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I am one of those people who feels like crying when the rules of a board game are explained to me, so card games are generally not my thing. In real life poker, I inevitably get bored after a few rounds, go all in, and crash out spectacularly, just so something will happen. But real life poker is not Balatro. Balatro might be the best card game you will ever come across. I specifically left my Steam Deck at home this morning so that I would not sit at my desk playing Balatro instead of doing all the other, less fun things…

Taylor Swift braved a bit of rain, waited out a little lightning, and brought out Sabrina Carpenter for a special surprise song mash-up during night one of her Eras Tour run in Sydney, Australia.  Because of the weather delay, Carpenter was forced to forfeit her opening set to make up for lost time. As a consolation, Swift welcomed her on stage during the surprise song portion of the setlist, where they started with a duet of Swift’s early hit “White Horse” before deftly weaving it together with the Evermore…

Private Division Of the three games available for no additional cost with a PlayStation Plus Essential subscription this February, the best game isn’t the highest-profile one. A lot of attention is going to Foamstars, the odd multiplayer game Square Enix launched free on PS Plus, but the real gem of February 2024’s PS Plus Essential lineup is Rollerdrome from Roll7 and Private Division. First released for PS5 and PC in August 2022, I previously described this game as Max Payne meets Skate. Essentially, Rollerdrome is…

Typically a 2-in-1 is something that can transform into multiple modes (e.g., a notebook that converts to tablet or vice versa). But with the ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 hybrid, Lenovo smashed two gadgets together to create one of the funkiest and most interesting laptops we've seen here at CES 2024 in Las Vegas.At first glance, the ThinkBook Plus looks like an ordinary clamshell. However, if you pull up on the display, it lifts right off and becomes a 14-inch tablet while the bottom contains everything needed to power a…

What better way to start the new year with what will surely be remembered as one of its worst films. This mashup of magical realism, gratuitous violence and sentimentality is an atrocity in filmic form. It’s only a bit offensive for its appropriation of the Holocaust as a dramatic engine. What really stirs revulsion is the film’s smug delusions of quality, a self-belief so strong that it has the gall to take two hours and 21 minutes to unfurl itself to the end. Everyone who whined about Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the…

While their similar power levels might be the biggest impetus for fans' desire to see Superman and Goku go head-to-head, it's not the only one. Another reason folks have yearned to see the pair of heroes battle for years is their wholesome natures. Both of them are do-gooders with optimistic outlooks on life and strong desires to do right by those they care about. Thus, their hypothetical fight wouldn't be rooted in anger or bad blood. Rather, it would be anchored by a mutual love for friendly competition.…

Many dream of hitting it big on the internet, but few actualize it.Some plan for it, eschewing college for an incubator house with a gaggle of other influencer hopefuls diligently collabing day and night. Others capture lightning in a bottle, uploading a raw and random moment of absurdity, emotion, or humor and watching it repost like wildfire.Then, there are the digital artists—folks intentionally baring their creative soul for the comment section to celebrate, jeer, or leave intentionally blank.Ethan Tran, the…

An invention which wreaks unspeakable suffering vs an invention upon which unspeakable suffering has been wrought by children the world over. A theoretical physicist gazing into a burnt-orange mushroom cloud spelling the dead-end for humankind vs a dress-up doll whose bubble-gum cotton-candy fantasy is disrupted by thoughts about the human (and female) condition. Cillian Murphy’s sharp jawline and shellshocked eyes vs Margot Robbie’s megawatt smile and wavy blonde hair. Welcome to Barbenheimer. The same-day release of…

Image: ParamountThe heroes in a half shell of the TMNT are used to a life underground—but what if they could perchance to dream of a world up above? Where life was in plastic, and therefore fantastic?Turtle Power with Melissa Navia | First FandomsIf you thought it was only other movies coming out the same day as Barbie tomorrow that were getting in on the crossover portmanteau hype—shout out to my movie marathon of choice this weekend, Shin Barben Rider—you’d be mistaken, because today Paramount released a very cute,…

It’s no secret that many of us at iMore have been spending our lunch breaks and evenings playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and there have been no regrets. But that’s not stopped us from wondering how to use the game’s powerups in real life.From using the Ultrahand ability to pick up our cars to park them with ease, to using Recall for our pets when they misbehave and dive into a pond with the ducks.The game has made us wonder what devices we would want to fuse with the ones we use daily. It could be an…