Sampling Chernobyl's Elephant's Foot Study Disaster

Sampling Chernobyl’s Elephant’s Foot Reveals AK-47s and Radioactive Dust

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Sampling Chernobyl's Elephant's Foot Study Disaster
After a botched turbine test on the night of April 26, 1986, operators at Chernobyl’s Unit 4 disabled the remaining safeties and let the bottom of the RBMK core run free. A steam explosion flipped the reactor lid. Fuel, zirconium cladding, steel, graphite, sand, and concrete liquefied, burned through two meters of reinforced floor, and poured through steam vents and cable holes into corridor 217/2. There the flow froze into a wrinkled two-ton lump of black ceramic that crews later nicknamed the Elephant’s Foot.

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TCG Card Shop Simulator Launch

Four Million Players Later, TCG Card Shop Simulator Finally Lets You Play Tetramon

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TCG Card Shop Simulator Launch
Two years after a single developer launched a fake card shop on Steam, TCG Card Shop Simulator has exited Early Access, with a 1.0 build now available for PC, Xbox, PlayStation 5, Switch, and Switch 2. Ding Shen Sia of OPNeon Games began the project after burning out on mobile work in 2023, expecting that Steam Trading Cards would be enough of an incentive to ship. The store sold 100,000 copies in three days and eventually surpassed four million players.

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Fujifilm Instax Pal 2 Camera Reveal

Fujifilm’s Instax Pal 2 Shrinks a Film Camera Until It Fits in a Closed Hand

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Fujifilm Instax Pal 2 Camera Reveal
Fujifilm spent two years listening to owners of the first Instax Pal, then rebuilt almost every part of it. Instax Pal 2 keeps the palm-sized brief and discards the round pebble body that split buyers when the original arrived in 2024. In its place is a squat rectangular shell that reads like a 110 film camera scaled for a coat pocket, with an optical viewfinder, a proper shutter button, a command dial, and a wind-style lever on top.

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