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31+ min ago (429+ words) CD Projekt Red has officially announced a brand-new physical Trading Card Game for the Cyberpunk franchise. As seen in a new hype trailer, the game will feature custom artwork on the cards, with copies featuring characters from both the Cyberpunk: 2077 game and the Cyberpunk Edgerunners animated show. This is an exciting new step for the Cyberpunk franchise, connecting both collectible card game enthusiasts and dedicated fans of the IP through their love of the world, environment, and characters. The upcoming Cyberpunk TCG is being crafted by CD Projekt Red in collaboration with WierdCo, a fresher face in the Trading Card Game scene. According to creators, these teams are working very closely together to ensure that the game perfectly captures the mood, tone, and aesthetic of Cyberpunk that fans have come to adore. "In Cyberpunk Trading Card Game, you'll put together…...

1+ hour, 2+ min ago (176+ words) Hyderabad: International Master in Chess Dhruva Thota was felicitated with the Sports Achiever Award by MLC Patnam Mahender Reddy during the annual day celebrations of Pallavi International School, Gandipet, held on Monday. The award was presented in recognition of Dhruva Thota's outstanding achievements in chess at national and international levels, which have brought pride to the institution and inspired the student community. The event was attended by the school management, faculty members, parents, and students. On the occasion, Yashasvi Malka, CEO & Director, Pallavi Group of Institutions, assured that all necessary support would be extended to Dhruva Thota in achieving his goal of attaining the prestigious Grandmaster title. He reiterated the Pallavi Group's commitment to nurturing sporting excellence and encouraging talented students to reach the highest levels in their chosen fields. Addressing the gathering, MLC Patnam Mahender Reddy congratulated Dhruva Thota…...

2+ hour, 2+ min ago (680+ words) I spent years working with Go database libraries. GORM is powerful but opaque - when something goes wrong, good luck debugging the auto-generated SQL. sqlx is great for raw SQL, but I found myself writing the same boilerplate query construction logic in every project. What I wanted was something in between: a library that builds SQL predictably, requires zero external dependencies in production, and doesn't make me choose between type safety and simplicity. Relica is my answer to that problem. GORM does too much magic. Auto-migrations, lazy loading, hooks everywhere. When your query is slow, figuring out what SQL actually got executed requires digging through layers of abstraction. In production systems, I need predictability over convenience. sqlx does too little. It's excellent at what it does - scanning rows into structs and named parameter binding - but you're still writing raw SQL strings....

2+ hour, 42+ min ago (482+ words) D&D's new Eberron book packs in a number of ideas for campaign play, but its suggestions seem a little ordinary for level 20 demi-god PCs. Fans have spotted an oddity in the new D&D book, Eberron: Forge of the Artificer, which brings the Artificer D&D class into the updated ruleset, and suggests several campaign ideas for playing in Keith Baker's legendary D&D setting. As Reddit user EarthSeraphEdna points out in a thread on the r/dndnext subreddit, the book has a slightly strange idea of how a D&D campaign should play out. Specifically, it seems determined that every campaign concept should span the full breadth of available character progression, starting from level 1 and finishing at level 20. EarthSeraphEdna argues that sometimes the book is able to suggest a suitably epic arc for the final levels of a…...

3+ hour, 8+ min ago (755+ words) It's that time again to hang some Pok" Balls on your Trevenant or Exeggutor and get festive, but it's not Christmas without spending some Pok"dollars on some good old Pok"mon merch, right? I'm a massive Pok"mon trainer (both in circumference and fandom), and I know a thing or two about the video games, TCG, plushies, and Funko. So I thought this is the best time of year for a Pok"mon Gift Guide, with the back end of 2025 focusing on the return of Mega Evolution. First introduced in the Pok"mon X and Y video games and TCG, it's the most favored Pok"mon gimmick, and it's back for the mainline games" return to Kalos in Pok"mon Legends: Z-A. So let's get into it, because there's a gift here for every budget and Pok"fan: The…...

3+ hour, 11+ min ago (189+ words) Tiny Tim, you mischievous devil," snarled Scrooge. Now, now," chided the Ghost of Christmas Future from behind Scrooge's chair. Playing black, Scrooge thought the game was won with his queen against white's bishop and knight. But the devilish Tiny Tim " standing rather than sitting at the chessboard " uncorked a pin-and-fork combination to win. With that hint, try to find Tiny Tim's winning combination. In this week's position, Scrooge's queen dominated the board. It was poised to promote a pawn and crush white like a poorly wrapped gift under a Christmas tree. Tiny, however, nimbly placed his bishop on f2, seemingly giving it away. Scrooge saw the bishop " though undefended " pinned his queen to the king. He didn't need to take the bishop to see the follow-up: knight to d3, forking the queen and king. Either way, white's bishop would trade for black's…...

3+ hour, 41+ min ago (395+ words) Loot Studios' 3D printable 'Miniatures card game' has been out for almost a year - join our live AMA to ask the boss what's next for the game! If you've been curious about Loot Studios' Malediction, a curious and aesthetically gorgeous mix of miniature wargame and deckbuilding card game, we've got the perfect chance to learn more, direct from its creators! Loot Studios' Head of Games Fabio Cury is joining us live in Discord to answer'your questions about all things Malediction, and what's coming to the game next in 2026! Since then, Malediction has raised over $700k from backers on Gamefound, and now has four playable factions and many glowing reviews under its belt. So we thought it was about time we invited them to our nerd treehouse to talk about what's happening in the game, and where it's going next! Our live video…...

4+ hour, 45+ min ago (299+ words) Our newest full time staff writer, Tim Linward is a Warhammer 40k and'Horus Heresy fanatic who dabbles in TTRPGs, board games and MTG. You'll often find him delving through Games Workshop's financial reports for gaming news, combing the indie wargaming scene for cool new titles, or listening to yet more'Warhammer 40k books for deep 40k lore.'He's also written for PCGamesN, and 'Grimdark', his book of essays about Warhammer 40k and Games Workshop, will be published by Strange Attractor Press when it finally emerges from the warp. His controversial gaming opinion is that the Age of Sigmar double turn is objectively bad - it gives a single die roll too much'influence over the game state. (He/Him) Forget Monopoly for Christmas - play as psychic secret agents in a cat and mouse (and dolphin) duel in this hidden movement board game. Mind MGMT is one of…...

4+ hour, 46+ min ago (231+ words) Herd Mentality is the perfect Christmas distraction Even if someone's family hates board games, there's always one I recommend trying; it's the perfect blend of easy to understand and low pressure, with plenty of fun sprinkled along the top as a garnish. I spend most of my year reviewing board games, so it says a lot when one sticks around on my shelf - and Herd Mentality earned a permanent spot long ago. Besides being incredibly straightforward (it's the kind of game you can explain in under a minute), it's the kind of goofy fun that's near-endlessly replayable. Sure, this makes life harder for newcomers who don't know the group. But on the flipside, it's one hell of an icebreaker. I adore Herd Mentality's quirky sense of humor, too. If you're the odd one out, you're lumbered with the squishy pink…...

4+ hour, 53+ min ago (462+ words) SQLite is often underestimated in server environments. Used correctly, it can deliver very high read throughput, even under concurrent access from many goroutines. The key is understanding that SQLite is extremely fast at reads when you remove unnecessary safety overhead and align it with the OS page cache. This article walks through practical SQLite tuning approaches that are commonly recommended and widely used for a read-heavy Go server that typically involves: These patterns and settings are based on SQLite documentation, community experience, and real-world reports, but you should validate them against your own workload before treating them as production-proven. The goal: maximize read throughput and minimize latency. If these assumptions change, some tradeoffs below should be reconsidered. The single biggest win for read concurrency is WAL (Write'Ahead Logging). For a read-heavy workload, WAL effectively turns SQLite into a lock-free reader…...