WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Joe Biden has decided to build his presidential library in Delaware and has tapped a group of former aides, friends and political allies to begin the heavy lift of fundraising and finding a site for the museum and archive. The Joe and Jill Biden Foundation this past week approved a 13-person governance board that is …
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Poll: Three Months In, How Would You Rate Switch 2’s Library So Far?
Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life For those of you who managed to bag a Switch 2 on 5th June, you’ve had that big dock set up near the TV for exactly three months now. Are you tired of ‘clacking’ those Joy-Con into the system yet? Nope, us neither. In that time, we’ve seen over 50 games come to the …
Read More »Xbox Game Pass adds another 18 games to your own personal streaming library – TrueAchievements
Xbox Game Pass adds another 18 games to your own personal streaming library TrueAchievements Microsoft expands Xbox Cloud Gaming to Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers The Verge Microsoft’s Latest Move Could Upend How You Play With the Best Deal in Gaming Gizmodo Microsoft adds PC, cloud gaming to Xbox Core, Standard subscriptions PCWorld Microsoft (MSFT) Expands Xbox Offering as Part of Gaming Accessibility …
Read More »Pentagon to restore Confederate general portrait at West Point library | Trump administration
A controversial portrait of General Robert E Lee, which shows an enslaved man holding the Confederate leader’s horse, is being returned to the library at West Point, according to Pentagon officials who spoke with the New York Times. The nearly 20ft canvas, which had hung in the US military academy since 1952, was removed following a 2020 law that ordered …
Read More »Japan’s National Diet Library says Switch 2 Game-Key Cards aren’t eligible for preservation (UPDATE)
While the Switch 2 reveal and release brought with it all sorts of discussion, when it comes to controversy, there’s one topic that has risen above all others…and it only seems to become a bigger point of contention. While Switch 2 owners can pick up physical Game Cards for the system, there’s also the line of Game-Key Cards as well. …
Read More »Nintendo Switch 2 game-key cards won’t be accepted for preservation by Japan’s national library
Nintendo Switch 2 game-key cards are back in the news as they’ve essentially been denied entry into the National Diet Library. Otherwise known as the NDL, this is Japan’s national library. However, due to the nature of this specific physical media, game-key cards cannot be accepted for preservation. PR for NDL told Famitsu in an interview: “Because the target is …
Read More »Japan’s national library says it won’t be preserving Switch 2 Game-Key Cards
Japan’s national legal deposit library says Switch 2 Game-Key Cards won’t be eligible as part of its video game preservation process. The National Diet Library (NDL), which was established in 1948, is one of the largest libraries in the world and, similarly to other ‘legal deposit’ libraries like the British Library and the US Library of Congress, requires by law …
Read More »Japan’s National Library Says Game-Key Cards Are Not Eligible For Preservation
Image: Ollie Reynolds / Nintendo Life Japan’s National Diet Library (or ‘NDL’, for short) is one of the biggest libraries in the world and, from the year 2000, began to obtain video game CDs and cartridges for preservation purposes. According to an article from Famitsu (thanks, Automaton), however, the library does not consider the Switch 2’s Game-Key Cards as ‘proper’ …
Read More »University of South Carolina: No evidence of shooter at campus library despite alert, spokesperson says
Facebook Tweet Email Link There is no evidence of a shooter at the University of South Carolina’s campus library, a school spokesperson said Sunday, after a schoolwide alert about a shooter who had been reported to be on the Columbia campus. “We received an unconfirmed report of an active shooter at the Thomas Cooper library,” a university spokesperson, Jeff Stensland, …
Read More »USC issues alert for report of active shooter near Thomas Cooper library – WLTX
USC issues alert for report of active shooter near Thomas Cooper library WLTX ‘No evidence of active shooter’ at USC, campus asked to stay sheltered in place WIS News 10 Police searching after active shooter reported at University of South Carolina’s Columbia campus, university says CNN USC reports active shooter at the Thomas Cooper Library ABC Columbia Active shooter reported on the University of …
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