The Forge—Tips for beginner miners, crafting recipes, and picking your next equipment upgrades

The Forge—a Roblox RPG meets mining sim—throws a ton at you just within those first few minutes of questing, cave exploration, and crafting. It’s a little more serious about the RPG part of the formula than I anticipated, so when the tutorials turned me loose, I’ll admit it, I floundered. Fortunately, after countless trial-and-error crafts…

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Steam’s latest cozy game has a fascinating backstory: Not only is it a PS1 game that predates the ‘cozy’ era, but it’s only officially available in English thanks to fan translators

Just a hair over two years ago, I wrote about a fan translation of a landmark Japanese PS2 game, Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, making a landmark “cozy” game playable in English for the very first time. We didn’t call games cozy back in the early 2000s, but were it released today, the slice-of-life adventure game…

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From today, Australian teens and children under 16 can’t sign-up to Twitch and 9 other social media platforms, as world-first ban takes effect

A new social media ban takes effect in Australia from today, preventing—or in theory, preventing—teenagers and children under 16 years of age from holding accounts on 10 popular platforms. These include Twitch and TikTok, who will now have to take “reasonable steps” to keep Australian under-16s off their platforms. If they don’t, they could face…

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From today, Australian teens and children under 16 can’t sign-up to Twitch and 9 other social media platforms, as world-first ban takes effect

A new social media ban takes effect in Australia from today, preventing—or in theory, preventing—teenagers and children under 16 years of age from holding accounts on 10 popular platforms. These include Twitch and TikTok, who will now have to take “reasonable steps” to keep Australian under-16s off their platforms. If they don’t, they could face…

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‘We actually didn’t attribute any value’ to Warner’s game studios, Netflix boss says about the acquisition deal: ‘They’re relatively minor compared to the grand scheme of things’

Netflix recently won the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery, making a deal to acquire the company for nearly $83 billion. That includes its film and television studios, HBO and HBO Max and all their properties, the whole of the DC Universe, and of course its remaining game studios. Those game studios are obviously of…

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