Games Peculiarities and miscellanea of the Street Fighter series Rob Beschizza

offworld Black characters in video games must be more than stereotypes of the inhuman Sidney Fussell

Gadgets These toys and games can keep the kids busy while you’re all trapped inside Boing Boing's Shop

cults Love Letters to Hitler Mike Shaughnessy

Technology Area man ran an illegal gas station, firefighters say Xeni Jardin

finance The retreat of "scientific selfishness," a literature review Cory Doctorow

valve You can pick up a Steam Controller for five bucks now Seamus Bellamy

tabloids Brad Pitt’s brush with death, Julia Roberts quitting Hollywood, and Christmas kittens, in this week’s dubious ad-packed tabloids Peter Sheridan

music Oddly familiar video game tunes Rob Beschizza

spiders Gentleman sets fire to his parents home trying to kill spiders Seamus Bellamy

News ? Giant python slithers around Poland scaring everyone Xeni Jardin

happy mutants The Hit Points: foot-stomping video-game bluegrass covers Cory Doctorow

racism Residents call police on black firefighter in uniform for doing his job while black David Pescovitz

trumpism With the number of people living under dictatorships up by a billion, a reminder of dictators' deceptively humanizing traits Cory Doctorow

music Hear all 77 songs Weird Al covered on tour Rusty Blazenhoff

X-Men: Grand Design 10 – A Tolerable Life Ed Piskor

music Kamasi Washington's killer new soul-jazz track inspired by videogame arcades of yore David Pescovitz

france Real-life "Spider-Man" scales Parisian building to save dangling child, gets rewarded with citizenship Rusty Blazenhoff

Gadgets New XBox and Windows game controller for people with disabilities Rob Beschizza

addiction Public ignorance about “drunk/drugged up losers” is expensive and deadly Maureen Herman