The Australian Classification Website reveals SILENT HILL f is the latest game to run afoul of Australia's guidelines governing content in video games (thanks Press Start). These rules are notoriously strict, and over the years many games have changed content in order to be freely sold in the territory. While sex, violence, and/or drugs are just weekend plans for some, these are the three main causes for games to earn this RC rating. But in this case the reason for the refusal is confusingly omitted. Apparently gamers who wish to know what's up will be informed on an individual basis, as this is the listed reason for the game's refused classification:

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A Minecraft LIVE 2025 Recap is here, reflecting a presentation from Mojang about the voxel-powered sandbox adventure. Here's the VOD version of the show, described as "jam packed," with its game drops, movie content reveals, celebrity appearances, and a first look at a visual upgrade. The graphics update is called Vibrant Visuals, described thusly: "We show off the visual upgrade in full effect during this segment. Sunlight shining through trees, reflecting off pumpkins, and piercing through the depths of the ocean. We also feature the new pixelated shadows, much-improved water effects, and more!" There's post on IGN with more on what the game's future does and does not hold, learning that there's no plan to create a sequel to the now an almost 15 year-old game: "Do you think we're going to have an Earth 2?," asks Ingela Garneij, executive producer of Minecraft Vanilla. "No, no, there's no Minecraft 2." As the post reveals, this commitment to the original game is not without its compromises:

It’s an ambition propelled by Mojang’s desire to innovate, continuing the mine and craft, so to speak, new ideas upon their rock-solid foundations. Those foundations are beginning to show their age, though, Garneij admitted, and while there are no plans for an engine overhaul, it does mean that new content, such as the newly revealed Vibrant Visuals graphics update, does take time to put into practice.

“I think the age of the game is a challenge," Garneij said. "It's a 15-year-old platform, 15-year-old technology that slows us down in one sense. So other new games have new engines, and they can run really fast. So I would say the technology and our age [are our biggest challenges].”

• A new God of War ‘side-story project’ set in Greece is coming this year, it’s claimed - VGC.

• 'We all got laid off', says former Deck Nine narrative designer, after no-one was around to pick up Life is Strange- Double Exposure's GDC Awards win - PC Gamer.

• Assassin's Creed Shadows Hits 2 Million Players 2 Days After Release, Ubisoft Says It’s Now Surpassed Origins and Odyssey Launches - IGN.
• Two thirds of total PC playtime last year was on games that are at least six years old, report says - VGC.
• Chrono Trigger's Lifetime Sales Have Now Surpassed The Five Million Mark - Nintendo Life. Thanks Neutronbeam.

• How Gamergate foreshadowed the toxic hellscape that the internet has now become - CNN.
• An FPS studio pulled its game from Steam after it got caught linking to malware disguised as a demo, but the dev insists it was actually the victim of a labyrinthine conspiracy - PC Gamer.

Official patch.

• Myst - The Rime update is now LIVE. Thanks PC Gamer.

Thanks Ant.

• Malevolent Madness – Official Trailer. Launches next week.

↑ Official trailers. ↓ Content creator videos.

• The Origins of Dwarf Fortress - Dwarf Fortress Series (Episode One) - Noclip.
• When Your Favorite Game Is Now Retro - The Warp Zone.

• Remedy Talks Going Over Budget on Alan Wake 2 - MP1st.

• Linking My Ubisoft Connect And Steam Accounts Made Me Realise Why Everyone Hates All These PC Storefronts - TheGamer. Thanks Neutronbeam.

• 'God of War' Is the Edgelord Game of the 2000s — But It's Still Great - Rolling Stone.
• One of the Worst Games of All Time is Making a Comeback - GameRant.

• A peek inside the busy home of the Internet Archive - NPR. Thanks Neutronbeam.

• Data suggests RTX 5090 prices are slowly stabilizing — The average selling price on eBay has dropped to $4,000 - Tom's Hardware.
• MSI Rumored To Prepare RTX 5080 With 24 GB VRAM Capacity; Revealed In X870 Tomahawk WiFi Compatibility List - Wccftech.
• RTX 40 GPU owners suffering from BSODs and crashes complain about Nvidia's RTX 50 focus - Tom's Hardware.
• Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU is listed for $8,565 at US retailer — 26% more expensive than the last-gen RTX 6000 Ada - Tom's Hardware.
• The man with a mind-reading chip in his brain, thanks to Elon Musk - BBC.
• GPU compatibility dilemma brewing as more high-end power supplies ditch 8-pin connectors in favor of new 16-pin - Tom's Hardware.
• Museum digs up DEC's dusty digital equipment • The Register. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• Evernote version 10.131.6. Thanks Console General.
• mpc-hc - Release 2.4.1 · GitHub. Thanks Ant.

• Browser Use, the tool making it easier for AI 'agents' to navigate websites, raises $17M - TechCrunch.

• OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases - WIRED (may require registration or subscription).

• Roblox: Boss' online safety advice for children sparks debate - BBC.
• Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an ‘AI Labyrinth’ - The Verge.
• To Truly Fix Siri, Apple May Have to Backtrack on One Key Thing—Privacy - WIRED (may require registration or subscription).

• How Scammers Launder Money and Get Away With It - The New York Times (free account required). Thanks Neutronbeam.

• Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium - Christ Centered Gamer.

• Mouse: CHERRY XTRFY M64 Wireless White Gaming Mouse Mad Shrimps.
• PSU: FSP Hydro Ti Pro 1000W power supply review - Tom's Hardware.

Strong Aurora Alert Issued For 21 U.S. States Sunday — What To Know - Forbes. What I know is we still haven't seen any of these southern appearances of the northern lights. But in fairness, I may not be trying hard enough. I'm guessing if our western exposure actually faced north it would help a lot.

Obituary: RIP Mark Klein, the engineer who exposed US domestic spying • The Register. Thanks Reddit.

Disoriented Round-up
Thanks Ant, Neutronbeam, and Max.

Stories

• 'Star Trek' icon lives on with new Nichelle Nichols Space Camp to inspire young women to aim for the stars - Space. Thanks A.M.
• Ultra-short takeoff aircraft rakes in $9 billion in preorders - New Atlas.

Science

• Ghost Particles in the Deep Are Unlocking Secrets of Quantum Gravity - SciTechDaily.
• The People Who Never Get Hangovers - The New York Times (free account required). I'm married to one of them.
• A Super Fungus Is Evolving in Polluted Cities – And It’s Spreading Through Cats - SciTechDaily.

Media

• Rick Moranis Talk About Props from Honey, I Shrunk The Kids. Thanks Kxmode.

Follow-up

• How NASA’s waylaid astronauts finally got home - CNN.

TThe Funnies

• xkcd: Cosmic Distance Calibration.
• "Sarchasm" - Spring Break - FoxTrot.