Slay the Spire 2 is one of the year's biggest hits, which is a good time to remember it abandoned Unity because of the dev fee debacle: 'That is how badly you f****d up'

I had this little itch in my brain when I was looking through the game's credits and saw the Godot logo, and then the reason why hit me: the Unity debacle of 2023, which saw Mega ...

Seattle police make arrest in fatal shooting of 2 teens near Rainier Beach High bus stop

Police said they made an arrest Tuesday morning in the shooting that left two Rainier Beach High School students dead.
thederrick.com

Scottish lawmakers to vote on whether to let terminally ill people end their lives

Scotland’s Parliament is deciding whether to legalize assisted dying for terminally ill adults, in a vote that could make it a first in the U.K. Lawmakers will get a free ...

Inactivity in a warming world could spur hundreds of thousands of deaths

Physical inactivity rises alongside temperature. A study in Lancet projected up to 700,000 additional deaths by 2050 and $3.68 billion in annual productivity losses.

Mom filmed 'upbeat' TikTok dance in hospital room of newborn son dying from abusive head trauma: Police

Mark Anthony Labaco Clamor and Alyssa Jade Vanderbeck are charged with the murder and assault in the death of their newborn son in Washington state. The post 'Why you crying boy?': Mom filmed 'upbeat' ...
The Columbian

Bill to establish state oversight of jails dies

The most recent attempt to pass legislation that would create an independent statewide jail oversight body has faltered after facing opposition from law enforcement groups and city and county official ...
Opinion

I’ve studied MAGA rhetoric for a decade, and this is what I see in Hegseth’s boasts, action-movie one-liners and gloating over dominance

Hegseth flippantly employed villainous colloquialism – “they are toast and they know it,” “we play for keeps,” and “ President Trump got the last laugh ” – delivered with a combative tone that ...
Firehouse

Suit Filed after Seattle Woman Found Dead Weeks after 9-1-1 Snafu

Weeks after the woman repeatedly called Seattle 9-1-1 for an ambulance, her decomposing body was found in her bedroom.

Seattle woman’s 911 calls reveal gaps in ambulance service

Seattle no longer is capping ambulance wait times for certain 911 patients, tracking those waits or penalizing its contractor ...
The Daily of the University of Washington

Nicola Griffith reads from new collection ‘She is Here’ at Third Place Books Ravenna

On a cold February night, Seattleites like myself braved the chill to hear Nicola Griffith, a Seattle author and two-time winner of the Washington State Book Award, read from her new collection “She ...

Bill to establish statewide oversight of jails in Washington dies in Legislature

Washington lawmakers have failed to create a statewide system to oversee local jails, even as deaths and injuries keep mounting. InvestigateWest reports Senate Bill 5005 died in a key committee ...
Game Rant

Say Hello to Greedfall 2: The Dying World's Companions

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...