Unsurprisingly, I played Baldur’s Gate 3 the most, but I’m surprised that Sea of Stars was my runner up. Also, apparently the median number of games played on Steam this year was four — I expected that to be higher.
You can get your year in review from the Steam website.
He died after battling cancer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Personally, I’ll always remember his performance as Alex Casey in the Alan Wake series. RIP.
I have a hunch Baldur’s Gate 3 is up for another potential Game of the Year award, but the choices won’t be so easy in some of the other categories. Voting starts on December 21st at 1PM ET and ends on January 2nd at 1PM ET.
Correction December 16th, 1:21PM ET: Nominations have been announced, but voting hasn’t started yet. We regret the error.
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Adobe has been cooperating with the FTC since June 2022, it says in an SEC filing reported on by Bloomberg this week. The company warns that “the defense or resolution of this matter could involve significant monetary costs or penalties and could have a material impact on our financial results and operations.”
[www.sec.gov]
Dylan Roussel, an Android developer, tweeted an animation that seems to show an unannounced Nothing phone with an interesting new design. (Center-justified cameras!)
Android Authority reports that Nothing will be hosting an event at Mobile World Congress in February, so maybe we’ll see more about the phone then.
Usenet is a very old (pre-World Wide Web) networking system that I’ve never actually used, but this explanation on Reddit helped me better understand how it works.
“Much of the content being disseminated via Usenet today is binary (non-text) file sharing, which Google Groups does not support, as well as spam,” Google writes in a support document. The company also says “legitimate activity” in Usenet groups has gone down because of social media and modern-day web forums. Google Groups’ support for Usenet will end on February 22nd, 2024.
[support.google.com]
The upcoming collection packages Nintendo’s Switch remakes of Another Code: Trace Memory and Another Code: R, and you can now check out a demo ahead of the collection’s release on January 19th.
