It took 14 years for a streamer to walk to the Far Lands in Minecraft, but his long journey is finally over

It took 14 years for a streamer to walk to the Far Lands in Minecraft, but his long journey is finally over

The limits of Minecraft’s procedural-generation math become apparent the further away you get from your starting position. First you cross into the jitters, a region where movement gets all, well, jittery. Keep going and eventually you’ll reach the Far Lands, an alien landscape where patterns of blocks stop resolving into pleasant hills and streams, instead…

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Development Diary: Building Communities on PS4

It took a community to build Communities for PS4. Clan support on a console sounds easy enough to do, but consider… it’s never been done before, and maybe for good reasons. It’s big. It’s messy. It impacts everything. It’s not easy. That’s why building Communities for PS4 appealed to Khoi Do, a senior engineer on…

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WoW server suffers outbreak after a debuff breaches containment, giving me flashbacks to a 21-year-old incident so large Covid-19 researchers referenced it

World of Warcraft‘s had another brush with a digital plague—on the Moon Guard US server, capital cities were overcome with waves of toxic activity that saw vitriol line the streets. But enough about trade chat—there was also a debuff spreading around and killing people. The incident occurred late last week, when Stormwind was suddenly assailed…

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Disney Dreamlight Valley’s Peter Pan update is coming in two weeks, alongside a shiny new Star Path and the ability to level up your animal companions

Disney Dreamlight Valley has announced the title of its next update, Mysteries of Skull Rock, which will bring Peter Pan to the valley on June 18. In a Developer Update shared to the official Disney Dreamlight Valley YouTube channel, details on what to expect from the update, including which villagers are worth checking in with,…

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