Ethan Ritchie

gaming newsletter written by a gamer. not a journalist.

Nvidia Just Made Your Games Look Better. The Internet Is Furious.

Mar 18, 2026

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Nvidia Just Made Your Games Look Better. The Internet Is Furious.

Nvidia has made DLSS 5. The internet is going crazy and in the middle of all that noise is a genuine leap forward in real-time rendering.

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Valve Is Being Sued For Gambling. Their Defence? "Pokemon Cards Do It Too."

Mar 12, 2026

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Valve Is Being Sued For Gambling. Their Defence? "Pokemon Cards Do It Too."

Valve found itself hit with two major lawsuits in the US over loot boxes, the argument is pretty straightforward: these are gambling products dressed up as a gaming feature, and Valve has been profiting off them for years without properly disclosing the odds to players

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Scientists Put Human Brain Cells in a Computer and Taught It to Play Doom

Mar 11, 2026

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Scientists Put Human Brain Cells in a Computer and Taught It to Play Doom

Yes, you read that right. Actual living human brain cells are now playing Doom.

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Israeli Counter Strike player wants Elo back after running to bomb shelter because of the war

Mar 9, 2026

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Israeli Counter Strike player wants Elo back after running to bomb shelter because of the war

A player wrote a short message to FACEIT (third-party competitive platform) admins explaining that he and his friend had to abandon a match mid-game because they were being bombed and had to get to a shelter. He even linked the match directly so admins could cross-check the timing of the missile attacks.

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The White House celebrating the bombing in Iran with a clip of COD Killstreak

Mar 7, 2026

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The White House celebrating the bombing in Iran with a clip of COD Killstreak

Four days after the US joined Israel in airstrikes on Iran, the official White House X account posted a video. Captioned "Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue" and set to Childish Gambino's Bonfire, it mixed real footage of the military strikes with killstreak animations taken straight from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

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The God Of War Photo That Broke The Internet

Mar 5, 2026

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The God Of War Photo That Broke The Internet

A live action God of War photo dropped, the internet collectively lost its mind, and then things got even weirder from there. We also got good news on the Resident Evil front, exciting stuff incoming from Nvidia and Marvel, and some concerning rumours out of Sony.

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Bungie Might Break My Heart Again, Resident Evil Is Back, and Xbox Is Cooked

Mar 1, 2026

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Bungie Might Break My Heart Again, Resident Evil Is Back, and Xbox Is Cooked

March is here and somehow gaming managed to give us a lot to talk about in the space of like two weeks. Some of it exciting, some of it depressing, all of it worth getting into.

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Mar 1, 2026

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Xbox Loses Its Leader. Both Of Them.

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