Satellite internet provider Starlink is down (Update: now ‘mostly recovered’)

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Update (4 pm PT): Starlink has “mostly recovered” from the outage. The incident lasted “approximately 2.5 hours,” and was caused by “failure of key internal software services that operate the core network,” according to the SpaceX subsidiary’s VP of engineering. Starlink, the satellite internet service provider operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has reported a “network … Read more

‘I can’t believe I beat Minecraft in an Overwatch queue!’: Twitch streamer turns interminable queue times into her advantage, completing Minecraft over 9 total hours of waiting for matches to pop

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The only way to defeat long queue times is spend them doing something productive with your life, like beating Minecraft. Twitch streamer Aspen spent the last week in lengthy Overwatch queues—a common annoyance for high-ranked players—digging her way to the end of Minecraft. In one particularly long queue that lasted over two and a half … Read more

My heart’s already been stolen by this stop-motion adventure made out of wood and ‘mostly in a garden shed’

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Éalú, from first time developers Beyond the Bark, starts with a strong premise: You are a mechanical mouse looking to escape a mysterious labyrinth. But its presentation is what really blows the doors down: Nearly everything is made out of wood, and rendered in full-on, stop-motion animation. Not real models keyframed to sprites either, such … Read more

Its demo only took me 10 minutes, but this claymation picture book puzzle game inspired by medieval alchemy is one to watch out for

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All Living Things is one of those games I had to check out based on its look alone. It’s an interactive alchemical picture book with claymation art, and its demo has me looking forward to the full version of this short, experimental mood piece. I’m just a simple country games journalist who doesn’t know much … Read more

Palmer Luckey wants to know if you’d buy a ‘Made in America’ computer for 20% more than ‘Chinese-manufactured options from Apple’

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Palmer Luckey, the previous founder of Oculus VR and co-founder of defence tech firm Anduril Industries, has a question for you: Would you buy an all-American computer from the latter for 20% more than an equivalent Apple machine? Luckey took to X to poll the community at large on their opinions of his hypothetical eaglebox … Read more

Relic’s taken a break from real-time strategy to make a turn-based hybrid of Advance Wars and cult classic Impossible Creatures—but it feels totally removed from the studio’s legendary legacy

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An acclaimed—albeit struggling—RTS studio developing a cute turn-based tactics game full of retro sci-fi Martians and animal soldiers sounds like one of those terrible April Fools’ not-jokes that inundate my beleaguered inbox every April 1. But Relic’s Earth vs Mars is very real. Relic takes big swings. Homeworld still feels like a groundbreaking RTS more … Read more

Pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan dies at 71

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Professional wrestling legend Hulk Hogan, given name Terry Bollea, has died at age 71, TMZ reports. According to the outlet, medics were dispatched to the wrestler’s Florida home on Thursday morning to respond to a “cardiac arrest.” The news of his death was confirmed by the WWE. “WWE is saddened to learn WWE Hall of … Read more

Final Fantasy 14 finally seems like it wants to make content scale to serve casual, midcore, and hardcore players: ‘A deep dungeon for everyone’

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As we’ve discussed quite a bit on this very site, Final Fantasy 14 is in a weird spot with its content—a sluggish patch cycle has paired terribly with a somewhat scattershot design philosophy that’s left casual-to-midcore players feeling underwhelmed, and hardcore players with precious little to do in between raids. This came to a head … Read more