American RuneScape players are recreating the Boston Tea Party after Jagex hiked taxes: ‘They took a page from the British Empire, rather poetic from a British game’

Old School RuneScape (OSRS) recently made a tweak to its economy, with developer Jagex announcing an increased Grand Exchange (GE) tax. The GE is RuneScape’s trading hub and Jagex acknowledges that “any update involving your hard-earned gold can be sensitive,” so the developer went into some detail on why it was making the change: the…

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Asus ROG Pelta review

My first thought when I saw the Asus ROG Pelta was, ‘Really, Asus went for that name?’ The second thought was ‘boy, these really feel like the Steelseries Arctis Nova 7‘. That second thought certainly isn’t a bad one. The Pelta has a notably soft and comfortable texture—one that doesn’t stand out in the looks…

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89-year-old Skyrim Grandma starts streaming Oblivion Remastered, has to deal with its mystifying lockpicking minigame and ‘absolutely ugly movement’ just like we did in 2006

Like a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis or Raichu emerging from Pikachu, Skyrim Grandma Shirley Curry has reached a new, impossibly powerful form. She has become Oblivion Grandma—Grandma Remastered, roaming the hills and dales of Cyrodiil with sprightly abandon. Curry, who was born in 1936, has been a stalwart of the Skyrim YouTube scene ever…

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Someone’s already completed a solo Elden Ring Nightreign run at level 1 and, as is tradition, the power of status effects pulled through

Elden Ring Nightreign is crushingly hard even with a couple of buddies to take on the Nightlords with—let alone solo. Having sunk almost two dozen hours into this misery simulator myself, the sheer cliff of difficulty you run into as a lone rider—with no mates around to revive you—is a challenge in itself. So, naturally,…

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