On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Facebook users can now play Pac-Man for free on Facebook, via the new Namco Arcade app.
The app is designed for mobile phones, but works on the desktop too, albeit in a Flash rendering of a mobile phone.
Namco Arcade includes all of the company's old hits, including Time Crisis and Arcade Golf.
But -- let's face it -- this is all about Pac-Man, the first smash hit in the history of home gaming, and still the best-recognized game character in America.
Unfortunately, you can only play these games for a limited time in any given session, after which you will be helpfully steered in the direction of Namco's paid apps.
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