I’m surprised it lasted on the Apple App Store this long…

Meta Ireland faces a face of €100,000 a week from Dutch court if it fails to give users in Netherlands a permanent and simple way to get algorithm-free timeline. A pittance but still… www.dutchnews.nl/2025/10/cour...

End of support for Windows 10 is happening in less than three weeks but Microsoft has now been forced to make its extended security updates totally free in Europe for another year www.theverge.com/news/785544/...

Cork-based Void Interactive the latest firm to part company with a worker for comments made over Charlie Kirk murder kotaku.com/ready-or-not...

ON THIS DAY! 22nd September 1987 - Zig and Zag made their first TV appearance on #DempseysDen on @rteone.rte.ie That’s 38 years ago maths fans! Are you feeling old yet?! #ZigAndZag #IanDempsey #zigandzagday

Great! Ads on your smart fridge that you can’t opt out of! Who wouldn’t want that?! Thanks, Samsung! www.theverge.com/news/780757/...

So they are not totally useless junk… bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...

Sony has taken its sweet time but it has finally launched a standalone parental control app that enables you to keep tabs on your children's PlayStation gaming. Nintendo has long had something similar but Microsoft now lags behind blog.playstation.com/2025/09/10/a...

The Onion is one of the few media organisations willing to take on Trump - and it recently started a print newspaper. What's not to like? The CEO explains... www.wired.com/story/uncann...

The @imirt.bsky.social Steam Curator List is so close to 600 followers! All follows and shares help Irish game devs! Please and thank you. 😊 #speirghorm #irishgamedev #speirgorm #indiedev #gamedev #irishcreatives #indiegame store.steampowered.com/curator/4145...

Digital downloads now make up 90% of game revenue across Europe including Ireland, with only 10% being physical sales www.gamesindustry.biz/digital-purc...

The increase of EV charging point installations hit 53% in China last year. Here in Ireland we’re lucky if it’s at 15%.

Created by @galen.reich.me.uk , this is a local democracy reporting tool that enables researchers to search for keywords in auto-generated transcripts by the councils' multimedia provider, available for different authorities across the UK and Ireland.

Not a good look for Kojima (plus other guests including Activision COO Joshua Taub, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, Sega president Shuji Utsumi, Sony CSO Toshimoto Mitomo, Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada, former gaming exec Peter Moore, among others) #sportswashing

New Dublin studio Day Off Interactive breaks cover with plans for "innovative strategy and simulation games", promising a four-day week to employees and more details next month www.gamesindustry.biz/day-off-inte...

SEVEN HOURS!

Some great data from the IEVA on the slooooww growth of EV charging points over the first six months of the year. ESB Ecars is far from leading the pack on installations, not surprisingly. Meanwhile, several counties had no CCS installs *at all* www.irishevassociation.ie/news/2025-ch...

Bit of a screeching U-turn here from the Collison brothers’ Stripe payment firm

The surprising Irish connection between Game of Thrones, Five Nights at Freddy's ... and the notorious Hellfire Club in Dublin www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

Good grief…

Few commit harder to their work than Jemima Mar-a-Lago Kelly and this is the piece of the weekend bar none. Clutching only a bottle of Taittinger she heads to a garden party for the new right with Curtis Yarvin and you'll never want it to end. on.ft.com/4li3F92

Wanna a podcast featuring an Irish games studio's big Hollywood deal, the unsettling goings-on at Dublin's Hellfire Club and the inimitable Liam Cunningham? Sure you do. Featuring me and @gambrinous.com talking #gamedev on The Big Tech Show www.independent.ie/podcasts/the...

Dungeons & Dragons has a reputation as a nerdy tabletop game but now it's being performing at stadium level in front of crowds of 20,000

The tariffs hit for US consumers buying Switch consoles is between $40 and $50. Switch 2 unaffected because the tariffs had been factored in already www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-sy...

#Tariffs ahoy! #Nintendo warns it's about to raise prices in the US for some of its consoles and accessories, including the Switch but not the Switch 2, due to "market conditions". It doesn't say by how much the prices will change (or confirm that they're going UP) www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/...

Three billion! How many old models are sitting in a drawer somewhere? Probably a billion!

#PlayStation is looking for a commercial manager to handle its multiplatform releases on *checks notes* Xbox and Nintendo among others. Looks as if Microsoft's games-everywhere strategy is catching on job-boards.greenhouse.io/sonyinteract...

But only AFTER ordering and paying!

Lego’s official Nintendo Game Boy is here, complete with a lenticular display. It doesn’t play games, but you can swap in scenes from Super Mario Land and Link’s Awakening. Take my money www.theverge.com/news/712786/...

Odd partnership of the day: Ridley Scott and Johnny Depp have buddied up for a graphic novel series based on Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Brendan Greene’s next game is many years away, maybe even a decade but the PUBG creator has released a demo of the ambitious survival vibe he’s aiming for even now

This move to #AI summaries marks the end of lots of Google Discover traffic for many publishers who were foolishly coming to rely on it

Indie dev makes acclaimed iOS visual novel app free for next fortnight because Apple plans to delist it without an apparent reason www.eurogamer.net/acclaimed-in...

😂😂😂 The fact that they even have to address this… Scumbags.

Ahem, not one minute missing but three minutes missing...

Big games companies are warming to the idea of letting fans make spin-offs of their prized properties - so long as they get a slice of the revenue www.gamefile.news/p/roblox-lik...

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Oh the irony - new book by respected publishing house on machine learning contains AI-generated imaginary citations retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/s...

Former employee at Galway-based Romero Games suggests the whole studio staff of more than 100 is effectively gone due to Microsoft pulling funding for the team’s upcoming FPS, as part of huge jobs cuts and defunding www.videogameschronicle.com/news/john-ro...

This WRC sacking case is notable not for the fact a cleaning firm supervisor was fired – but that there's a big event site in the city partly run by the OPW that forbids its contract cleaners to have dye in their hair www.rte.ie/news/busines...

He’s baaaaack!

It's a great day when your favorite artist releases a new record. But what if they released seven new records at once, full of music you didn't even know existed? That's what Bruce Springsteen is doing on his forthcoming box set Tracks II: The Lost Albums.

Redditors are keeping a running list of the Tesla robotaxi mishaps so far – driving on the wrong side of the road, phantom braking, dropping passengers off in busy intersections ... and it’s just been three days www.theverge.com/news/692639/...

A #Roblox game about growing vegetables is seemingly now bigger than #Fortnite in terms of concurrent users www.eurogamer.net/a-roblox-gam...

20% in Ireland now pay for online news, up 3% on last year. Biggest: 1. Irish Independent - 36% 2. Irish Times - 33% 3. NYT - 22% Full details: m.independent.ie/business/med...

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Sony held its Business Segment Meeting today. Here are some key takeaways regarding its PlayStation business. The PS5 generation has generated $13 billion in profits. This is compared to the $10 billion cumulative profit generated during the PS1-PS4 generation (RIP PS3).

Twin Peaks co-writer Mark Frost explains why the series was so brilliant to begin and so uneven at the finish www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Hong Kong bans videogame that teaches you to fight communists. Won’t be long before something similar happens in the US www.bbc.com/news/article...

Everyone’s publishing a #Switch2 review, I might as well as get in on the act www.independent.ie/entertainmen...