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2025 looks like a great year for Xbox
There’s a long-running joke in the Xbox community that Microsoft will finally hit its stride with Game Pass and Xbox releases “next year.” The joke has been going around since 2018, when Microsoft made a series of big studio acquisitions to create more Xbox games and make Game Pass more appealing. Year after year, Xbox…
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the only December release to chart | Circana
Video game hardware sales were down 25% year-over-year at the end of 2024, according to industry-tracking firm Circana. Video game content spending in general was up compared with the previous year, but hardware sales — along with almost all other sales, save for accessories — were down in December. Only one December game charted on…
OnePlus 13 review: A great option if you’re sick of the usual flagships
While there’s a robust global market of smartphone manufacturers, in the U.S., most people are probably rocking something made by Apple, Samsung, or Google. Those companies all make totally fine flagship phones, but if you want an alternative, OnePlus 13 might be the one for you. The latest handset from OnePlus is, if nothing else,…
Review: The Bose Smart Soundbar has a boring name and great sound
Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of ContentsBose Smart Soundbar review: How does it sound?This soundbar excels in every category save one — the vibesBose Smart Soundbar connectivity: The good and the badIs the Bose Smart Soundbar worth it?How We Tested Bose released its new smart soundbar, fittingly called the Bose Smart Soundbar, in September…
Indiana Jones and The Great Circle is the fourth movie we all wanted – Review
These days there are less and less things we can collectively agree upon, it seems. Even something simple like which way toilet paper should be placed on the holder seems to generate instant division. But surely the one thing we can all agree upon as a species is that there are three Indiana Jones movies,…
An academic Great Gatsby Curve – How much academic success is inherited?
To what extent does academic success follow success? Drawing on a dataset of mentor-mentee relations and their citations, Ye Sun, Fabio Caccioli, Xiancheng Li and Giacomo Livan suggest the dynamics of citation and wealth inequality are surprisingly similar. Rankings are ubiquitous: every week, lists of best-selling records, movies, and books are released, and in sports like…