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Memes. These days, they’re everywhere. They are the pillars upon which internet culture—and by extension, pop…

Once upon a time, Shigeru Miyamoto famously said, “A delayed game is eventually good. A bad game is bad forever.”…

There are snacks, and then there are snacks for gamers. Through chalky chemical combinations of dubious repute, they…

Video games are expensive. They have been expensive for a very long time, and they keep getting more expensive. To…

Somehow, horrifyingly, it has been nearly a full year since most of us went into lockdown to wait out covid-19. And…

Survival is a term you hear a lot in video games, but what does it actually mean? For some, it’s all about crafting…

Somehow, miraculously, video game movies and TV shows are suddenly good. The Witcher is fun, Sonic inhaled box…

In real life, if you encounter a large being hell-bent on beating the crap out of you, you call them “an asshole” or…

It’s February, and love is in the air. But so are airborne particles that transmit a global pandemic, so real-world…

GameStop is dead, long live GameStop. The embattled chain might be improbably back in the headlines, but that…

History is the study of literally everything that has ever happened, and by that measure, it is objectively the most…

This week, America had a normal one. Nothing major or out of the ordinary happened, and no disgraced proto-fascist…

For the most part, the internet is a screaming void where nobody can agree on anything—not even what to scream…

A new year is here, and surprise! It’s already extremely bad—just like the last one. But maybe better things lie…

In games as in life, slipping and sliding on ice patches while torrents of snow transform your eyelashes into…

‘Tis the season to feel mildly embittered at basically all times. I speak, of course, of awards season, during which…

Cyberpunk 2077 has dicks. Cyberpunk 2077 has vagina (singular). Already, you might be getting the impression that…

In less than one week, everybody in cyberpunk future year 2020 will be playing Cyberpunk 2077. Or at least, that’s…

It’s the day after Thanksgiving. Your gut is heavy with leftovers, your vision blurs from the accumulated eye crust…

Change is inevitable. It happens every day, bit by bit, to everything in existence—except, for a time, video games.…