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?" ...

Maddy Myers is a longtime games journalist, critic, and editor who has worked at The Boston Phoenix, The Mary Sue, Kotaku, and Polygon. Currently, she co-hosts the video game podcast Triple Click with ...

“Unc” is, apparently, the latest gamer term or gen Z slang to enter our common parlance. Articles have argued it originated recently, from young people, who use it as an insult to old people. Except ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Future? No Thanks! says that it’s an “ecosocialist open-world utopia for our dark times.” Or it would be, if it had released on July 22nd as planned. Instead, it's currently being held up by Steam, ...

Today Microsoft laid off 1,600 people from its games division—roughly the same number it unceremoniously showed the door last year. As part of this, the company is cutting loose four studios either ...

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 ...