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"Git gud" has been the pushback against gamers complaining about difficulty since the release of the first Dark Souls, but it shoves aside a very real conversation about accessibility in games and how difficulty factors into that. Hollow Knight:

As I watch the current "leaders" of our public health systems gleefully spreading disinformation and dismantling our once premier public health institutions, I am definitely a part of the growing cadre of educators, scientists, activists, and other ...

The Octopus Useless Box might be the cutest pointless gadget ever made. To open it, just press one of the five levers. When the lid pops up, a very grumpy octopus appears and uses one of its arms to push a random lever, promptly closing the box again ...

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Since the days of the Wii (and even the Nintendo 64 if you count Animal Crossing's built-in NES games), Nintendo has offered official emulators on its consoles, allowing users to explore the company's significant back catalog for a price. The ...

Recently, Gorillaz put on a few special shows at House of Kong, the physical art exhibition the band has set up to celebrate 25 years of music (including the 7-year hiatus right in the middle, apparently). The first three sets were crowd-pleasers,

Two days ago, a new Banksy work appeared on London's Royal Courts of Justice. Though the mysterious street artist's work is customarily tolerated by authorities, not least for its high value at auction, this one was immediately hidden from view: it ...

Elisabet Lann, newly-appointed as Sweden's health minister, collapsed Tuesday at her introductory press conference. Security personnel and other officials rushed to help her up; unconscious for several moments, she regained her composure and later ...

In an age of blocky pixels, vectorbeam monitors offered sharp arcade action in games such as Asteroids, Tempest and Star Wars. The Vectrex game console brought the technology home, but the system's high price and thin selection of titles made for a ...

The iPod and its innovative clickwheel are history, and with it in the dustbin went dozens of downloadable games that Apple briefly made available in the 2000s. Thanks to the company's DRM system, the age of the hardware and sheer rarity of some ...