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A QBasic Text Adventure Still Expanding in 2025

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 02:25:59

Welcome to the world of text adventures! Here, we dive into the art of creating interactive stories that immerse players in thrilling, choice-driven narratives. Whether you're a fellow developer, a fan of retro games, or just curious about text-based adventures, this channel has something for you. Join me as I share insights, tips, and updates on my latest text games. Get ready to shape worlds, solve mysteries, and experience stories where your choices lead the way. Let's bring adventures to lif

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iOS 26 adds two brand new apps to your iPhone’s Home Screen

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-19 21:09:15

iOS 26 might be best remembered for its Liquid Glass design, but among many other new features and changes, the update also adds two brand new apps to your iPhone’s Home Screen. Here’s what’s new. #1: Apple Games app Gaming on the iPhone gets a new central hub in iOS 26. ’Apple Games’ is a brand new app that joins the ranks of other media-focused iPhone apps such as: Apple TV Apple Music Apple Podcasts Apple Books The new Games app includes a Home view where you’ll spend most of your tim

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The New York Times Mini Crossword Is Behind a Paywall: Here's a Way to Play

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 12:00:04

I'm a fan of the New York Times Mini Crossword -- a sporty, streamlined companion to the newspaper's legendary regular daily crossword. Typically, the Mini Crossword (we publish the answers daily) has roughly a dozen clues to work through -- six across-clues and six down-clues -- and you can complete it in less than a minute if all goes well. It makes me feel smart, unlike the big crossword, which sometimes makes me throw things. But in late August, some Mini Crossword players suddenly ran int

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Annapurna Interactive will reveal three new games in a showcase on September 23

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-21 13:20:25

Annapurna Interactive is hosting a games showcase on September 23, 2025 at 8PM ET / 5PM PT to show off three of its upcoming games. The publisher says the "Annapurna Interactive Direct from Tokyo" will stream on YouTube and feature new games from Kyoto-based developer Marumittu Games, Iridium Studios and Yarn Owl. Annapurna Interactive held its previous games showcase this past February to show off games like Skin Deep and Wheel World . Marumittu Games' Annapurna project was initially detailed

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'Baby Steps' Is a Hiking Game That Trolls ‘Slightly Problematic’ Men

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-09-21 12:57:31

Game developer Bennett Foddy was watching a Greek myth unfold in front of him. A playtester for his latest project, Baby Steps, was struggling to navigate the game’s lead—Nate, a 35-year-old “failson” in a stained onesie—up a slippery hill. Each time, the terrain proved to be too much, and Nate skidded uselessly down it. Foddy has a reputation for making onerous games that take a little bit of masochism to master. This was not one of those times. Neatly placed next to the slippery hill was a s

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The PS5 update that adds DualSense multi-device pairing rolls out soon

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-21 21:52:12

Starting on Wednesday, it'll be much easier to switch between devices with your PlayStation controller. That's when the PS5 update Sony promised in July begins rolling out. Jumping between your console and, say, Windows will be as simple as pressing a button combo. Up to this point, you've had to unpair and repair your DualSense controller each time. After installing tomorrow's system update, it will only take a few steps to set up multi-device switching. With your DualSense controller powered

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Dolphin update makes GameCube and Wii games far less likely to crash

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-22 20:51:09

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Dolphin release 2509 turns off Dual Core mode by default on desktop, fixing common crashes. The update also adds compatibility for three tricky Disney Wii games thanks to clever hacks. Bluetooth passthrough, which enables Wii Remote support, has been patched to work with more modern Bluetooth adapters. Dolphin has long been one of the most impressive emulators around, but despite more than 20 years of development, there’s still more work to be done. In

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Microsoft’s Xbox PC app adds Steam games and access to other stores

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-22 20:03:20

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft is rolling out a new aggregated gaming library inside its Xbox PC app today on Windows. The updated app will now list games from Steam, Battle.net, and other PC storefronts — making it a launcher for games you have installed on your PC. Microsoft has been testing this aggregated

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Early Access is the latest place where Steam is restricting games with mature themes

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-23 17:08:06

Valve has apparently updated its Steam Early Access policy to no longer accept games with what the company deems to be "mature themes." As first reported by Gamesmarkt earlier this month, gaming studio Dammitbird, which develops the adult adventure game Heavy Hearts, was not allowed to put the title on Steam Early Access because of its content. Payment processors like Mastercard and Visa have been mounting a pressure campaign on video game marketplaces Steam and Itch.io to remove certain adults

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Monday Night Football: How to Watch Buccaneers vs. Texans, Chargers vs. Raiders Tonight

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-25 04:00:03

There are five Monday Night Football doubleheaders on tap for this season, starting with tonight's twin bill. Kicking things off are the Buccaneers and Texans in Houston starting at 7 p.m. ET (4 p.m. PT) on ABC and ESPN. Next, we'll head to Las Vegas for an AFC West showdown between the Chargers and Raiders that begins at 10 p.m. ET (7 p.m. PT) on ESPN. If you are looking the ManningCast, you won't find it for either of tonight's games. The Manning brothers have the night off and will return

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Cozy detectives, urban disc golf and other new indie games worth checking out

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-24 17:00:29

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. This week, the revived Acclaim held a very fun showcase (and we'll get to some of the games from that). But on Friday, Nintendo soaked up all the attention with an hour-long Direct. Sure, it included some first-party games, such as Mario Tennis Fever, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and a Donkey Kong Bananza expansion. But Nintendo highlighted several indie games in the newsy showcase, too. Hades 2 is arguably the highest-profile n

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GameHub fixed its Silksong save game uploads and now I’m playing across phone and PC

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-09-25 13:13:14

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The circle is now complete: you can install your Steam copy of Hollow Knight Silksong on an Android phone, play it with your automatically downloaded Steam save games — and today, as of the new GameHub 5.0.4 update, you can easily upload your phone save

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

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-25 11:35:19

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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Nintendo's Back in VR With a New Virtual Boy, Coming Next Year for Switch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-26 08:36:00

I keep wondering when Nintendo will get back into VR -- I asked Shigeru Miyamoto about it earlier this year, in fact. Well, Nintendo's going back to VR, sort of: the Virtual Boy is back, baby. Retro games and a Virtual Boy accessory for the Switch and Switch 2 are coming Feb. 17 next year. The Virtual Boy was one of several things the company announced for Mario's 40th anniversary in a Direct livestream Friday, including new remasters of Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2. The failed 1996 stereoscopic

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Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is a new platformer coming to the Switch 2 next spring

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-26 12:38:05

Nintendo is dropping a slew of Mario-related announcements this morning as part of the franchise's 40th anniversary, including a new game starring his dinosaur companion. Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is coming out for Switch 2 in the Spring of 2026 and the brief bit of gameplay we saw plants it squarely in the cutesy yet intriguing tradition of past Yoshi platformers. The game's worlds and levels appear to be part of a book named Mr. Encyclopedia (or Mr. E for short) that Yoshi can jump into a

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Nintendo is bringing back the Virtual Boy as a Switch and Switch 2 accessory

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-26 13:00:37

Nintendo had a truly wild surprise up its sleeve for Switch Online + Expansion Pack during its Direct event on Friday. The company is bringing back the Virtual Boy as a physical device into which you can slot your Switch or Switch 2. A plastic replica of the mid-90s tabletop system will soon be available for Switch Online members to buy. The company will sell a cardboard version of the accessory too. No need to rub your eyes in disbelief (but if history is any indication, you might have to for r

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Fight for glory in Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave coming to the Switch 2 next year

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-09-26 13:48:35

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The reveal trailer gave us a glimpse of the world of Fortune’s Weave. The game features what looks to be the same kind of factional rivalries that made Fates, Awakening, and Three Houses so special. Fortune’s Weave also features totally

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Virtual Boy games are coming to Nintendo Switch Online

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-09-26 17:49:24

is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nintendo’s oft-maligned VR headset the Virtual Boy is getting a new life on modern hardware. Nintendo announced that the platform will be coming to its collection of retro games available to Switch Online subscribers, and will be available on both t

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Metroid Prime 4 goes beyond, launching this December

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-09-26 17:56:20

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. You won’t have to wait too long now for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. Nintendo surprised us so soon after the Kirby Air Riders direct with another direct showcase today. Clocking in at a luxurious 60 minutes, the direct covered a bunch of ga

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The New York Times Mini Crossword Now Has a Paywall, but There Is a Way to Play

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-27 04:45:03

I'm a fan of the New York Times Mini Crossword -- a sporty, streamlined companion to the newspaper's legendary regular daily crossword. Typically, the Mini Crossword (we publish the answers daily) has roughly a dozen clues to work through -- six across-clues and six down-clues -- and you can complete it in less than a minute if all goes well. It makes me feel smart, unlike the big crossword, which sometimes makes me throw things. But in late August, some Mini Crossword players suddenly ran int

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Show HN: Making a cross-platform game in Go using WebRTC Datachannels

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 06:30:37

(The following was adapted from a talk I gave at DWeb Weekend 2025 at the Internet Archive in San Francisco on August 17, 2025) Simplifying WebRTC Datachannels for Games First of all, to get some stuff out of the way, instead of using the “super complicated” WebRTC datachannels, why don’t we use something simpler? Why Not Use Websockets? Too slow : Most games use UDP with a reliability layer on top. : Most games use UDP with a reliability layer on top. Suitable for turn-based games : Fine f

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Streaming Can’t Replace Your PC, but Nvidia’s Updated GeForce Now Comes Close

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-09-29 01:47:36

No, you shouldn't use it for multiplayer, but I still find myself gravitating to GeForce Now more than ever. The best compliment I could ever lay at the feet of any game streaming service is that I can forget I was even using it. Nvidia’s GeForce Now service, which lets players run their own game library through the cloud, is better than ever with its most recent update. As a bonus, Nvidia’s $20-per-month “Ultimate” subscription doesn’t cost any more than it did previously, unlike TV streaming’

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The New York Times Mini Crossword Is Now Paywalled: Here's One Way to Play

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 02:00:03

The New York Times Mini Crossword is a fun and simple younger sibling to the newspaper's legendary regular daily crossword. The Mini Crossword (we publish the answers daily) usually has only about six across-clues and six down-clues, and you can finish it in less than a minute if all goes well. It makes me feel smart, unlike the big crossword, which sometimes makes me throw things. But in late August, some Mini Crossword players were met with a paywall. Going forward, anyone who doesn't pay fo

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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 2025-09-29 17:01:49

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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WWE 2K25 Jumps From the Top Rope Onto PlayStation Plus in September

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 20:23:24

"The American Nightmare" Cody Rhodes, son of one of the greatest pro wrestlers of all time, "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, is the current undisputed WWE champion. And PlayStation Plus subscribers can bring Rhodes down a peg or help establish a new wrestling dynasty with the champion beginning on Sept. 16 in WWE 2K25. PlayStation Plus is Sony's version of Xbox Game Pass, and it offers subscribers a large and constantly expanding library of games. There are three PlayStation Plus tiers -- Ess

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The PS Plus Game Catalog additions include Persona 5 Tactica and WWE 2K25

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-30 01:10:06

On Wednesday, Sony rolled out its September Game Catalog additions for PS Plus subscribers. This month's entries run the gamut from turn-based tactics to survival horror and pro wrestling. Persona 5 Tactica (PS5/ PS4) may be the most critically acclaimed title in the batch. The 2023 Persona spinoff takes the mainline games' battles and shifts them into grid-based tactics. Think XCOM with Phantom Thieves. The Invincible (PS5) is an adaptation of the 1963 sci-fi novel by Stanisław Lem. As its in

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You Can Play Hollow Knight: Silksong on Xbox Game Pass Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-01 09:00:07

The wait is over. After years of rumors and speculation, Hollow Knight: Silksong, the sequel to the award-winning indie darling Hollow Knight, is here. And Xbox Game Pass subscribers can play the highly anticipated sequel right now at no additional cost. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, a CNET Editors' Choice award pick, offers hundreds of games you can play on your Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, Amazon Fire TV, smart TV and PC or mobile device for $20 a month. A subscription gives you access

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Hands-on: Nvidia’s GeForce Now RTX 5080 is better and worse than I hoped

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-10-01 09:00:00

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Today, Nvidia is soft-launching its latest gaming GPUs in the cloud — upgrading its $20-a-month GeForce Now Ultimate cloud gaming service with RTX 5080 graphics for select games, with more to come down the road. At the same time, it’s also adding thousa

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All clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 05:09:25

Last year, we reported on the efforts of classic iPod fans to preserve playable copies of the downloadable clickwheel games that Apple sold for a brief period in the late '00s. The community was working to get around Apple's onerous FairPlay DRM by having people who still owned original copies of those (now unavailable) games sync their accounts to a single iTunes installation via a coordinated Virtual Machine. That "master library" would then be able to provide playable copies of those games to

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Nvidia’s latest GeForce driver is ready for Borderlands 4 and RTX Remix mods

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-01 22:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nvidia is releasing a new GeForce Game Ready driver today in preparation for the Borderlands 4 release later this week. There’s also an Nvidia app update arriving today that includes a new RTX Remix update to allow modders to improve fire and smoke effects in older games. Today’s Game Read

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Latest Tech News

A QBasic Text Adventure Still Expanding in 2025

iOS 26 adds two brand new apps to your iPhone’s Home Screen

The New York Times Mini Crossword Is Behind a Paywall: Here's a Way to Play

Annapurna Interactive will reveal three new games in a showcase on September 23

'Baby Steps' Is a Hiking Game That Trolls ‘Slightly Problematic’ Men

The PS5 update that adds DualSense multi-device pairing rolls out soon

Dolphin update makes GameCube and Wii games far less likely to crash

Microsoft’s Xbox PC app adds Steam games and access to other stores

Early Access is the latest place where Steam is restricting games with mature themes

Monday Night Football: How to Watch Buccaneers vs. Texans, Chargers vs. Raiders Tonight

Cozy detectives, urban disc golf and other new indie games worth checking out

GameHub fixed its Silksong save game uploads and now I’m playing across phone and PC

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

Nintendo's Back in VR With a New Virtual Boy, Coming Next Year for Switch

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is a new platformer coming to the Switch 2 next spring

Nintendo is bringing back the Virtual Boy as a Switch and Switch 2 accessory

Fight for glory in Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave coming to the Switch 2 next year

Virtual Boy games are coming to Nintendo Switch Online

Metroid Prime 4 goes beyond, launching this December

The New York Times Mini Crossword Now Has a Paywall, but There Is a Way to Play

Show HN: Making a cross-platform game in Go using WebRTC Datachannels

Streaming Can’t Replace Your PC, but Nvidia’s Updated GeForce Now Comes Close

The New York Times Mini Crossword Is Now Paywalled: Here's One Way to Play

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

WWE 2K25 Jumps From the Top Rope Onto PlayStation Plus in September

The PS Plus Game Catalog additions include Persona 5 Tactica and WWE 2K25

You Can Play Hollow Knight: Silksong on Xbox Game Pass Now

Hands-on: Nvidia’s GeForce Now RTX 5080 is better and worse than I hoped

All clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

Nvidia’s latest GeForce driver is ready for Borderlands 4 and RTX Remix mods

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