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Indiegogo is getting acquired by Gamefound, a board game crowdfunding company

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-07-30 10:00:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Indiegogo is being acquired by the board game crowdfunding platform Gamefound, which plans on “integrating Indiegogo’s global community of 38 million members with Gamefound’s state-of-the-art crowdfunding technology,” the companies announced this morning. Gamefound has built “the best tech in crowdfunding, hands down,” Indiegogo CEO Julie dePontbriand tells The Verge. “By joi

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Itch.io is removing NSFW games to comply with payment processors' rules

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-30 14:30:45

Itch.io has deindexed and hidden all adult games from its browse and search pages to make sure it doesn't lose the ability to sell with the payment processors it uses. The gaming marketplace, which mainly hosts titles from indie developers, has admitted in an announcement that it wasn't able to give creators advance notice. It "had to act urgently to protect the platform’s core payment infrastructure," it said, because the "situation developed rapidly." The website explained that it recently ca

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Lego's Game Boy set is here, sadly not playable

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-30 18:21:38

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . After teasing it earlier this year, Lego has unveiled its Game Boy set. The 421-piece model is a "brick-built replica of the original Game Boy" and has buttons you can press, including the +Control Pad, A and B buttons and Select and Start — though you can't play games on it, obviously

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There's No Way a Controller This Good Should Be So Affordable

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-30 17:00:17

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. GameSir Super Nova Multiplatform Controller $50 at Amazon Pros Solid hardware Lots of customization Plenty of pro features Mappable buttons Affordable Cons Mobile app is limited PC app UI needs work No Xbox support I've used a lot of GameSir products over the years, and it's gotten to the point where I'm never sure what to expect when they send a new

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You Can Now Preorder These 9 Wickedly Creative Lego Sets Releasing Today at Comic-Con 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-30 17:20:00

Cue your oohs and aahs, because Lego is giving fans a first look at its San Diego Comic-Con showstoppers that starts today. When visitors step into the Lego booth, they'll find a brick-built model of the convention floor, along with sneak peeks at new Lego-fied products for Wicked, Stranger Things, DC's Batman and the Nintendo Game Boy. The toy giant dropped the news just ahead of the four-day event. Universal and Lego collaborated on six releases inspired by Wicked: For Good, and while the new

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Solving a Childhood Mystery: How BASIC Games Learned to Win

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-27 07:03:56

🎮Game ♟️Strategy 🏁Chess 🤖Algorithm 💻Game Dev Want to try the game first? Play the JavaScript version here. Source code available here. Background From my teenage years until now, I’ve kept an old BASIC book. It’s a translated version of “BASIC Computer Games” written by David H. Ahl. BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is an old programming language designed to be easy for beginners to use. It was probably easier to use than assembler or C. I remember later creating a tex

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9 Wickedly Creative Lego Sets Debuting at Comic-Con 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-31 02:30:03

Cue your oohs and aahs, because Lego is giving fans a first look at its upcoming San Diego Comic-Con displays. When visitors step into the Lego booth, they'll find a brick-built model of the convention floor, along with sneak peeks at new Lego-fied products for Wicked, Stranger Things, DC's Batman and the Nintendo Game Boy. The toy giant dropped the news on Wednesday, ahead of the four-day event. Universal and Lego collaborated on six releases inspired by Wicked: For Good, with the new sets ava

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Here is Lego’s official Nintendo Game Boy — with lenticular display

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-07-31 03:19:19

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. We asked for the perfect Lego Nintendo Game Boy… did Lego deliver? After revealing this January that it would take up the challenge, it has revealed a most impressive take on the 1989 classic that’ll cost a relatively reasonable $60 in the US. It’s already up for pre-order today for an October 1st ship date. At 3.5 inches (14cm) wide and 5.

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Julian LeFay, “the father of The Elder Scrolls,” has died at 59

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-31 18:25:37

Julian LeFay, the man often credited as "the father of The Elder Scrolls," has died at the age of 59, his creative partners announced this week. "It is with profound sadness and heavy hearts that we inform our community of the passing of Julian LeFay, our beloved Technical Director and co-founder of Once Lost Games," his colleagues wrote in a Bluesky post. LeFay spent most of the 1990s at Bethesda Softworks, culminating in his work on The Elder Scrolls series into the late '90s. His career di

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The 16 Best Xbox Games Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-31 21:51:00

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 -- and 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

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The 20 Best PS5 Games Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-31 21:53:00

Over four years after its release, Sony's PlayStation 5 has bested Microsoft's Xbox to dominate this console generation. If you want a plug-and-play experience with the latest games, PS5 is a fantastic choice. The PS5 introduced several tech advancements over its predecessor, from the extra functionality you get from the DualSense controller's advanced haptics and triggers to instant load times with its solid-state storage, as well as the PSVR 2 headset. But the PS5's biggest appeal, building o

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Interactive Programming in C (2014)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-01 06:16:35

December 23, 2014 nullprogram.com/blog/2014/12/23/ I’m a huge fan of interactive programming (see: JavaScript, Java, Lisp, Clojure). That is, modifying and extending a program while it’s running. For certain kinds of non-batch applications, it takes much of the tedium out of testing and tweaking during development. Until last week I didn’t know how to apply interactive programming to C. How does one go about redefining functions in a running C program? Last week in Handmade Hero (days 21-25),

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Boost HTML5 Game Performance with WebAssembly

news.ycombinator.com Gaming Writer 2025-08-01 06:45:03

Who this article is for: Game developers looking to improve the performance of their HTML5 games Technical leads and engineers interested in integrating WebAssembly into their projects Students or professionals learning about web technologies and game development HTML5 game development has transformed web gaming, but it’s the integration of WebAssembly that’s truly revolutionizing performance capabilities. When players experience stuttering frame rates or input lag in browser games, they don’

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Wheel World is the feel-good game of the summer

theverge.com Lewis Gordon 2025-08-01 10:00:00

Momentum is what Wheel World does best. It is the feeling of reaching a downhill section of road, a pristine Sega-blue sea stretching out in the far distance, and letting gravity, the weight of your bicycle, and slope do all the work. Release the right trigger, the button used to peddle, and simply careen down the gently curving asphalt. It’s as if you’re flying — the wind in your hair and shirt fluttering on your back, coasting to wherever the road takes you. Wheel World is an undeniably feel-

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A Murderer Is Among Us in Square Enix's Killer Inn

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-01 22:00:52

Announced during this year's Summer Game Fest, Square Enix's next game is a little different from its RPG hits. Killer Inn is an upcoming murder mystery that pits 24 players against each other in a game of deception. I went hands-on with the title for a couple of hours before the launch of its closed beta, which is releasing Friday. Square Enix The game is very reminiscent of the breakout pandemic hit Among Us, with players performing mundane tasks as they try to avoid getting murdered. Two te

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Super Pocket Neo Geo Edition Review: Pocketable Fun

wired.com Matt Kamen 2025-08-01 22:00:00

Once upon a time, if you wanted to play Neo Geo games, it took serious financial investment. The original Neo Geo AES (Advanced Entertainment System) home console launched at $650 in 1991, equivalent to about $1,535 in 2025. Games would sell for around $200, around $472 today. The hook, for an emerging underground of gamers, was that the AES was identical at a hardware level to manufacturer SNK's MVS (Multi Video System) coin-op cabinets, meaning games played at home were indistinguishable from

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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Could've Been Incredible. Here's Why It's Not

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-01 16:00:00

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is the latest high-profile Soulslike game, this time coming from Chinese developer Leenzee. Unlike some of the most recent Soulslike releases, Wuchang is more faithful to the formula created by FromSoftware's Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, but the changes it does make might be the game's downfall. Still, for fans of the genre, it's another intriguing addition to an ever-growing list of standout gaming experiences. Wuchang is an ambitious Soulslike, which helps it stand o

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Sony’s new PS5 Power Saver mode sounds ideal for a PlayStation handheld

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-08-02 02:29:30

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Sony is starting to test a new Power Saver mode for PS5 consoles that will allow games to “run with lower power consumption.” The Power Saver mode is being revealed as part of a new PS5 system update beta today, which lets you to pair a DualSense controller with multiple devices. The new PS5 Power Saver mode will scale back game performance in favor of lower power consumption,

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How to Play Your Retro Games as Authentically as Possible

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-08-02 10:00:33

It’s more than mere nostalgia. Old games still look better on older screens. As much as you may love playing that past favorite from your childhood, the games you’re emulating on your LCD or OLED displays don’t look anything like they did back in the day. No, it’s not that your high-contrast HDR display is somehow not good enough for 16-bit pixel art; it’s down to a combination of screen technology, system emulation, and the forward march of display resolution sizes. There are a few expensive wa

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I Played ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ on Mac and It Feels Perilously Close to PC Gaming

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-08-02 11:30:24

Cyberpunk 2077 strode like a solo cyberninja onto MacBooks with the kind of swaggering bravado you’d expect from a chromed-up Night City merc. Knowing you can run CD Projekt Red’s graphically intense game, even if not at the peak ultra settings, is a mark of how well the device plays AAA titles. In case you missed it, Cyberpunk is now on Mac, and I’ve tested it on a plethora of Apple’s M-series laptops from the last few years. The good news is it’s playable, but for many Apple fans, this will be

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Splitgate 2 is yanked back to beta a month after release

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-02 14:10:22

Splitgate 2, the follow-up to the hugely successful 2021 Quake-Portal hybrid concept, is returning to beta. The game launched last month, but developer 1047 Games is pulling it after deciding the release had been rushed. The company doesn't plan to release the project again until 2026. "We'll be heads down until early next year, rebuilding major parts of the game to capture the spirit of what made Splitgate special," the founders said in a post to the game's Reddit community. "That means rework

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Video Games Weekly: Censorship, shrinkage and a Subnautica scandal

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-02 18:18:39

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, 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. This week, I’m fried. M

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Switch 2 owners can play Borderlands 4 on October 3

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-02 21:06:51

Switch 2 owners won't have long to wait for Borderlands 4. On Tuesday, Gearbox founder and CEO Randy Pitchford said it will arrive on October 3. While some had worried the game would be pushed back to 2026, it will land on Nintendo's console less than a month after other platforms. Pitchford's video begins with a sober build toward what sounds like bad news. Just when you think he's about to announce a delay, he turns into an excited 10-year-old, yelling about the game's October release date. "

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‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Is Trying a ‘Stranger Things’ Collab Game Again

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-08-02 22:00:09

Fans of Eddie Munson are having a moment right now between actor Joseph Quinn launching into a marvelous blaze of glory and now a new Stranger Things collab with Dungeons & Dragons. The timing couldn’t be more perfect for more Hellfire Club adventures, and this release promises enough of them to last you at least until Stranger Things season five premieres in November on Netflix. With Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club, tabletop enthusiasts can uncover Eddie’s lost campaigns and “tak

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Still Wakes the Deep developer The Chinese Room regains its independence

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-03 00:24:05

The Chinese Room, maker of Still Wakes the Deep, has bought back its independence. The studio will continue developing new franchises after splitting from the Sumo Group. The latter said earlier this year that it's pivoting away from original games and toward co-development work. Tencent bought the British studio Sumo for $1.27 billion in 2021. Game Developer reported that VC firm Hiro Capital facilitated the Chinese Room's independence deal. Studio head Ed Daly told the publication on Monday t

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More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-03 01:17:38

More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work By Allison Parrish I set out a while ago to make a Game Boy cartridge from scratch. This is not a novel goal; bootleg Game Boy cartridges have existed almost as long as the Game Boy itself has, and there are many third-party cartridges now available for purchase, or that have copyleft designs. But I wanted to know how Game Boy cartridges work. I was also excited to use the PIO functionality of the RP2040 microcontroller. Now, aft

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Netflix and Apple are backing away from great games

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-08-03 05:29:56

is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. For the last few years, subscription gaming services like Apple Arcade and Netflix have offered mobile game developers something of a haven for high-quality, premium mobile games: a type of game that had become vanishingly rare following the rise of the microtransaction-stuffed free-to-play model. But as these services’ once

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Mobile subscriptions are shedding unique indie games in search of a bigger audience

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-08-03 10:29:56

is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. For the last few years, subscription gaming services like Apple Arcade and Netflix have offered mobile game developers something of a haven for high-quality, premium mobile games: a type of game that had become vanishingly rare following the rise of the microtransaction-stuffed free-to-play model. But as these services’ once

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Supermassive Games is delaying Directive 8020 and laying off staff

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-03 13:58:15

Supermassive Games, the developer behind story-driven games like Until Dawn, The Quarry and The Dark Pictures Anthology, is cutting its workforce due to the ongoing "challenging" state of the games industry. The studio says it’s having to adapt its team structure and as a consequence expects to lose up to 36 employees. The current size of the Supermassive’s staff is unclear, but in February last year it cut somewhere in the region of 90 jobs, at which time Bloomberg estimated the studio had mor

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New Pokemon Theme Park, Mobile Game and TV Show Revealed

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-03 13:47:00

It's that time again, trainers: Grab your Pokedex and get ready to catch some new pocket monsters, because we've just been treated to a healthy heaping of the latest developments in the world of Pokemon. Today's Pokemon Presents stream was the first one since Pokemon Day in February. That stream ended up being pretty massive, featuring game announcements and content updates that we heard whispers about from GameFreak's infamous 2024 data breach. Read more: The Top 25 Best Pokemon Games of All

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Latest Tech News

Indiegogo is getting acquired by Gamefound, a board game crowdfunding company

Itch.io is removing NSFW games to comply with payment processors' rules

Lego's Game Boy set is here, sadly not playable

There's No Way a Controller This Good Should Be So Affordable

You Can Now Preorder These 9 Wickedly Creative Lego Sets Releasing Today at Comic-Con 2025

Solving a Childhood Mystery: How BASIC Games Learned to Win

9 Wickedly Creative Lego Sets Debuting at Comic-Con 2025

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Julian LeFay, “the father of The Elder Scrolls,” has died at 59

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The 20 Best PS5 Games Right Now

Interactive Programming in C (2014)

Boost HTML5 Game Performance with WebAssembly

Wheel World is the feel-good game of the summer

A Murderer Is Among Us in Square Enix's Killer Inn

Super Pocket Neo Geo Edition Review: Pocketable Fun

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Could've Been Incredible. Here's Why It's Not

Sony’s new PS5 Power Saver mode sounds ideal for a PlayStation handheld

How to Play Your Retro Games as Authentically as Possible

I Played ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ on Mac and It Feels Perilously Close to PC Gaming

Splitgate 2 is yanked back to beta a month after release

Video Games Weekly: Censorship, shrinkage and a Subnautica scandal

Switch 2 owners can play Borderlands 4 on October 3

‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Is Trying a ‘Stranger Things’ Collab Game Again

Still Wakes the Deep developer The Chinese Room regains its independence

More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work

Netflix and Apple are backing away from great games

Mobile subscriptions are shedding unique indie games in search of a bigger audience

Supermassive Games is delaying Directive 8020 and laying off staff

New Pokemon Theme Park, Mobile Game and TV Show Revealed

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