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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 878 posts.
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MAME 0.260
Some long-anticipated updates landed in October, making MAME 0.260 a very exciting release! Firstly, there are some general updates to MAME itself. After a few false starts, MAME now supports bgfx video output with Wayland on Linux. As requested by users, you can finally use delta CHD files for clone systems and…
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How the creator of Alone in the Dark came back to games
Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.
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Friday Factorio Facts #381 – Space Platforms
Hello, Several FFFs ago we have shown you what a Space platform can look like (FFF-373), today we would like to explain how they work in a bit more detail.
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Krita 5.2
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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Simulation Islands
Island management is a fundamental low level feature of physics engines and can have a big impact on solver design and performance. This was one of the first problems I decided to work on for Box2D version 3 (v3). Since I began working on v3 I’ve been comparing several algorithms for island management. My goal has…
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Trains on another level
Hello! The code refactor of rails presented last week is great, but the motivation for such a task wasn't quite just some shape changes for rails. As explained last week, we can now define any kind of rail shape, and we had some very specific shapes in mind all along...
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Changes to Unity Plans and Pricing
The latest news and updates related to Unity pricing and subscription plans.
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An open letter to our community
After deep consultation with our community, customers, and partners, we’ve made the decision to cancel the Runtime Fee, effective immediately.
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The Sound Proof Booths of Silence
Welcome back to Between the Lanes, a blog feature where we let members of our development team walk through some of the challenges, bugfixes, and occasional happy accidents we encounter while working on a game as unique as Dota, and an event as unique as The International. The International is an unbelievably huge…
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The New Godot Development Fund
We are excited to introduce a major improvement in terms of funding the development efforts of the Godot Engine.
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Unity plan pricing and packaging updates
After deep consultation with our community, customers, and partners, we’ve made the decision to cancel the Runtime Fee, effective immediately.
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A History of the Amen Break: From the Winstons to Futurama and Om Unit
How did a six second drum sample go on to inspire entire sub-genres of music? Let's examine the history of the Amen Break.
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Some flying robot behavior improvements
Hello, today we are going to talk about some flying robot behavior improvements. Some of the problems we fixed were reported countless times, so I hope that some people will appreciate it :).
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High-Speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers
Remember when IBM’s Deep Blue won against Gary Kasparov at chess in 1996, or Google’s AlphaGo crushed the top champion Lee Sedol at Go, a much more complex game, in 2016? These competitions where machines prevailed over human champions are key milestones in the history of artificial intelligence. Now a group of…
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DOS/4GW made Windows 95 game compatibility easier, but with higher stakes
A popular path to protected mode.
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Factorio: Space Age
Hello, long time no see! Today we are going to talk about the expansion which is called Factorio: Space Age.
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Luck be a Landlord is now banned in 13 countries on the Google Play Store
I'm sorry if the following post comes off as a bit angry. I'm writing this off the cuff and am very aggravated by the situation. Today I received an email from Google Play Support stating that Luck be a Landlord has been geo-blocked in the following countries:
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Dolphin Emulator Progress Report: May, June, and July 2023
This has been a bit of a tumultuous summer for the project, but now things are returning to normalcy. For those who somehow missed it, the Dolphin on Steam project has ceased after contact between Valve and Nintendo. Though we disagree with their stance and decision, we respect Valve's right to impose whatever…
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MilkyTracker 1.04
Today is a special day, because we’re announcing the latest release of MilkyTracker - version 1.04.
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OpenTTD 13.4 Released
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a .4 release, but quite a few people have reported a crash when a news item appears while a drop-down menu is open.
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What Happened to Dolphin on Steam?
Well that blew up, huh? If you follow emulation or just gaming on the whole, you've probably heard about the controversy around the Dolphin Steam release and the Wii Common Key. There's been a lot of conclusions made, and while we've wanted to defend ourselves, we thought it would be prudent to contact lawyers first…
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Nintendo 64 Test Cart ROM
We were sent a Nintendo 64 test cartridge ROM that was dumped anonymously. Zoinkity wrote up a nice readme explaining the details which is included in the 7ZIP file we’ve uploaded to the Internet Archive for safekeeping. Download it by clicking here .
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MuseScore 4.1 is now available
We are delighted to announce our first major update to MuseScore 4 since it launched last year. This update includes a significant upgrade to our playback…
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We put a distributed database in the browser and made a game of it
TigerBeetle is a distributed financial transactions database, designed for mission critical safety. How do you test something so critical? Well, we could tell you (and we will), but why not show you?
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New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable
New study reveals most classic video games are completely unavailable
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Bevy 0.11: ECS-driven game engine built in Rust
Thanks to 166 contributors, 522 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.11 release on crates…
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Meta releases Intermediate Graphics Library
Deploying and developing royalty-free open standards for 3D graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Parallel Computing, Neural Networks, and Vision Processing