Self-Host Weekly (18 September 2026) by @eshol
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Inside Azahar: Interviewing the Duo Keeping the 3DS Alive Through Emulation
OpenSauce and PabloMK7 on building Azahar, preserving the 3DS, and the new wave of dual-screen handhelds
Did you know that Steve Bannon was CEO of a WoW gold farming and RMT company? Heard it from this video which was pretty good when comparing…
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DSP clears Wolverine's motorcycle section without player input
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We lost something over the last 10 years. Cloud solves some of the problems, but heavy usage of cloud creates so much more problems that it solves it. And the cost of the Cloud with the DevOps in it can be saved with sm…
Lollipop Chainsaw Back2Back coming to PlayStation 5 in 2027. A brand-new entry starring Juliet
The game will get its first playable demo during Tokyo Game Show 2026, at the Sega/Atlus booth.
Smart devices can testify against you: How home robot data is being used in court
Household data can convict, exonerate or mislead. That makes digital forensics indispensable and demands careful guardrails
Denuvo sues anonymous game cracker ‘voices38’ over alleged DRM circumvention — seeks damages after Anti-Tamper protections bypassed in 26 g…
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Insomniac's Wolverine hits 1.9 million sales despite controversy, becomes Sony's top first-party game of 2026
Despite the harsh criticism, Sony's new Wolverine game may have sold tremendously well, achieving nearly 2 million sales in just a few days' time.
Companies Make It Hard to Access Your Personal Data Under State Privacy Laws, CR Finds: One-quarter of companies and a third of data broker…
One-quarter of companies and a third of data brokers failed to fulfill personal data requests under state privacy laws.
Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished
I've been getting a lot of those "your parcel couldn't be delivered" phishing attacks lately and if you're a human with a phone, you probably have been too. Just as a brief reminder, they look like this: These get throu…
Small but mighty! Remembering the GameCube, Nintendo’s purple box of delights
The first console I ever bought, it was hyped as a threat to the PlayStation, then mocked as a flop. But now, as it marks its 25th anniversary, itâs looked back on with misty-eyed reverence
Startup Claims Ocean Uranium Could Power Earth for 50,000 Years
Ocean uranium extraction startup Fluxnium raised $7M to commercialize DOE fiber technology, but costs still exceed market rates by more than 2x.
Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51%
CESA is the organizer of Tokyo Game Show.
PasteSwitch: The official HBO Max verified Reddit account got hacked for 48 hours to push 108 ClickFix ads tricking Mac and Windows users i…
A compromised HBO Max Reddit account led to PasteSwitch, a cross-platform ClickFix operation spanning macOS & Windows loaders and deceptive TLS.
2XKO Active Development Will End in December 2026
Servers to remain online, all gameplay content unlocked in September. Read for details on timing and refunds.
EA employees brace for the worst under Saudi ownership: 'Hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with…
Despite assurances from management, some workers believe the company will be subject to censorship by its new owners.
Compulsion Games pulls off management buyout and separates from Xbox
Compulsion Games, the maker of compelling gamers like South of Midnight, has pulled off a management buyout and is now separated from Xbox.
Physical Video Game Software Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US — the Worst Total Since Tracking Be…
New data shows that physical software dollar sales dipped to an all-time July low of $85 million in the US — the worst total since tracking began in 1995.
killer instinct 2013 sequel cancelled
Xbox might announce a surprise sequel at GamesCom, but insider Shpeshal Nick quashed rumors of a new Killer Instinct, stating it was canceled after years of speculation.
'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam
'You work six years on a game, you line up press and events for the launch, and then some guy at Valve clicks on a checkbox and blocks everything.'
Horizon Hunters Gathering is reportedly being rebooted without its live service bits following negative playtest feedback
Guerilla's game is seemingly the latest casualty in a string of live service fumbles for Sony.
Cult-classic horror point-and-click adventure Sanitarium returns as Sanitarium Enhanced
Sanitarium Enhanced is a modernized and improved edition of the cult-classic psychological horror adventure Sanitarium, originally released in 1998.
'Bioshock Review' - MandaloreGaming
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Laura Fryer - HR is killing Games
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Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement
"Apologies are simply in too short a supply these days to spurn one when it's offered."
Two years into the world's most complicated board game, masochist gamers "still don't understand what the camels do"
The ridiculously complex Campaign for North Africa boasts 1,500 hours and recommends you play with 10 people - these gamers aim to finish it with two.
TIL about the myth of Telegonus, a not so known son of Odysseus
In Greek mythology, Telegonus (/təˈlɛɡənəs/; Ancient Greek: Τηλέγονος, "born afar") was the son of Circe and Odysseus[1] and thus, brother to Agrius and Latinus[2] or Nausithous and Nausinous,[3] and Cassiphone.[4] In s…
Inside Swiff: An Interview with NaviVani on Bringing Flash Games Back to Android
From childhood memories to the RG Rotate, the developer behind Swiff explains why the lost games of the early web still matter.
More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6
In a new interview, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick said that more people are buying the $100 edition of Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6)
After 24 years, Return to Castle Wolfenstein is finally distributed uncut in Germany — game was censored due to strict laws regarding Nazi …
Germany's strict laws surrounding depictions of Nazis meant the game had to be altered, giving it an arguably more interesting story as a result.
Terraria's biggest mod, Calamity, is shutting down after 10 years over what the makers call a "troubled past" and "irrecoverably tainted re…
"Most of us want to simply move on…"
Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understan…
"The way they align their spreadsheets for their financial reports—is not the way we used to do it."
Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially…
Quake 4: Awakening was in development at Ritual Entertainment before being scrapped.
Netflix closes Oxenfree developer Night School, just a month after praising its new game as one of the company's 'most successful cloud gam…
Moonloot, a studio Netflix founded in 2022, is also being closed.
Rideshare Stimulator finally gets its genAI disclosure after much Saber-rattling, and it turns out the game also uses the tech for in-game …
Rideshare Stimulator has finally gotten a genAI disclosure on Steam after a furore, with Saber's CEO insisting that it's "swim or die" with genAI at large.
Mafia: The Old Country - Man of Honor Launch Trailer
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STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Official Update 2.0: Back to the Zone Overview Trailer
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TIL the priest related to the botched Ecce Homo was arrested for sexual assault
70-year-old one of six arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and fraud
Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon"
Epic Games recently did an AMA (Ask me anything) in the community Discord server, confirming that a Linux / SteamOS version of the Epic Games Store is coming.
Stop Killing Games has joined a lawsuit against Sony's move to digital-only sales: 'You won't have any choice at all'
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Netflix to shut down two game studios: Night School and Moonloot
Oxenfree Night School and Moonloot closing, as streaming giant continues to shrink internal game studio operation
A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode
In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the JIS s…
HDMod - A Spelunky Remake
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TIL that 4 out of 5 toddler foods are ultraprocessed. Nearly half fail to meet nutrition standards
Over 80% of foods marketed to toddlers in the United States are ultraprocessed, while nearly half also fail to meet global nutritional guidelines, a new study found.
Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works
The surveillance company announced it's making a tool called "Audit Assistance" mandatory for all customers, claiming it's already helped catch abuse. But the company has yet to explain how the tool works in detail, rai…
RustDesk now supports unattended remote access on Wayland, including the login screen and multi-monitor setups
RustDesk brings true unattended remote access to Wayland, with multi-monitor support. A preview build for x86_64 Debian/Ubuntu-based systems is available now.
Putting a Bunny.net CDN in Front of The Static Blog
A CDN for a blog with three visitors a day is objectively overkill. I did it anyway, apex domain and all, moving my whole DNS zone over to Bunny in the process.
Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Amazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year.