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Tombwater is a 2D Soulslike Bloodborne fans won’t want to miss

Bloodborne fans starved for more cosmic horror and bloody bosses will want to the check out Tombwater, a 2D Zeldalike inspired by FromSoftware's hit.

How Iran out-shitposted the White House

In the early days of the war on Iran, while the White House was busy posting Call of Duty memes and AI slop of dancing bowling pins, the Iranian regime's state media was flooding the zone with video after video of what was happening on the ground: Explosions over Tehran. Smoke billowing in the sky. […]

Demons and pinball are a perfect match

There's one very specific reason I keep a Wii U handy, and that's so that I have an easy way to play the classic pinball game Devil's Crush. Over the years, it has become a comfort game for me. I'm not entirely sure what it is, but there's something about the combination of familiar pinball […]

Stranger Things' Gaten Matarazzo opens up about social challenges as a non-gaming kid

The Pizza Movie and Animal Farm star loves video games, but he had to dream of Call of Duty as a kid.

What does American politics look like beyond Trump?

The only people with worse poll numbers than President Donald Trump are the political media that cover him. We, the journalists, are in a crisis: of trust, relevance, and being swamped by an attention economy that will either replace us with Claude or an influencer. The skills of traditional reporting: storytelling, man-on-the-street interviews, even the […]