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No, Nintendo and Pokémon did not patent ‘summoning characters and making them battle’

theverge.com Kallie Plagge 2025-09-24 04:30:00

As first noted by Games Fray last week, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company were granted a US patent earlier this month involving summoning characters and making them battle. Headlines popped up with similarly vague language as concern spread on social media: That’s a thing in tons of games! Can they do that? Is that even allowed? Well, no, because that’s not exactly what they patented. And what they did patent might not stand up to any hypothetical challenges in court. The patent in question, US

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Duolingo Chess Players Soon Can Play Matches With Others

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-26 08:00:05

Android, it's your move. Language-learning app Duolingo announced Tuesday that it is launching its chess instruction to Android phones, three months after introducing the game to iOS devices. The company also said that it will be bringing a player-versus-player mode to iOS in the coming weeks. Duolingo announced the news Tuesday at its flagship conference Duocon, which is being held virtually on the Duolingo website. The company said a "very small percentage" of Duolingo customers had early ac

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Video Games Weekly: It's weird that esports is segregated by gender

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-29 10:35:19

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (Or, I dunno, Thursday), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week.

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Is Hollow Knight: Silksong too hard? Well, it depends on what you mean by “hard.”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-02 08:45:40

For seven years, the discussion around Hollow Knight: Silksong focused on the cult-like levels of devotion among fans patiently waiting for the sequel. Now that Silksong has been available for about a week, though, that discussion has turned decisively toward seemingly endless takes on the game's relative difficulty (or lack thereof). The discussion has gotten so loud that the developers at Team Cherry have vowed to implement a "slight difficulty reduction in early game bosses Moorwing and Siste

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Deliberate Abstraction

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 19:20:52

I recently wrote code to simulate a card game. The details are irrelevant, but it was a great opportunity to put inside-out design into practise, because when I started programming, I didn’t actually know the rules of the game, nor what all the card types were. Thus, I started from a very general core that I did know with certainty: Card - name : string - valid_play : Card -> bool A card has a name and it gets to decide on its own whether it’s legal to play this card on top of another card. Na

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Little Nightmares 3 Hands-On: a Creepy Co-Op Game Arriving Just in Time for Halloween

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-03 16:01:49

After about an hour playing Little Nightmares 3, I'd used a person's bisected halves to solve a puzzle, gotten a high score in a carnival shooting game and escaped the murderous claws of a deranged baby. As a 2-foot-tall youth trying to survive the morbid dangers of one demented area after another with my co-player, I was terrified and delighted. I've only sampled the first two Little Nightmares games, but in my brief preview of Little Nightmares 3, it felt like a refined version of the series'

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We Finally Know What ‘Star Wars’ Is Doing in ‘Destiny 2’

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-07 00:30:54

Back in May, Bungie teased some kind of pseudo-crossover between its shared-world shooter Destiny 2 and Star Wars. Not another skin pack like before, but a full-on expansion subtitled Renegades that would see Guardians explore a sandy planet and wield a laser sword. In a new livestream, the developer pulled back the curtain on Renegades, which was made in collaboration with Lucasfilm. Guardians will explore the Lawless Frontier of Mars, Europa, and Venus and meet the Jedi-like Praxis Order to f

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Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL

news.ycombinator.com Lukas Vogel 2025-10-07 03:12:18

DOOMQL: A DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL I recently stumbled across Patrick’s excellent DOOM clone running in a browser powered by DuckDB-WASM. Ever since I’ve read that, I wanted to push his awesome idea to the logical extreme: Build a multiplayer DOOM-like shooter entirely in SQL with CedarDB doing all the heavy lifting. During a month of parental leave (i.e., a lot of sleepless nights), I tried exactly that. Here’s a sneak peek at DOOMQL: Your browser does not support the video ta

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Marvel Rivals Season 4 Release Time: Angela Abilities and Balance Changes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 00:21:10

Marvel Rivals season 4 is about to begin, bringing a one-winged angel of vengeance to the free-to-play game's roster of playable heroes. No, we're not talking about Sephiroth: The next vanguard is Angela, the former Image Comics angelic bounty hunter and current Marvel Comics Asgardian goddess. While the radiant new tank is the centerpiece of the season 4 update, a new map, hero balance changes, cosmetics and live events will also shake up how the game plays over the next two months. If you've

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‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Is Already Causing Online Gaming Stores to Crash

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-10-13 20:10:13

After six years of waiting, Team Cherry’s long awaited Hollow Knight sequel, Silksong, launched globally today at 10 am eastern. Unfortunately, fans may have to wait a little longer to play the action-adventure game. Online retailers such as the Xbox and PlayStation stores, Steam, and Nintendo eShop, are rife with loading screens and error messages as people rush to buy it. On Steam, players trying to add the game to their cart or complete their purchase are being met with the same message: an

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Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 03:54:12

Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources Links Official website Downloads Documentation Mastodon Twitter Support channel (Matrix): #nuclear:matrix.org Discord chat: https://discord.gg/JqPjKxE Suggest and vote on new features here: https://nuclear.featureupvote.com/ Readme translations: What is this? nuclear is a free music streaming program that pulls content from free sources all over the internet. If you know mps-youtube, this is a similar music player but with

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Show HN: LightCycle, a FOSS game in Rust based on Tron

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 04:08:54

LightCycle A classic TRON-inspired light cycle game built with Rust and ggez. Features Single-player and Two-player modes - Battle against AI or a friend - Battle against AI or a friend Adjustable AI Difficulty - Easy, Medium, and Hard AI opponents - Easy, Medium, and Hard AI opponents Boost Mechanic - Limited energy boost system for strategic gameplay - Limited energy boost system for strategic gameplay Visual Effects - Particle trails, screen shake, and glow effects - Particle trails, s

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What Is Complexity in Chess?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 18:45:33

Pacto Visual May 2020 an interesting proposal was suggested. I provided some constructive criticism on research paper A Metric of Chess Complexity by FM David Peng, as well as constructive criticism on the codebase used to validate this experiment. For many months I have refrained from further comment, and although code has not progressed, two things have: 1. Public interest in "complexity" as determined by ACPL (yuck). 2. Lichess has a blogging platform where I can properly address deficien

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Elden Ring Nightreign Is About to Get Tougher With New 'Deep of Night' Mode

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 07:42:00

Since Elden Ring Nightreign, the online multiplayer spinoff of 2022's Elden Ring, launched in May, its developer has ramped up the difficulty. Now, Nightreign is about to get even more challenging. A new "high-difficulty challenge mode" called Deep of Night is set to launch on Sept. 11, according to a post from publisher Bandai Namco. Players who take on the challenge will be rewarded with new relics and the self-satisfaction of taking on another challenge put forth by developer FromSoftware.

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Battlefield 6 PC Specs Revealed, Supports 2019 Graphics Cards

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 20:16:06

After the wildly successful Battlefield 6 open beta that ran earlier in August, EA has released the specs your PC will need to play the next installment in the popular multiplayer shooter series. There aren't too many surprises on the specs list EA revealed in a blog post Thursday. Players with graphics cards as old as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (released in 2019 and 2020, respectively) with at least 6GB of virtual RAM can play Battlefield 6. That's reasonably inclusiv

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BioShock creator Ken Levine's Judas game still exists, now has key art

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-26 20:16:35

Remember Judas? No, not the biblical figure and not the Lady Gaga bop, this Judas is a project from Ghost Story Games. If you don't remember, it's the game that was reportedly in " development hell " before it was even announced . The team, led by BioShock creator Ken Levine, had gone pretty quiet for a few years after releasing the debut trailer, but today teased a look at some key art and mechanics for the game. The BioShock lineage is clear from the handful of visuals we've seen so far, but

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Skate Hands-On Preview: I Think It Might Be the Perfect Free-to-Play Game

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-27 07:30:03

It's been nearly a decade and a half since the last Skate game was released, but veterans won't have to wait much longer to tear up the streets once again. The next entry in the arcade-y skateboarding series launches into early access on Sept. 16. The franchise reboot (just named "Skate") was developed by Full Circle, a studio composed of much of the same talent that worked on the original games. After a long drought, skateboarding game fans have dined well on the compilation remakes of Tony H

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Exploring the tragedy of the Counter-Strike 2 server browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 13:31:50

For those who enjoy Counter-Strike community servers, the situation in Counter-Strike 2 is rather dire. An avalanche of spam has rendered the server browser unusable. The transition from Global Offensive killed multiple small communities. And large server providers have taken advantage of these problems to monopolise the market. Trying to find a server either involves capitulating to these big vendors, or trawling through a trench of spam. Scraping the server browser allows us to have some in

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Overwatch 2 will allow KBM on console, but you'll be up against PC players

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-01 15:00:34

Overwatch 2 console players will officially be able to use a keyboard and mouse starting with the release of Season 18. In patch notes posted ahead of the new season, the Overwatch 2 team says matchmaking pools will be tweaked slightly so players are sorted into a Mouse and Keyboard Pool and a Controller Pool. Those playing on a console using keyboard and mouse (KBM) inputs will be paired with PC players and other KBM console players, while the Controller Pool will be reserved only for console p

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How Figma’s multiplayer technology works (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 22:41:02

Operational transformation (OT) is a technology for supporting a range of collaboration functionalities in advanced collaborative software systems. Hero illustration by Rose Wong. When we first started building multiplayer functionality Multiplayer Editing in Figma Today’s public release of Figma contains two long-awaited changes. in Figma four years ago, we decided to develop our own solution. No other design tool offered this feature, and we didn’t want to use operational transforms (a.k.a.

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Figma's Multiplayer Technology (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 04:41:02

Operational transformation (OT) is a technology for supporting a range of collaboration functionalities in advanced collaborative software systems. Hero illustration by Rose Wong. When we first started building multiplayer functionality Multiplayer Editing in Figma Today’s public release of Figma contains two long-awaited changes. in Figma four years ago, we decided to develop our own solution. No other design tool offered this feature, and we didn’t want to use operational transforms (a.k.a.

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Kirby Air Riders launches November 20 exclusively on Switch 2

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 08:10:54

Nintendo has confirmed that Kirby Air Riders, a modern revival of the 2003 GameCube cult classic Kirby Air Ride, will be released exclusively on Switch 2 on November 20. The announcement came during a marathon 45-minute Nintendo Direct devoted entirely to the new game, hosted by Kirby's creator Masahiro Sakurai. Sakurai said he was asked to create Air Riders while still working on DLC for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate , and drafted a written proposal for the game at the request of Shinya Takahashi,

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The 20 Best Xbox Games Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 18:29:00

Over the past two decades, Microsoft has turned the Xbox brand into a veritable juggernaut in the console gaming world. The Xbox Series X and Series S, the combined fourth generation of the Xbox, have sold over 21 million units. The Xbox One, which was still supported until 2023, sold over 58 million units worldwide. As Microsoft shifts its focus toward supporting console and PC gamers alike with the Game Pass subscription service, there's never been a larger ecosystem of Xbox consoles to choos

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EA Makes Big Changes to Rush Mode in Battlefield 6 Beta

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-15 16:04:00

The Battlefield 6 beta is raging, with players free to jump into the fray now through the end of Sunday, Aug. 17. This is the second weekend of the multiplayer shooter's preview period, and there are a few changes that open up the beta with more modes, maps and play options. Plus, the game's developer DICE has enacted tweaks in response to player feedback. Those enjoying the beta on PS5 have to be subscribed to PS Plus to play online, but for their trouble, they're getting double experience poi

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Evaluating GPT5's reasoning ability using the Only Connect game show

news.ycombinator.com Alberto Manzi 2025-11-21 11:52:51

Given the proliferation of reasoning models, we wanted to go beyond knowledge-based benchmarks to test reasoning abilities such as pattern recognition, lateral thinking, abstraction, contextual reasoning (accounting for British cultural references), and multi-step inference. In addition to reasoning, we aimed to assess how effectively models make decisions when presented with judgment calls—such as choosing between making an educated guess based on available clues or calling a function to retri

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The Anti-Pattern Game

news.ycombinator.com Håkon Robbestad Gylterud 2025-11-20 05:14:40

The anti-pattern game Håkon Robbestad Gylterud Here is a small game I though of when taking a course on modal logic. It is a bit too tedious to be played by humans, but I had great fun finding a winning stategy for it – and there are still simple questions about this game I cannot answer. The rules The anti-pattern game is a two-player game. It is played using black and white pebbles (like Go). These pebbles are placed in sequence on a line. On their turn the player has a simple choice: to co

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The 20 Best PS4 Games

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-23 15:20:39

It has been more than a decade since Sony released the PlayStation 4, but the console is just as important as ever. Despite being released in November 2013, the PS4 is still in production today, with well over 100 million units being sold over its lifetime and some new games still arriving on it, including Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii. When it launched in 2013, Sony's eighth-gen console arrived with tech upgrades that seem du jour now, but were exciting over a decade ago. For instance

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Apple Arcade just got four new games, including Play-Doh World

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-01 21:46:02

As promised last month, Apple today released four new titles to Apple Arcade, adding to the catalog of over 200 ad-free games available to subscribers. Here’s what’s new. Play-Doh World Play-Doh brings its magic to the digital space with Play-Doh World, allowing players to craft their own characters and watch them spring to life. From inventing wild zoo animals to styling outrageous salon hairdos, every corner of this colorful universe responds to the player’s creative whim. With dozens of int

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I Played Battlefield 6: Hands-On With the Return To Big Battle Warfare

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-12 03:00:03

After a few hours playing the upcoming Battlefield 6, it's clear the game is designed to be a mea culpa to fans: Trust us, we're bringing back the Battlefield you remember. At a massive preview event in Los Angeles, I sat down to play a slice of the game's multiplayer mode -- and came off it suitably whelmed with a mix of raucous moments and tedious deaths. Ultimately, it feels like it will deliver the kind of big team battles players have been craving, with technical flourishes that amplify the

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I still love VLC, but this lightweight video player changed the game for me

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-12 04:00:11

Andy Walker / Android Authority VLC Player has been my go-to video app for years, dating back to the good ol’ Windows XP days. That loyalty progressed to Android, and I still use it across desktop and mobile for my video content needs. While it remains a powerful product, VLC often feels cumbersome when I crave simplicity. Why opt for a piledriver when you need a chisel? I searched for a secondary player for more immediate video viewing tasks a few months ago and discovered Next Player. Althou

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Latest Tech News

No, Nintendo and Pokémon did not patent ‘summoning characters and making them battle’

Duolingo Chess Players Soon Can Play Matches With Others

Video Games Weekly: It's weird that esports is segregated by gender

Is Hollow Knight: Silksong too hard? Well, it depends on what you mean by “hard.”

Deliberate Abstraction

Little Nightmares 3 Hands-On: a Creepy Co-Op Game Arriving Just in Time for Halloween

We Finally Know What ‘Star Wars’ Is Doing in ‘Destiny 2’

Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL

Marvel Rivals Season 4 Release Time: Angela Abilities and Balance Changes

‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Is Already Causing Online Gaming Stores to Crash

Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

Show HN: LightCycle, a FOSS game in Rust based on Tron

What Is Complexity in Chess?

Elden Ring Nightreign Is About to Get Tougher With New 'Deep of Night' Mode

Battlefield 6 PC Specs Revealed, Supports 2019 Graphics Cards

BioShock creator Ken Levine's Judas game still exists, now has key art

Skate Hands-On Preview: I Think It Might Be the Perfect Free-to-Play Game

Exploring the tragedy of the Counter-Strike 2 server browser

Overwatch 2 will allow KBM on console, but you'll be up against PC players

How Figma’s multiplayer technology works (2019)

Figma's Multiplayer Technology (2019)

Kirby Air Riders launches November 20 exclusively on Switch 2

The 20 Best Xbox Games Right Now

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Evaluating GPT5's reasoning ability using the Only Connect game show

The Anti-Pattern Game

The 20 Best PS4 Games

Apple Arcade just got four new games, including Play-Doh World

I Played Battlefield 6: Hands-On With the Return To Big Battle Warfare

I still love VLC, but this lightweight video player changed the game for me

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