Dwarf Fortress kicks off another year of bonkers patch notes with the saddest 6-word story ever told: ‘Mothers no longer seek ghostly babies’

Fantasy megasim and mad magnum opus Dwarf Fortress has a long and cherished history of absurd patch notes and bug reports, having gifted us with bangers like “Made the corpses of small animals that die out of water stop teleporting” and “Bug: Ghost of vampires still drink blood.” With its first patch of 2026, Dwarf…

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An expired certificate led to the Logitech app going down for Mac users and despite a quick fix, G Hub is taking heat for ‘long-standing issues’ and ‘AI nonsense’

If you use Logitech gear on a macOS device—perhaps you got a brand new MX Master 4 over the holidays—and spotted it stopped working, that’s because Logitech forgot to update its dev certificate. Whoopsie. As reported by The Verge, the Logitech Subreddit saw Mac users complaining that their app wasn’t working, and one comment showed…

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VATS almost didn’t survive the transition to Bethesda, says Fallout 3 dev: ‘We only just got that working by the time we shipped’

Fallout has a lot of iconic hallmarks—ghouls, deathclaws, radioactive cesspools, and some swingin’ music. But it’s also iconic for the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System (VATS), which sees you using your Pip Boy to target and pop-pop body parts of various wasteland uglies. While it’d be hard to think of a Fallout game without VATS underlying…

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