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Turnbound is a lovely plinky mixture of autobattler and inventory Tetris, where play order is decided by a cat's bum - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-22T17:19:13.000Z

Out today in early access, Turnbound is a tile and turn-based autobattler about mythical heroes trapped in a haunted boardgame, where the starting player is chosen by flipping a coin bearing a picture of a cat’s anus. It’s saying a lot for Turnbound’s mellow, fairytale ambience and rich, rosy tile designs that I consider the cat’s anus a positive – a touch of whimsy, rather than just, well, that feeling you get when you’ve been flashbanged by a picture of a cat’s anus. Rare indeed are the videogames that contain a cat’s anus, and rarer still are the videogames in which the cat’s anus isn’t grounds for a refund.

Open your cute Orcish vampire gob, Hytale's next update has summonable skeletons and non-scary snakes to shove in there - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-22T16:53:26.000Z

The second post-release update to Hytale is currently set to rock up this weekend, but the notes outlining what it'll include have rocked up a couple of days early. As with last week's first update to the early access sandbox, this is another pretty beefy one, and especially noteworthy if raising the dead's your jam or you share Indiana Jones' main fear.

When Should You Use Visual-line-mode? - Irreal

2026-01-22T16:28:15.000Z

Over at the Emacs subreddit, floofcode complains that he doesn’t like the way visual-line-mode handles moving from line to line. He found that everything worked fine without visual-line-mode so he wondered when is visual-line-mode useful.

If you read his post, you’ll notice that he had visual-line-mode turned on globally. That explains a lot of his frustration. As nice as visual-line-mode can be, you definitely don’t want it enabled all the time. It would be a disaster when writing code, for example.

The thing about visual-line-mode is that it considers all the text between line feeds to be one long line and soft wraps the text to fit your screen size.That’s useful even when you’re just dealing with text locally but I find it essential for my blogging. If I set a hard line size, it gets carried onto my blog and really messes up the displays of people with smaller screens or windows such as those reading Irreal on a phone. With visual-line-mode, the text gets flowed to fit the target screen.

So the answer to floofcode’s question is that visual-line-mode is definitely useful but mostly when you’re writing prose such as in Org-mode. I use it whenever I’m writing prose but never when I’m, say, programming or using some other specialized Emacs mode. For instance, I don’t use it in my Org based tax files because they’re mostly tables and don’t include long sequence of text. I generally set it on a per file basis except for my blog where a hook recognizes blog posts and sets it and some other appropriate modes.

World of Warcraft devs Blizzard will offer folks a free wardrobe change just before Midnight, following fashion fee furore - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-22T15:45:23.000Z

Fine, we'll let you hop in whatever the MMO equivalent of Superman's phone booth is for a single round of free outfit transmog just before the launch of March's Midnight expansion. So have degreed World of Warcraft makers Blizzard, in the face of vocal vexation among players unhappy about a sudden hike in clothes changing prices that arrived with the game's latest patch.

This isn't the only time Midnight's ended up under a microscope fore money-related reasons prior to release, but it is the first time the ire's been exclusive to fashionistas.

I love that somebody is making a single-player flight sim dedicated to formation flying - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-22T14:36:22.000Z

Often, the gaming internet depresses me with *gestures expansively*, but sometimes, it delights me with some relatively specific and impassioned Thing like, in this case, a single-player aerobatics sim dedicated to formation flying. Created by Japanese indie CloveTek, Dancing Wings – The Aerobatic Simulator is as far from yer Ace Combats and Delivery Must Completes as you can get while still having wings. A bunch of wise guys have tagged it “Automobile Sim” on the Steam page, but ignore them! I expect they're just sore about never having performed a genuine Immelmann turn. Here’s a trailer.

30 years of ReactOS - LWN.net

2026-01-22T14:28:36.000Z

ReactOS, an open-source project to develop an operating system that is compatible with Microsoft Windows NT applications and drivers, is celebrating 30 years since the first commit to its source tree. In that time there have been more than 88,000 commits from 301 contributors, for a total of 14,929,578 lines of code. There is, of course, much left to do.

It's been such a long journey that many of our contributors today, including myself, were not alive during this event. Yet our mission to deliver "your favorite Windows apps and drivers in an open-source environment you can trust" continues to bring people together. [...]

We're continuing to move ReactOS forward. Behind the scenes there are several out-of-tree projects in development. Some of these exciting projects include a new build environment for developers (RosBE), a new NTFS driver, a new ATA driver, multi-processor (SMP) support, support for class 3 UEFI systems, kernel and usermode address space layout randomization (ASLR), and support for modern GPU drivers built on WDDM.

Rust 1.93.0 released - LWN.net

2026-01-22T14:25:02.000Z

Version 1.93.0 of the Rust programming language has been released. Notable changes include in updated version of the bundled musl library, thread-local storage for the global allocator, some asm! improvements, and a number of newly stabilized APIs.

Security updates for Thursday - LWN.net

2026-01-22T14:17:59.000Z

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gpsd), Debian (inetutils and modsecurity-crs), Fedora (cpp-httplib, curl, mariadb11.8, mingw-libtasn1, mingw-libxslt, mingw-python3, rclone, and rpki-client), Oracle (gimp, glib2, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, kernel, mariadb-devel:10.3, and thunderbird), Red Hat (buildah, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, grafana, kernel, kernel-rt, multiple packages, openssl, osbuild-composer, podman, and skopeo), Slackware (bind), SUSE (ffmpeg-4, libsodium, libvirt, net-snmp, open-vm-tools, ovmf, postgresql17, postgresql18, python-FontTools, python-weasyprint, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (glib2.0 and opencc).

Helldivers 2 gets new stealth missions today, and its super-slimmed install size version is finally ready to take over - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-22T12:45:48.000Z

A new Helldivers 2 patch has arrived ahead of the slightly delayed Redacted Regiment warbond also making its sneaky debut today, January 22nd. In line with that warbond's stealthy shushness, this patch has seen Arrowhead add in new commando missions designed to reward those who know when to crouch-walk. They've also revealed that the slim build that's been in beta for a little while is finally ready to take the reigns from the standard version and its very chunky install size.

Beware: the Killer Egg will return to Battlefield 6 multiplayer, along with Battlefield 4's Golmund Railway map - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-22T12:41:15.000Z

Battlefield 6’s efforts to break ground while Gittin’ Back To When Battlefield Was Gud continue with the announcement of two forthcoming maps in the EA shooter’s second season, which begins 17th February. One of the maps is Contaminated, a brand new field of battle that is comparable in scale to Battlefield 1’s St Quentin Scar and Arras in Battlefield 5. The other is a remake of Battlefield 4’s Golmud Railway – a big, grassy vehicular affair, based on China’s actually existing Golmud-Lhasa railway line.

"It is out of the question to let a boss run rampant" - Ubisoft workers strike against "disastrous" cutbacks - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-22T11:13:12.000Z

Ubisoft’s bloodbath of game cancellations and restructuring yesterday has attracted the expected fiery response from unionised workers, with the French game industry union Solidaires Informatique calling a half-day strike today. Cost-cutting and potential layoffs aside, the strikers are protesting against Ubisoft’s decision to mandate a full return to office, with workers given an annual allowance of work from home days instead - something a publisher executive has justified as a move “to enhance collective efficiency” and “the sense of belonging”.

Nexus Mods' latest modathon isn't a typical modathon, it's a first go at the same for multi-mod collections - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-22T10:28:01.000Z

With their latest Fallout modathon having wrapped up at the close of last year, mod-hosting site Nexus Mods have decided to try something new with their latest event designed to supercharge mod creation around a specific game or theme. Rather than asking folks to submit fresh individual mods like usual, the modathon that's about to kick off is all about putting together chunky multi-mod lists which can overhaul a game in one fell swoop.

These user-assembled modlists, dubbed Collections, are a feature Nexus Mods have been pushing for a number of years now, so it's not surprising they're now serving as the subject of a modathon for the first time.

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 22, 2026 - LWN.net

2026-01-22T00:47:48.000Z

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

Front: Singularity; fsconfig(); io_uring restrictions; GPG vulnerabilities; slab allocator; AshOS.
Briefs: Pixel exploit; telnetd exploit; OzLabs; korgalore; Firefox Nightly RPMs; Forgejo 14.0; Pandas 3.0; Wine 11.0; Quotes; ...
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Rule your own, slightly socially awkward knights in the round table management RPG Sovereign Tower - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-21T22:56:00.000Z

You ever accidentally find out that you're the sovereign of an entire nation as dictated by a prophecy even though you're technically just random nobody, and so you wind-up being the one to have to make all the decisions about how your nation is run? No? Well, that's fine, but if you'd like that to be you, I'll introduce you to Sovereign Tower, a management RPG where you send off your knights of the round table to deal with all manner of quests.

Firestarters promises to mix Rollerdome, arena shooters and visual novels into a government-sanctioned bloodsport - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-21T21:42:39.000Z

This is probably the umpteenth time I've said I'm not someone who plays many shooters, but here I am saying it again, because an FPS has rocked up that has clocked my interest. It's called Firestarters, an arena shooter that's a bit like Quake, a bit like Rollerdome, and looks like good, bloody fun.

Goofy name aside, action roguelite Lort looks like a neat fantasy alternative to Risk of Rain 2 - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-21T18:56:14.000Z

I am going to level with you. My awareness of Lort up until this point has been non-existent. Never heard of it before today, it's early access release day! But when you see a game called Lort, well, you at least need to take a little look. And as astronomically silly as the name is, it looks like a pretty neat, silly time, so, my predilection towards the inane has clearly worked out in my favour this time.

[$] Cleanup on aisle fsconfig() - LWN.net

2026-01-21T18:34:14.000Z

As part of the process of writing man pages for the "new" mount API, which has been available in the kernel since 2019, Aleksa Sarai encountered a number of places where the fsconfig() system call—for configuring filesystems before mounting—needs to be cleaned up. In the 2025 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) session that he led, Sarai wanted to discuss some of the problems he found, including at least one with security implications. The idea of the session was for him to describe the various bugs and ambiguities that he had found, but he also wanted attendees to raise other problems they had with the system call.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake and more cancelled by Ubisoft, with layoffs potentially on the horizon - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-21T18:03:27.000Z

Given its lengthy, troubled development period, it will probably not come as any surprise to you that Ubisoft have announced today that their Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake has been cancelled. This comes as part of a broader restructure at the company, which will apparently focus on what they call five "specialised creative houses" to "reclaim creative leadership and restore sustainable growth."

Pandas 3.0 released - LWN.net

2026-01-21T17:37:05.000Z

Version 3.0.0 of the pandas data analysis and manipulation library for Python has been released. Notable changes include a dedicated string type (str), new "copy-on-write" behavior, and much more. This release also removes a number of features that were deprecated in prior versions of pandas; developers are advised to upgrade to pandas 2.3 and ensure code is working without warnings before moving to 3.0. See the release notes for the full changelog.

As it approaches its second early access anniversary, Enshrouded gets a 1.0 release window for later this year - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2026-01-21T17:09:42.000Z

More and more as time goes on I feel that if I blink a whole two years will pass, and suddenly a game like Enshrouded, which is coming up to its second early access anniversary, will be gearing up for its proper 1.0 launch. While an exact date for the survival game's full release hasn't been locked in just yet, a new Road to Release video was shared by developer Keen Games detailing what you can expect leading up to said launch.