I’ve been trying to climb the side of this sheer cliff face for several hours using only my feet. The path is tricky and winding but at this point I know the footholds better than the faces of some of ...

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?" ...

As more and more dipshit managers mandate (or at least heavily encourage) the use of AI in the office, more and more workers are being confronted with a choice: do as they're told and help contribute ...

When I want information, like the real stuff, I go to forums. Over the years, forums did not really get smaller, so much as the rest of the internet just got bigger. Reddit, Discord and Facebook ...

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 ...

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 ...

Both Sony Interactive Entertainment and Nintendo are being sued over consumer tariff refunds. Now, Microsoft will join them in court. Trevor Hastings, from California, purchased an Xbox console from a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Late last year, workers behind the scenes of Theorist Media took an uncommon step in the YouTube space, verging on unprecedented: They announced their intention to unionize. Arm in arm with the ...