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When we weren’t busy watching sports contests, we did some reading. Here are the best things we read this year.
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Another year, another crop of video game paintings doing their best to class up the place.
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This year, I published a book, fell in love with a brand new hardware system, and played a ton of video games. Here…
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This year was pretty much a wash. The only thing good that really happened aside from getting very, very into…
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The video games of 2017 were’t just fun to play; they were fun to listen to.
Cars have plenty of opportunities to suck. Some simply perform poorly, others are depressingly soulless and then…
Here’s what you read this cursed year.
Another rough year. And at Splinter—where the mission is to highlight injustices and amplify underrepresented voices—…
As part of our “Year In Review” series, we featured the favorite photography of Jalopnik contributors. I decided to…
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This year, some things were unexpectedly good. But a lot of things sucked, too. Let’s put all those sucky things…