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A general view of atmosphere at the VICE Kills TX Music Showcase during the 2013 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival at Viceland on March 16, 2013 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Hutton Supancic/Getty Images for SXSW)Hutton Supancic | Getty ImagesVice Media has declared Fortress Investment Group's stalking horse bid of $225 million the winning offer for the company as it emerges from bankruptcy.Vice received multiple bids for the company, but none of them "rose to the level of being deemed a superior bid," according to an…

Die-and-retry Former homebrew NES title Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril is making a stop on the Nintendo Switch on May 19, 2023. This follows a release on Xbox consoles in April 2022 and on NES in 2010. Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril is one of the more beloved homebrew titles for Nintendo’s classic console. Developed by Sivak Games and drawing inspiration from Mega Man and I Wanna Be The Guy, Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril is a die-and-retry gauntlet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vvMLR-17Jo I actually own a copy…

After years of neglect, Valve is preparing to release a major update for Team Fortress 2. This week, the studio published a rare blog post on the  (via ), asking the game’s community to submit new content to the Steam Workshop ahead of May 1st. “The last few Team Fortress summer events have only been item updates. But this year , we’re planning on shipping a full-on update-sized update – with items, maps, taunts, unusual effects, war paints and who knows what else?!” Valve said. By our count, the “as as-yet-unnamed,…

The much-anticipated Steam and Itch.io version of Dwarf Fortress was announced in 2019, and brothers Tarn and Zach Adams kept working on the game until its release last December. But it was exactly two years after the original announcement that Putnam — a developer who has been involved in the community for around 10 years now working on popular mods and reverse engineering the game — sent Tarn a decisive email.“We knew just from our Steam wish list numbers that our game was going to do pretty well,” says Tarn in a Zoom…

This brief experimental documentary about migration to Europe comes from the Italian artists Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo and is a collage of unused footage from video pieces they have made together over the past 15 years. It’s a film with interesting things to say about the fortressing of Europe during that time, but I confess to finding it hard going and slightly frustrating. By the end I wondered if it might not have worked better as a gallery installation alongside the duo’s earlier works.It opens in 2006, at night…

It’s always nice to see the little guys win Dwarf Fortress has been a little engine that could in the games industry for decades, and after its full release in December, the title is finally seeing some well deserved success. It’s only been out for a month, but Dwarf Fortress has managed to amass over 500,000 sales on Steam, which is a pretty big deal for a game with such humble beginnings. This number was developer Bay 12 Games’ two month sales goal, meaning the team crushed it twice as quickly as they thought…

The first Iron Banner of Destiny 2 Season of the Seraph comes with a brand-new PvPvE mode called Fortress. Throughout Destiny, Bungie has included different Crucible modes in Iron Banner, but not with a PvE aspect.Iron Banner Fortress ModeBungie has diverted from Destiny 2's traditional Iron Banner Control to include modes like Rift and Eruption in the past, but Fortress is a bit different because it includes brief, intermittent PvE moments. It plays similarly to Zone Control, where you need to neutralize…

Sam Bankman-Fried may face serious legal jeopardy and years in prison over the collapse of his FTX crytocurrency exchange, but for the time being, he’s enjoying some semblance of his privileged upbringing by living under house arrest in his parents’ spacious Palo Alto home. On the leafy one-acre property, which a pricey private security firm has turned into a “heavily guarded fortress,” the onetime billionaire wunderkind has reportedly met with famed “Big Short” and “Moneyball” author Michael Lewis about the possibility…

When Tarn and Zach Adams, the two creators of Dwarf Fortress, were children, their father worked in sewage management just east of Sacramento in the 1970s and ‘80s. Specifically, Tarn explains over Zoom, their dad was the guy who “introduced computers to sewage treatment plants,” helping digitize the measurement of things like “flows, digesters, bacteria,” and grossest of all, “activated sludge.”For anyone even vaguely familiar with the strikingly complex settlement sim that is Dwarf Fortress, these could plausibly be…

Dwarf Fortress has finally been released, with the revamped version of the role-playing simulation game quickly topping the Steam charts. Development began on Dwarf Fortress in 2003 and, according to the Steam listing, the “lifetime ‘living’ project (has) no end in sight.” “The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that’s ever been created. The legendary Dwarf Fortress is now on Steam. Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world,” continues the listing. The revamped…