Texas Gov. Greg Abbott: No Pardons For Marijuana Convictions

After President Joe Biden asked governors to consider pardons for low-level marijuana offenses, Abbott said that won’t happen in Texas.

This Electric Car Failure Was Decades Ahead Of Its Time

Seattle’s government tried an experiment to shift from gas to electrice vehicles, just 50 years too soon.

The Most Incredible Features Of Brad Pitt's $1 Million Dollar Motorhome

Brad Pitt’s $1.2 million RV is a trailer befitting an Oscar-winning actor and producer who spends much time on the road.

Swishable, Swackable Lightsabers Have Dominated NYCC's Show Floor

Walking around New York Comic Con’s show floor, I’ve seen an incredible number of glowing tubes sticking out of backpacks or cradled in the hands of con-goers. Everyone at NYCC, it seems, wants a lightsaber, one that feels, looks, and sounds (wwooom) like the one they know from the movies and shows.

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‘Persona 3 Portable’ and ‘Persona 4 Golden’ arrive on Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation and Switch this January

Atlus surprised gaming fans this past summer when it shared that it would release its beloved Persona series on Xbox Game Pass. It then followed that announcement with the news that Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4 Golden and Persona 5 Royal would make their way to other modern platforms as well.

At the time, the company said P5R would be the first of the three games to arrive, with the two older titles to follow in 2023. On Saturday, ahead of Persona 5 Royal’s October 21st release on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Steam and Xbox Game Pass, Atlus announced that it would release Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden to additional platforms on January 19th, 2023. For the former, that means PlayStation 4 (and PS5 through backward compatibility), Nintendo Switch, Steam and Xbox Game Pass. For the latter, it’s those same platforms minus Steam where P4G has been available since 2020.

The expanded availability means a lot more people will have the chance to experience the Persona series. Before Atlus announced it was bringing the franchise to more platforms you had to out of your way to play the older titles. For instance, before its 2020 Steam release, Persona 4 Golden was only available on PlayStation Vita. For P3P, meanwhile, your options were either PlayStation Portable or, more likely, PS Vita through backward compatibility.

Tropical Storm Julia Gains Strength As It Heads Towards Nicaragua

The storm may become a hurricane and poses major flooding danger for Central America.

The Best Smartphones Of 2022 Ranked

Our list of the best smartphones of 2022 is in. The list may change as the final phones of the year are released, but for the moment, this is it.

8 Best Uses For Old Webcams

Just because your webcam is older and doesn’t have all the bells and whistles doesn’t mean it can’t still be useful or be used for fun.

The Peripheral Digs Into William Gibson's Thrilling Virtual Reality Mystery

A decade from now, a young woman taps into her talent—she is scary-good at VR games, to the point that wealthy clients hire her to play in their stead—to scrape up cash for her family. The Peripheral, which stars Chloë Grace Moretz as the gaming whiz, asks: what if that futuristic VR world was actually real?

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R.L. Stine Says He Never Originally Intended to Write Goosebumps

R.L. Stine, a man whose name seems born to be featured on 160 books of children’s horror fiction, told an utterly packed room at New York Comic Con that he never intended to write the Goosebumps series. Stine is an incredibly sarcastic and sardonic man, speaking like your uncle from New York who’s lived too long, seen…

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