reader comments 1 with 1 posters participating Share this story Simon & Schuster UK True crime has taken over entertainment. Regardless of what that says about our society, observe the fruits of this trend has been fascinating. It’s a pick-your-poison landscape now, filled with riveting podcasts, multi-part streaming series, and other mediums exploring (or exploiting, ..
Tag : Gaming & Culture
Enlarge / Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian Getty Images reader comments 49 with 43 posters participating Share this story Entrepreneurs Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman famously founded Reddit as college roommates in 2005. Tech journalist Christine Lagorio-Chafkin’s recent book, We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory, follows their sometimes ..
Enlarge / The crew of the USS Orville stands ready for a new season of adventures in season 2 of The Orville. Fox Broadcasting reader comments 97 with 68 posters participating Share this story The Orville, Seth MacFarlane’s warm homage to the Star Trek franchise, delighted viewers with the interstellar adventures of the crew aboard ..
Enlarge / Computers, they’re just like us! Cyrus Farivar reader comments 16 with 15 posters participating Share this story Every time I take my kids to the library, I gravitate toward the non-fiction section and, in particular, the space books. (Hey, it’s a good primer for Star Trek!) This year, there have been some amazing ..
reader comments 14 with 10 posters participating, including story author Share this story Netflix’s latest Black Mirror “event,” a film titled Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, launched on the streaming service on Friday. The film has garnered attention for its interactive elements, thus capitalizing on a decision-based system announced in June 2017, and fans of the dark-technology ..
reader comments 33 with 24 posters participating, including story author Share this story Let’s try to determine what a Bandersnatch is… Not much of a mystery, actually: it’s a fictional sci-fi book… …that our protagonist is tasked to convert into an ’80s computer game. The trailer hints to this book’s author (shown here) being a ..
reader comments 94 with 57 posters participating, including story author Share this story [embedded content] Video shot by Sean Dacaney and edited by Evan Watkin. Click here for transcript. Welcome back to “War Stories,” an ongoing video series where we sit down with game designers and ask them to tell us about game development challenges ..
Marvel Studios/Universal Pictures/Sony reader comments 65 with 42 posters participating Share this story Before we begin talking about films in 2018, we’ve already saved you some trouble by snapping once and making the year’s disappointing films disappear. Adios, Avengers Infinity War. So long, Solo. Arrivederci, Ready Player One. Agree or disagree all you want, but ..
reader comments 56 with 41 posters participating, including story author Share this story One of the biggest arguments against anti-piracy checks built into video games (commonly known as “digital rights management,” or DRM) is that they punish paying customers with stuttering, loading times, and other detractive gameplay issues. While leading DRM vendor Denuvo has long ..
reader comments 22 with 18 posters participating, including story author Share this story This title screen was captured from the original, incomplete ROM. Nintendo/Maxis/VGHF Let’s start a new city. Keep it simple. The beginning of our new town. Like in the SNES version, this game upgrades the original SimCity with population goals that unlock new ..
