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    Vampire Survivors is getting Among Us-themed DLC.

    “You’ll get 9 characters, 15 weapons, 1 Stage, 20 in-game unlocks, the ability to see the future, and an Adventure,” developer Poncle wrote in an FAQ about the new Emergency Meeting DLC. “One of those answers is an Impostor.”

    The DLC will cost $2.49, according to a press email, which is just a tad more expensive than the $1.99 price for the previous two expansions.

    Emergency Meeting launches on PC and Xbox on December 18th and on mobile and Nintendo Switch “soon.” While you wait, you can check out the new story mode “Adventures” launching today.

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    Bluesky is going to let people opt out of letting logged out users see their posts.

    The decentralized social network announced in November that it would finally be adding a public web view, but as TechCrunch reports, some users asked for a way to make their posts private.

    Note that this upcoming change does not mean Bluesky will have private accounts; Bluesky is only giving users a way to keep posts private from users that aren’t logged in.

    “Remember, your posts, profile, and likes are all public data,” Bluesky wrote. “But sometimes, added friction matters.”

    A screenshot of a Bluesky post.
    A screenshot of Bluesky’s post about the change. You can read the full thread here, though since the public web view isn’t out yet, you’ll need an account to see it.
    Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
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    Younger me would be *losing it* over Lego Fortnite.

    There’s a new “cinematic trailer” for Epic Games’ forthcoming Lego Fortnite experience, and while the trailer doesn’t have actual footage from the game, seeing all the Lego-ified Fortnite characters running around is pretty delightful.

    The experience launches on Thursday, so we won’t have to wait too long until we can play it ourselves.

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    It seems like iOS 17.2 actually won’t add collaborative playlists to Apple Music.

    Apple announced collaborative playlists for Apple Music at WWDC, and while it appeared in some iOS 17.2 betas, it’s not present in Tuesday’s iOS 17.2 release candidate, 9to5Mac reports. Barring an unexpected surprise, you shouldn’t expect to see collaborative playlists in the final release.

    Apple’s iOS 17 website still says the feature is coming “later this year,” but at this rate, I doubt that’s going to happen.

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    Indiana’s lawsuit against TikTok has been dismissed.

    This happened last week, but I saw it today because of Techdirt’s great post about the dismissal. Indiana’s attorney general actually filed two lawsuits against TikTok in December 2022, but they were consolidated, the Associated Press reports.

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    Twitch is shutting down in Korea.

    “Ultimately, the cost to operate Twitch in Korea is prohibitively expensive,” Twitch CEO Dan Clancy said in a blog post. While the company tried to find ways to lower costs, “our network fees in Korea are still 10 times more expensive than in most other countries,” he said.

    The service will shut down in Korea on February 27th, 2024. Twitch has a few more details in a support document.

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    Bethesda is introducing a new mods and Creations system for Skyrim.

    The system, Bethesda Game Studios Creations, “combines Skyrim’s existing Mods, Creation Club items and all-new Creations under a single Creations menu available for players to browse today in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition,” according to Bethesda’s blog post. If you become a “verified creator,” you can earn a cut for Creations sold in the game.

    I’m guessing this system (or something like it) will come to Starfield when the studio officially ads mods to the game “early next year.”

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    Read-it-later service Instapaper is doubling the price of Premium.

    Instapaper Premium will now cost $6 per month, which Instapaper says is the first price change for the service in nine years. Instapaper says the higher price will let it hire more engineers, build new features (like the just launched “Permanent Archive”), and minimize price changes in the future.