Monthly Archives: October 2022

Some of Russia’s closest allies abstained at the UN rather than support its claim to have annexed parts of Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a cabinet meeting via videoconference in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP UN members voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to condemn Russia’s annexation of Ukrainian regions. Only 4 countries explicitly supported Russia. Allies in its CSTO military bloc mostly abstained. Russia’s invasion has left it…

Ukraine’s UN rep trolls Russia after UN vote it badly lost, using binoculars to spot its 4 allies among 183 nations

Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s Ambassador to the UN, scans the general assembly with binoculars prior to a vote on the resolution condemning Russia’s annexation of parts of Ukraine at the UN headquarters in New York on October 12, 2022. REUTERS/David ‘Dee’ Delgado TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY Only four countries against condemning Russia’s annexation of Ukrainian…

Two unreleased and ‘never digitized’ NES games are up for auction on eBay

Two extremely rare “unreleased, one-of-a-kind, never-digitized” Nintendo NES games have appeared on eBay, according to a tweet from the Video Game History Foundation’s Frank Cifaldi, seen by Kotaku. One of those, called Battlefields of Napoleon, was only ever released in Japan. The other is a cartridge from Rare, and appears to be the demo of…