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“Compliance-in-advance is never enough to appease a zealous censor”: Robert Yang on the current challenge of bringing experimental gay games to Steam
Radiator Forever, an “ongoing re-remaster/re-re-release” collection of developer Robert Yang’s short and experimental gay games has arrived on Steam, giving it a new home alongside Itch.io. In a blog post about the release, Yang has outlined the complex situation facing adult game creators at the moment, with the likes of last year’s business with payment…
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A. G. Cook & Danny L Harle Share Previously Unreleased Dux Content Songs From New Reissue
Experimental pop producers A. G. Cook and Danny L Harle, co-founders of the influential PC Music collective, have reissued the debut album from their early duo Dux Content. The remastered version of 2012’s Lifestyle, released to mark PC Music’s 13th anniversary, includes two bonus tracks that had never been given a proper release, offering an…
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Watch: Typhoon Bavi forecast to bring heavy rains and floods to Taiwan, Japan and China
See how the powerful storm is expected to move across east Asia on Saturday.
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Struggling pig farmers say £2m support package ‘not enough’
Farmers welcome the Scottish government funding but say it’s not enough to stop them losing about £1m a month
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Streaming accelerates nostalgia-driven catalog discovery, says Vevo study
The report highlights Sabrina Carpenter’s “Manchild” as an example of a new release built on borrowed nostalgia. Source
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Four Tet’s Internet-Breaking New Wingdings Album Is Now Streaming
Kieran Hebden, best known as the electronic artist Four Tet, has released a new album under his unpronounceable alter ego, an alias rendered entirely in unusual symbols and characters. The record first appeared last month as a limited-edition vinyl pressing before arriving digitally, and it quickly gained attention less for its music than for the…
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Ministers plan legally binding debt targets for England’s water companies
Ministers are drawing up plans to impose legally binding debt targets on England’s water companies for the first time, in an effort to prevent further corporate failures of the kind facing Thames Water. The environment secretary, Emma Reynolds, is developing proposals that would compel firms to keep their borrowing below set levels or face legal…
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Is an air-conditioning revolution coming to Europe?
Record-breaking heat waves that pushed temperatures above 40°C across Europe in late June have intensified the debate over whether the continent should embrace air-conditioning, with shoppers in France reportedly forcing their way into stores to grab fans and portable units. The issue matters because Europe is warming faster than any other continent, cooling is increasingly…
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Gen Z Leans Hard into Nostalgia to Spur Music and Content Discovery: Study
Gen Z is the generation most powerfully drawn to nostalgia, according to a new study of three generations of consumers in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. The research, entitled “Then is Now: A Study on Modern Nostalgia”, was commissioned by Vevo — the music video streaming service jointly owned by Sony Music and…