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Following the incredible success of Vampire Survivors, it was only a matter of time until other studios adopted the game’s auto-shooter/bullet heaven gameplay loop as well. It may be surprising, though, that one of them would be Deep Rock Galactic: Survivors, which is launching soon. As one of the most-played Steam Next Fest demos of October 2023, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivors has already proven that there’s merit in adapting the franchise’s trademark dwarven mining action into an entirely different genre. Now, Ghost…

The People’s Choice Awards — and the already crowded field of country music awards shows — are expanding. NBCUniversal will inaugurate the People’s Choice Country Awards in September. The awards, the first offshoot of the long-running People’s Choice Awards, will take place at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville and air on NBC and Peacock. NBCU owns the People’s Choice brand and made an equity investment in Opry Entertainment Group (along with venture capital firm Atairos) last year. “We’re excited…

Bluesky, Twitter’s open-source offshoot, has released early code for a decentralized social network protocol. The system is dubbed the Authenticated Data Experiment (or ADX) and is available on GitHub for developers to test, although Bluesky emphasizes that it’s incomplete. It’s one of the most substantive windows into Bluesky’s workings since the project was conceived in 2019 and formally incorporated in early 2022. Bluesky CEO Jay Graber writes that ADX will be the start of a semi-public development process. “We’re…