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Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-43VeYGiPM

Warner Bros.’ bizarre 2023 decision to shelve its live-action/animated film, Coyote vs. Acme, sparked outrage both in the industry and among fans online. But the film is finally being released, and Ketchup Entertainment, its new distributor, recently released the trailer. All I can say after watching that trailer is, what the heck was Warner Bros. even thinking? Granted, a killer trailer doesn’t automatically mean it’s a great film, but all the winning elements are here.

“It is a universe that lends itself to interactivity. You have detectives, a dark and horrific world, creatures, and ancestral cults devoted to ancient entities. It is a rich and expansive lore.”

So enthuses Tommaso Nuti, Game Director at Big Bad Wolf and creative mind behind the recently-released Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss, when asked why H.P. Lovecraft’s singular imaginings seem to be so much more popular in the gaming world than they are in other art forms. Indeed, while there’s a relative dearth of cosmic horror outings nowadays in cinema or on television, it sometimes feels like you can barely move for them on the Steam store. (...)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45925326

It's amazing what a difference a little bit of time can make: Two years after kicking off what looked to be a long-shot campaign to push back on the practice of shutting down server-dependent videogames once they're no longer profitable, Stop Killing Games founder Ross Scott and organizer Moritz Katzner appeared in front of the European Parliament to present their case—and it seemed to go very well.

Official Stream: https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/committee-on-internal-market-and-consumer-protection-ordinary-meeting-committee-on-legal-affairs-com_20260416-1100-COMMITTEE-IMCO-JURI-PETI

Digital Fairness Act: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14622-Digital-Fairness-Act/F33096034_en

It's amazing what a difference a little bit of time can make: Two years after kicking off what looked to be a long-shot campaign to push back on the practice of shutting down server-dependent videogames once they're no longer profitable, Stop Killing Games founder Ross Scott and organizer Moritz Katzner appeared in front of the European Parliament to present their case—and it seemed to go very well.

Official Stream: https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/committee-on-internal-market-and-consumer-protection-ordinary-meeting-committee-on-legal-affairs-com_20260416-1100-COMMITTEE-IMCO-JURI-PETI

Digital Fairness Act: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14622-Digital-Fairness-Act/F33096034_en

Lovecraftian Days features limited-time discounts, demos, and exclusive content, alongside a dedicated showcase spotlighting upcoming and newly released titles. Players can explore the full event on Steam until April 16.

Join the Lovecraftian Games Discord for the latest news and announcements. Throughout the festival week, it will additionally feature event coverage and sneak peeks, exclusive giveaways, community discussions and live updates of the event.

Release: 9.7 [10 Apr, 2026] New features

Annotations browser: Allow grouping results by any field
E-book viewer: Handle native pinch to zoom gesture on touchpads the same as the pinch to zoom on touchscreens. Default action is to change font size.
Content server: Implement full offline mode when using HTTPS connections to the content server

Bug fixes

E-book viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused annotations/last read information to not be saved in e-book files

Closes tickets: 2146912
AI: Make the GitHub backend a bit more robust

Closes tickets: 2147495
AI: OpenRouter backend: Fix reasoning level "auto" disabling all reasoning

Closes tickets: 2147008
Content server: Read book: Fix regression causing error during searching

Closes tickets: 2147261
Content server: Fix opening results from full text search not working

Closes tickets: 2146829
Fix a couple of minor regress in the new Full text search view introduced in the previous release
MTP driver: Linux: Fix a rare crash when connecting devices with large collections
Fix cover not being set when adding files to existing book records with no cover

New news sources

Cenital by Rodrigo Pazos

Improved news sources

The Week
The Age
Financial Times
Mint

https://www.ted.com/talks/anil_seth_your_brain_hallucinates_your_conscious_reality

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/5-illusions-reveal-brain-warps-reality

https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/how-the-brain-interprets-reality-a-neuroscience-perspective