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Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman
To justify Medicaid cuts, House Speaker Mike Johnson says the healthcare program leads to "able-bodied young men" playing videogames instead of working.
Balatro's publisher beat gold stakes and the Jokerless challenge so quickly it even surprised LocalThunk: 'How did you do this so fast?'
"I sent him the video of the score, going, like, screw you. Yeah, I got it!" said Playstack's Wout van Halderen.
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My biggest pleasant surprise of 2025 so far has been the free prequel to one of my favorite indie RPGs, made with FromSoft's 25-year-old game making toolset
It's maybe not the best introduction to Lunacid, but Tears of the Moon is already one of my top games of 2025.
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'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know
Our champion Steam spender has dropped a new car's worth of cash into Gabe's yacht fund.
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Former Concord dev says 'it was gut wrenching to see our project fail' but urges players not to judge Marathon too soon: 'To call this game a failure before it’s even out is wild to me'
The long-awaited reveal of Marathon over the weekend has drawn comparisons to the online service shooter which Sony shut down last October.
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The latest Stalker 2 roadmap includes modding improvements, more A-life updates, and letting mutants eat corpses
Pseudodog's gotta eat.
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Overwatch 2's Stadium mode gameplay trailer somehow looks even more chaotic with whole team nano boosts, multi orbs, and a mini B.O.B.
Small but mighty.
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Star Wars Zero Company, the XCOM-like tactics game being made by ex-Firaxis devs, will be revealed this weekend
Until then, here's a look at the crew.
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Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 release date and expected time
Counting down the hours until the new subclasses and photo mode.
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Disney Dreamlight Valley's Alice In Wonderland update is dropping next week, but I'm mostly excited about 'uncrafting' things
It's time to fall down the rabbit hole.
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How Bethesda turned the radioactive lemon that was Fallout 76 into endless lemonade: 'It taught me a lot, as pain does'
Almost hell, West Virginia.
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Don't delete that mysterious 'inetpub' Windows folder, says Microsoft, as it's supposedly important for system security
Now sit down and eat your dinner, and stop touching things.
![](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9RY8jtUSkxpLALyTo8mvDT.jpg "A computer keyboard "Delete" key.")
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If you thought USB naming was nonsense, allow this professional furry engineer to explain the total nightmare that is the underlying hardware complexity of USB-C
Oh, and it's all Apple's fault. Well, possibly...
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Warner Bros suits confirm A Minecraft Movie will be getting a sequel: 'The ink might not be dry… but imminently'
"It was a complete win for everyone involved."
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App promising a universal shopping experience automated with AI actually used a small army of human workers in the Philippines and Romania instead
The power of a button or in this instance, several hundred people pressing other buttons.
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These are my favorite earbuds for under $100 and they're now on sale for even cheaper
I've just spent a few weeks trying these out and I can't get enough.
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Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 8 is among its biggest, holding 48 pages (approx. 19,000-20,000 words) of patch notes in its vast and bountiful form
Goodbye, free time. I hardly knew ye.
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EarFun Air Pro 4 earbuds review
You can't have it all for under $100, but the Air Pro 4 earbuds show you can get quite close.
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'Delete all IP law' says Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey: 'Creativity is what currently separates us, and the current system is limiting that'
"I agree," notes Musk, kinda saying the quiet part out loud.
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'Trust continues to be tampered with': A thread about SBMM in the upcoming Battlefield game is the final straw as an EA community manager lets loose on leakers
"It's only official when we share it."
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The first leaked GPU specs for AMD's RX 9060 XT appear and it's pretty much an RX 9070 XT chopped in two
Named and specced to meet Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti head-on.
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User reports melted power cable on an RTX 5070 and now we're wondering if any RTX 50-series GPU is safe
That melted cable looks awfully familiar...
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Date Everything, the dating sim where your whole house becomes dateable, finally has a release date
Which object will you go for?
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'EA always preferred Mass Effect, straight up': Dragon Age creator reveals that his and Mass Effect's team 'didn't get along' at BioWare, as EA played favourites with its children
Two households, both alike in development (in fair BioWare, where we lay our scene).
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Best Schedule 1 barn setup and layout
Grow the barn into a massive, automated base of operations.
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I know tariff-related price increases are a thing right now but a $1,371 motherboard might be pushing it, even if it is 'Extreme'
A beast of a board, but holy moly that price.
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MSI will switch to AMD chips for its high-end Claw handheld PC if the rumour mill is to be believed
The current version uses an Intel Lunar Lake chip, which is potent but pricey.
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After 6 years of hype, can Hollow Knight: Silksong really live up to the sky-high expectations?
As the community grows increasingly rabid, I'm left wondering what players are actually expecting the game to be when it (hopefully) launches later this year.
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Trump administration exempts phones and most computing hardware from tariffs and then says they're not really exempt, just being lined up for a very special tariff 'bucket' of their own
This really isn't my kind of bucket list...
![](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/SCpNk6KARoGViPpak8gfNK.jpg "US President Donald Trump holds a chart as he delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025.")
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Silicon Valley crosswalks hacked to play satirical messages from Musk and Zuckerberg impersonators: 'It's normal to feel uncomfortable or even violated as we forcefully insert AI into every facet of your conscious experience'
"And I just want to assure you, you don't need to worry because there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop it."
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Marvel Rivals players have a new conspiracy theory: Magik and Psylocke's X-suits make their butts bigger
There's already precedent for this.
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Blue Prince was made possible by creator's Magic: The Gathering fan site: 'Now you know why I had to put up a lot of ads'
A pretty card puzzle.
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Microsoft tweaks Edge to give it "significant performance improvements" though you're only getting up to 9% more oomph
While Chrome be all "you're getting performance improvements?"
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According to David Fincher's new Xbox ad with an extremely late '90s/early 2000s vibe, you can escape capitalism by buying Xbox games
Do not underestimate the power of Xbox, I guess.
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Today's Wordle answer for Monday, April 14
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Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 14, 2025)
Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.
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Eli Roth on why the Borderlands movie sucked: 'You can’t prep a movie on that scale over Zoom'
You could probably pull together a better script, though.
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Data sleuth discovers that Sekiro's inexplicable, skyscraper-sized rope man who gives you a lift to Heaven might have once been a boss fight or level unto itself
One of those cuts that totally makes sense, but is still interesting to learn about.
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