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Wordle meets Clippy in this new word game
Like many of us, Sam Rosenthal plays games like Wordle every day, chasing after good scores and sharing the results with friends and family. But he’s also a game designer, the creative director at Blaseball developer The Game Band, and so this regular habit got him thinking about what else could be done in the…
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‘It’s Incredibly Well-Made, But…’ — Former PlayStation Boss Warned Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Devs It Would Be ‘Overlooked’ if They Called It a Turn-Based RPG
Former PlayStation lead Shuhei Yoshida warned the developers behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 about calling it a “turn-based RPG” because “that alone might cause players to overlook it.
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Sonos put speaker controls on your iPhone’s lock screen (again)
Sonos released an app update that takes advantage of Apple’s Live Activities system.
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Someone Finally Made Another Game For People Who Miss Peggle
We’re closing in on the 20th anniversary of Peggle, and since then, nothing has come quite as close to matching the pure, joyous sensory overload of Popcap’s little peg-clearing masterpiece. Can Hyperdrop fill that gap for juggling skill and luck to clear stages? Maybe! Coming soon to PC, Hyperdrop is the debut game from developer Dark…
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Instagram Head of Product Design Explains Thinking Behind That New Logo and Responds to Critics: ‘It’s Important for Us to Embrace the Future’
Instagram rolled out a new logo last week — which instantly drew jeers from some users. One of the top criticisms was that the cursive-style “s” in the updated wordmark confusingly looks like a “z,” leading to a flood of jokes about the new “Instagzam.” Instagram director of product design Jasmine Probst, who was one…
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Ministers drop plan to relax affordable housing rules after rural homes backlash
Government concedes ‘significant opposition’ requires new approach on quotas for medium-sized development sites Ministers have dropped plans to relax affordable housing rules for developers in England after a backlash from housing experts who warned it could drastically cut the number of cheaper homes available in rural areas. The government said on Monday it would not…
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Mistfall Hunter Players Are Begging For This One Addition, And The Devs Just Won’t Do It
Mistfall Hunter has been out for almost three weeks now, with the extraction brawler launching on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S on July 29. Dating back to even its open beta, the community has been begging developer Bellring Games for one addition: a dedicated mode for teams of two. All over the game’s…
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Hayden Panettiere: Emma Roberts, Melissa Barrera, David Arquette, Viola Davis & More Pay Tribute To “Amazing Talent”
UPDATED: Tributes are flooding in for Hayden Panettiere, the Scream and Heroes star who has died aged 36. David Arquette and Melissa Barrera, who appeared on screen with Panettiere in the Scream franchise, all took to social media to post messages. Arquette, who plays the loveable Dewey in Scream, posted simply: “I love you Hayden,”…
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Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot
Feedly says a bug is behind the performance issues that have made its web app nearly “unusable” for some users, while complaints about its mobile apps and customer support are adding to frustrations.