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Wishing them all the best in whatever they do.

This just made me realize that between Gamespot and Giant Bomb I've been following them in some way for over half of my life so this is going to take some time to adjust to.

Big loss, Ben really came into his own since being hired full time.

Ben Appetit was the best but the Aftermath podcast is probably what I’ll miss the most.

Best of luck to Abby in whatever she does next. She added a vital and unique perspective to the crew and is behind the best feature the site had in years (Thirteen Deadly Sims) so her presence will be sorely missed.

I'm having the same problems on a wired desktop PC.

While I never bothered to create an account there (Not very active in message boards in general) I still visited Neogaf daily. The huge userbase made it pretty useful as an aggregate of news and other going ons in the world of gaming and the aggressive moderation meant discussions usually remained civil.

Best of luck to Drew in whatever he does next.

Not gonna lie, as a fan his absence will be keenly felt. His one line interjections on the Bombcast are fantastic and I really like how different his taste is from the rest of the West crew. Hopefully Vinny picks up the baton for flight sims and assorted gaming oddities from European countries.

http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-headphones-under-40/

I don't always agree with The Wirecutter's top recommendations, but at the very least they offer a good starting point for your own research.

Played Demon's Souls first and it's easily my favorite. Nothing in any of the other games left a bigger impression in me than the Tower of Latria, plus I like that each boss in DeS has its own unique "gimmick".

It's a very janky game compared to its successors and some enemies like the giant bearbug are a bore to fight but man, I never enjoyed a Souls game more than when I was fearfully creeping through the prison trying to stealth my way around the mindflayers, bumrushing a reaper trying to kill it before it could spawn too many shadows, aiming an arrow at a depraved one from a distance and hoping he wouldn't be a giant or beating the final boss of each main area (The Yellow Monk? Brilliant. The Storm King? Exhilarating.).

For me the order is DeS - Bloodborne - DS - DS 2.

Since buying my first e-reader during last year's Black Friday (A Kindle Paperwhite) I increased my reading time by a significant amount. Turns out having to bother with a reading light and holding a heavy book actually were discouraging me from reading more, as silly as that sounds.

As for actual books, if I don't have anything specific in mind I usually pick one by going through Time's All Time 100 Novels list. If I find out a movie I enjoyed was based on a book I try to read it as well.