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Nintendo president: “Game development will become even longer, more complex, and more sophisticated” ( mynintendonews.com )

Xbox President Sarah Bond Responds to Bethesda Studio Cuts, Points to Lack of Industry Growth and Need to Manage the Business 'Through This Moment of Transition' ( www.ign.com )

Hi-Fi Rush gets reverse review bombed after Microsoft shutters Tango Gameworks ( www.dexerto.com )

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Easiest way to create player targets for Music Assistant to connect to an active speaker via SPDIF for <$30 ? Squeezelite seems like a good candidate, but unsure how to connect to SPDIF

I'm struggling to find the easiest solution to connect a set of active speakers that have BT/Optical (Toslink)/Coax. I currently use a tablet to stream Deezer via BT, but I want to be able to use them in Music Assistant....

Baldur's Gate expansions are Weird - Warlockracy video ( www.youtube.com )

[Second Wind] Oh, That Darn Yellow Paint | Semi-Ramblomatic ( www.youtube.com )

Sarah Bond Confirms Every First Party Game Will Still Launch on Game Pass - Including Call of Duty ( insider-gaming.com )

Fedora

Dangerous opinion, I've recently moved to Fedora after Ubuntu and after customising it on the GNOME desktop, it's literally Ubuntu (But better) in every way except no snaps....

Witcher 3 mod editor gets official Steam release this month | Eurogamer.net ( www.eurogamer.net )

Starting with Firefox 127, we're enabling a new anti-tracking feature in Nightly: Bounce Tracking Protection. ( mozilla.social )

What's the difference between a light bulb and a programmer? ( lemmy.ml )

Persona Series Sold 2.4 Million Copies From January to March 2024, 5 Million Copies Since April 2023 ( personacentral.com )

Debian maintainer unilaterally strips KeepassXC package of a lot of features ( fosstodon.org )

Labour insists no place for Nigel Farage in party after defection of right-wing MP ( news.sky.com )

Asked if Mr Farage would be welcome if he wanted to join Labour, Ms Dodds said: "Nigel Farage is someone who is well outside any kind of Labour values....

EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again ( www.techspot.com )

EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during 'Replay' moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being highlighted in...

Can't figure out how to get Plank working on Wayland

Hey y'all...

OpenSUSE Aeon Security Drama (2023 But Still Relevant) ( forums.opensuse.org )

Handbrake/ffmpeg: What free video codec to use for 720p videos?

I have a lot of old movies, most will barely be 720p....

Northern Lights could be visible in England and Wales as severe solar storm to hit overnight ( news.sky.com )

The Northern Lights are set to be visible across large parts of the UK overnight as a huge solar storm is going to hit Earth....

Baby Killdeer I rescued from a storm drain ( sh.itjust.works )

One of the parents was running around the drain making a bunch of noise, went to investigate and found the baby trapped inside. I fished it out with a hair net wrapped around a coat hanger that I taped to a broom handle.

EA is looking at putting in-game ads in AAA games — 'We'll be very thoughtful as we move into that,' says CEO ( www.tomshardware.com )

EA CEO Andrew Wilson confirmed the company is considering putting ads in traditional AAA games — titles that players purchase up-front for around $70 apiece. In the Q&A part of EA’s latest earnings call, Eric Sheridan from Goldman Sachs asked Wilson about dynamic ad insertion in traditional AAA games. Wilson said,...