past is the third expansion to a 2015 game. The decision shape is more interesting than the decision itself, and worth examining on its own terms.
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GamesAnticheat is winning a war the players are losing
Kernel-level anticheat is now the default for competitive multiplayer games. It works, mostly. The cost it puts on the player's machine is a tradeoff almost nobody got to negotiate.
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TutorialsSet up an RSS reader you will actually use
A practical, twenty-minute guide to escaping algorithmic feeds. Pick a reader, find the feeds that matter, and never miss a piece from a site you care about again.
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TutorialsFind an old article on a dead site
Every link rots eventually. Here are the four tools we use, in order, to recover an article that the original site no longer hosts.
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TechEvery IDE is a chat interface now. The editor is the side panel.
Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, and GitHub Copilot have, in four years, inverted the layout of professional software development. The text buffer used to be the centre. It isn't anymore.
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GamesGTA Online is the product. GTA 6 is the marketing.
The single-player campaign took ten years and a reported billion dollars. The online service it ships with will run for a decade and earn substantially more. That math is the end of a category.
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The Backrooms grew up on YouTube. Hollywood is still adapting.
A teenager filming in his bedroom built one of the most influential new horror properties of the last decade. The studios noticed late. They are still figuring out what to do with what he made.
GamesWhy nobody can replace Steam
Epic, Microsoft, EA, and Ubisoft have spent fifteen years building stores meant to take share from Valve. None of them moved the needle. The reasons aren't technical.
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CultureGravity Falls ended in 2016. It has been continuing ever since.
The finale aired on Disney XD ten years ago. Since then Gravity Falls has produced three New York Times bestsellers, an international scavenger hunt, a decade of ciphers, and a franchise in continuation talks.
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CultureSeverance made the office the antagonist, and the trick is still working
Most prestige TV uses horror as a structural device. Severance uses workplace bureaucracy as the actual antagonist. Two seasons in, the trick is still working.
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