Around the late 2010s, “Nindie Showcases” helped introduce games like My Friend Pedro and Yooka-Laylee as they launched on the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo playfully combined “Nintendo” and “indie” to create the “Nindie” brand for these independent games. While the branding was creative and well-received, it eventually caused legal concerns within Nintendo.
Since being added to Overwatch 2 a month ago, Vendetta has been causing problems for players of all skill levels. Surprisingly, she received a power boost soon after her release. While she was slightly weakened shortly after that, and significantly so in the mid-Season 20 update, it’s still unclear if these changes will be enough to balance her power. Many still consider her a formidable opponent.
The recent return of free logins for Final Fantasy 14 came at a difficult time for the game. Since late 2025, Final Fantasy 14 has been repeatedly targeted by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, specifically aimed at its North American servers. These attacks worsened after the release of the final, most challenging version of the Arcadion raid on January 6th, with players reporting over a dozen disruptions and disconnects. These server problems hindered players’ performance in the new raids, and some teams even lost opportunities to win boss battles because of the attacks. Fortunately, the attacks mostly stopped by January 8th, after several raid teams successfully completed the challenging Arcadion raids.
Developed by a talented team including Wishes Ultd., Greg Lobanov, and Lena Raine, Chicory: A Colorful Tale is a charming adventure game set in a world that looks like a coloring book. The land of Picnic Province has lost all its color when Chicory, a famous artist, disappears. Players step into the role of her biggest fan, inheriting her magical Brush and tasked with restoring color to the world. You’ll explore, solve puzzles, and connect with friendly characters, all while using your painting abilities to bring life back to everything around you. It’s a delightful mix of the adventurous puzzle-solving found in The Legend of Zelda and the relaxing, heartwarming atmosphere of Animal Crossing, yet remains a hidden gem in the gaming world.
As One We Survive is a new top-down survival game coming to Steam. Set in a post-apocalyptic America, you play as a father desperately seeking help for his ailing daughter. It features all the core elements of an open-world survival game – exploring, gathering resources, fighting, and crafting. However, it emphasizes realistic challenges, with limited healing and the need to maintain your weapons, making it more difficult than many similar games. If you enjoy the exploration and crafting of Valheim, the community building in State of Decay, or the intense survival of Project Zomboid, As One We Survive might be for you. The game will be available in Early Access on Steam soon.
The drumbeat of policy around digital assets swells with allegorical confidence. The Senate Banking Committee, guardian of markets and occasional arbiter of fashionable opinion, announced on Jan. 9, 2026, that it will hold a markup on comprehensive digital asset market structure legislation on Jan. 15, 2026, nudging the bill toward formal deliberation. The air will be thick with the sighs of staffers and the clicks of pens as destiny-well, regulation-draws nearer. 😅
![Under conditions of limited human-time, a persistent divergence emerges between honest and adversarial commitment weights-illustrated by [latex]W\_H(t) - W\_A(t)[/latex]-as honest validators consistently solve challenges and remain online, while the adversary’s progress is constrained by a fixed capacity, empirically validating the predicted drift behavior outlined in Lemma 6.2.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.04813v1/fig_commitment_trajectories.png)
A new consensus primitive leverages uniquely human effort as a scarce resource to provide Sybil resistance and a fundamentally different security model.
Open-world games offer a relaxed experience because they let players explore without strict rules or goals. There’s no right or wrong way to play, allowing people to experiment, notice details, or simply follow their instincts and see what happens.
Okay, so Microsoft is doing something totally unexpected. They’re actually putting some of their biggest, normally PlayStation-exclusive games on PlayStation! At the same time, they’re still making their own Xbox hardware. Honestly, it’s got me wondering what their overall plan is. But 2026? It feels like things could really blow up for them that year … Read more
Okay, so getting a Snap Hook in ARC Raiders is tough! Unless you’re incredibly lucky with random drops, you pretty much have to craft it. And to craft it, you need to find the blueprint first. Honestly, it seems like you’re more likely to stumble across the blueprint than the Snap Hook itself – it’s just that rare!