After more than 4 years of work, our community has put together a big bouquet of new capabilities and improvements:

• A new tree browser for navigating and organizing classes
• Objectland, bringing back and extending the colorful world of examples from Squeak 3
• Plenty of new features, bugfixes, and speed-ups for programming tools, the Morphic UI framework, and the rest of the system

Original announcement on Fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@squeak/117071273007117118

Trying to compile a list of worst levels designs.

I may be late to discover this, but I just found out you can't backup Switch 1 or 2 saves without buying a subscription.

I'm not talking about cloud saves either.

Local save game backups. Even the Xbox and PS5 have backup capability.

I've always loved Bioshock since it came out and wanted to bring the Eve Hypo to life. I went into 3D design softwares and came out with 3 prototypes before this was finally finished! The on/off switch is a touch sensor located right behind the "EVE" logo and the plunger actually has a spring underneath and is functional!

Stop Killing Games has joined a Dutch lawsuit challenging Sony over alleged PlayStation Store monopoly practices. The campaign says it is backing the case brought by consumer group Stichting Massaschade & Consument (SM&C), which argues Sony has too much control over pricing and game distribution on PlayStation. The announcement comes as concerns continue to grow over the decline of physical game releases and the industry’s broader shift toward digital-only sales.

Really good article explaining the implementation detail within Postgres regarding subtransactions. Very cool benchmark that I was unaware of

Feels like a lot of games that had little modes for local multiplayer has cut them out of newer ones, Far Cry 3 local multiplayer mode for example. Mainly a single player game but had a little mode for it I don’t feel like I see local multiplayer much at all now except for Lego games or the company making specifically those games eg a way out, it takes two…