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Last month, a house listing in Fayette, Missouri went viral online. The two-bedroom home had a classic exterior evoking old school Americana and the first fe...

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Sometimes I pity the middle entry in a trilogy. The first entry has a predetermined role in establishing the world and characters of a story, while the final...

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Nailing a game opening is hard, but Paradise Killer kills it. Playing as the exiled former investigator Lady Love Dies, you're called up to solve a seemingly...

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I don't envy the task facing the developers of Madden NFL 21. With next-generation consoles on the horizon, EA must split its effort to produce versions that...

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