Project Zomboid identifies and bans over a dozen Steam Workshop mods containing ‘heavily obfuscated code’ that was ‘creating malicious files’

If you’re a player of one of the best survival games ever made, Project Zomboid, I’ve got an important news alert for you. Check the list below to see if you downloaded and installed any of the 14 Steam Workshop mods developer The Indie Stone says contain “heavily obfuscated code” that was “creating malicious files…

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Creative World of Warcraft player uses housing tools to recreate Counter-Strike’s iconic Dust 2 map, complete with a car made out of wood, doormats, and fruit plates

I’ve never been in a match of Counter-Strike before and I can still recognize Dust 2 when I see it. It’s a testament to the iconic design that it’s just as recognizable when it’s been built with the rudimentary tools of World of Warcraft’s player housing. An incredibly resourceful player recreated the map in the…

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Trippy, psychedelic alien shooter ChainStaff shows there are still new ways for games to be ‘retro’

I love a new-old game as much as anyone, but it’s hard to pretend that today’s retro throwbacks aren’t drawing inspiration from a small, predictable selection of extremely popular games: Zelda. Chrono Trigger. Final Fantasy. Castlevania. Metroid. Mega Man. These are perfectly understandable picks for a game of any size to be inspired by—there are…

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Today I learned that Excel incorrectly assumes 1900 was a leap year, and Microsoft will never fix it because the whole house of cards would collapse

Nestled away amongst a pile of recently updated pages on Microsoft’s Learn site, which contains product documentation and technical resources, was a curiously titled article: “Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year.” I thought that can’t be right, surely everything would have fallen over long ago, but it turns out that…

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