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Paper Mario-Like Game Dev Yanks Own Game Offline In Legal Fight
22.2.2023
The Outbound Ghost is a charming turn-based adventure RPG that’s been garnering hype on social media thanks to its cutesy blend of The Legend of Zelda, Paper Mario, and Undertale mechanics. The paper mache game hit Steam in late 2022, but if you look for it there now, you won’t find anything...
What People Get Wrong When They Think About Video Game AI
16.2.2023
Last year, AI generated art finally broke through the mainstream—but not without significant public controversy. The rampant art theft required to build an AI’s dataset and the resulting forgeries eventually led to a class action lawsuit against AI generators. Yet that hasn’t stopped developers...
Tornado Cash Dev’s Criminal Case in Europe May Hinge on Laptop Access
16.2.2023
Dutch prosecutors now have access to Alexey Pertsev’s computer, and are using it to probe key details, like governance and profit-making at the privacy service
Original Metroid Prime Dev Calls Remaster Credit Snub ‘Shameful’
13.2.2023
Metroid Prime Remastered has been out for less than a week, and players are praising how well the Nintendo Switch version holds up to the original. There’s a major difference, though: The developers who worked on Metroid Prime for the GameCube have had their names left off the credits screen....
An Approach to Lazy Loading Custom Elements
13.2.2023
We’re fans of Custom Elements around here. Their design makes them particularly amenable to lazy loading, which can be a boon for performance.
Inspired by a colleague’s experiments, I recently set about writing a simple auto-loader: Whenever a custom …
An Approach to Lazy Loading...
Former Bitcoin Dev Gavin Andresen Regrets Previous Support for Craig Wright, Calls it a 'Mistake' – Here's Why
7.2.2023
Gavin Andresen, the former lead Bitcoin developer appointed by Satoshi Nakamoto himself, now regrets that he once supported the controversial Australian computer scientist Craig Wright.
Writing on his personal blog earlier this month, Andresen called it “a mistake” to trust Craig Wright, and said...
Former Bitcoin Dev Gavin Andresen Revises 2016 Blog Post, Calls Trust in Craig Wright a ‘Mistake’
6.2.2023
During the first week of Feb. 2023, the United Kingdom Court of Appeal overturned a High Court decision from March 2022 in the case of Craig Wright’s Tulip Trading Limited (TTL) vs. 16 cryptocurrency developers. The case will proceed to trial as Wright, who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto...
Ethereum Plans ‘Shapella’ Transition on Zhejiang Testnet — Dev Insists ‘Withdrawals are Coming’
6.2.2023
Ethereum core developers plan to activate the “Shapella” transition through the Zhejiang public testnet on Feb. 7, 2023, according to Tim Beiko of the Ethereum Foundation. If successful, Beiko said the Sepolia testnet could follow two days later, followed by the Goerli testnet....
California DMV Is Putting Its Titles on the Blockchain
28.1.2023
The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) in California is running a project to digitize all of its titles and put them on a blockchain. The project, which will use the Tezos blockchain and has the assistance of Oxhead Alpha, a crypto dev company, aims to allow users to transfer titles as NFTs in...
7 ways to address the dev talent shortage in the crypto industry
24.1.2023
The crypto industry isn’t unique in facing a developer shortage, but it can develop some unique solutions to the problem
Getting Started With SvelteKit
23.1.2023
SvelteKit is the latest of what I’d call next-gen application frameworks. It, of course, scaffolds an application for you, with the file-based routing, deployment, and server-side rendering that Next has done forever. But SvelteKit also supports nested layouts, server mutations...
Former Halo Infinite Dev Blasts Management Over Layoffs
19.1.2023
Of all the Microsoft teams caught in the blast radius of mass layoffs announced yesterday, it’s possible Halo Infinite maker 343 Industries was among the worst hit. The studio has faced a wave of departures following Halo Infinite’s multiplayer struggles, and the new cuts have sparked strong...
Ethereum Validator Count Surpasses 500,000 Ahead of Upcoming Shanghai Hard Fork
17.1.2023
According to statistics, the number of Ethereum network validators on the Beacon chain exceeded 500,000 as of Jan. 12, 2023. The validator milestone comes as Ethereum core developers prepare for the Shanghai hard fork. Five days ago, Ethereum core developers launched a developer network environment...
Secret Room In Switch Exclusive Lashes Out Against Dev Dysfunction
4.1.2023
Most secret “developer rooms” in video games come in two varieties. Either they’re filled with fun development trivia (Pokémon, The Stanley Parable) or bonus bosses whom players can defeat as an easter egg (Diablo III, Vampyr). The secret room in Sports Story is neither of these. Instead, players...
Analysis: how a solo dev 'gladiator sim' hit big on PC
2.1.2023
Also: the mobile UA biz's 2022 highlights & lots more!
Unchain My Inaccessibly-Labelled Heart
14.12.2022
Suzy Naschansky from the HTMHell Advent Calendar:
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Ethereum’s Shanghai Hard Fork Could Happen in March 2023, ETH Dev Says Staking Withdrawals Is the ‘Highest Priority’
9.12.2022
According to a recent Ethereum Core development meeting on Dec. 8, developers disclosed that the next Ethereum hard fork, called Shanghai, could be implemented by March 2023. It’s been suggested that the Shanghai hard fork will be able to manage the network’s staked ethereum...
Pour One Out For The Bosses: Activision Blizzard Loses Second Union Vote
2.12.2022
Activision Blizzard’s playbook came up short again. Despite delays, legal appeals, and threats to workers that organizing would lead to lower pay raises, quality assurance developers at the Diablo production studio Blizzard Albany voted 14-0 to unionize today. The Game Workers Alliance Albany...
Firefox dev Mozilla goes all-in on metaverse, acquires Active Replica
2.12.2022
The legacy web developer and internet browser Mozilla announced its acquisition of Active Replica as part of its Hubs creator ecosystem to enhance digital experiences
TikTok: how data changed one dev's discovery tactics
30.11.2022
Also: a 'premium mobile' lesson, and plenty of new platform news