Starsand Island makes me want to quit my job and move to the coast with its adorable new trailer

Budget Printing Strategies

Get more bang for your printing buck Decades ago, the promise was made of the “paperless office.” In retrospect, we can see how unrealistic that plan was. Whether to hand in a school paper, save a tax return, or sign a legal document, the antiquated technology of printing is firmly entrenched for the foreseeable future,…

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Rockstar prepares for the Roblox-ification of GTA 6 by launching an official mods marketplace, with one bundle costing just under $500

Rockstar has launched an official mods shop, Cfx Marketplace, for “every server and every player” to hand over their lovely loot (thanks, GI.biz). The news comes three years after Rockstar’s 2023 acquisition of Cfx.re, a Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption modding team, which also runs the roleplay servers FiveM and RedM. If you’re…

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InKonbini, the first-person Japanese convenience store sim, changed my perspective on customer service, and you can join me stacking shelves in the free demo

The convenience store—konbini—is at the centre of daily life in Japan; it’s not just a place you just leg it down the road to in an emergency when you’ve run out of milk. They have everything you could possibly need to get through the day, from some of the best snacks you never knew you…

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‘PC development has skyrocketed,’ GDC survey finds: 80% of developers are now making games for PC, more than double the number working on PS5 or Xbox games

It’s kind of funny to look back on all the times PC gaming has been declared dead, a claim that—to borrow a phrase—was an exaggeration. Lest there be any doubt, GDC’s 2025 State of the Game Industry report says development on the platform has “skyrocketed,” with 80% of the more than 3,000 developers who responded…

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Medieval colony sim Norland is getting a ‘damn big update’ that completely overhauls the game’s mechanics: ‘We’re rolling out some radical changes to the core gameplay’

I mostly enjoyed Norland and its randy lords when I previewed it last summer, but the medieval colony sim definitely had its problems. Getting monarchs and nobles to do what you needed to ensure your colony’s survival could be tricky when all they cared about was getting laid and acquiring holy rings as status symbols,…

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