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The cozy cat game that escaped from Valve (www.engadget.com)

Little Kitty, Big City is an adorable departure for former CS:GO designer Matt Wood....

G/O Media reportedly fires Kotaku editor-in-chief Patricia Hernandez (www.gamesindustry.biz)

Just finished scrolling the thread from the old website. Lots of weirdos over there that seem to be siding with checks again the large media conglomerate? huh…what’s your take?

Supreme Court says Apple can keep its App Store payment rules for now (www.theverge.com)

Ratatan Kickstarter campaign launched (www.gematsu.com)

He Created the Katamari Games, but They’re Rolling On Without Him | The New York Times (archive.is)

Revolutionary indie train sim "Derail Valley" rated "overwhelmingly positive" after huge update (twitter.com)

If you are into train games and have not heard of Derail Valley, give it a try!...

Slay the Spire Fanart - The Watcher WIP (beehaw.org)

I’ve been playing StS again recently and have been doing some more fanart for the characters! This one is the WIP I currently have for the Watcher!...

Slay the Spire Fanart - The Silent WIP (beehaw.org)

cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/6716721...

Slay the Spire Fanart - The Defect WIP I (beehaw.org)

I’ve been playing Slay the Spire again recently and decided I wanted to do some more fanart for it. Here’s the Defect so far!...

Xbox Games with Gold ending, replaced by Game Pass Core (www.eurogamer.net)

www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/core...

Limited Run Games announce "Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore" - A spiritual successor to the Zelda CD-i games (twitter.com)

Proton Experimental brings fixes for Gears 5, Overwatch 2, Phasmophobia (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Valve won’t publish games that feature copyright-infringing AI assets | Engadget (www.engadget.com)

Interesting decision

Far Cry's entire source code has leaked online (www.eurogamer.net)

Dwarf Fortress adds experimental multithreading support (store.steampowered.com)

In this release, we’re updating the engine from SDL to SDL2, and there are many optimizations to go along with it. Aside from the optimizations, SDL2 is also the stepping stone to ports. We have Linux compiling and playable; it just needs some testing....

Garuda Linux - Dead Space on Ultra with HDR (7900X, 7900XTX TAICHI) (youtu.be)

Nintendo's claim that emulation 'stifles innovation' isn't just absurd—it's hypocritical (www.pcgamer.com)

GameInformer shuts down (www.gameinformer.com) Greek

Beta Decay is a low-poly dystopian RPG whose grimy cover-shooting shows promise (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

this could have been an email (beehaw.org)

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