Author: Jack Slater
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GitHub Getting Acquired by Microsoft
Microsoft, today: Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced it has reached an agreement to acquire GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform where more than 28 million developers learn, share and collaborate to create the future. Together, the two companies will empower developers to achieve more at every stage of the development lifecycle, accelerate enterprise use…
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Apple’s “Fuck You” to Mac Game Developers & Players
This wasn’t in the keynote, but Apple had some bad news buried in the “What’s New in macOS” section of their developer site for anyone who makes games or other software with the OpenGL graphics API : Deprecations and Removed APIs Periodically, Apple adds deprecation macros to APIs to indicate that those APIs should no longer be…
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Safe House Review
Labs Games promises a marriage between Papers, Please, Sim Tower, and the adventures of James Bond in Safe House. It sounds like a fascinating concept to take a bit of the bureaucratic paper shuffling puzzles and themes from Papers, Please and put those within a building management simulation. That idea grabbed me when I first…
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Washinton D.C. is Shutting Down The City’s Largest Shelter to Make Way for Rich People
This shelter doesn’t sound spectacular, but the space provided opportunities for the 239 families living there to have fun activities that won’t be possible elsewhere. Splinter’s Emma Roller: …over the past seven years, the families and organizations that operate within the shelter have created a makeshift community of their own. This is what happens when…