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6 articles
· 5 min read
Clair Obscur paints the finest RPG
A friend wanted RPG tips, and I circled back to the game that stuck with me most, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, whose eight-hour soundtrack I keep on loop.
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Xbox cuts jobs, the Fed hires its CEO to study jobs
Xbox is cutting 3,200 jobs the same week its CEO joined a Federal Reserve task force on productivity and employment. You can't make this stuff up.
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SGDQ 2026, my speedrunning World Cup
Summer Games Done Quick 2026 just wrapped up in Minneapolis, so let me explain why speedrunning impresses me more than the World Cup ever will.
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MapTap, guessing the world one tap at a time
MapTap is a daily geography game where you tap five places on a globe, and every answer comes with a short history lesson that actually sticks.
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Guild Wars 3, the MMORPG I won't have time to love
ArenaNet announced Guild Wars 3 at Summer Game Fest, and the MMORPG veteran dozing inside me snapped awake, dragging twenty-five years of memories with him.
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Alba, my daughter, and one controller for four hands
Why Alba: A Wildlife Adventure is the perfect game to share with a four-year-old: an open world with no enemies, wildlife to photograph, and no lecture.