Tropical Storm Oscar is making Cuba’s nationwide power outage even worse

Tropical Storm Oscar is making it difficult to restore power in Cuba after a massive, extended power outage that preceded the storm. The country's power grid failed on Friday after Cuba's largest power plant shut down, leaving more than 10 million people without power. The grid reportedly collapsed four more times before Oscar made landfall … Read more

Dunebound Tactics brings terrain manipulation to a strategy RPG where you can sacrifice companions to power your ship

Genre tags are slippery, fickle things at the best of times, but I feel like each one I use to label Dunebound Tactics almost diminishes it, as I’m sacrificing something precious for the sake of powering on through the arid sands of easily comestible, digestible, poop-estible online content. Ah well, circle of life and all that. Plus, at least it’s thematic: you’ll have to make sacrifices yourself if you want to progress across its unforgiving deserts. This one’s got shades of roguelite, RPG, strategy, and turn-based tactics. Nothing too uncommon, but it’s the shades of Red Faction, Frostpunk, and Sunless Sea that have me interested.

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Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn on AI, gamification, and the power of freemium

Today, I’m talking with Luis von Ahn, the cofounder and CEO of Duolingo, the popular app that teaches languages. It’s an interesting time to be in the language business: if there’s anything the current state of AI tech can do, it’s babble away in different languages with people who aren’t quite fluent in what they’re … Read more

Mentari has you heal a petrified world through the power of sick dance moves

Indonesian indie developers stellarNULL have announced action adventure game Mentari, a coming of age story about a magical girl who heals the world and fights baddies with the power of dance. As they attack you, you’ll hit them with sick twirls and the ‘ol two step, cleansing them of a sickness called the “Stillness”. Bonus fun fact: Mentari means “Sunshine” in Indonesian, while Menari means “dancing”.

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