Stargrace says old-expansion WoW flipping still brings in a tidy million or two weekly, mostly from pets, transmog, recipes, and collectibles.
Kimimi mines old Edge collections to show how period reviews of Doom, Mario 64, and more reveal what games once felt fresh or already tired.
Shintar reacts sadly as Turtle WoW confirms a May 14 shutdown after Blizzard’s lawsuit finally catches up with the long-running private server.
Belghast and crew mark podcast and blog anniversaries with chatter about Horsey Game, Peglin Act 4, Last Epoch, House of Hikmah, and Path of Exile.
Wilhelm tracks another Fantasy Critic shakeup as Pokemon Champions wobbles, Replaced lands okay, and fresh review scores reshuffle the leaderboard.
Tobold says Windrose’s pivot from live-service PvP to co-op pirate survival paid off, calling it basically pirate Valheim and miles better than Skull & Bones.
Thomas finds leaked-and-restored WarCraft Adventures playable and interesting, but its Thrall story gets kneecapped by wild tonal swings into LucasArts-style goofiness.
Jamie Zawinski notes Colombia is moving to euthanize 80 invasive “cocaine hippos” after relocation and sterilization efforts went nowhere.
Warner rounds up a chilly-Sunday reading list on theater closures, the Kennedy Center mess, Madison Square Garden surveillance, and AI’s hype problem.
Dave Winer riffs on Claude-assisted coding, RSS needing stewardship, and why “Really Simple Licensing” misses the point compared with Really Simple Syndication.
Brennan makes the case for daily writing as a compulsive way to think and process, even if daily publishing is probably terrible for metrics.
Tofutush fondly unpacks an old Homestuck-flavored paracosm full of stick people, Lightningtail variants, and very earnest neon-animal worldbuilding.