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The Verge reports that the Nintendo Switch is the best-selling gaming console from Nintendo, with its 155-million units sold being enough to blast past the Nintendo DS. The Switch is in the number-two slot overall, behind the PlayStation 2 (since everyone knows that the future from now on is being...

I'm not going to bury the lede here: The in-the-moment crowdfunding campaign of Munchkin Second Edition is ending soon on BackerKit. It's currently scheduled to wrap up sometime on Wednesday, but I believe BackerKit has a special process – the Backer Train – where the campaign keeps on going so...

I recently found "Fighting Fire with Fire" to be an interesting read - it's tempting to push our workloads onto the various powerful and easily accessible AI chatbots out there, especially for students. What's a teacher to do? Build a digital Symposium, that's what.    The article gives quite a...

Here's a life hack I've used for a few years, and especially ramped up in the past couple of months since more of my gear has upgraded to USB-C: magnetic USB dongles. If you've ever messed with old-school MagSafe connectors on Apple laptops, the concept is familiar. The magnetic-dongles kit consists...

I'm not sure if you all will find this as amusing as I do, but check out the first 70 seconds or so of the Wikipedia file Alcohol prohibtion US since 1880.webm, with the sound on. I haven't stopped thinking about it since I saw it, and am inspired to...

I just realized that February is the 10th anniversary of one of the mundanely quirkier items we've offered at Steve Jackson Games: Munchkin Sketch Edition. For those who aren't familiar, the Sketch Edition is mechanically all the cards from the beloved core Munchkin experience (First Edition, of course – the...

For those who want inspiration for a mystery or other gaming mayhem – or just want to see something really flipping adorable – I present . . . a YouTube short of a cockatoo taking control of a home's voice-activated system. -- Steven Marsh

I adore "useless" tech ideas . . . so my day was made when I stumbled across an amazingly impractical device. Behold, courtesy of the Adafruit blog: the magnetic-core-memory USB drive! For those unaware, magnetic-core memory was old-school, hard-wired memory, storing individual 0/1 bits in an intricate array of cores....