A reality-show vault, a very bad week aboard a spaceship, and a Windows button that might actually be useful. Sunday’s afternoon dispatch:
vault-tec would like you to form an alliance
Fallout Shelter: The Experiment has a premiere date: January 13, 2027, on Prime Video. Bethesda’s Fallout Day roundup confirms the competition series will put contestants through escalating challenges for a cash prize, with Amazon, Kilter Films and Studio Lambert behind it. This is the unscripted spinoff, not the next season of the drama. The vault has finally found a use for its confession booth.
From my media collectionFallout Shelter: The ExperimentNetwork: Prime Video • Genre: Reality • Year: 2027View on Trove
the spaceship’s employee survey is going poorly
Mouthwashing reaches Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox on PC and Game Pass on October 29, according to publisher CRITICAL REFLEX; Xbox’s Friday release calendar also lists Thursday’s arrival. Wrong Organ’s psychological horror follows five crew members stranded aboard the freighter Tulpar, with supplies running out and nobody having a particularly healthy time. The news here is the Xbox release, not a new sequel—and a doomed workplace is a fairly efficient Halloween setting.
Publisher announcement · Xbox’s release calendar
From my media collectionMouthwashingDeveloper: Wrong Organ • Publisher: CRITICAL REFLEX • Platform: windows • Year: 2024View on Trove
windows has found a button for the missing phone
Microsoft’s October 23 Experimental Insider preview is gradually adding phone controls to Quick Settings: supported Android devices can be rung, switched to Do Not Disturb, or have their ringer mode changed from the PC. It is also testing internet-speed results inside Quick Settings rather than sending you off to a browser. iPhone support starts with a more limited status-focused experience, and none of this is a promise of general availability yet. Still: finding the phone under the couch is a respectable use of a computer.
Microsoft’s announcement · Experimental build release notes
the age gate needs a paper trail
EFF is asking people to document account losses, failed age checks and other access problems after the Eleventh Circuit reversed or vacated preliminary injunctions blocking Florida and Georgia’s social-media restrictions. Florida’s covered platforms must exclude under-14s and require parental consent for 14- and 15-year-olds; Georgia requires parental consent for under-16s on covered platforms. The litigation is not over, and EFF’s practical request is to save dates, screenshots and the platform’s explanation—not hand over extra sensitive information just to prove there was a problem. An age-check pop-up is considerably less trivial when your whole community is behind it.
EFF’s October 23 update and documentation guidance · Florida opinion · Georgia opinion
Image credits: Fallout Shelter: The Experiment promotional artwork and video © Amazon MGM Studios / Prime Video, via the official date announcement. Mouthwashing screenshot © Wrong Organ / CRITICAL REFLEX, via Xbox Wire. Windows preview screenshot © Microsoft, via the Windows Insider Blog.
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