Rahm Emanuel's Brother Tears Apart Netanyahu in Gala Speech

The images of bright-eyed and well-fed youth turning their lush college greens into shantytowns is but the latest spectacle from a generation that seems to be in a state of perpetual protest.What's so bad about America?Not everyone causing a ruckus cares about the question. As always, every riot attracts those who simply want to watch things burn. But we shouldn't discount the sincerity of many of the protesters, no matter how misguided their way of expressing it.Perhaps it would be helpful to rephrase the question: What's great about America? While it may be irritating to defend what is self-evident to us, let's not forget that patriotism is a virtue that must be taught. If the current generation is really as cynical and ungrateful as it seems, some share of the blame must go to its elders. And these same elders are in a position to help these young people see the light. Nathan NipperThe protagonist of Nathan Nipper's new novel, "American Inheritance," is an exemplar of Gen Z antipathy. A 25-year-old democratic socialist and unemployed graduate student mired in debt, Tom Brock has come of age in a culture in which his country's inherent wickedness is taken for granted.But then Tom gets the chance to earn a multimillion-dollar inheritance from the conservative grandfather he’s never met. The catch? He must take a cross-country road trip designed to alter his cynical view of America."American Inheritance" is available now. This excerpt picks up the story when grandson and grandfather meet for the first time.Nathan Nipper is a writer for "The Glenn Beck Program" and the writer/producer of Glenn Beck’s new history podcast series coming this summer. He previously authored the novel "Life on Christmas Eve," which debuted at number one on Amazon’s holiday fiction best-seller chart in 2021.

It only takes one look at Spitfire Interactive’s Capes to see that it's the lovechild of XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns. This expectation sets perhaps an unfairly high bar for a new developer's debut game, but it's hard to escape those comparisons. And while Capes never quite reaches the heights of its inspirations, it does deliver its own challenging strategic style. Continue reading Capes review - XCOM with superheroes and tricky turn-based tactics MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best strategy games, Best superhero games, Best turn-based strategy games

I’m sure we’ve all questioned ourselves and our actions at some point, being human and all. It boggles the mind to consider all of the things that had to happen for us to be here, right now, and putting your past decisions under a microscope can be enough to drive anyone to the brink. The Alters is a game that looks to delve into the ‘what ifs’ of a person’s life, and to see how things would have turned out differently with the most minor of changes. I recently got the chance to visit The Alters developer, 11-Bit Studios, in Poland to play a few hours of their mind-bending creation. Continue reading The Alters asks an important question, but you may not like the answer

After the fall of SimCity back in 2013, the city building game, as a genre, hit something of a slump. But in the past 12 months, Manor Lords, Cities Skylines 2, and the very-anticipated Frostpunk 2 have brought municipal management back to the frontlines of PC gaming where it belongs. We’re spoiled for choice right now, and it’s about to get even better. After five years in Steam Early Access, during which it’s accumulated glowing reviews from players, one Soviet-themed city builder is finally getting its full 1.0 launch. Continue reading After five years, huge 92% rated Soviet city builder finally hits 1.0 MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best city-building games on PC, The best management games, The best strategy games

Kat Abu's Thread of Laid Off Media Matters 'Reporters' Brings Out an Orchestra of Tiny Violins

The System Shock remake of the 1994 action adventure of the same name by Looking Glass Studios is returning the vintage cyberspace aesthetic to gamers field of vision. Nightdive Studios is the team behind the reconstruction, returning the security hacker protagonist to take down the insidious artificial intelligence SHODAN, and this premise has become very meta in this day and age.

Like many of my fellow critics and creators, I went into my preview for The Alters with little knowledge of the game. I'd seen the trailers, and they posed some interesting questions, but would my lack of love for the survival genre hamper my enjoyment of the game?

Voters at Massive Bronx Rally Have a Message for AOC As Even Dems Come Out for Trump