Jay Peters
Free x Updates.
Ball x Pit is getting three free updates in 2026 that add things like new characters and ball evolutions. The very good game has sold more than 1 million copies.
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Resolution.
The artist who said Bungie used assets from her work in the Marathon alpha says the issue has been “resolved with Bungie and Sony Interactive Entertainment to my satisfaction.”
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Notepad is getting tables.
The feature is rolling out for Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels, according to Microsoft. I like using tables in Apple Notes, so I think they’ll be pretty useful in Notepad, too.
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Roblox’s CEO on the spot.
Dave Baszucki went on the Hard Fork podcast to talk about child safety on Roblox after its recent news that age estimation will be required to chat starting next year, and the conversation got pretty adversarial. Worth reading or listening to in full.
We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
[The New York Times]
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Alexa Plus is starting to roll out in Canada.
It’s the first international expansion of Amazon’s upgraded, AI-powered Alexa, which launched first in the US. Amazon plans to invite “tens of thousands of Canadians every week to enjoy the new experience,” according to a blog post.
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Vampire Survivors is getting a spinoff.
It’s a roguelike deckbuilder / dungeon crawler game called Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors and it’s set to launch next year. It’s “hopefully the first in a series of spin-offs,” Vampire Survivors creator Luca Galante tells Xbox Wire.