Get more lit than a Christmas tree this holiday season. Weed is recreationally legal in 10 states, and medically legal in 32. The days of hiding your poorly rolled joints under your mattress and buying shitty brownies off your old lab partner are over — who wants that when consuming cannabis has never been sleeker? …

Golden State games will be sold out for the foreseeable future, but they’ve discovered a new way to sell the experience: offering fans passes that don’t include a view of the court Want to see the Golden State Warriors’ Kevin Durant, Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala in person? Don’t buy an ‘In The Building’ Pass.…

Players (and officials) still cling to the pregame rituals they think will bring them success on the field. ImageCreditDaniel SulzbergIn the N.F.L., where the wait between most games is a long, charged week, tales of eccentric pregame rituals in the final jittery moments before kickoff have become a fabled part of the sport’s lore.If, for…

binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror 105095986 story Nintendo Warns It Won’t Make More Retro NES and SNES Consoles (engadget.com) 87 Posted by BeauHD on Friday December 14, 2018 @05:58PM from the end-of-the-road dept. Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime warned that the NES Classic and SNES Classic will sell in the Americas through the holidays, but will…

Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. Cyber Monday deals at Amazon are here — shop all day and save big.Image: amazonBy Rudie ObiasMashable Deals2018-11-26 08:33:33 -0800 Let’s keep the savings going, shall we? If you’re still looking for a good deal but missed Black…

We all remember that one Christmas present we got as a kid. The one we’d begged our parents for all year, the one we’d looked up 100 times in the Argos catalogue or on Amazon, depending on our age … For many of us, that present was a games machine. Whether it was a ZX…

The EthicistImageCreditCreditIllustration by Tomi UmI have decided to stop watching football given the recent findings about the frequency with which concussions occur and the long-term effects of those concussions on the players. I am not trying to take a stand and change any of my family’s or friends’ opinions, but I do want to feel…

Welcome to “How I Became,” a new Lifehacker series where I ask real people about how they really got their jobs. This week I had the pleasure of chatting with Devon Lara Lucas, freelance board game content developer. I met Lucas in 2016 when I was an intern at Hasbro; I was learning the ropes…

DisclosureEvery product here is independently selected by Mashable journalists. If you buy something featured, we may earn an affiliate commission which helps support our work. Image: sonyBy Adam Rosenberg2018-11-27 22:07:33 UTC Did Sony strike gold with the PlayStation Classic? Or is it just a big hunk of pyrite wrapped in a vintage-styled plastic shell? Reviews…

Image source, charisma.aiImage caption, Charisma.ai is one company that is exploring how AI can be used in storytelling, these characters are part of a demo on how it worksBy Steffan PowellGaming correspondentArtificial Intelligence will lead to more jobs in the video game industry, one of the bodies representing games developers has told the BBC. Dr…

JEFF PATERSON’S FIVE TAKEAWAYS 1) The Canucks are putting the old adage ‘it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish’ to the test these days at Rogers Arena. For the third straight game, they have been slow out of the gates, but it really hasn’t hurt them as they improved to 3-0-2 on this…

Disney’s 2012 film Wreck-It Ralph proved that a movie based on video game nostalgia could actually be more than a gimmick. It’s the story of Ralph (John C. Reilly), a villain in a Donkey Kong-esque 1980s-style retro arcade game, who ventures outside of his own cabinet and into the world of other games to prove…

Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. Cyber Monday deals have landed and we are pretty pumped about it.Image: amazon/walmart/best buy/macy’s/medix cbd/mashable photo compositeBy Rudie ObiasMashable Deals2018-11-26 15:37:32 UTC It’s Cyber Monday! If you missed out on Black Friday deals, now is your chance to…

Kotaku Game DiaryDaily thoughts from a Kotaku staffer about a game we’re playing.  Every time I play Ubisoft’s gargantuan Assassin’s Creed Odyssey I’m astounded at how much of it I have left. I’m also left startled by how different an experience I seem to have had from many other players.I’ve heard some people complain that Odyssey…

Where to watch, when to watch, who to watch from Summer Games Done Quick 2018Games Done Quick Awesome Games Done Quick is back. The world series of speedrunning will, beginning Sunday at noon ET, deliver 156 hours of highly watchable sprints, stunts and trick runs involving games both currently popular and long forgotten. There are…

Although a dedicated graphics card is considered by many to be a must-have for PC gaming, it is not as important as it once was. Sure, you need it to play The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt at ultra graphics settings, but if you don’t mind losing a little bit of a visual quality and delving…

Kotaku Game DiaryDaily thoughts from a Kotaku staffer about a game we’re playing.  Some games’ post-release plans are stingy, others generous, some comically convoluted. And then there’s the seven-part plan for Shadow of the Tomb Raider, an awkward game that is now getting some awkward expansions.On paper before release, it all seemed pretty good. Shadow of…

When I think of the toughest games of my childhood, the Ghosts ‘n Goblins series from Capcom immediately comes to mind. They’re unforgivingly difficult, taunting you at each corner with a thousand deaths. Arthur’s armor gets shredded by every moving object and even upgraded weapons offer little protection. What’s worse is that you have to…

Chromebooks were originally synonymous with lightweight, online-only, relatively inexpensive computing. Over time, however, they’ve become more and more capable, not only as useful day-to-day systems but as gaming machines, too. In fact, there are actually more gaming options on ChromeOS than many people may realize. So we’re going to take you through the options.To begin with,…

The Mission: Mars room at The Escape GamePhoto: The Escape GameAn escape game can be stressful and frustrating and difficult, or it can be fun and empowering and…still difficult. These tips aren’t going to ruin escape rooms by making them too easy. But they might save your next team-building activity from becoming an hour of…

A rueful Magnus Carlsen lamented his gun-shy, conservative play after Sunday’s draw in the seventh game of his world championship title defense against Fabiano Caruana in London, which left the best-of-12-games match in 3½-all deadlock. The Norwegian champion, playing with the white pieces, kicked off with the same Queen’s Gambit as the second game (1.…

In 2001, a young graduate named John Hopson wrote a detailed article for the industry website Gamasutra on the topic of behavioural game design. Hopson, an amateur game-designer, decided to pair his hobby and his research, detailing in coolly clinical terms concepts that the industry had previously handled primarily through intuition and artistry. “Under what…

Kaeo Milker (L) and Findlay Milker (R)Photo: Kaeo MilkerHow I WorkThe How I Work series asks heroes, experts, and flat-out productive people to share their shortcuts, workspaces, routines, and more. Have someone you want to see featured, or questions you think we should ask? [Email Nick](mailto:nick.douglas@lifehacker.com).  Kaeo Milker has enjoyed a long and eye-opening career at…

Child psychologist Maren Østvold Lindheim helps counsel children who’ve been traumatized by their experiences in hospitals. But she doesn’t just use toys and games to treat her patients.Since 2010, Lindheim has been bringing young patients out into the nature preserve behind the Oslo University Hospital, where she works. There, she sat in the grass with…

Illustration: Sam WoolleyOn March 25, 2015, the weather in Bellevue, Washington was just warming up enough to play hacky sack, a favorite activity of the employees at the game development studio Her Interactive. That morning, they had something more pressing to think about, though: they couldn’t log into their computers. Server problems, some reasoned. They…