Blind boxes are a game of chance. Here’s how to keep kids from getting hooked

If you are a parent of kids who love blind boxes, you might be worried about how the game of luck echoes gambling.
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Crypto Dice: How Bitcoin Dice Games Work

Crypto dice is a casino-style betting game where players wager cryptocurrency on whether a randomly generated roll lands above or below a chosen target number. Bitcoin dice is the best-known version, ...
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How to make a silicone dice mold at home

Learn how to make a silicone dice mold easily and affordably at home! In this video, I show a simple step-by-step method to create a precise DIY silicone dice mold that’s perfect for casting resin, ...
TechCrunch

Anthropic’s Fable 5 can make weirdly fun video games with the click of a button

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available version of its closely watched Mythos model. What can Fable actually do? All kinds of things, it turns out. Ethan Mollick, a notable ...
The Verge

Paramount is making a unified games studio.

Paramount Games Studio puts all of Paramount and Skydance’s development teams under one brand. Weirdly, it will still be making two titles set in Disney universes: Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra and an ...
GamesIndustry

Platinum is making a triple-A Ninja Turtles game because they're "huge fans" of the IP

Bayonetta dev PlatinumGames signed up to work on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin because the studio were "huge fans" of the IP, according to Dan Prigg, the head of the newly re-announced ...
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Peter Molyneux’s Latest Game Is A Broken Sandwich-Making Sim

Masters of Albion is out in Early Access, and it sure is a new game from the makers of Godus and Legacy Masters of Albion Peter Molyneux It would be a foolhardy soul who was optimistic that the latest ...
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Trying to make dice out of recycled plastic

A hands-on experiment turning recycled plastic into custom dice, exploring the recycling process, molding, and final results of DIY fabrication. Trump’s new reflecting pool liner cut with a razor, ...
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Prehistoric dice suggest that Native Americans may have been gaming since the last ice age

The traditional six-sided die has been around since the Bronze Age, with the earliest known pieces from approximately 3000 BC uncovered in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley. Now, a new study has found ...
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Before Casinos, Before Ancient Rome: Ice Age Americans Were Rolling the Dice

Colorado State University archaeologist says Native Americans were crafting dice and playing games of chance as far back as 12,000 years ago, long before such practices were thought to exist outside ...
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12,000 Years Ago, Native Americans Were Playing Games of Chance with Handmade Dice

Archaeologists have long known that the ancient peoples of North America—not unlike us—played a lot of games. Going back millennia, cultures around the world developed myriad ways to keep entertained, ...