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  • 38 Years Ago, Nintendo Changed Pop Culture Forever

    38 Years Ago, Nintendo Changed Pop Culture Forever

    Corey Plante

    At the start of the 1980s, video games were mostly relegated to coin-gobbling arcade machines, but their surging popularity prompted a Time Magazine cover story in January 1982 with a cringeworthy warning: “GRONK! FLASH! ZAP! Video Games are Blitzing the World!” If this sounds like Big Boomer Energy, that’s because Baby Boomers were between 20…

  • Gran Turismo 7 Is Now Sony’s Lowest-Rated Game On Metacritic

    Gran Turismo 7 Is Now Sony’s Lowest-Rated Game On Metacritic

    Sisi Jiang

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    Despite its high sales, Gran Turismo 7 is not having a good launch month. On Friday, developers Polyphony Digital took the game offline for almost two days of maintenance. This meant that even much of the game’s single player mode was also unplayable since that also requires an internet connection. Players are also upset about…