**osu! Game Today: Why the Rhythm Game is Still Hitting All the Right Notes Globally** Alright, listen up, folks! There’s a rhythm game that’s been quietly tapping away in the background of internet culture, and it’s suddenly burst into the mainstream like a perfectly timed beatmap. We’re talking about **osu!**, the free-to-play rhythm game that’s…
**Elden Ring Tarnished Edition: Why the Internet is Losing Its Mind (Again)** Buckle up, dear Tarnished, because the internet is once again ablaze with the fiery passion of Elden Ring mania. From memes to mind-blowing speedruns, the global phenomenon that is Elden Ring has taken the world by storm, and it’s not just because of…
**Genshin Impact’s Maintenance Meltdown: When the World Stops Spinning** In the vast, vibrant world of Teyvat, adventures are aplenty, but lately, so are maintenance notifications. If you’ve been anywhere near the internet recently, you’ve probably stumbled upon the global phenomenon that is “genshin maintenance.” But why is this gaming equivalent of a “be right back”…
**Ninja Gaiden 4: Why the World is Losing Its Mind Over This Hack-and-Slash Sensation** Alright, internet denizens, buckle up! We’re diving headfirst into the whirlwind that is *Ninja Gaiden 4*, the latest installment in Team Ninja’s blood-soaked, adrenaline-fueled franchise. This game has taken the global stage by storm, and we’re here to dissect why it’s…
Electronic Arts: The Global Circus That Fits in Your Pocket By “Roaming” Rodrigo Valdez, filing from a hotel whose Wi-Fi is less reliable than a Russian peace treaty There’s a moment—usually around 3:14 a.m. local time—when the entire planet pauses to watch a South Korean teenager destroy a Swede in a game neither of them…
In the grand, borderless theater of late-stage capitalism, the Xbox Ally X has arrived like a well-timed punchline—delivered in Dolby Atmos, naturally. Microsoft’s newest handheld PC—sorry, “portable gaming companion”—landed last week with all the subtlety of a drone strike in a suburban cul-de-sac. From the neon canyons of Akihabara to the smog-softened skyline of São…
Borderlands 4 Patch Notes: The Only Border the Planet Still Agrees to Patrol By our correspondent in Geneva, where even the Wi-Fi feels diplomatic GENEVA—While the world’s physical borders ossify into barbed-wire tantrums and visa regimes that read like dystopian haikus, humanity has quietly reached consensus on one frontier: the cartoon wastelands of Borderlands 4….
PlayStation Plus Games: The Monthly Care Package Keeping 48 Million People From Starting Actual Revolutions By Dmitri Valenti – Dave’s Locker, International Affairs & Digital Downtime GENEVA — Somewhere between the 3 a.m. UN Security Council livestream and the seventh cup of vending-machine espresso, I realized the most geopolitically stabilizing force of 2024 isn’t NATO,…
Deus Ex: Mankind Re-Divided – Why a PS5 Polish Job Feels Like Watching the World Burn in 4K Zurich – Somewhere between the 27th cryptocurrency crash and the 43rd UN climate summit that ended in a catered fondue deadlock, Square Enix decided what humanity really needed was shinier vents to crawl through. Thus the “Deus…
The planet woke up last Tuesday to the news that the Illuminati—sorry, Eidos-Montréal—has decided humanity is finally mature enough for another round of Deus Ex. “Deus Ex Remastered” is coming, a phrase that now circulates through Group DMs from Lagos to Lisbon like a highly contagious meme or a new variant of something we’d all…
October’s PlayStation Plus haul landed this week like a diplomatic communique nobody asked for: a game about death in feudal Japan, a game about death in neo-Tokyo, and a game about death in space, all delivered with the cheery subject line “Essential.” Somewhere in a glass tower in San Mateo, a product manager just got…
Tokyo Game Show 2025: Where the World Presses Start to Escape Itself By Our Correspondent Still Recovering from the After-Party Karaoke Tax The trains into Makuhari Messe ran on time, which should have been the first clue that reality had been patched overnight. By 9 a.m. on opening day, 300,000 pilgrims—developers, streamers, crypto refugees, and…
