For me, a fun Saturday includes an afternoon of miniature golf followed by hanging out in the adjacent arcade, where I can test my skills at the best ball-based game ever devised, skeeball. Thanks to the coronavirus, all of that’s off the table for the foreseeable future. Or is it? There’s not much I can …
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I continue to look for upsides to this pandemic nightmare. One: I get to spend plenty of quality time with my family. Two: Free stuff everywhere. You may have already seen my post on free entertainment to help you survive social distancing, as well as Dave Johnson’s mega-roundup of all the freebies you can get right now. But today I …
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Right now everyone’s focused on working from home, but let’s not forget playing at home. Maybe you’ve got a library of Steam games you haven’t touched in a while, or perhaps you want to enjoy the latest Epic freebies (which are going away tomorrow, March 26, FYI) to their fullest. Heck, maybe you’re ready to jump into PC gaming for the …
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I know, I know: Amazon tablets go on sale all the time. But right now I feel like we’re living in a more tablet-necessary moment, especially with kids nationwide home from school indefinitely. Maybe it’s opportunism on Amazon’s part, and maybe it’s just been a few weeks since the last sale. Either way, this is a great time to score …
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I love interesting clocks. Recently, for example, I repurposed an old Amazon Fire tablet as a full-time Literature Clock, and I couldn’t be happier with it. Needless to say, I’m all over this deal: For a limited time, and while supplies last, Amazon has the Sharper Image Light Up Electronic Word Clock for $20.99. That’s for the copper version; it’s …
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Odds are that your office desk has a few toys on it — you might have a Rubik’s Cube, an action figure or some sort of kinetic art. But they may not be right for idly fiddling with while you brainstorm, though, or for relieving stress by mashing stuff together. For that, you might want to check out some of …
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The questions came over Slack almost immediately. When you tell people you’re going to see a couple of hours of prerelease live gameplay from Baldur’s Gate 3, you quickly find out who the old-school fans of CRPGs (that’s computer roleplaying games for you Gen Zers) in the office are. To answer the most burning big-picture question, based on the first …
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Mitsuki took off running, two rooms east and then one room south. She blew by the alien mold growing across the remote offworld mining outpost, making it in great time to the experimental McGuffin, helpfully marked with a red X, down near the south airlock. But those three moves were her entire allotment of actions for this round. I, a …
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Game company Cards Against Humanity has reportedly closed a deal to acquire parody website ClickHole.com from G/O Media. Financial terms of the all-cash deal weren’t revealed, but BuzzFeed News reported that Cards Against Humanity intends to make the site’s employees its majority owners. The site was founded by The Onion in 2014 to parody sites such as Upworthy and BuzzFeed …
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Being naughty or nice apparently doesn’t have anything to do with how Amazon assembles its annual holiday toy guide. To be considered for a spot on the e-commerce giant’s gift guide, toymakers reportedly have to pay top dollar. Amazon sells Holiday Toy List sponsorships for upwards of $2 million, according to a report Thursday from Bloomberg. The more the companies …
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