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Here's how to tumble and re-use pinballs -- does it make sense?
Since our family purchased three new pinball machines in 2024 and we've played literally thousands of games on them so far, we're starting to amass a collection of used pinballs. Next thoughts were: what to do with all…
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Will Feature-itis or Hyper-Monetization Destroy Discord?
Despite the title, which implies this author dislikes Discord, quite the contrary. The sometimes awesome, mostly good gamer communication utility, ah yes, there is a lot to like about Discord, but some of the new…
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2024 Game Server Terminations Continue - Sony Shuts Down LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers, Killing years of Sharing Customer Creations
With gaming in 2024, we're increasingly being reminded -- as gamers -- that big studios only care for a limited amount of time how much we play their games. And, yes, they seem to care even less if we spend our precious…
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Under Elon Musk, Twitter/X Integration Not So Quietly Being Removed from Gaming Consoles
The Xbox was first, back in April 2023 to remove direct integration sharing with Twitter/X. Now comes news Sony is following suit with the Playstation, via Polygon - Sony to remove PlayStation’s Twitter integration on…
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Apple Arcade Adds New James Bond Game Cypher 007 September 29, 2023
Apple Arcade is one of the cloud gaming services I tried in 2022 that I really enjoyed. It promotes no microtransactions in any of their games (big props for that!), boasts several multiplayer online games, easy to get…
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Goodbye Jam.GG, AKA Piepacker Shared by PGM Member Meatball Saucey
A gaming service with potential has fallen, something we're never happy to report on. This past week, perhaps the worst named gaming service ever, Piepacker, which changed their name to the almost as bad Jam.gg,…
