If I had to crown a genre as the most popular gaming niche of the year, I’d be tempted to pick roguelikes. They’ve dominated the gaming world in 2025, with subgenres like casino roguelikes, ...

Things were not going well for Eugene Cernan, who was outside his ship on a spacewalk — just the second time an American astronaut had ever made such a trip. The vagaries of microgravity and Newton’s ...

Back in June we had a column about the amazing success of Dolly Parton’s free-books-for-toddlers program in Montgomery County. That was launched by Wendy Baldwin, a Blacksburg grandmother and retired ...