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It seems like there are more upcoming Disco Elysium spiritual successors out there than there are words in Disco Elysium itself, to say nothing of what the soulless suits now running developer ZA/UM are doing to run the IP into the ground. -- Read ...

Remember when Google started as a helpful librarian then became a pushy salesperson? This scenario-- enshittification--is an example of how "all the internet platforms we rely on were turning into piles of shit," says Cory Doctorow, who coined the ...

Cartoonist Carl Barks's work on Donald Duck comic books for Western Publishing from the 1940s to 1960s is almost unanimously considered one of the best comic book runs in the medium's entire history. Fantagraphics Books has been compiling his ...

The Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries of English compete every year to find the most credible but sensational words to add. Oxford went with "brain rot" this year, and Cambridge is all on on just that: 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' are its ...

Last year I wrote about Joe Dever's Combat Heroes, the wild apogee of the 1980s gamebook boom. Whereas Choose Your Own Adventure offered branching paths and Fighting Fantasy introduced role-playing elements, Combat Heroes implemented grid-based free ...