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Katelyn has been a writer since they learned to hold a pencil, but was a latecomer to the world of gaming, gradually falling in love with video games over the course of high school and college. They ...

Pokémon Legends: Z-A is out now. We're enjoying it considerably so far, and it's got its own interesting story of a group of young adults learning to love and protect their city and all the people and ...

I’m very early in Pokémon Legends: Z-A, but I just found something in Lumiose City I had to tell somebody about, or I might explode. The RPG’s map is small, but if you’re not looking in every corner, ...

The 2025 MLB Draft is over, and, despite some hurdles, the Mets were productive. The Mets’ first-round draft pick was dropped 10 spots for the third year in a row because they went over the ...

Anthony Frobose described the excitement of being selected in the MLB draft as "a feeling that I don't think I'll ever be able to feel again." Fortunately for him, once is good enough as the Yorktown ...

Matthew Kang is a correspondent for Eater. Previously, he was the lead editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. He has covered dining, restaurants, food culture, and nightlife in Los ...

The undersigned 55 organizations operating in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory (OPTI) call for urgent action from the international community against new Israeli registration rules for ...

“I didn’t want to offend Gaudí’s spirit,” said the late German industrial designer Ingo Maurer, when he was commissioned, in 1997, to dream up a light for Casa Botines, a fortress-like 1890s building ...

Ingo Payments, a provider of account funding, transfer, and payout solutions, has chosen Marqeta Inc. to be the issuer processor for Ingo’s enhanced embedded-banking platform. The deal will help Ingo ...