Gaming
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20 Years Later, StarCraft’s Story Is Still An Engrossing Take On Space Opera
StarCraft was unveiled to the world 20 years ago, and in the time since it’s become a legendary fixture of the competitive gaming scene. Which makes it easy to forget that it’s also a fantastic space opera.
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Finally, An Apocalyptic Wasteland Where People Aren’t Arseholes To Each Other
From Mad Max to The Walking Dead, we live in a world teeming with apocalyptic fiction. Typically, they’re stories which posit that humans will turn to their darkest impulses and screw over anyone and everyone for their own survival, or even out of pure selfishness. A new video game called Pyre is about the exact…
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Man Stabbed Seven Times Over Magic: The Gathering Argument
A 31-year-old man has been charged with stabbing another guy seven times — and hitting him with a mallet — after an argument broke out during a game of Magic: The Gathering.
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Soldering Iron Tetris Punishes You By Getting Hotter Every Time You Lose
In terms of computational requirements, Tetris has to be one of the least demanding games ever made. So much so, it’s turned up on everything from calculators to business cards. And now you can play it on a soldering iron, one that’ll burn you for sucking too much.