e-paper has been having a bit of a moment recently. First, the Boox Palma shrank the form factor of eReaders down to something a bit more pocketable and less proprietary than the Kindle. Then, open ...

Steven Asarch is an internet culture reporter who lives on Twitch and YouTube. He was written for Insider, Rolling Stone, Kotaku and others. He executive-produced the docu-series Onision in Real Life ...

"Can you imagine another video game getting this treatment? This level of brand recognition and obnoxious Netflix specials and Sephiroth-adjacent coin-selling hacker kids sending manifestos?" ...

Welcome signs on the road into Maryland bear a slogan chosen by the governor. The last guy went with “Open for business.” In 2023, the new governor updated the signs with his own motto, the one I saw ...

What began as a trickle has turned into an avalanche. Workers on Diablo are the latest arm of Blizzard to unionize, with Communications Workers of America (CWA) – which helped other Microsoft-owned ...

Palmer Lucky is an evil fucking worm and dipshit beneficiary of government contracts. He’s the Oculus jackass with a shitty soul patch who runs a military defense company called Anduril. I could ...

Over the past week, I’ve watched left wing commentators on Bluesky, the niche short form blogging site that serves as an asylum for the millennials driven insane by unfettered internet access, discuss ...

The first time I wrote about the upcoming 1666: Amsterdam was when the game's reveal was found to be riddled with some absolutely dogshit AI-generated imagery. The second, and hopefully final, time is ...

When the Steam Machine was first announced, a non-zero number of people zeroed in on a single accessory in the video. The Steam Machine takes swappable faceplates, allowing for customization, and the ...

Yesterday, Twitch announced that Amazon is going to be training AI models on Twitch streams, VODs, and chats, with users forced to opt in by default because otherwise “nobody would opt in.” During a ...

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of ...

Polygon is not dead, but under new owner Valnet, it has been forcefully contorted into something it wasn’t even just a few weeks ago. Websites are their people; laying off the majority of a site’s ...