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Amelia Zollner

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Sep 17, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Amelia Zollner

    Viral Needle In A Haystack Simulator Spawns Countless Clones (opens the original)

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    In August, a clip of the then-unnamed game Needle in a Haystack Simulator blew up for being exactly what it sounds like: a tedious incremental sim that tasks players with finding a needle in a haystack. But despite that clip gaining over 50 million views on Twitter, search for “needle in a haystack” on Steam and you’ll have to scroll past quite a few clones to find the original. In just days after the original’s viral reveal in late August, at least eight similarly named clones popped up on Stea

  2. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Amelia Zollner

    It's Time For Nintendo To Ditch Zelda's Companion App (opens the original)

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    NintendoSmartphoneThe Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time During Tuesday’s Legend Of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct, Nintendo finally fully revealed its Ocarina of Time remake, and while many fans are sharing their excitement, plenty of others just don’t seem to be fully on board. Between critiques of its eerily realistic “Nintendo, hire this man!”-esque art style, its lack of changes to the original, and the validity of its entire existence as yet another remake, it’s clear that the game hasn’t qui

  3. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Amelia Zollner

    Modern Warfare 4 Team Promises To Patch Captain Price's Hairline (opens the original)

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    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 entered a short early access period this week, and it predictably led to a small number of complaints regarding map size, movement speed, and spawn placement. You know, the usual Call of Duty balance issues — nothing too serious, and most players seem to be pretty content with MW4 so far. But there’s one more issue with MW4 that’s sparked plenty of player complaints, and this one isn’t about maps or guns or TTK (time to kill). It’s instead about our old buddy Capta

  4. Article · Aug 14, 2026 · Amelia Zollner

    Deltarune Fan Cafe Results In Multiple Cases Of Food Poisoning (opens the original)

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    What does Toby Fox’s episodic RPG Deltarune have in common with Fyre Festival, DashCon, and, most recently, the Glasgow Willy’s Chocolate Experience? If you haven’t been on Twitter the past few days, then you are (unfortunately) about to find out. On Sunday, a Toronto event organizer called Sugar Packet hosted an unofficial Deltarune Fan Cafe event. According to the ticket website, attendees who paid $15 could spend 50 minutes in the cafe eating themed food, purchasing merchandise, posing in a p

  5. Article · Aug 7, 2026 · Amelia Zollner

    Stardew Valley Dev's Haunted Chocolatier: Everything We Know (opens the original)

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    Haunted Chocolatier is the next game from Stardew Valley developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone, which means that it’s going to be an instant hit the moment it’s out. Unfortunately for us, it’s also a fairly enigmatic project at the moment. Since announcing Haunted Chocolatier in 2021, Barone has revealed fairly few details about it, and we still have no idea when it might grace our Steam libraries. Fortunately, I’ve dedicated an alarming amount of my free time to parsing Barone’s Haunted Chocolat

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