Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (9th November)
09 Nov
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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (9th November)

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Top Stories Tamfitronics Image: NintendoAnother week with a sliver of official 'Switch 2' news? Gosh, Nintendo, you really do know how to spoil us!Yes, accompanying Nintendo's quarterly financial report this week, company president Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed that the Switch successor will be backwards compatible and the Nintendo Switch Online service will carry over too. It ain't much, but it's something.The financials themselves were expectedly mehwith Nintendo lowering its sales forecast as it reconfirmed its upcoming slate. The week also brought some brightness, mind you. Stardew Valley's long-awaited 1.6 update finally arrived on Switch (and we had a chat with its creator, Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone), Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket celebrated 30 million global downloads and we took a peek at a gorgeous (but expensive) Castlevania LP collection.It was also time for a new Nintendo release....
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Talking “Cohesion” With Astra Taylor and Leah-Hunt Hendrix
24 Apr
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Talking “Cohesion” With Astra Taylor and Leah-Hunt Hendrix

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Politics tamfitronics Q&A / April 23, 2024A conversation with the activists and writers about their wide-ranging historical previous of the politics of the well-liked appropriate and togetherness. (Astra Taylor photo by Nye Taylor; Leah Hunt-Hendrix photo by Emily Lambert)The conception of “harmony” has a rich intellectual historical previous that—outdoor of left-leaning circles—stays marginal to mainstream American cultural and political discourse. Right here's presumably due in section to the American liberal tradition’s emphasis on person rights, unlike the French historical tradition which may also just be traced succor to that country’s revolutionary emphasis on equality and fraternity. But when there was ever a time for an American viewers to turn out to be conversant in harmony’s deep historical previous, it may perhaps presumably well be now. A pandemic of loneliness, staggering inequality, forever...
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Talking Level: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (Twentieth April)
20 Apr
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Talking Level: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (Twentieth April)

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Top Stories Tamfitronics Image: Bethesda SoftworksThe weekend has rolled around once extra and we are desirous to play some games! Earlier than we enact that, on the other hand, let's rob an direct serve at the week factual gone.The sizable news this week used to be Nintendo's first Indie World of the yr which failed to elevate us that recreation but did provide plenty of sweets including Exiguous Kitty, Huge Metropolis, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate and SteamWorld Heist II. Nintendo also kicked off its Indie eshop Sale on the identical day — abnormal how that lined up, eh?On top of that, we received an different to sit down down down with The Guardian's Likewise MacDonald to discuss her upcoming Nintendo e book, checked out the recent Splatoon 3 update and pondered why Fallout...
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