video games
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Wordle’s New Owner Is Banning ‘Offensive’ Guesses
Internet language sensation Wordle is now owned by The New York Times and housed firmly on the Grey Lady’s servers. That’s meant a rickety migration for some players, but also changes to the game itself. Words like “sluts” have recently been banned from being used as guesses, and the paper of record has confirmed it…
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Siberian Teen Sentenced to Prison for Plotting to Blow Up Minecraft Version of FSB Building
Being sentenced to prison for playing a video game sounds pretty rough, but apparently it can happen to you if you’re a kid in Russia.
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Pokémon Legends Arceus Is Evolving My Relationship with the Pokémon World
For nearly 26 years, Pokémon games have been predicated on a singular, combative formula: catch Pokémon, train them, fight them, collect badges, be the very best Pokémon trainer there ever was. You can do all that in Pokémon Legends Arceus, but it’s not really the focus. Instead, it asks you to reconsider how you actually…
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The Best Switch Games To Play On a Flight
When the Nintendo Switch launched in 2017, it promised to marry console-quality games with the convenient portability of a handheld device. For the most part, that promise has borne out, changing how we play games in ways both big and small. It’s certainly made air travel less tedious.