8BIT News - Thanksgiving Edition
So we have an extra large article for thanksgiving
(To my friends in Canada: I’m doing November because this is traditionally thanksgiving and in Canada it was originally November but moved to October due to snow making it hard to travel)
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End of Coder King 
Recently @Taser has announced that CK5 will be the last Coder King competition due to his personal life getting more busy
I wish you the best of luck Mr Taser but don’t follow in my footsteps because I am failing all of my classes
MGA 2025 Ends. MGA 2026 in Preparations. 
Makecode Game Awards 2025 has finally came to a close after 2 Months, but @MeatballDev is already preparing for MGA 2026. Is the Award Shows 3rd Run right around the corner already? Perhaps only months away
Missile Battlegrounds releases Alpha Track 
Recently @MeatballDev released the Alpha Soundtrack for MBG, according to the Extremely Handsome Developer the music will hopefully get added in 2.1 if he can get ArcadeMIDI to Work. You can listen here!
**Community Asset Pack 
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Recently a user by the name of @RobbyZero has created a Community Asset Pack where people can release assets for people to use, this is a great idea @RobbyZero and I’m looking forward to Steal Borrow Assets
View it Here!
[Community Project] Community Asset Pack
Makecode Legend Returns 
Recently Makecode Legend @Unique has returned to Makecode after being retired for over a year, welcome back to the forums Unique
Copysprite Changes Name 
So 5 days ago Copysprite changed his name to astral saying that he doesn’t copy sprites anymore (what do mean ANYMORE @Astral), my personal opinion is that the change is bad, even through he doesn’t copy sprites the username was unique and recognizable, also why is your profile hidden Mr Astral
Randomuser’s October Update 
Madam President @randomuser has released her October update where she goes into details about her plans for November, lets break down what she said
- Video Tutorials for Makecode Features (e.g. Arrays)
- Publishing a Makecode game to steam
- More
Some ambitious ideas, especially the steam idea
@randomuser, I know I promised to chip in 30 bucks but I’m kinda bankrupt after I got some mcdonalds, inflation is crazy
Randomuser's presidential office! - #825 by randomuser
That’s all for 8BIT News, Good Coding!
Game of the Week
Its Thanksgiving, and what is thanksgiving about?
Spending time with fami- FOOTBALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
So we have Makecode Football by Unique
Makecode Football by @Unique
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