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I’m sure Nintendo never expected this to be the case, but Wii Sports bowling has become kind of ubiquitous in retirement homes. It definitely makes sense—the game is accessible, it has intuitive controls, and it replicates the real-life bowling experience in a way that’s pretty faithful. The 2006 console is also pretty cheap to buy. What I didn’t expect, however, was that it’s so widespread that there are apparently entire Wii Sports bowling leagues formed among groups of competing retirement communities. Earlier this week, the University Village Retirement Community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, shared what’s possibly my new favorite Instagram reel…

NASA finally presented the details of its phased plan to create the first lunar base at the moon’s south pole. Although the construction of a space research center that will allow a sustained human presence will take at least a decade, the missions that will lay its technological and symbolic foundations will start in the next few years. Among them is the test of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 Endurance lander, scheduled for the end of 2026.The Moon Base project replaced in priority the Gateway program, an orbital station similar to the International Space Station that would serve as…

According to CIRP (Consumer Intelligence Research Partners), 39% of iPhone buyers had their previous phone for three years or more. 33% of iPhone users kept their previous phone for two years or less. Inside that data, there is more information, some of it makes sense, and some of it is surprising.79% of those replacing their iPhone in less than one year had a long-lasting batteryThe graphs shared by CIRP show the condition of iPhone owners’ battery and display when they replaced that unit. These consumers replaced their iOS-powered handset during the 12 months ended March 2026.The longer an iPhone user…

While Trump did not use the word again in the early days of his second term in office, in May 2025, a congressional notification from the State Department revealed that the Trump administration was planning to create an Office of Remigration within the department’s Bureau of Population, Migration, and Refugees.The congressional notification said that the Office of Remigration would be initially staffed by personnel reassigned from the bureau’s Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs. “Those of us in the Office of Western Hemisphere didn’t know what that language meant for us, and despite all of our questions, our leadership would not…

Does Microsoft have a surprise 2026 blockbuster hiding up its sleeve? When will Overwatch get the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners treatment? And will the next Dragon Quest Monsters game actually be good? It’s the latest edition of Kotaku Checkpoint, your daily roundup of gaming news, rumors, and culture. Social media isn’t social anymore. In fact, it feels downright anti-social these days. How long until it’s just bots and fraud all the way down? At least we’ll always have all of the Pokémon crimes that happened along the way. A bunch of new Xbox games were added to the Game Pass ‘coming soon’…

If you’re thinking about getting a new iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch, now’s probably the right time to trade in your old device.Apple just updated its trade-in estimates in the US, raising the values of last-generation iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches.You’re getting more trade-in money for the iPhone 16 series The iPhone 16 series has received a bump up in trade-in value | Image by Apple The previous generation of iPhones is getting a slight bump up in trade value. The vanilla iPhone 16 has jumped from $435 to $460, while the other three models in the lineup…

An Appropriate Name For DLC For An 11 Year Old Game Oh look, a reason to think about replaying Witcher 3 yet again.  CD Projekt Red have announced the existence of a new DLC called Songs of the Past; no details on content nor availability though.  The only thing they did reveal was that the minimum hardware requirements have gone up.  It will only run on Win11, at least until someone figures out how to bypass that check, and you will need to load it on an SSD.  That is wise, you simply don’t want to run a new AAA…

While Gen Z catches a lot of flack for being single, or even antisocial, there’s a brutal economic reality underscoring why some people aren’t going out: They simply don’t have the disposable income.Dating apps, already struggling to maintain user bases due to enshittification and a lack of quality matches, are contending with this affordability crisis.In a dystopian sign of the times, BLK, the app for Black singles, announced on Wednesday that it is giving away free gas in an attempt to incentivize people to go on dates.As part of the promotion, BLK is providing $500 gas gift cards to 10…

One of Nintendo’s most interesting exclusives of the year is a precision orbital strike (heh) directly at the heart of elder millennials. Orbitals is a two-player co-op puzzle game with a retro anime artstyle that harkens to the days of watching Toonami’s Midnight Run. One of my fondest memories as a human is staying up past my bedtime to watch anime on Cartoon Network. That feeling is exactly what the developers at Shapefarm intended to capture with Orbitals. The developers cited anime shows from the ‘80s and ‘90s as inspiration for the game’s stylistic, hand-animated aesthetic. Judging from the trailers,…

RedMagic is a gaming phone sub-brand of Chinese smartphone maker Nubia, itself a property of ZTE.It’s sub-sub-brand, if you will!But that’s not important. The important part is these guys aren’t just taking off-the-shelf components, putting them together and doing some marketing around the resulting concoction.They are doing real engineering, real hardware innovation – the type of which we rarely see in the mobile tech world nowadays.For the last several weeks, I’ve been using their latest flagship, the RedMagic 11S Pro, and frankly, I’m blown away by how powerful and well-rounded it is. And the thing is, I’m not that easy…