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Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Nintendo Fish.

A Japanese YouTuber created a custom setup to allow his pet fish to play Pokémon on his Nintendo Switch, but a malfunction led to the fish spending money at the eShop and revealing its owner’s credit card information on live stream.

We are truly beyond parody.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
EA’s free-to-play Lord of the Rings mobile game is set to launch this year.

The Lord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-earth was announced in May and entered testing in August, and EA expects to fully launch it this year, COO Laura Miele said on the company’s earnings call on Tuesday. Hopefully EA keeps the game around longer than Apex Legends Mobile.

TC Sottek
TC Sottek
The US government wants to ban gas stoves? Good luck fighting Hank Hill.

Breaking news: Deadline reports that King of The Hill will return, and there’s no way in hell the lord of propane is going to allow lawmakers to seize gas stoves from the people.

Welcome to America. We sell propane and propane accessories.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
AMD made just $21 million last quarter.

Profits dropped 98 percent — and yet it’s actually a rosy quarter since AMD is weathering reduced PC demand relatively well (client processors admittedly down 51 percent). AMD says the losses are “primarily due to the amortization of intangible assets associated with the Xilinx acquisition.”

Gaming revenue only dropped 7 percent because AMD-powered console sales (PS5, Xbox, Steam Deck) are actually up. It’s largely the same story as last quarter.

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