Compulsion Games' buyout is complete, so now Microsoft won't get a cut if you buy South of Midnight
An Xbox Game Studio no more.
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555 Makes a Useful Beat Frequency Oscillator
If you’ve got a cheap ham rig, it might not be very practical for you to receive certain transmissions out of the box. However, if you...
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Doodle generative compositions in your browser with Musical Spirograph
I remember having a Spirograph as a kid and being obsessed with it. Its geometric patterns are hypnotic and gorgeous. I also love generative music composition....
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The open mainframe: the keystone of the end-to-end digital enterprise
In the first article in this series, I discussed how the Open Mainframe Project (OMP) and its open-source framework, Zowe, The post The open mainframe: the...
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Microsoft blames RGB peripherals for crashing Windows 11 — RGB software is causing blue screens, crashes, and game freezes
RGB software is reportedly wreaking havoc on Windows PCs. The drivers used by these applications can trip up anti-cheat software, causing your games or entire system...
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"Buying any of our games helps support the studio": Psychonauts studio Double Fine are the latest former Xbox-owned studio to get the rights to their games back
Earlier this week, South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games shared word that they now own all of the publishing rights to their games, a welcome update...
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Modern Warfare 4 beta's first update is live, adding a new map, mode, and toned-down footsteps
Infinity Ward has deployed the first proper update to the Modern Warfare 4 beta, addressing a chunk of the feedback from the beta's opening day, including...
Read moreRussell Coker: Links August 2026
This YouTube video about the Cashier Girl Meme is interesting in the context of AI systems that generate images of people and can communicate with people,...
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Fallout dev Tim Cain says we should pay more attention to bad games: '[Publishers] often don't learn from failure because they only look at the games that sold well'
"Gamers will frequently point to popular games and say, 'we want more of that,' without necessarily knowing exactly what part of those games made them so...
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The first physical PC game I remember playing shows what Sony is thoughtlessly destroying
Me and a bunch of big-box PC games are going to go full boomer or prove a very important point.
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Securing sandboxes: What happens when AI agents escape containment?
On July 16, the team at Hugging Face noticed something weird moving through their production systems: An intruder that was The post Securing sandboxes: What happens...
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