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Wire up various modules to survive in Wireworks - a base-defense roguelike auto-battler - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2026-01-08T16:42:25.000Z

Wireworks went straight into my wishlist, I couldn't click it fast enough. Love the idea with this base-defense roguelike auto-battler.

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Ooh, that rumoured Witcher 3 DLC could be something really funky, if it's set where the latest report suggests - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-08T16:38:10.000Z

Gerry from the River rides up to a noticeboard for the second time this week. Between contracts, he scans the pinned scraps for a fresh job to take on, only for his eyes to rest on another particularly peculiar bit of prose. 'There's a mysterious extra DLC for The Witcher 3 in the works', this bit of paper claims. 'Oh yeah, I heard about that,' Gerry's brain responds. 'Also, it reportedly might be set in Zerrikania,' says the paper. 'Ooh, that's new,' the Witcherman's noggin thinks.

Dig Dig Die sounds like a hilarious grave-robbing co-op horror game - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2026-01-08T16:34:01.000Z

If you're after more funny and frightening co-op games to play with friends, the recently announced Dig, Dig, Die could be a good one for you.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Microlandia is a "brutally honest" scion of SimCity that thinks of cities as "beautiful but insane machines" - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-08T16:24:33.000Z

Microlandia deserves a much longer article, preferably written by our resident virtual metropolis judger Sin Vega. For the moment, I will only say that it’s a work-in-progress city-builder fuelled by a poetical mixture of admiration and terror for cities.

Gentoo looks back on 2025 - LWN.net

2026-01-08T16:06:38.000Z

Gentoo Linux has published a 2025 project retrospective that looks at how the community has evolved, changes to the distribution, infrastructure, and finances for the Gentoo Foundation.

Gentoo currently consists of 31663 ebuilds for 19174 different packages. For amd64 (x86-64), there are 89 GBytes of binary packages available on the mirrors. Gentoo each week builds 154 distinct installation stages for different processor architectures and system configurations, with an overwhelming part of these fully up-to-date.

The number of commits to the main ::gentoo repository has remained at an overall high level in 2025, with a slight decrease from 123942 to 112927. The number of commits by external contributors was 9396, now across 377 unique external authors.

Casual HTML/CSS - Irreal

2026-01-08T15:50:11.000Z

I hardly ever write directly in HTML anymore. For a long time my only use was adding links and emphasis markup in WordPress comments but Disqus no longer accepts HTML so even that use has atrophied. Nevertheless, the need sometimes arises to insert a bit of raw HTML and that’s where Charles Choi’s latest Casual app, Casual HTML & CSS comes in.

The less you use HTML, the less likely you are to remember the details of its XML-like syntax, so a menu driven aid like Casual can be a real help. Choi’s Casual HTML & CSS leverages the builtin Emacs HTML and CSS modes so what you get is menu driven versions of HTML mode and CSS mode.

Because of the type of my work, I don’t think I’ve even written a single character of CSS mode although I can read and understand it but I’m sure there are lots of occasional CSS users who could benefit from Choi’s app.

If you’re a user of the Casual App Suite, you’ll get Casual HTML & CSS automatically on your next package update and you’ll only need to enable it. There are a lot of useful apps in the suite so if you don’t already have it installed, you might want to consider doing so.

[$] SFC v. VIZIO: who can enforce the GPL? - LWN.net

2026-01-08T15:36:37.000Z

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) is suing VIZIO over smart TVs that include software licensed under the GPL and LGPL (including the Linux kernel, FFmpeg, systemd, and others). VIZIO didn't provide the source code along with the device, and on request they only provided some of it. Unlike a typical lawsuit about enforcing the GPL, the SFC isn't suing as a copyright holder; it's suing as a normal owner of the TV in question. This approach opens some important legal questions, and after years of pre-trial maneuvering (most recently resulting in a ruling related to signing keys that is the subject of a separate article), we might finally obtain some answers when the case goes to trial on January 12. As things stand, it seems likely that the judge in the case will rule that that the GPL-enforcement lawsuits can be a matter of contract law, not just copyright law, which would be a major change to how GPL enforcement works.

[$] GPLv2 and installation requirements - LWN.net

2026-01-08T15:36:29.000Z

On December 24 2025, Linus Torvalds posted a strongly worded message celebrating a ruling in the ongoing GPL-compliance lawsuit filed against VIZIO by the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). This case and Torvalds's response have put a spotlight on an old debate over the extent to which the source-code requirements of the GNU General Public License (version 2) extend to keys and other data needed to successfully install modified software on a device. It is worth looking at whether this requirement exists, the subtleties in interpretation that cloud the issue, and the extent to which, if any, the SFC is demanding that information.

Minecraft's getting cuter baby animals whose single pixel eyes you can stare into as you nudge them into lava - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-08T15:23:08.000Z

Minecraft's getting marginally cuter with its next update, as it continues to pretend it isn't designed for the express purpose of teaching innocent children that in order to survive, you've sometimes got to beat some pigs and trees to death with your bare hands. Baby farm animal mobs, long just mini-mes of their adult versions with slightly different head/body size ratios are getting their own unique appearances.

Two new stable kernels - LWN.net

2026-01-08T15:06:56.000Z

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.18.4 and 6.12.64 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.

Architect Of Ruin is a beautiful dark fantasy temple builder from former Valve devs and Hooded Horse - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-08T15:06:03.000Z

Was your new year resolution to rebuild an evil temple on behalf of a baleful god? I bring wonderful news, then. The former Epic and Valve developers of Dead Money LLC have signed a wicked pact with the strategy game illuminati of Hooded Horse to release Architect of Ruin – a “completely hand drawn” fantasy colony simulation game that looks like Dwarf Fortress twisted by 45 degrees and pumped full of Dungeon Keeper DNA. I am already in love with the trees, their rich foliage flattening to a core of shadow. Do not turn your back on the trees. Especially when you’re chopping them down to make arcane icons.

Security updates for Thursday - LWN.net

2026-01-08T14:52:34.000Z

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gcc-toolset-14-binutils, gcc-toolset-15-binutils, httpd, kernel, libpng, mariadb, mingw-libpng, poppler, python3.12, and ruby:3.3), Debian (foomuuri and libsodium), Fedora (python-pdfminer and wget2), Oracle (audiofile, bind, gcc-toolset-15-binutils, libpng, mariadb, mariadb10.11, mariadb:10.11, mariadb:10.5, mingw-libpng, poppler, and python3.12), Red Hat (git-lfs, kernel, libpng, libpq, mariadb:10.3, osbuild-composer, postgresql, postgresql:13, and postgresql:15), Slackware (curl), SUSE (c-ares-devel, capstone, curl, gpsd, ImageMagick, libpcap, log4j, python311-filelock, and python314), and Ubuntu (libcaca, libxslt, and net-snmp).

A new StarCraft shooter's reportedly set to be revealed this year, possibly as a BlizzCon headliner - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-08T13:14:20.000Z

Right, so, Starcraft. A new shooter in the series is reportedly set to be revealed this year, possibly as the big headline act of Blizzcon in September.

The existence of such a secret shootery thing in the works at Blizzard was first reported by Jason Schreier last year, being one of the revelations to come out of his book on the publisher, titled Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment.

My Winter Car is out now - a frosty early access sequel to the hateful motoring sim that has you "spiraling even deeper" - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-08T12:39:55.000Z

Last January, our reviewer Brendan "Shitty Shitty Wham Bam" Caldwell called My Summer Car "a sordid sim of piss and pistons that won't hold your disgusting little hand", proceeding to warn that it "will either scare you off with its complexity or induce Stockholm syndrome with its mesmerisingly neglectful approach". Out now in early access, My Winter Car is all of that plus the "terrible coldness and darkness of Finnish winter", in the words of developers Amistech Games.

PUBG: Blindspot, the top-down one of Plunkbat's siblings, deploys into early access next month - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-08T12:23:32.000Z

PUBG: Blindspot, the PUBG spin-off previously dubbed Project Arc, is set to take the early access plunge on February 5th, 2026. In case you've understadably started wondering if this is the extraction shooter which prompted my last bit of newsing about a PUBG spin-off, it isn't. That's PUBG: Black Budget, PUBG: Blindspot's all about fights in which you're staring at the tops of folks' heads.

Future Canadian Resistance Tactics - McSweeney’s

2026-01-08T12:20:00.000Z

“We need to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. uses military coercion against Canada.” — Headline from op-ed in The Globe and Mail.

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Jamming vital infrastructure with Anne of Green Gables souvenirs

Giving birth to future resistance fighters without taking on crippling debt

Using that year-long parental leave to transform dried maple leaves into lethal throwing stars

Locating resistance headquarters in New Brunswick, where invading forces will never think to look

Casually walking past armored vehicles stuck in snowbanks without even offering to push

Conceding Alberta

Establishing an underground network consisting of retired men taking up tables all morning at Tim Hortons

Milk in plastic bags

Smiling politely at invaders but talking shit behind their back

Confounding invaders by using the metric system but also incorporating imperial measures in specific but not especially logical ways

Sneaking behind enemy lines disguised as Loverboy cover bands

Dropping the gloves

Holding our liquor

Not saying “sorry”

Weaponized smugness

Weaponized beavers

Sunglasses at night

French

Wolfenstein 3 is reportedly in the works at Machine Games, possibly alongside a Rainbow Six Siege-ish multiplayer thing - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-08T11:16:01.000Z

The world could certainly do with another game about slapping up Swastika-wearers right now. Thankfully, having finished off Indiana Jones And The Great Circle, Machine Games are reportedly working on the previously teased Wolfenstein 3.

Rockstar continue to claim firings were about preventing GTA 6 leaks, as union push to get devs interim relief - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-08T10:20:13.000Z

A preliminary employment tribunal hearing has seen the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) request that a judge grant interim relief to the 31 UK-based GTA 6 developers fired by Rockstar, reportedly following discussion of changes to Rockstar's company Slack policies by staff on Discord. The union, which filed legal claims against the company over the dismissals last year, continue to assert that they were a form of union busting. Rockstar, meanwhile, have released a fresh statement claiming that the root of this is simply stopping info about GTA 6 from leaking.

GTA 6 may not yet be "content complete" and another release delay is possible, claims Jason Schreier - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-08T10:15:53.000Z

GTA 6 may not yet be “content complete”, according to anonymous sources cited by Bloomberg’s scooper-dooper journoman Jason Schreier, and he would not be “super shocked” if the new Miami-set open world game were delayed again, though he thinks the current 19th November 2026 release date is relatively solid.

Xah Talk Show 2026-01-07 Ep739 emacs lisp, write a lookup web command - Xah Emacs Blog

2026-01-08T02:52:42.000Z

2026-01-07

Xah Talk Show 2026-01-07 Ep739 emacs lisp, write a lookup web command

Emacs: Command to Lookup Doc on Web 📜