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  • Grant St. Clair
    9:14 am Tue, Aug 5, 2025
    Baldur's Gate 3 is two years old, so the devs are sharing players' weirdest stats Baldur's Gate 3

    I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that Baldur's Gate 3 is a really, really good game, but it really, really is. It's hard to believe it's been… Read the rest of the article: Baldur's Gate 3 is two years old, so the devs are sharing players' weirdest stats

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  • Grant St. Clair
    9:13 am Mon, Aug 4, 2025
    Inside the brutal world of Reddit's unbroken bone community Volodymyr TVERDOKHLIB / shutterstock.com

    Have you ever broken a bone? From a bike crash, maybe? Falling out of a tree? If so, you may not know it, but you've already been barred from the… Read the rest of the article: Inside the brutal world of Reddit's unbroken bone community

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  • Grant St. Clair
    8:53 am Mon, Aug 4, 2025
    Cursed Switch 2 accessory lets you eat fries while you game guys_who_shoot/shutterstock.com

    Do you like your new and expensive Nintendo Switch 2, but wish it was just a little more covered in oil and salt and generally more unpleasant to use? As… Read the rest of the article: Cursed Switch 2 accessory lets you eat fries while you game

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  • Grant St. Clair
    8:41 am Mon, Aug 4, 2025
    Nintendo's pricing strategy puzzles fans as old Switch nears Switch 2 cost Switch 2 (Nintendo)

    The Switch 2 is already the status symbol of the summer thanks to its much-maligned price, but Nintendo evidently isn't quite satisfied yet. Their hardware has already seen one price… Read the rest of the article: Nintendo's pricing strategy puzzles fans as old Switch nears Switch 2 cost

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  • Grant St. Clair
    2:35 pm Sat, Aug 2, 2025
    Feeling lonely in Hyrule? Fan-made mod adds co-op to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom A screenshot from Breath of the Wild

    Sure, a big part of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom's appeal is the sense of quiet loneliness. You're tossed into this ravaged world overtaken by nature… Read the rest of the article: Feeling lonely in Hyrule? Fan-made mod adds co-op to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

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  • Grant St. Clair
    2:31 pm Sat, Aug 2, 2025
    What being online is like now Phonlamai Photo/shutterstock.com

    I hate the ongoing, AI-powered enshittification of the Internet so much. Privacy is on the way out, and freedom of expression isn't too far behind it. Any kind of tech… Read the rest of the article: What being online is like now

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  • Grant St. Clair
    2:22 pm Sat, Aug 2, 2025
    The real, hilarious titles put on Japan's adult videos Handscroll of Ten Homoerotic (Nanshoku) Scenes by Miyagawa Chōshun, early 18th century

    In my quest to document every gimmick account on the Internet, I've rarely come across something as patently bizarre as JAV Titles. With Elon Musk's grand Twitter experiment collapsing into… Read the rest of the article: The real, hilarious titles put on Japan's adult videos

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  • Grant St. Clair
    9:35 am Fri, Aug 1, 2025
    New Katamari game rolls onto Switch 2 after 14-year mainline series hiatus Once upon a Katamari. Image via Namco

    No, the weird mobile games don't count. It's been fourteen years since we saw the last mainline Katamari Damacy game for Sony's ill-fated PlayStation Vita, but you can't keep the… Read the rest of the article: New Katamari game rolls onto Switch 2 after 14-year mainline series hiatus

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  • Grant St. Clair
    7:48 am Thu, Jul 31, 2025
    Fan destroys Switch 2 trying to recreate iconic Donkey Kong 64 yellow cartridge Switch 2 (Nintendo)

    In case you missed it, Donkey Kong Bananza has been out for a good bit. It's an absolutely excellent 3D platformer by every metric, feeling a lot like Nintendo's answer… Read the rest of the article: Fan destroys Switch 2 trying to recreate iconic Donkey Kong 64 yellow cartridge

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  • Grant St. Clair
    7:43 am Thu, Jul 31, 2025
    $55 for game dialogue: The Last of Us script book nobody asked for Pedro Pascal in

    Another week, another The Last of Us release. It truly boggles the mind just how many times Sony has returned to squeeze these two games for all they're worth, and… Read the rest of the article: $55 for game dialogue: The Last of Us script book nobody asked for

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  • Grant St. Clair
    7:26 am Thu, Jul 31, 2025
    Gaming industry's $80 pricing strategy faces first major setback anon_tae/shutterstock.com

    The Great Nintendo Price Hike (I leave it to future historians to come up with a better name for this significant and extremely bizarre gaming industry moment) evidently hasn't been… Read the rest of the article: Gaming industry's $80 pricing strategy faces first major setback

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  • Grant St. Clair
    8:04 am Wed, Jul 23, 2025
    Don't want your Switch 2 bricked? Move to Europe Switch 2 (Nintendo)

    Aside from the price, one of the major points of contention surrounding the Nintendo Switch 2 has been its potential to be remotely bricked, or rendered useless. Nintendo's EULAs have… Read the rest of the article: Don't want your Switch 2 bricked? Move to Europe

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  • Grant St. Clair
    8:00 am Wed, Jul 23, 2025
    Fans transform classic Fallout into first-person shooter you can actually play fallout 76 xbox

    To say Bethesda has been fumbling the bag a little when it comes to Fallout is a bit of an understatement. We're coming up on a full decade since the… Read the rest of the article: Fans transform classic Fallout into first-person shooter you can actually play

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  • Grant St. Clair
    7:57 am Wed, Jul 23, 2025
    Tyler, The Creator surprises fans with upbeat summer album "Don't Tap The Glass" Tyler, the Creator (Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com)

    You can say a lot about rapper-singer-producer-fashion designer-truly ridiculous multi-hyphenate Tyler, The Creator, but he's certainly not predictable. He may still be on his tour to promote last year's Chromakopia,… Read the rest of the article: Tyler, The Creator surprises fans with upbeat summer album "Don't Tap The Glass"

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  • Grant St. Clair
    2:00 pm Mon, Jul 21, 2025
    The weirdly fascinating truth about Night City's water system in Cyberpunk 2077 Idris Elba in Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty DLC

    Another day, another question no one has ever asked being solved. Granted, however, in a city as real-feeling as Cyberpunk 2077's Night City, it should be expected that someone would… Read the rest of the article: The weirdly fascinating truth about Night City's water system in Cyberpunk 2077

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  • Grant St. Clair
    1:00 pm Mon, Jul 21, 2025
    Mortal Kombat 2 throws away the rulebook — and fans are loving it Mortal Kombat promo pic

    2021's Mortal Kombat movie wasn't bad, per se, but it was painfully generic and didn't come close to the (likely unintentional, but still present) campy goodness of the original. "YOUR… Read the rest of the article: Mortal Kombat 2 throws away the rulebook — and fans are loving it

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  • Grant St. Clair
    11:00 am Mon, Jul 21, 2025
    Netflix promises "sex, greed and vengeance" in new Assassin's Creed series

    The Assassin's Creed movie with Michael Fassbender might have been aggressively mid, as the kids say, but at least that was in keeping with the reputation the games have garnered… Read the rest of the article: Netflix promises "sex, greed and vengeance" in new Assassin's Creed series

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  • Grant St. Clair
    9:29 am Thu, Jul 10, 2025
    Sorry, but Ubisoft says you have to destroy your physical games

    Ah, Ubisoft. There's no better company to represent the soulless, cynical triple-A video game industry, although Xbox seems to be trying to take that crown as of late. In between… Read the rest of the article: Sorry, but Ubisoft says you have to destroy your physical games

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  • Grant St. Clair
    1:13 pm Wed, Jul 9, 2025
    What does Orc City have to do with Metal Gear Solid?

    The Orc city smoldered, burned down in the wake of battle. The ground soaked in a knuckle's depth of blood and ash. The savage cries of its defenders now silent… Read the rest of the article: What does Orc City have to do with Metal Gear Solid?

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  • Grant St. Clair
    11:49 am Wed, Jul 9, 2025
    Man orders time machine online, tries it out (video)

    Time travel, that greatest of humankind's ambitions. Who among us wouldn't like the chance to go back and right some wrongs, or otherwise make different choices? Sadly, at least for… Read the rest of the article: Man orders time machine online, tries it out (video)

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