How and Where to Read and Buy Digital Comics/Manga Legally

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Comic books are magic. While part of the magic of a comic book cannot be digitally reproduced, digital comics are still a great way to experience both modern comics and the many decades of comic history, without having to track down and organize dozens of physical books just to follow a story arc. Also, since …

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PSA: Skip the Blue Light Blocking Glasses and Just Set Your Phone and Computer to Use Low Light/Night Modes

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If you spend a lot of time looking at screens, you’ve surely become a target for advertisements for a certain product: blue light-blocking glasses. These are glasses that block out blue light with the aim of making screen time easier on your eyes. Whether you’re intrigued or just a skeptic trying to poke around some …

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Fellow KartRider Drifters: Please Play Speed Mode!

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KartRider Drift is Nexon’s latest entry in their series of kart racers, and it’s a lot of fun for anyone who doesn’t have a Nintendo device that they can play Mario Kart on. KartRider Drift also has the benefit of being cross-platform, meaning you can play the same account on your computer and your phone …

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John Romero’s Book, Doom Guy, Is Excellent

John Romero's Doom Guy

If you’re into video games, you know Doom. Whether it defined your childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, or whether you just like seeing people trying to get it to run on increasingly ridiculous devices, the game that spawned the FPS genre (well, along with Wolfenstein 3D) is unarguably one of the most influential of all time. …

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Google Play’s 10 Best Free Android Games In 2022

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Here at My Dpad, I’ve been writing about video games, and particularly mobile games, for over 5 years. In that time I’ve played a lot of mobile games for articles I’ve written here, and I’ve played a lot more games that I haven’t written anything about. In other words, I’ve spent a lot (and I …

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Check Out The Steam Latinx Games Festival

Steam Game Festivals are one of my favorite new additions to the platform. Every so often, they’ll gather a group of released and unreleased games that are tied together by some common theme and carve out a little area of the Steam Store for them, then show off demos/livestreams of those games and sometimes even …

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