I did Liberation Day tariffs in Victoria 3, and it all went well until the famine in Colorado, the 2 lost wars with Canada, and the president beating a man to death with a stick

I began to suspect things were unstable when the president beat a man to death in the street. Daniel Webster was an odd choice of leader by the American people: his predecessor, Andrew Jackson, did a lot of hate crimes and died early, his popularity hovering somewhere around the level of ‘active rebellion’. Yet when…

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Xbox Insiders Get New Ways to Personalize Home

Starting this week, Xbox Insiders will notice a fresh set of customization options rolling out to the recently played games and apps list on Home. This update is part of our ongoing effort to make Home more personal, flexible, and responsive to your feedback. What’s New? The recently played games and apps list on Home…

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The Xbox 360 reveal was 20 years ago and is a time capsule from a world where Elijah Wood roamed free, MTV was still cool, and giant tech companies paid Pimp My Ride to make hideous custom consoles

This week marked 20 years since the reveal of the Xbox 360, an anniversary noted by Kotaku, and as someone old enough to remember getting hyped for this thing, I had to watch it. The reveal took place in 2005, and is basically a collection of signifiers that we’re back in 2005: The video (embedded…

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Veteran indie dev says success on Steam these days is impossible to predict: ‘Why did Balatro take off? You could write a million f***ing essays and none of them will be definitely right’

Size Five Games’ Dan Marshall has been making games for around 20 years, and was one of the early indie adopters of Steam when he released the excellent Time Gentlemen, Please! on the platform back in 2009. He’s been around the block, then, and he’s seen it change dramatically. Trying to figure out the secret…

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After Oblivion subreddit bans ‘low effort’ sexy flame Atronach posts, users respond with high effort sexy flame Atronach posts—’deleting this would be a travesty’

A few days ago we reported on the deeply concerning, nay totalitarian, news that one of Oblivion’s largest communities (the TES4 subreddit) found itself having to lay down a ban on people hornyposting about the flame Atronachs in Oblivion Remastered. I apologise for briefly providing context: developer Virtuos paid some special attention to the flame…

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