@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Zynga uses a secretive VIP program with personal account managers and exclusive sweepstake entries to keep top players spending on games like FarmVille (Michael Thomsen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/arts/zynga-vip-video-games.html
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@servelan@newsie.socialNew Trump-created 'Patriot Games' draws comparison to Hunger Games | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15397773/Trump-Patriot-Games-Hunger-Games.html
@raiders@darktundra.xyzGiants, Raiders' NFL Draft order heading for Week 17's potential 'Disgrace of Gijon' https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/new-york-giants/news/giants-raiders-nfl-draft-order-week-17-disgrace-gijo…
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@Nathan@social.lostinok.comGlad that Apple is keeping games and excited to see MLB return to broadcast TV. #mlb
https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/19/apple-tv-keeps-friday-ni…
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@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place @Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft and Qualcomm launch Windows updates to improve Arm gaming, including a refreshed Xbox app; Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Control Panel optimizes games (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/824783/windo
@jake4480@c.imMultiple Ecco the Dolphin games in development, new website launched #EccoTheDolphin
@kcase@mastodon.socialHad a very nice visit with @… at the end of August, when she came up to Seattle for PAX. We got some cookies, and chatted about some of her latest projects—working on some new games while also hoping to revive some old Interplay games that she'd manage to recover the rights to. She'd lost a year on those projects due to her wife's cance…
@brian_gettler@mas.toSome people watch TV, play games, go for a walk... to kill time. Others watch 30 year-old presentations to Brampton City Council of the Ontario city's new website while wandering around the archived website itself.
"We've been innovative and we've kept our consumer in mind. That's a small map. So click on that and you get a large version." (at 5:39)
It's nice to see the speaker using Netscape.
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTwo former Polygon editors say they are launching Mothership, a new game publication, on January 26, to analyze games through the lens of gender and identity (Danielle Riendeau/Game Developer)
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@pre@boing.worldValve are launching a new controller and a new gaming computer and a new VR headset early next year.
My main question is, don't people release these things in time for Christmas any more? Maybe it's running late.
Kinda need a media PC for the new bedroom in December. Do I want to wait until early next year? Grr. Needs to run two monitors and a projector really too, which may be tricky for a machine with only two video ports.
A VR headset that isn't owned by Facebook will be a blessed relief. Designed to run on Linux? Amazing. Hope it's brilliant.
Don't think I have much use for the controller though. Only really play games in VR these days.
Looks great! Three months too late!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKrKTwtukE
@al3x@hachyderm.ioWhat family board game got you excited this year?
I am looking for a gift for a family of 4 that is into board games.
It has to be a new game as this family is "pro".
Thank you!
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialWe cooked a new feature for Godot and iOS lovers. A plugin to Godot to deploy to Xogot on iOS or iPad:
Details:
https://blog.xogot.com/introducing-xogot-connect-remote-debugging-for-godot-on-iphone-and-ipad/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNvidia and Google launch the GeForce Now Fast Pass to let Chromebook owners stream over 2,000 games directly from an existing PC game library without ads (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/824940/chromebooks-nvidia-geforce-now-fa…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz5 players Cowboys should be scouting during New Year's bowl games https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/5-players-dallas-cowboys-should-scouting-new-year-bowl-games
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldOne familiar actor on Castle sparked a fun hunt for TV connections across The Rookie, Firefly, and other shows. Then things took a nostalgic turn into the golden age of arcade games. New blog post is live. 🎮📺
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/connections-cross…
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@NFL@darktundra.xyzBoys' Williams 'hungry to win' after lean Jets run https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46860564/new-dt-quinnen-williams-focused-racking-wins-dallas
@UP8@mastodon.social🛰️ GPS technology reveals that football practices can be up to 40% more demanding than games
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-gps-technology-reveals-football-demanding.html
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.ioYou know me. I love some #Steam games - especially when it's:
- cheap
- plays on macOS
- has 𝖆𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖙𝖎𝖈
Found a new one. Very few reviews but _man oh man_ is it an environmental -vibe- when you're playing
It's amusingly self-tagged "Relaxing" and I'm ... not sure about that? Like ... watch the trailer. You hear that background hum? That's the RAIN. The death from above. And it's in stereo and directional. The rain *hums*. It gets louder when you're in danger. And it kills. And it's coming down from above while you're trying to smash and accomplish goals. You get .... twitchy
For $5 tho? Totally great.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3570540/RAIN_KILLS/
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@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizzaThe Talos Principle 2 (Multi, XPd on a Linux OS PC) As 1k, the newest (and perhaps last) member of the reborn humanity, you set off on an expedition to explore a Mega Structure on a remote island. What you find could alter humanity's course forever.
So, (spoilers) as a direct sequel to the now 11yr old 1st game, you play as a new "human" that has left the Simulation and been incorporated into a body in the Real World. As human number 1000, you are the culmination of "…
@davej@dice.campIn the last, guttering hours of the year, it’s tradition to look back on the last 12 months’ #TTRPG activity and reflect. You can read last year’s summary at https://dice.camp/@davej/113747664699824381…
@m0les@aus.socialInteresting: We're in approximately our 250th year of people making jokes about "Maybe this is the year of Linux on the desktop?" Two of the blockers have been "games" and "printers". However in just the last year, Bazzite and SteamOS have taken care of the former.
On the latter: My brand new Win11 laptop and relatively new colour laser printer require a decice reinstall every time I want to print something (and often this doesn't work anyway - I ju…
@arXiv_mathCO_bot@mastoxiv.pageCrosslisted article(s) found for math.CO. https://arxiv.org/list/math.CO/new
[1/1]:
- Token positional games
Guillaume Bagan, Quentin Deschamps, Florian Galliot, Mirjana Mikala\v{c}ki, Nacim Oijid
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialNetEase says 2M people played martial arts game Where the Winds Meet in the 24 hours after its global release, as Chinese companies' cultural influence expands (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/china-conn
@luana@wetdry.worldIs that a bad thing or a good thing? I mean, it seems like the new games are distributed by Amazon which really sucks.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNetflix is shifting its video game strategy to focus on popular titles like Pictionary, Boggle, and Tetris, playable on TVs with smartphones as controllers (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/business/media/netflix-video-game-tv.ht…
@arXiv_physicsgenph_bot@mastoxiv.pageThe chanciness of time
John M. Myers, Hadi Madjid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08611 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08611 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.08611
arXiv:2511.08611v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Digital network failures stemming from instabilities in measurements of temporal order motivate attention to concurrent events. A century of attempts to resolve the instabilities have never eliminated them. Do concurrent events occur at indeterminate times, or are they better seen as events to which the very concept of temporal order cannot apply? Logical dependencies of messages propagating through digital networks can be represented by marked graphs on which tokens are moved in formal token games. However, available mathematical formulations of these token games invoke "markings"-- global snapshots of the locations of tokens on the graph. The formulation in terms of global snapshots is misleading, because distributed networks are never still: they exhibit concurrent events inexpressible by global snapshots. We reformulate token games used to represent digital networks so as to express concurrency. The trick is to replace global snapshots with "local snapshots." Detached from any central clock, a local snapshot records an action at a node during a play of a token game. Assemblages of local records define acyclic directed graphs that we call history graphs. We show how history graphs represent plays of token games with concurrent motions, and, importantly, how history graphs can represent the history of a network operating while undergoing unpredictable changes.
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@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euTop 25 New Biggest Free to Play Games coming in 2025 and 2026 - Enfant Terrible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvE5GTv0wJA
@raiders@darktundra.xyzGiants Get Blunt Jaxson Dart Take That Could Trouble Raiders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/giants-jaxson-dart-nfl-draft/
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@cowboys@darktundra.xyzTime is ticking for 3 Cowboys to earn a new contract in 2026 https://insidethestar.com/time-is-ticking-for-3-cowboys-to-earn-a-new-contract-in-2026
@NFL@darktundra.xyzMendoza vs. Moore: Why the CFP semifinals will have a big impact on the NFL draft https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47539191/new-york-jets-no-2-pick-cfp-fernando-mendoza-dante-moore
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialNetflix is shifting its video game strategy to focus on popular titles like Pictionary, Boggle, and Tetris, playable on TVs with smartphones as controllers (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/business/media/netflix-video-game-tv.ht…
@hashtaggames@oldfriends.liveToday is our third anniversary on Mastodon and the Fediverse for our daily 9PM #HashTagGames.
This past year, #Fediverse players have played over 100,000 game plays.
Including the special games that popup, we have shared over 1100 unique hashtag games since November 16, 2022.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHow Mike Vrabel turned fumble-prone Rhamondre Stevenson into a playoff-ready RB https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47563741/new-england-patriots-rhamondre-stevenson-postseason
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzQuinnen Williams leaning on Football IQ to “Fit right in” https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/quinnen-williams-leaning-on-football-iq-to-fit-right-in
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNBCUniversal plans to launch cable sports channel NBCSN, with NBA games, Big Ten college football, and more, on November 17; source: NBCU is closing an MLB deal (Joe Flint/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/nbcu-ne
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@cowboys@darktundra.xyzQuinnen Williams leaning on Football IQ to “Fit right in” https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/quinnen-williams-leaning-on-football-iq-to-fit-right-in
@NFL@darktundra.xyzPoll: Many NFL fans want more games despite risk https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46768402/poll-shows-many-nfl-fans-want-more-games-injury-risks
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNBCUniversal says it has sold out its Winter Olympics ad inventory, about a month before the games begin, adding over 100 new advertisers for the games (Bill Bradley/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/nbcu-breaks-winter-olympic-ad-sales…
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@NFL@darktundra.xyzCowboys-Giants takeaways: Jaxson Dart guides New York to season-ending win https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6939569/2026/01/04/cowboys-giants-score-result-takeaways-nfl-week-18/
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon relaunches its game streaming service Luna, available at no additional cost for Prime subscribers, and adds new beginner-friendly multiplayer games (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/amazons-revamped-l…
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@hashtaggames@oldfriends.liveJust a reminder, if you miss #HashTagGames when it is new and live, games play for days.
Also, people play as the time zones change and not just in the first few hours. Feel free to play whenever you can. We get several spurts of new game play rushes throughout the day.
Occasionally, we still get really old games that popup with new game plays.
See you in just over an hou…
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