‘I genuinely do not know what to do’ says developer of Minecraft-like Allumeria after Microsoft issues a DMCA takedown, forcing it off Steam

In January, indie game developer Unomelon announced that their lo-fi voxel sandbox game Allumeria would be playable in Steam Next Fest, an exciting milestone after a year of development. Two weeks later, the game is no longer available on Steam as the result of a DMCA takedown from Microsoft, claiming that Allumeria infringes on Minecraft’s…

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Anthropic AI’s safety lead quits with epic vaguepost claiming ‘the world is in peril’, and so he’s off to become ‘invisible’ and study poetry

Mrinank Sharma, who was leading the Safeguards Research Team at Anthropic, has resigned from the company with one of the wackiest letters you’ll ever read, complete with a citation for the bible on CosmoErotic Humanism. The latter being a new global mythology about how all you need is love, man. Sharma posted his extraordinary resignation…

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‘We have made back our development budget after 3 hours’: Mewgenics explodes to number one Steam seller 14 years after its announcement

Mewgenics is a hit. The cat breeding tactics game from Edmund McMillen, creator of Super Meat Boy and Binding of Isaac, and Tyler Glaiel released on Steam today and instantly shot up the charts. It’s the number one global top seller on Steam, beating out Counter-Strike 2, PUGB, Helldivers 2, and Arc Raiders. Or put…

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Age of Mythology: Retold – Expansion Pass with New Gods Pack: Demeter Is Available Now

Category: PC Gaming Age of Mythology: Retold – Expansion Pass with New Gods Pack: Demeter Is Available Now Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published February 10, 2026 Related Stories for “Age of Mythology: Retold – Expansion Pass with New Gods Pack: Demeter Is Available Now” Category: Responsible Gaming Minecraft Education: Build Online Safety Skills in…

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Hideo Kojima posts a cryptic message about ‘editing’ something and an awful lot of people are convinced it means Death Stranding 2 for PC will be announced later this week

Every now and then I forget that Death Stranding 2 isn’t on PC, and by “every now and then” I mean every time I think about it. That’s not a slight against Death Stranding 2, it’s just kind of an unusual situation these days because, well, why isn’t Death Stranding 2 on PC? As former…

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If you love hundreds of games for $10 and hate ICE, then boy does Itch.io have just the bundle for you

Indie developers on Itch.io have put what is, quite frankly, an absurd number of games into a delightfully cheap $10 bundle—and it’s all in the name of helping push back against the Trump administration and ICE’s current presence in Minnesota. The aptly titled “No ICE in Minnesota” bundle is raising funds towards Immigrant Law Center…

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