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Scientists claim they’ve seen a ‘jaw-dropping’ new color, but you can only experience it by shooting lasers directly into your eyes

By very precisely shooting lasers directly into the eye (do no try this at home), researchers claim it’s possible to experience a color never previously experienced. The five people who have seen the color, which the team calls “olo,” say that it’s a blue-green hue, but more saturated than any blue-green ever seen before. As…

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Don’t worry, the fan-favorite Baldur’s Gate 3 bug that turns character portraits into moody glamor shots wasn’t fixed in the final patch

Fret not, Baldur’s Gate 3 fans, because your favorite bug is still in the game even after Larian’s “final” big patch. That’s right: The thing where your character portraits can render misaligned, or with the wrong background, or shirtless, is still around and still really funny. Not long after the patch released one fan that…

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Gloomwood’s research update transforms it from Thief with guns into Dishonored with mutations, letting you inject dissected monster juice into yourself to gain their powers

We still don’t know the real name of Gloomwood‘s doctor protagonist, but I’m beginning to suspect it might be ‘Jekyll’ given what he gets up to in the game’s new Research update. This latest addition to New Blood’s Thief-inspired immersive sim folds in some game-changing abilities, which you essentially steal from Gloomwood’s enemies in the…

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Opinion: It’s Time To Get Rid Of Fall Damage

Free faller. Falling. It hurts, right? We’ve all tripped up over nothing while walking and scraped our knees, or tripped up the stairs and landed face-first. It’s not fun. It’s embarrassing, it’s painful, and it stands as a persistent reminder that I am the most clumsy of human beings. There’s a reason we can’t jump…

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Dwarf Fortress sells 1 million copies on Steam, so now Bay 12 Games can afford that ‘little party’ it planned

It’s finally happened. Dwarf Fortress, the dazzlingly complex colony sim that was free for almost 20 years before becoming a massive hit on Steam, has sold 1 million copies since it tunnelled onto the platform. Publisher Kitfox Games shared the news on Bluesky. “We’ve reached an exciting milestone: Dwarf Fortress surpassed 1,000,000 sales on Steam,”…

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