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Genshin Impact's devs look to be working on a realistic fantasy MMO that uses some kind of AI, bad kind or not yet to be determined - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-08T22:57:00.000Z

MiHoYo appear to be eternally busy. After printing copious amounts of money with games like Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail, they are continuing to do so with future releases like Petit Planet (or Not Animal Crossing) and Honkai: Nexus Anima (Not Pokemon). Now, it turns out, they're also working on an MMO, seemingly codenamed Genesis, that seemingly in some capacity incorporates AI, it's just unclear what kind.

The Falconeer gets a new lease of life with a free remaster filled with improvements, fixes, and new bits - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-08T21:31:43.000Z

The Falconeer turns five years old next week, and ahead of that its developer Tom Sala has put in the work for a pretty big update. Update undersells it a touch I think, because it's being billed as a full-on remaster, complete with a touched up look, and plenty of mechanical changes. So, let's detail those details!

The team behind Blue Prince puts out a call to get one of the puzzle game's devs a life-saving kidney - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-08T19:55:21.000Z

Slightly serious one here folks! The studio behind Blue Prince, one of this year's best received games, is asking for some help for one of their lead playtesters, Matthew "Iggy" Kowalski. As shared on Bluesky, Iggy has polycystic kidney disease, leaving him with only a few months to find a living kidney donor.

You should never count Final Fantasy 11 out, as hopes for new areas emerge out of a recent dev livestream - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-08T19:24:30.000Z

While there is a notable enough sentiment that old games are worse because they are old, so should therefore be either let to rot or to be remade so that they are "better," I think this argument goes out the window when you look at something like Final Fantasy 11. That thing came out in 2022! And it launched on PS2 first! Yet here it is more than two decades later, still getting updates, and now, potentially, an entire new zone.

It's not just you, Steam's store pages are wider, and the difference only makes me a little uncomfortable - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-08T17:02:21.000Z

I know, I know, change is difficult isn't it? It upset me just the other day that YouTube has changed videos so that they have rounded corners instead of being perfectly rectangular. It's sacrilegious! A feeling I will continue to have until I ultimately forget about it because life moves on to the next grievance. Still, subtle changes like that can often set some kind of internal alarm bells off, something you might have been experiencing with store pages on Steam looking a bit… wider.

Swift Development in Emacs - Irreal

2025-11-08T16:36:30.000Z

Here’s some good news for iOS/macOS developers who are also Emacs users. Until now, the only reasonable way to develop for iOS was to use Apple’s Xcode. Xcode is a perfectly good editor and has the necessary integration to make it easy to develop for iOS but it’s not Emacs. I’m pretty sure that most Emacs users would consider it a tax on iOS development.

Now, thanks to Mikael Konradsson, there’s an alternative. For the last couple of years, Konradsson has been working on moving Swift development to Emacs. That’s harder than you might think because he also had to provide the interfaces to the previewers, simulators and build tools that are important in iOS development. It even has an interface to the Apple documentation system.

Take a look at his post to see a list of its features. His GitHub repository has even more information. Konradsson describes it as still Alpha quality software but he has been using it for his own development during those two years. One of the commenters asked if it was on Melpa and Konradsson said that he felt it needed to mature a bit more first. The paranoid may therefore want to wait a bit but it’s hard to see any harm in checking it out.

One of the reasons I’ve never ventured into iOS development—despite occasional itches to do so—is that the thought of learning and navigating the Xcode system seemed too daunting. Even using Konradsson’s package, it probably wouldn’t be easy for the newcomer, but at least it would be Emacs. I’ll be interested to see how this package plays out. If it lives up to its author’s description, it could be a game changer for Emacs iOS developers.

Proton Experimental gets fixes for multiple Xbox Game Studios titles, ARC Raiders and various other games - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2025-11-08T14:02:28.000Z

Valve released a new Proton Experimental update for November 7th with a nice batch of game fixes for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck gamers.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

What are we all playing this weekend? - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-08T08:00:00.000Z

Now that Halloween has passed us by, I'm looking forward to a more restful weekend. One where I don't need to turn off all the lights and hiss loudly in the dark at any young ruffians that come along to part me with my hard-earned Haribo. I'll need that Haribo for energy soon, as this is the last weekend before I move house. Time to fill it with games!

Xah Talk Show 2025-11-07 Ep710 Emacs Lisp Coding, lookup grokipedia, goto line in next pane - Xah Emacs Blog

2025-11-08T02:51:30.000Z

2025-11-07

Xah Talk Show 2025-11-07 Ep710 Emacs Lisp Coding, lookup grokipedia, goto line in next pane

Emacs: Jump to Error Line (xah-goto-line) 📜 - Xah Emacs Blog

2025-11-08T02:49:00.000Z

2025-11-07

Emacs: Jump to Error Line (xah-goto-line) 📜

Steam's wider store page refresh is live with plans to improve the home page on the way - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2025-11-07T18:06:00.000Z

For a while now Valve have been tweaking Steam store pages, including making them a fair bit wider which is now actually live everywhere for all users.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

BioWare are "focused exclusively" on the next Mass Effect, says exec producer, along with a Krogan teaser - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-07T18:02:38.000Z

Even as the consortium led by Donald Trump's haunted finger puppet Jared Kushner and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund proceed with their wildly leveraged $50 billion acquisition of Electronic Arts, Mass Effect executive producer Mike Gamble would like everybody to know that we're just fine, you guys.

Our School District Can Now Keep Track of Your Child with Just Three Terrible Apps - McSweeney’s

2025-11-07T18:01:00.000Z

Other than lawsuits, losing track of a child is every school district’s worst nightmare. We haven’t lost anyone yet, but an EdTech company has painted a compelling picture of this as a possible future problem that can be pre-solved with EdTech. Therefore, we’re pleased to introduce some cutting-edge yet profoundly user-unfriendly technology.

You’ve already been given an app for reluctantly volunteering to run the book fair, an app for viewing your kid’s hastily prepared report cards, and an app for lodging complaints about our apps. Effective immediately, we’ll also be tracking your child’s whereabouts on three additional apps.

First, if your child is going to be absent, log into your PITA, which does not stand for “Pain in the Ass” but for “Parents Informing Technology of Absences.” If you forget your login, call our wonderful school secretary, Marjorie. No, you can’t just call the office to tell Marjorie your kid is sick; you’ll need to call the office to retrieve your PITA login information, then log in to PITA to tell PITA your kid is sick.

Second, if your kid needs to leave school early for a doctor’s appointment or orthodontic torture session, log into your Dismal. (Dismal is an abbreviation of “Dismissal.”) You will also inform us of your child’s early dismissal when you arrive at the school to pick them up, at which point Marjorie will confirm that the dismissal has been logged in Dismal. If you forgot to log the dismissal in Dismal, everything will be the same, except that Marjorie will log it for you. Unless she forgets.

Third, if your child will be staying after school for an activity, log it in your Ass (“After-School Stuff”). Of course, you already completed the permission form in Piss (a shortening of “Permission”) and paid the activity fee in the other Piss app (“Paying Incessant Sums”—and yes, we know from the app complaint app that you’re confused by the two separate Piss apps). So when you go to log the activity in your Ass, we already know which activities your child is doing. You know, your child knows, the principal knows, the school secretary knows. Still, we need you to log in and tell a piece of Ass software what we all already know.

Since many after-school activities recur daily or weekly, we initially worried that parents would resent the repetitive task of re-inserting everything into their Ass every week, but the Ass app company assured us that once they get used to it, people love putting things in their Ass.

Yes, it’s true that one warm and competent woman used to do the work of all these apps with nothing more than a pen and a little notebook. But don’t worry, Marjorie is still our school secretary. Plus, more great news: We hired a few new part-time assistant secretaries to help Marjorie manage all the apps.

Is this time-effective? Of course not. We’re dispersing the labor previously done by one person across five paid employees and hundreds of parents and guardians. But is it cost-effective? Also, no, we’ll be paying for the apps, the part-timers, and Marjorie, who used to perform many interesting and varied tasks but now mostly just clicks things in apps, and she is no longer warm and feels incompetent.

So, will these PITA, Dismal, and Ass apps prevent your child from going missing? Absolutely they will, as long as all parents and guardians in the entire district, along with Marjorie, and Gill and Jen and Martin and Amy (the new admins), use all three apps consistently and no parent ever forgets to log their child’s whereabouts and the apps themselves don’t ever glitch or scramble information or lose service and no child ever does anything unpredictable.

And if, somehow, one of those ironclad links in the chain breaks and a child goes missing, don’t worry, the outcome will be the same as ever: We will find them in the bathroom texting on their phones. But this way, if we are ever sued, we can now mount the flawless defense “But we have all these apps!”

Or to explain it more succinctly: If a new technology exists, how could we not implement the most cumbersome version of it?

Elisp: universal-argument (prefix argument) - Xah Emacs Blog

2025-11-07T17:46:33.000Z

2025-11-07

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Xah Fly Keys News - Xah Emacs Blog

2025-11-07T17:46:21.000Z

2025-11-07

Xah Fly Keys News

World Of Warcraft will get a new premium currency alongside Midnight for no obvious good reason at all - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-07T16:48:26.000Z

Blizzard are adding a new premium virtual currency to World Of Warcraft alongside player housing in the MMO's forthcoming Midnight expansion. It's called Hearthsteel, and is "purchased with real money using your Battle.net balance and used in turn to buy Housing items from the Battle.net shop and in-game shop," as detailed in a blog post this week.

[$] Bootc for workstation use - LWN.net

2025-11-07T16:32:28.000Z

The bootc project allows users to create a bootable Linux system image using the container tooling that many developers are already familiar with. It is an evolution of OSTree (now called libostree), which is used to create Fedora Silverblue and other image-based distributions. While creating custom images is still a job for experts, the container technology simplifies delivering heavily customized images to non-technical users.

OpenMW 0.50.0 for Morrowind is out with more enhancements and better gamepad support - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2025-11-07T16:31:51.000Z

Morrowind just got even better with the new OpenMW 0.50.0 release, as the free and open source game engine reimplementation has some big fancy new features.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Mass Effect's SSV Normandy SR1 Returns to No Man's Sky with a re-run of previous expeditions - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2025-11-07T16:10:15.000Z

Hello Games are giving us all another chance to grab some cool stuff in No Man's Sky, like Mass Effect's SSV Normandy SR1 with various expeditions.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Lexispell is a roguelike word game where strategy meets physics - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2025-11-07T15:53:54.000Z

Now this looks like a cool mix, Lexispell brings some roguelike strategy flavour to word games with physics and the trailer easily sold me.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.