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USB dock reads Super Nintendo cartridges

A simple idea, handsomely done: Epilogue’s SN Operator, a USB dock that accepts Super Nintendo carts.

3 hrs ago • Rob Beschizza

Trailer for Stranger Things’ final episode

After 5 seasons and about 50 hours of television, Stranger Things ends this week.

4 hrs ago • Rob Beschizza

Farting sloth proves scientists wrong

It turns out that sloths do fart after all.

5 hrs ago • Gail P Sherman

Cindy the Baboon dies at age 31

I have the saddest news to share.

5 hrs ago • Jennifer Sandlin

Atari unveils gaming hotel in Phoenix that sounds like hell on earth

How often do you hear the name Atari in the news nowadays?

5 hrs ago • Grant St. Clair

Tanning beds are worse for you than you think

Everyone has that one friend who spends more time in tanning salons than they do sucking the marrow out of their work week lunch hours.

5 hrs ago • Séamus Bellamy

Grandpa Pudding Brains taking credit for the English language

The Orange Menace declared that he may have invented the word “caravan,” a claim so historically illiterate it threatens the entire concept of language…

5 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

Kennedy Center’s name change costs it New Year’s shows and credibility

When you turn a memorial into a gross monument, don’t be surprised when artists walk away.

6 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

Star Wars Outlaws is fun, actually, and really cheap right now

Star Wars Outlaws had a rough start, but for 20 bucks, it’s a no-brainer.

6 hrs ago • Gail P Sherman

Cops blow up an innocent bystander’s business, and the courts shrug

Never ones to miss an opportunity for an excessive demonstration of force, the LAPD destroyed a business and failed to get their man.

6 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

Raw oysters linked to Salmonella outbreak across the United States

I took a risk and ate some raw oysters the week before Christmas, when I was visiting New Orleans.

6 hrs ago • Jennifer Sandlin

Star Citizen approaches billion-dollar crowdfunding mark, still no release date

Sprawling massively-multiplayer space RPG Star Citizen is either the most lucrative scam in gaming or a project with infinite potential, according to…

6 hrs ago • Grant St. Clair

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