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Southern California Police Are Trying to Work Out if Multiple Burglaries Involving Trading Card Businesses Are Linked

January 8, 2026
Southern California police are investigating a wave of similar burglaries involving trading card businesses in a bid to establish whether they are linked. Thieves made off with thousands of dollars’ worth of trading cards over the weekend, targeting a trading card store in Simi Valley, California, in the early hours of Sunday morning, January 4. As reported by KTLA, the thieves targeted rare…
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Banana Castles, Frog Island, and Skinballs: Here Are Some of the Wacky Things Devs Do to Test Video Games

January 7, 2026
Last year, I had the great pleasure of attending the Games Industry Conference (GIC) in Poznań, Wielkopolska, where I sat in on a number of talks about game development and craft. In one of those talks, given by Petr Nohejl, devops programmer for Warhorse Studios, I heard a fascinating anecdote that got me thinking about the silliness of video games, and the lengths testers go to in order to…
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'The Biggest Discovery in Red Dead Redemption 2 in Years' — Rockstar Fans Uncover Spiderweb Mystery Unnoticed Since Release, and Now the Hunt Is on for Answers

January 6, 2026
Red Dead Redemption 2 fans are searching for answers to a newly-discovered mystery that’s been hidden within Rockstar’s cowboy sequel since its original release. After more than seven years, a group of Red Dead aficianados recently realized they’d stumbled on something no one had reported previously — a series of mysterious spiderwebs that began spawning on eight telegraph…
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Code Vein 2: The Final Preview

January 6, 2026
“Anime Souls” is a term often used to describe the original Code Vein. And while that is a very simple but fair descriptor – it is after all one of the very few soulslike games with an undeniably anime aesthetic – it also doesn’t really describe what was actually…
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Fan Wins Ridiculous 8-Hour Boss Battle With 10,545 Successful Parries and No Dodges

January 5, 2026
Eight hours and more than 10,000 parries later, a Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 superfan is being praised for beating one of the game’s toughest bosses in frankly ridiculous conditions. Underpowered but undeterred, Reddit user Recordbreaks has posted a screenshot showing that they beat the super strong Duollistes boss after managing 10,545 successful parries — which feels like more than…
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