Enlarge / The Razer Blade Pro FHD, complete with a week’s worth of fingerprints on its black-aluminum frame. Sam Machkovech reader comments 55 Share this story For all of the years we’ve talked about the gaming-hardware company Razer and its range of expensive and (sometimes) remarkably thin gaming laptops, we’ve rarely put those “Blade” machines ..
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reader comments 87 Share this story [embedded content] This is by no means your average SpaceX fan film. AUSTIN, Texas—”We can’t just come to SXSW with Westworld,” said Jonah Nolan, co-creator of the hit HBO show, in the last 10 minutes of the cast and crew’s South by Southwest conference keynote. “So we have a ..
reader comments 76 Share this story [embedded content] Video shot and edited by Justin Wolfson. Click here for transcript. If you were to ask me what I like most about turning 40 this year, I’d have two answers. The first is that I’m that much closer to the senior discount at Denny’s, which is pretty ..
reader comments 13 Share this story Not only did I film this bit of dog fan fiction, I composed the soundtrack, thanks to technology. (Click here for transcript) It used to be you could spend an afternoon drumming up a home movie with your little sister, soundtrack it with your favorite mixtape cuts, and upload ..
Enlarge / Mobile Fortnite matches will start just like this, except without the “space bar” control tip. reader comments 53 Share this story For years now, gamers have gotten used to popular, big-budget console and PC games coming to mobile phones in the form of cheesy, heavily scaled-down “companion experiences” like match-three games or mindless ..
Enlarge / Two posters, one ambitious game. reader comments 111 Share this story BELLEVUE, Washington—I was about to sit down to play Valve’s first new PC game series in five years. But this being Valve, the world’s first press demo for Artifact was preceded by something almost equally rare: a speech from company cofounder Gabe Newell. ..
White House reader comments 164 Share this story Although he has kept a low profile since leaving office, former President Barack Obama may soon have a new high-profile project on his hands. According to a report by The New York Times, both Barack and Michelle Obama are reportedly in “advanced negotiations” with Netflix to produce ..
Enlarge / President Trump offers a small shrug as he publicly mulls whether violent video games “have a negative impact on the thought process” for at least some children. reader comments 124 Share this story If game industry representatives hoped their meeting with President Trump today would help change his mind after recent statements of ..
reader comments 68 Share this story The latest Nintendo Direct announcement video ended with a monstrous bang, as Nintendo finally confirmed what fighting-game fans have been hoping to hear: the Super Smash Bros. series is coming to the Nintendo Switch. Even better, fans won’t have long to wait, as the new game’s trailer ended with ..
reader comments 101 Share this story The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy deserves a special place in the geek pantheon. It’s the story of hapless BBC radio editor Arthur Dent, his best friend Ford Prefect, and the adventures that result when Prefect saves Dent when the Earth is unexpectedly destroyed to make way for a ..
