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    <description>Updates, patch notes, and Static Storm plot beats from Oddkins.</description>
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    <lastBuildDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 23:04:00 GMT</lastBuildDate>
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      <title>Games room overhaul — 31 cabinets, all mobile-friendly, no soft keyboards</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Eight new cabinets landed: Static Stack (tetromino), Pop the Picas (drifting bubble pop), Pigment Match (match-3), Brick Bash (paddle and ball), Memory Mire (flip and match), Slide Fifteen (15-puzzle), Signal Says (Simon), Pigment Pile (2048-style merge), Honeycomb Heist (Bust-a-Move bubble shooter), Static Cheat (4-handed Cheat versus three NPC bluffers), Card Climb (higher or lower), and Static Pinball (3-ball pinball with proper physics).

Major rebuilds: Comet Punt is now a side-scrolling distance run with parallax and trampoline pads. Springleap Harvest became a Hassee-Bounce-style seesaw catcher. Beach Volleyball is real-time pong-volleyball versus an AI Crashlet. Crystal Burrow is now a Motherload-style drill-and-sell. Signal Defender became a tower-defense lite with a Slow-Time ability. Receipt Rush, Number Nightmare, and Typo Terror are now multiple-choice tap-only.

Skitterdash Rail, Mooncake Hill, and Dead Link Dive moved out of the games room into their own town pages with proper cooldowns.

Mobile-first: every cabinet fits a portrait phone column. Bigger TouchPad, bigger button targets, no soft keyboards.

Desktop plays the cabinet inline in the games-room page (the modal is mobile-only).

Leaderboards: every cabinet has Public / Friends tabs pulling real submitted scores.</description>
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      <title>Friends, ambient polish, secrets fix</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Friends page has an Add-a-friend panel with username lookup.

Secret toasts no longer re-pop when you re-enter a place that satisfies a time-of-day or page-visit trigger.

Mobile bottom nav now has a Games tab in place of Bag.</description>
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      <title>Pre-launch hardening: auth, OAuth, 2FA, GDPR</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>We&apos;ve spent the last two weeks bringing Oddkins up to launch standards. Email verification is now required to play, and we&apos;ve added OAuth via Google, Discord, and Apple.

Two-factor authentication is opt-in for anyone who signs up with email/password.

Cloudflare Turnstile now gates sign-up and password-reset against bot abuse.

On the privacy side: you can now download a JSON export of your account at any time and delete your account entirely from the Settings page.

Founders&apos; window is open through August 9, 2026.</description>
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      <title>Items expansion: 200 to 500+</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>feature</category>
      <description>Added 330+ items across every category: 40+ new foods, 25+ books, 22 plushies, 23 battle gear pieces, 20 potions, 12 pigments, 10 region-specific kernels, and 39 cosmetics.

Most NPC shops have been re-stocked with 8 to 15 items.

Daily reward pools have been expanded too.</description>
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      <title>All 30 NPCs expanded; late-night content arrives</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Every NPC&apos;s dialogue has been rewritten to 6-9 lines per encounter.

Three late-night pages have opened: The Night Window at the Glass Observatory, Late Cabinets at the Sleepy Arcade, and the Mire Night Market.</description>
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      <title>The Static Storm — what happened on day one</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>plot</category>
      <description>Switchboard Mina noticed it first: receipts gossiping out of order. The Newsstand&apos;s morning bulletin came out blank.

Chapters 1 through 5 unlock weekly. Chapter 1 is open today.</description>
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