Nerds Amalgamated

The Stop Killing Games movement is heading to EU parliament and the UFS-Que Choisir is suing Ubisoft over the delisting of The Crew. It's been a long road and there's a long way to go, but it's great to see some movement.
Artemis II has launched on their trip around the Moon. Everyone get ready to prank them on their return.
Crunchyroll have announced the nominees for their anime awards. DJ's favourite got snubbed, so he's very upset and not taking it well.

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More Stop killing updates including Ubisoft getting sued (SKG plans coming to fruition / Ubisoft sued by consumer watchdog, Jeux vidéo - L’UFC-Que Choisir assigne Ubisoft en justice suite à la fermeture du jeu The Crew )
The Artemis 2 rocket launch (Nasa’s Artemis II rocket lifts off for historic moon mission, NASA launches 4 astronauts to the moon on historic Artemis 2 voyage, a lunar leap for the 21st century | Space )
The 2026 Crunchyroll anime award nominations are out (Anime Awards 2026 Nominees Full List - Crunchyroll News, Sorry Fans, Crunchyroll’s 2026 Anime Awards Deal a Major Blow to Solo Leveling - ComicBook.com)

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Flinders University have worked with a team of researchers to model an ancient Roman board game and find out how it would have been played.
Cloning is not the secret to immortality we thought it might be. Repeated cloning leads to increased mutations and eventually sterility, preventing the clones from reproducing further.
Stephen Colbert has announced that he is advising on a new Lord of the Rings movie about the Hobbits in their old age. It's rare to see such a turbo nerd working on a project like this.

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Finders Uni discovers an ancient game (AI sheds light on an ancient gaming mystery – News, Ludus Coriovalli: using artificial intelligence-driven simulations to identify rules for an ancient board game | Antiquity | Cambridge Core )
Serial Cloning and its Dangers (Limitations of serial cloning in mammals | Nature Communications)
A New Lord of the Rings movie….yay (Colbert to co‑write new ‘Lord of the Rings’ film after late-night show ends | Reuters, Stephen Colbert Set to Adapt Next 'Lord of the Rings' Movie)

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Firefly is most likely coming back. The original crew are all on board and they're just looking for a place to show it. Professor is very excited.
ChatGPT didn't cure cancer, and LLMs aren't as miraculous as they say. Still, they can finally give us a use for all this extra water and electricity we have, right?
Anime thrives on adaptations of other works. But one creator thinks that's a bad thing and could lead to the death of the industry.
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Firefly is coming back…..well sort of (Nathan Fillion Says 'Firefly' Animated Series In Development, Nathan Fillion & Alan Tudyk Q&A On 'Firefly' Animated Series, Sarah Michelle Gellar Breaks Her Silence on What Killed the 'Buffy' Reboot: 'Nobody Saw This Coming' (Exclusive))
AI can cure cancer (Tech entrepreneur uses ChatGPT to create a personalised cancer vaccine for his DOG - and the breakthrough could soon help humans too, ChatGPT did not cure a dog’s cancer | The Verge)
Anime adaptation is not a great idea (「異世界転生も、チート能力も、ロボもいらない」 『パリに咲くエトワール』の谷口悟朗監督がオリジナル作品にこだわった理由：東京新聞デジタル, “If only adaptations remain, Japanese anime will be done for,” says Code Geass series director - AUTOMATON WEST)

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Valve are being sued by everyone, for different reasons, some reasonable and some not so reasonable. Let's hope the reasonable cases get applied to the entire industry.
Stars might be making it hard to hear ET phoning home because of their effect on deep space radio waves. I guess SETI will have to start looking again.
Samurai Champloo is becoming a live action show. Only time will tell if it succeeds or joins the pile of terrible adaptations.
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Valve vs The World (Games with loot boxes will be rated PEGI 16 from June, as part of sweeping changes to the age-rating system | GamesIndustry.biz, Valve sued by The Performing Right Society for allegedly using its members' musical works "without permission" | GamesIndustry.biz )
Lost in Space Weather (Stormy space weather may be garbling messages from aliens, new research suggests)
Coming soon a live action Samurai Champloo (‘One Piece’ Producers Tomorrow Studios to Adapt ‘Samurai Champloo’ With Creator Shinichirō Watanabe (EXCLUSIVE))

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This week we were joined by historian and indie game developer James Bailie to talk about his game projects and how he adapts historical fact into entertaining gameplay.
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Bsky (James Baillie (@jubalbarca.bsky.social) — Bluesky )
Fedi/Masto (https://scholar.social/@JubalBarca )
The Exillian Forum (it's a little gaming/creative/nerd site I help run) (https://exilian.co.uk/forum/)
Itch (Jubal Barca)
Steam page for The Exile Princes (The Exile Princes on Steam)
Academic profile (https://hcommons.org/members/jubalbarca/)
James Baillie on Google Scholar (James Baillie - Google Scholar)

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