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Book Review: Killing Commendatore By Haruki Murakami
I need to say something about loyalty before I say anything about this book.
From Barrel Rolls to Chicken Legs: Nintendo Completely Botched Star Fox
What we witness today in the shimmering trailer of Nintendo’s Star Fox for the Switch 2 is far more than updated pixels. What we have here is a small but piercing cry from the soul of our age, which joins the deluge of other piercing cries. This is an age in which the accountants have seized the scepter and the artists have been sent into exile. The fox…
Ryan Cohen Is Trying to Buy eBay With GameStop
On May 3, 2026, Ryan Cohen sent a letter to eBay’s board chairman. The letter was also filed with the SEC.
Tor Books Built the Foundation of American Science Fiction. Now It’s Launching Romantasy Imprints.
Tor Books was founded in 1980 by Tom Doherty to publish science fiction and fantasy for readers who wanted the real thing. In its first two decades it published Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time, Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth, and Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun. It was the house that took the genre seriously as literature, paid serious advances for serious work, and built the careers of the writers who defined modern SFF.
The $900 Fake Magic Card: How a Facebook Marketplace Scam Exposed a Vulnerability Every Collector Faces
Bill Fridge, a Magic: The Gathering content creator and streamer, went live recently to walk his audience through one of the more painful collector stories in the MTG community — a near-perfect counterfeit card purchased for $900 from Facebook Marketplace that hit every failure point in the peer-to-peer collectibles market at once.
Gaming Journalists Are Trying to Kill Lords of the Fallen 2 Before It Launches. The Developer Isn’t Backing Down.
CI Games CEO Marek Tyminski revealed five female armor sets for Lords of the Fallen 2 this week, designed in collaboration with content creator TheBackgroundNPC. The announcement framing was direct: “You wanted fierce. You wanted beautiful. You wanted provocative. Behold.” He followed it with a second post: “You asked, we delivered. Btw we really love that direction too.”
Games Workshop’s Female Custodes Are Sitting on Shelves and the Store Data Shows Why
Games Workshop retconned forty years of Warhammer 40K lore to introduce female Custodians. The retail numbers suggest the audience didn’t follow.