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In an era of complicated first-person shooters, detailed world-building, and dueling consoles, one of the internet’s most popular games built a gaming fandom with a simple point-and-click.  First released in 2014, Five Nights at Freddy’s was an indie game initially crowdfunded, then released for players on Steam by developer Scott Hawthorn. While the gameplay was

Surprising absolutely no one, Elon Musk has confirmed that the social media platform formerly known as Twitter and now known as X is now worth less than half of the $44 billion he paid for it last year. On Monday, Oct. 30, as Fortune reports, Musk awarded all the X employees he didn’t fire equity

On the Mend The Olympian is currently recovering at home with her family after being hospitalized with a “very rare form of pneumonia” Mary Lou Retton has issued her first official statement since she was hospitalized in the ICU with pneumonia earlier this month. “I’m beyond blessed to have the opportunity to make this statement,” she

T iffany Fong stood among a gaggle of reporters in the gray tiled plaza of Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse in downtown Manhattan. It was just past dawn, but members of the media were already queued up for the start of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial. Fong, 29, took periodic hits from her vape while

Samantha and Justin Juray were overseeing a packed family night at their bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, when the unthinkable happened on Wednesday night. A man walked through their decorated glass doors with a high-powered rifle and started shooting. Related “I was there, front and center,” Samantha, 34, tells Rolling Stone. “It was nothing imaginable

Lewiston Shooting Authorities also confirm a “note” was found at one of suspect Robert Card’s former residencies but didn’t detail its contents Officials in Maine provided an update on the manhunt for Lewiston mass shooting suspect Robert Card Friday morning, with the investigation focusing on the nearby Androscoggin River. Following the Wednesday night shootings that

Robert Card, the suspect in the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday night that left at least 18 dead and 13 more injured, has been found dead. The news comes after a three-day manhunt spanning several Maine cities. Card is believed to have died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a law enforcement official told

The search continued on Thursday for a man who killed at least 18 people and injured 13 more during a rampage at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday night, Gov. Janet Mills confirmed Thursday. Related Residents in Maine’s second-largest city and several other nearby towns remained under shelter-in-place orders into

So far, 2023 has become the second worst year for mass killings in the United States on record, according to The Associated Press. On Wednesday, a shooter in Lewiston, Maine, killed at least 18 people and injured 13 more at a bowling alley and local restaurant. A manhunt for a suspect is still underway as

Tricia Asselin was enjoying a night off at bowling alley Just-in-Time Recreation in Lewiston, Maine — an establishment that her family had frequented for years – when she heard a shot ring out on Wednesday night.  Related Asselin, 53, had been standing with her sister Bobbi, and at first, neither registered the noise as a gunshot, Asselin’s

A judge has rejected University of Idaho stabbing suspect Bryan Kohberger’s efforts to have the case against him dismissed. Kohberger was in the courtroom during Thursday’s hearing, where his defense attorney argued for the standard of proof to be raised to a “beyond a reasonable doubt” instead of Idaho’s typical “sufficient probably cause” standard at

Scholastic, the children’s book publisher, will no longer separate titles that deal with race, gender, and sexuality at book fairs, according to The New York Times. The company, which runs more than 120,000 book fairs in elementary schools a year, had controversially started listing 64 such books in a catalog titled “Share Every Story, Celebrate

A self-described “former incel” named Michael Pengchung Lee was allegedly planning a mass shooting at the University of Arizona before he was arrested, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday. He is charged with “transmit[ing] in interstate commerce a communication of a threat to injure the person of another.” On Sunday, Lee, who is 27,

When the militant group Hamas launched a devastating surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7, some fighters breached the country’s defenses in motorized paragliders. Footage of this assault from the air spread widely with the first reports of war — particularly videos of gliders descending on the Israeli music festival Supernova, where 260 attendees were

In the middle of a wave of rampant misinformation, excessive hate speech, and endless harassment, X owner Elon Musk set his sights on Wikipedia. On Sunday, Musk aimed a series of tweets at Wikipedia and its co-founder Jimmy Wales, mocking a call for more funding before immediately implying that the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation was mismanaging

Thirty-three states have banded together to sue Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, accusing it of building and operating platforms that have caused serious harm to young people and adolescents.  The lawsuit, filed Oct. 24 in district court in Northern California, claims Meta’s platforms have “profoundly altered the psychological and social realities of a generation

IT’S THE BROKEN RECORD that continues to play despite repeated forewarnings: An influential white man says something racist and sexist, instant public backlash ensues, and swift consequence occurs. Related As a Black queer millennial journalist, Jann Wenner’s offensive remarks to The New York Times weren’t shocking to me at all. His gatekeeping has for decades

A version of this response appeared on the Black Rock Coalition’s website. When Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner made offensive comments in The New York Times about women and Black artists, the Black Rock Coalition, which has battled stereotypes and musical categorizations about what rock is “supposed to be” since 1985, felt obligated to speak

Rolling Stone was founded in 1967 in San Francisco by a music critic and his 21-year-old protégé, a Berkeley dropout who borrowed money from his future in-laws to get it off the ground. For decades, Rolling Stone gripped tight to the beliefs and cultural blinders of that boomer beginning. Most of its rocker heroes from

Martin Scorsese’s newest epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, ends with a prescient kind of warning to an industry that would explode 100 years after the events of the film: true crime. It seemingly tells the viewer that, in a realm focused on death and destruction, it’s vital to remember the people behind all the