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AppWizard
February 23, 2026
The author reflects on their gaming journey, noting a significant shift after experiencing Disco Elysium. They find that Citizen Sleeper is the closest game to evoke similar engagement, despite its different gameplay. The upcoming February 2026 Steam Next Fest will showcase two games of interest: Zero Parades, a successor to Disco Elysium, and Esoteric Ebb, which combines Disco Elysium-like mechanics with a Dungeons and Dragons aesthetic. Zero Parades promises a narrative of espionage, while Esoteric Ebb features a reimagined Thought Cabinet using D&D attributes. The author expresses excitement for both titles and encourages fans of Disco Elysium to explore these upcoming games.
AppWizard
February 23, 2026
Civilization 7 is currently available at a 40% discount on Fanatical, priced at .99/£35.99. It introduces a new Age system that segments gameplay into three phases and requires players to choose a leader to guide them while swapping civilizations. A free Test of Time update is set to be released this Spring, allowing players to maintain a single civilization throughout their journey and revamping Victory conditions with a new system called Triumphs. The update will focus on four key areas: Military, Economy, Culture, and Science. The current deal is available until February 26, 2026.
AppWizard
February 20, 2026
Google reported a decrease in malicious apps targeting its Google Play platform, preventing 1.75 million policy-violating apps from being published in 2025, down from 2.36 million in 2024 and 2.28 million in 2023. The company banned over 80,000 developer accounts in 2025 for attempting to publish harmful apps, a decrease from 158,000 in 2024 and 333,000 in 2023. Google conducts over 10,000 safety checks on every app before publication and has integrated generative AI models into the app review process. The company prevented more than 255,000 apps from gaining excessive access to sensitive user information, down from 1.3 million in 2024, and blocked 160 million spam ratings and reviews. Additionally, Google Play Protect identified over 27 million new malicious apps, an increase from 13 million in 2024 and five million in 2023.
AppWizard
February 19, 2026
Massiv is an Android banking Trojan that disguises itself as legitimate applications, primarily targeting users in southern Europe. It is distributed through side-loading and is capable of remote control over infected devices, enabling Device Takeover attacks that can lead to unauthorized banking transactions. Massiv often masquerades as IPTV applications to attract users seeking online television services. The malware employs overlay functionality to create deceptive screens, keylogging to capture sensitive information, and SMS/Push message interception. It can monitor applications on infected devices and present fake overlays to prompt users for sensitive data. Notably, it has targeted the Portuguese government application gov.pt and connects with Chave Móvel Digital, a digital authentication system, to access victims' banking accounts. Once it captures sensitive data, Massiv allows operators remote access to the device using Android’s AccessibilityService, facilitating real-time observation and manipulation of the user interface. It communicates over a WebSocket channel and supports screen streaming and UI-tree modes for enhanced control. Massiv's distribution includes malware droppers that initially do not contain malicious code but open a WebView to an IPTV website while the actual malware operates in the background. This tactic has increased in recent months, particularly in Spain, Portugal, France, and Turkey. Indicators of compromise include specific SHA-256 hashes and package names associated with the malware. The bot commands allow operators to perform various actions on the infected device, such as clicking coordinates, installing APKs, and showing overlays.
AppWizard
February 18, 2026
Android 17 Beta 1 has launched for Pixel phones, introducing significant changes in app orientation and resizability restrictions. It eliminates the option for developers to opt-out of these restrictions on larger screens (width greater than 600 dp), disregarding five specific attributes and APIs for applications on large screens or games. This aims to improve user experience on Android tablets, foldable phones, and Chromebooks, addressing issues with apps that lock into a single orientation. Developers must adapt their applications to comply with the new standards set by SDK 37, ensuring compatibility with the phase-out of certain manifest attributes and runtime APIs from Android 16. Users will retain control over their app experience through aspect ratio settings. The upcoming Aluminum OS will require Android applications to operate seamlessly in landscape mode, indicating a push for a more unified Android experience.
AppWizard
February 16, 2026
The "Necropolis" event in Darkhaven introduces a wave of undead that obstructs player waypoints and populates the environment with skeletal minions. Players can transfer characters to new worlds, facing challenges like volcanic eruptions, rising floodwaters, or ice ages. The game features modular gameplay events that can be procedurally integrated into the world. Players can interact with each other's worlds and utilize terrain deformation and building systems for strategic gameplay. Darkhaven aims to rejuvenate the action-RPG genre by focusing on organic experiences and player agency, moving away from rigid progression systems. The game emphasizes diverse loot systems and player impact on the environment, creating a living world that reflects players' actions. The development team includes veterans from the original Diablo, and they are preparing for a Kickstarter campaign.
Winsage
February 13, 2026
Microsoft Edge is actively participating in the Interop project, now in its sixth year, collaborating with companies like Mozilla, Igalia, Google, and Apple to improve web interoperability. For Interop 2026, focus areas include expanding the CSS attr() function, enhancing color tooling, enabling container style queries, allowing custom highlights, improving the interoperability of dialog elements, enhancing the fetch() API, boosting IndexedDB performance, integrating WebAssembly with JavaScript promises, implementing media pseudo-classes, enhancing the Navigation API, allowing multiple custom element registries, creating scroll-driven animations, improving CSS scroll snapping behavior, adding support for the shape() CSS function, enhancing View Transitions, addressing web compatibility issues, improving WebRTC interoperability, and advancing the WebTransport API. Additionally, investigation efforts will focus on accessibility testing, developing a JPEG XL test suite, enhancing mobile testing infrastructure, and refining the WebVTT specification. A Top Developer Needs dashboard has been launched to monitor ongoing interoperability challenges. The previous Interop 2025 project achieved significant milestones, including reliable CSS anchor positioning, smoother view transitions, simplified Navigation API implementation, alignment on Core Web Vitals, streamlined JSON module scripts, and accessible disclosure widgets. All participating browsers in Interop 2025 scored at least 98%.
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