Last December, Chinese-based publisher NetEase Games released Marvel Rivals, a multiplayer shooter featuring a huge roster of iconic (and some lesser-known) heroes from the comic monolith. Brilliantly, Rivals’ gameplay mimics a once-dominant, now-struggling hero shooter known as Overwatch, and the Marvel multiplayer game immediately shot to the top of Steam …
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Despite his allegiance to the conspiracist far-right and a McDonald’s visit with anti-vax health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., it seems that Elon Musk draws the line at claiming that vaccines are totally ineffective and potentially dangerous. Earlier this week, Musk’s podcaster pal Joe Rogan hosted Dr. Suzanne Humphries, a …
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K areem Rahma has a funny saying right now. Unlike the average commuter, Rahma steps onto the subway with at least two camera people when he films his hit interview series Subway Takes. So people are usually surprised to see Rahma capturing footage on the side, sometimes of a guest, …
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In a video viewed over 2.8 million times, Mitch and Jack play a game. The rules are simple: They bring up a topic and then either respond affirmatively by saying “That’s what’s up” or negatively, by saying “What’s up with that?” On the list of things that are given the …
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My dad loved football, and my mom boxing. I enjoyed neither, preferring a life devoted to X-Men comic books and Little Debbie snack cakes. But she convinced me to watch a match: Buster Douglas’ underdog surprise knockout of undefeated heavyweight champ Mike Tyson in 1990. I was right-hooked. She was …
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Anyone who works in the video game industry is familiar with the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, California. Held in the Moscone Center every year since 2004 (and in San Jose before that), GDC, as it’s commonly known, brings thousands of game developers, community managers, marketing mavens, voice …
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Top intelligence officials and Republicans are trying and failing to downplay the revelation that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President J.D. Vance, and others discussed secret plans to bomb Houthi militants in Yemen in an unsecured Signal chat group that featured Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief ofThe Atlantic, because someone on …
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Neople’s Dungeon and Fighter (or Dungeon Fighter Online, as it’s known in the US) series isn’t exactly a household name; but the Korean MMO brawler has been running for 20 years and is one of the highest-grossing media franchises ever made (we’re talking more than Looney Tunes, TMNT, and The …
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It’s been 14 years since Amanda Knox was released from an Italian prison, but rarely in that time has she truly felt free. The 37-year-old exoneree and activist might be lawfully permitted to move about in her daily life, which currently comprises work as a journalist, public speaker, and podcaster, …
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Kaitlyn ‘Amouranth’ Siragusa had multiple blows to the head and a gun pointed at her face, but she had to put on a performance, and she knew it needed to be convincing. It was late at night on March 2. Three intruders had broken into her home in Houston, Texas …
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