There’s a turn-based tactics game about the eternal war between tea and coffee, and you can get it for free: ‘We’ve made enough money from the game’

The idea is cute—there are 12 Tea Princesses who, despite their differences, must band together to protect their realms from an invasion by the Coffee Empire. The execution is surprisingly strategic, with more than 40 Tea Minions who can be brewed by mixing ingredients, each with different stats. “Units brewed with raspberries tend to trigger…

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The Fallout series finally let us meet a character who’s been part of the lore for more than 25 years

Note: Major spoilers for Fallout Season 2 Episode 7! Back before Fallout Season 2 began, I plugged my brain into a bunch of computers—Mr. House-style—so I could calculate the odds of certain characters from the Fallout universe appearing in the show. Unlike Mr. House, I’m not particularly good at predicting the future, though I’m still…

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The Fallout series finally let us meet a character who’s been part of the lore for more than 25 years

Note: Major spoilers for Fallout Season 2 Episode 7! Back before Fallout Season 2 began, I plugged my brain into a bunch of computers—Mr. House-style—so I could calculate the odds of certain characters from the Fallout universe appearing in the show. Unlike Mr. House, I’m not particularly good at predicting the future, though I’m still…

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Bloober Team updated its strange countdown page, and fans of a controversial cult-classic horror game from 20 years ago are getting their hopes up for a big surprise

Remember that Bloober Team countdown with the bizarre URL that kicked off at the end of 2025? It grew a little more elaborate today, with additional images and spooky vocalizing, and some old-time horror fans are hoping the studio is teasing a very unexpected remake of the controversial 2006 PlayStation 2 horror game Rule of…

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After playing Deadlock’s new ‘Oops, All Teamfights’ mode, Highguard’s kitchen-sink ruleset feels overwrought

I like the horse in Highguard. The biggest thrills you can find in that game are on horseback—galloping across plains, jumping off slopes, and blasting foes off their own horses as you circle each other like sharks. That only happens incidentally, though. At its heart, Highguard is a game about farming Vesper (money but blue)…

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The Linux community now has a succession plan for when Linus Torvalds checks out, after an apparently uplifting discussion about ‘our eventual march toward death’

The Linux Foundation now has a succession plan for the day when Linux creator and main man Linus Torvalds either retires, or is no longer with us. The initiative came out of the Maintainers Summit held in December 2025, which ended with a session on continuity planning. One thing I’ll say about Linux people: they…

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