The Minecraft devs probably wouldn’t add the creeper if they were following their current design rules ‘because it would actually be so controversial’

I think we can all agree that the creeper is one of the most iconic videogame enemies—next to the murloc, the goomba, and whatever the hell’s going on with the tonberry. But it turns out that Minecraft‘s devs probably wouldn’t have added it based on their current design goals. That’s per a recent dev blog…

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AI content now outnumbers human-written articles on the internet, but the good news is that the slop seems to have plateaued, for now

In a development that will surprise nobody who senses the rising tide of AI slop, new research indicates that AI content has now overtaken human-written work on the internet. But there’s a good-news twist. The slop seems to have plateaued. Research outfit Five Percent has published a new white paper analysing online content published between…

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Big networking software hack seemingly backed by China poses a ‘significant cyber threat targeting federal networks’

I suppose it’s no real surprise that state-to-state cyber warfare is ongoing—probably every minute of every day—but for us regular folk it can be disconcerting to be reminded of it. And the very serious possible consequences. Case in point this breach of a cybersecurity provider that provides networking software to tons of big companies and…

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Disney Dreamlight Valley has shared details on its next update, The Winter Ball, which will bring one of the games most anticipated characters to the valley

Disney Dreamlight Valley hosted its 2025 showcase stream on October 15, and shared what free updates the game can expect for the rest of the year. This includes our first detailed look at the next release, The Winter Ball, which will be launching on December 10. We already had an idea of what, and more…

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Battlefield 6 devs are working to squash a bug that could be making your aim worse—despite already fixing it in the beta, because game development is a nightmare

I do not envy PC game developers—any videogame that actually releases at all is a miracle, the result of the combined work of (in the case of big studios) hundreds of people to convince a fancy rock to not only think, but to run an entire simulated world on hardware they cannot predict. Battlefield 6‘s…

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