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New Climate Report Sparks Outrage

Sabine Hossenfelder YT

Report: EA shut down BioWare in favor of Star Wars: Battlefront sequel after previously decrying licensed games

According to a new report, Electronic Arts closed down the venerated RPG studio BioWare to shift resources away from Mass Effect and toward a new Star Wars: Battlefront title.

Game Developer · EN

Monthly Report - June 2026

Read on for a look at development news and the Krita-Artists forum's featured artwork from last month. Development Report Krita 5.3.2.1/6.0.2.1 Released A 5.3.2.1/6.0.2.1 hotfix release was made to fix two serious regressions. First, a layer-related problem causing issues like the wrong layer being selected or crashes was fixed. This reverts the behavior of the layer being changed on keyframe selection. ( bug 1 , bug 2 , bug 3 ; change ) Second, a crash when inserting or removing hold frames was fixed. ( bug ; change ) Developments in Krita Plus Android Donations Overhaul On Krita downloaded f

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Monthly Report - July 2026

Read on for a look at development news and the Krita-Artists forum's featured artwork from last month. Development Report Developments in Krita Plus Dependencies have been updated in the Qt5 builds (Krita 5.3.x). This updates many libraries Krita depends on for things like file format support. ( change ) Luna and Agata have continued improving the Selection Actions Bar. Now it remembers the distance from the selection on restart, and there's a button to pin it to the bottom of the canvas widget instead of next to the selection. ( change ) In the Python scripting API, the View class now has sig

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Monthly Report - August 2026

Animation on Android and new Transform Tool and Color Sampler features? Read on for a look at development news and the Krita-Artists forum's featured artwork from last month. Development Report Krita 5.3.3 Released Krita 5.3.3 was released with various fixes as well as revamped Android supporter donations. Developments in Krita Plus Animation rendering on Android is now possible, via MediaEncoder and LibAV. ( change by Carsten Hartenfels) Support for the XCF file format native to GIMP has been removed, as the xcftools library that was used is long outdated and unmaintained. It's recommended to

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Monthly Report - September 2026

A new bugfix release, trackpad gestures on Wayland, and a new recorder option? Read on for a look at development news and the Krita-Artists forum's featured artwork from last month. Krita 5.3.4/6.0.4 Released Krita 5.3.4/6.0.4 was released, including some fixes from this last month. The Recorder should no longer interrupt tools when writing a frame ( bug ; change by Carsten Hartenfels), and trying to export a timelapse with missing frames will rename the frame files to remove any gaps ( change by Luna Lovecraft). An issue with Android supporter pack downloads not working with a custom resource

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Monthly Report - October 2026

Qt 6.11, a temporary ruler assistant, and more. Read on for a look at development news and the Krita-Artists forum's featured artwork from last month. Krita 5.3.4.1 Released The hotfix release Krita 5.3.4.1 contains a single regression fix, for a bug that caused assigning display profiles to not work. This is important for color management. ( change by Nicholas LaPointe) Developments in Krita Plus Qt 6.11.0 The Krita 6 builds now use version 6.11.0 of the Qt framework instead of 6.8.0. While work was done to avoid regressions, please report any new issues you find. On the other hand, this upda

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HKT pulls out of US under FCC pressure – report

Another Chinese telco is reportedly leaving the US as Hong Kong-based HKT is said to be withdrawing from the country after pressure from the FCC, which has in the past placed prohibitions on major Chinese telcos on the grounds of national security and law enforcement.

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