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2024
What Nintendo does
As news broke yesterday about the latest bed Nintendo has decided to shit in, targeting a longtime fan with DMCA strikes...
The Browser Company's second act
The Browser Company today announced they're working on something new. Arc hasn't reached the critical mass they'd hoped ...
There’s no question that capitalism has been able to deliver tangible improvements in many parts of the world, but what...
Crow Country has sold 100k copies so far
Tom Regan for Game Developer: PlayStation 1 inspired horror title Crow Country has sold 100,000 copies since May. A wee...
Hands-on with Apple Intelligence
I've spent some time with Apple Intelligence, using version 18.1 for several weeks and now 18.2 for most of yesterday. I...
Oh good, a new ongoing Carnage series
Samantha Puc for Comics Beat: In February 2025, writer Charles Soule and artist Jesús Saíz will team up for a new ongoi...
Netlfix shuts down gaming studio "Blue"
Sophie McEvoy for GamesIndustry.biz: Netflix has shut down its AAA Southern California game studio known as Team Blue. ...
DC bringing back Vertigo imprint
Taylor Mills for ScreenRant: After nearly five years since retiring the imprint, DC Comics has officially announced at ...
The Silent Hill 2 remake has sold 1 million copies
Justin Carter for Game Developer: Konami's PlayStation 5 and PC remake of Silent Hill 2 sold over 1 million copies with...
I Still Don’t Understand Why ‘Waypoint’ Needed A Remake
Much has been said of the empty husk masquerading as a new version of the much-beloved Vice site Waypoint, but this arti...
Home screens: October 2024
I haven't done one of these in a while and figured it was time. I keep my devices fairly tidy, so I think I can get awa...
Instagram moderation is broken
Umar Shakir for The Verge: On Tuesday, I loaded Instagram and learned Meta had disabled my account. The alleged reason ...
Cloud Imperium continues to sound like a super shitty place to work
Nic Reuben for Rock Paper Shotgun: According to internal memos obtained by Insider Gaming, the Manchester (game?) studi...
Turned up to 11ty
This is a quick update: I've rebuilt my site using 11ty. I'm sorry if you're seeing duplicate entries in your RSS reader...
The WordPress drama
Jyolsna for WP Tavern: Mullenweg criticized [WP Engine] for contributing little to the WordPress community’s “Five for ...
Thoughts on the Rocksteady layoffs
Here are some quick thoughts on this situation and broader layoffs across the gaming industry. If I’ve missed or misunde...
WWDC24 and Apple Intelligence
I found WWDC24 to be a mixed bag. I’m excited about the quality-of-life updates across Mac and iPhone, including the new...
Zenless Zone Zero'd
Zenless Zone Zero is a game I’m excited to play, but things have changed recently. During the last round of beta testing...
Yeah but Windows
Tom Warren for The Verge: Microsoft is confident that it finally nailed the transition to Arm chips — so confident that...
Phones
Robb posted about the phones he’d owned over the years, and it reminded me of a note I’d started a while back and never ...
It runs Android, so what?
Ron Amadeo for Ars: Rabbit Inc. is right to use Android, or specifically as much of AOSP as it can. Forget about all th...
Apple AI pin
Watching reviews for Humane’s AI pin, I can’t help but wonder why someone hasn’t just clipped an Apple Watch to a shirt....
Design contests
If you’re a company considering a design contest where you solicit free work from trained designers for your websites, a...
Reikon reportedly cuts 80% of staff
Chris Scullion for VGC: Kotaku’s sources say that around four out of every five employees at Reikon have been laid off,...
Devs weigh-in as Palworld Pokémon plagiarism accusations worsen
Andy Robinson for VGC: According to two experienced AAA game artists who spoke to VGC, the model comparisons on X are l...
Remember Ello?
Andy Baio: Digging through SEC filings, I discovered that the newly-launched indie social network had taken nearly half...
Winnipeg unveils 150th anniversary graphic
Arturo Chang for CBC: The graphic features multiple symbols representing Winnipeg, including a prairie crocus (the prov...
The indieweb has a user experience problem
So much of the existing infrastructure and tools of the IndieWeb have been built without the input of people dedicated t...
The indieweb needs a search engine
Follow me on a journey. This post is essentially a brain dump, but there’s a point and an idea somewhere, I think. This ...
People voted for some pretty weird stuff during this year’s Steam Awards
Graham Smith for RPS: The player-voted Steam Awards have reached their conclusion, and the results are about as weird a...
2023
Books I read in 2023
I fell pretty hard into manga last year. In 2023, my tastes continued to evolve. I developed a good understanding of the...
GM’s in-car software is about as good as many people expected
GM pissed a lot of people off when they announced they were moving away from CarPlay and Android Auto. When the rubber h...
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that some venture capitalists worship a machine that can create soulless facsimiles of oth...
Remembering James McCaffrey’s Director Trench
Gita Jackson for Aftermath: In many ways I don’t think Control works without McCaffrey’s performance. His Trench gives ...
Games I played in 2023
This was a year of change. I leaned really hard into console gaming this year, specifically Xbox, after being pretty foc...
Apple breaks Beeper’s iMessage app again as company tries rallying users
Kevin Purdy for Ars Technica: [Migicovsky] wrote that it was up to the press and the community. “If there’s enough pres...
App defaults 2023
Some background on this post: I saw Manuel Moreale’s list earlier today and thought it was a neat little idea. After a b...
Marvel releasing yet another Edge of Spider-Verse series next year
David Brooke for AIPT: Marvel Comics has announced a new Edge of Spider-Verse miniseries for February featuring brand n...
The NHL will let players use Pride Tape after all
Benjamin Blum for CBC: The National Hockey League is ending its ban on players supporting social causes on their equipm...
Twitch is adding stories to their mobile app
Ash Parrish for The Verge: Stories on Twitch will function just like the feature does on other social media apps. Quali...
Samsung’s bizarre new ad pressures Apple to support RCS: ‘We’re bubbles too’
Chance Miller for 9to5Mac: The ad is literally just a screen recording of a conversation in the messages app on a Samsu...
First jerseys, now the NHL is banning Pride tape too
Cyd Ziegler for Outsports: In just 10 months, years of important, positive advancements in the NHL and men’s hockey at ...
Most NFTs are worth nothing
Victor Tangermann for Futurism: [dappGambl] found that 69,795 of the 73,257 NFT collections analyzed now have a market ...
Epic Games cuts around 830 jobs
The Verge: Notably, Sweeney does not apologize to his employees for making the business decisions that have resulted in...
Google once again making messaging an Apple problem to solve
Amber Neely for appleinsider: The video, dubbed "Meet iPager," is heavily stylized to look like one of Apple'...
Mastodon 4.2
Mastodon: On the surface, everything looks and feels mostly the same, with the developers working to polish the harsh e...
Grindr enters the “find out” phase of return-to-work
Nathaniel Meyersohn for CNN: LGBTQ dating app Grindr ended its remote work policies and forced employees to relocate. N...
Unity can't seem to help but dig down
Sophie McEvoy for GamesIndustry.biz: Developers of indie puzzle game Orgynizer have claimed that Unity said organisatio...
Sam Lake’s comments about longer games
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell for Rock Paper Shotgun: [Lake] himself has difficulty setting aside hours for longer games. “[It’...
Rumours suggest a $100 price increase for iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max
Benjamin Mayo for 9to5Mac: The analyst is expecting the base model iPhone 15 price to remain unchanged, but sees $100 p...
Amazon CEO says “it’s probably not going to work out” for remote workers
Emma Roth for The Verge: In a recording of the meeting obtained by Insider, Jassy told workers, “It’s past the time to ...
CEO of Zoom says Zoom sucks for remote work
Sharon Adarlo for Futurism: This is, to be clear, absolutely amazing: the company that makes perhaps the most widely kn...
Speak with your wallet: Rockstar charging $50 for a remaster is outrageous
Jennifer Young for Windows Central: People have been expressing outrage over the $50 price tag for a 13-year-old port t...
87% of classic games are critically endangered
Kelsey Lewin for the Video Game History Foundation: For accessing nearly 9 in 10 classic games, there are few options: ...
miHoYo unveils Zenless Zone Zero
Chris Moyse for Destructoid: Zenless Zone Zero, (or “ZZZ“), is set in the aftermath of a global cataclysm, where seemin...
Grave Seasons is like Stardew Valley meets a crime scene
Rachel Watts for Rock Paper Shotgun: Every time you start a new game, a random NPC will be selected to become a serial ...
Midnight game releases
Matt Cook for Destructoid: I feel like we’ve collectively lost something from that as a community. The electric atmosph...
ActivityPub and the future of social media
David Pierce for The Verge: After nearly two decades of fighting for this vision of the internet, the people who believ...
Microsoft is adding a crypto wallet to Edge for some reason
Tom Warren for The Verge: Microsoft Edge will advertise the ability to purchase cryptocurrency from Coinbase and MoonPa...
Amazon cutting an additional 9,000 jobs
Gary Ng for iPhone in Canada: Amazon announced on Monday plans to eliminate about 9,000 more positions in the next few ...
Canadian Space Agency unveils new logo
Noor Al-Sibai for Futurism: O Canada, take it from your neighbors to the south: As we say down here, your new space log...
Looking back at Mastodon hot takes
Lance Ulanoff for Mashable: Mastodon has potential. It can be easy to use and there are clearly a lot of people trying ...
Former Callisto Protocol team members left out of game’s credits
CJ Wheeler for Rock, Paper, Shotgun: None of the developers who spoke out about being omitted from the credits felt tha...
The mystery of "All Bonds" in GoldenEye
Aaron Greenbaum for Den of Geek: While gamers can play as Pierce Brosnan’s James Bond in GoldenEye 007, a popular rumor...
Sony introduces its accessibility controller kit, Project Leonardo
PlayStation Blog: Through conversations with accessibility experts and incredible organizations like AbleGamers, Specia...
Square Enix sees NFTs as solution to problem that can be solved right now without them
Jonathan Bolding for PC Gamer: [SE President Yosuke Matsuda] is unreservedly enthusiastic about the idea that “token ec...
2022
The appeal of Dead Space wasn’t the violence
Rich Stanton for PC Gamer: While I enjoy a good grisly death animation, [The Callisto Protocol’s] protagonist here real...
Mobile carrier apps rife with trackers
Jonathan Lamont for MobileSyrup: Within a few hours of downloading the My Telus app, I noticed that DuckDuckGo’s App Tr...
Post.news
I got my invite for Post and it’s rough, even for a beta. Payment and tipping systems were prioritized over basic securi...
Diablo IV’s crunch and controversy
Graham Smith for Rock, Paper, Shotgun: [Activision Blizzard] employees say that impossible deadlines, managerial indeci...
Former Tripwire CEO upset that his actions have consequences
Andy Chalk for PC Gamer: Tripwire Interactive co-founder John Gibson blamed what he called “social terrorism” for being...
No remake planned for Resident Evil: Code Veronica
Andy Robinson for Video Games Chronicle: Speaking to website Noisy Pixel, series producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi said tha...
Signalis invokes classic survival horror
Nic Reuben for Rock, Paper, Shotgun: If you’ve got any affection for PS1 survival horror, queer android love stories, c...
New Superman series coming in February
Rich Johnston for Bleeding Cool: It was revealed at New York Comic Con today that a brand-new Superman ongoing monthly ...
Thoughts on the current Amazing Spider-Man run
I’m conflicted on the current run of Amazing Spider-Man. On one hand, I’m enjoying it considerably more than the Beyond ...
DC has a Jim Lee problem
I wish more than anything that DC would move on from using art drawn by Jim Lee to promote new events, initiatives, char...
New RoboCop game coming but a perfect one already exists
Jordan Devore for Destructoid: It’s hard to adapt a perfect movie into a video game, but they’re going for it. In line ...
What order did everyone get infected in The Thing?
Jack Beresford for Den of Geek: John Carpenter’s 1982 classic remains a source of adoration and debate online, not leas...
Not E3 2022
I found this weekend of gaming showcases hard to follow and more of a time commitment than I cared to make. That said, d...
Thoughts on Summer Game Fest 2022
I enjoyed the presentation overall but I was a little turned off by the sheer number of sci-fi horror games, though it’s...
Morbius is back in theaters for some reason
Aaron Perine for ComicBook.com: It looks like the movie only grossed $85,000 on Friday. That’s a wild number and projec...
Capcom reworking Resident Evil 4 story for remake
Kazuma Hashimoto for Siliconera The website states that the Resident Evil 4 remake will see a reimagined storyline, it ...
Joe Quesada leaving Marvel Comics after 20+ years
Joe Quesada on Twitter: It’s both exciting and bittersweet that after discussions with both my family and my family at ...
The new design of Airbnb
Airbnb: People are more flexible than ever about where and when they travel. To help them take advantage of these new p...
There is no canonical story in Mass Effect
Bradley Shankar for MobileSyrup: Should Shepard really be alive in the new game, that would make that one Mass Effect 3...
RIP George Pérez
I had the pleasure of meeting George Pérez at a local convention back in 2012. George was one of the friendliest, profes...
Netflix CEO full of bad ideas, defends transphobic content
Natalie Oganesyan for Yahoo: To course correct, [Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos] is looking at several options, none of which...
According to Ubisoft, NFTs aren’t awful, players just “don’t get it”
Ubisoft VP Nicolas Pouard via Finder: “It’s really beneficial. But they don’t get it for now. Also, this is part of a p...
Switching to Android
Jake Peterson for Lifehacker: You know, we don’t all have to just let Apple win. Apple is good at what they do. They ma...
2021
RIP Ryan Bodenheim
Stunned to hear about the passing of Ryan Bodenheim. I’ll never forget the first time I read A Red Mass For Mars, his ar...
The Game Awards is one big commercial
Noelle Warner for Destructoid: I just find it ironic that it’s like “we’re here to celebrate what we love most about ga...
David Lynch has said: ‘Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if...
After reports of harassment, Activision Blizzard won't be at The Game Awards
Andrew Amos for Dexerto: Keighley claimed the awards are “a time of celebration for this industry” and “there is no pla...
Keighley’s Game Awards "thinking carefully" about Activision abuse claims
Ethan Gach for Kotaku: Despite being one of the most prominent figures in the video game industry, Keighley has so far ...
Discord users not happy with CEO's crypto tease
Alan Bernal for Dexerto: Discord CEO Jason Citron shared an image for crypto features in the app, particularly with Eht...
Facebook’s problems are too numerous to list, and so [Zuckerberg] is pitching products that don’t exist for a reality t...
Marvel’s Avengers has always felt like two games smooshed together: one of the best Marvel singleplayer experiences out...
The Facebook Files
The Wall Street Journal: Facebook Inc. knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause har...
Livestreaming is a job
Mollie Taylor for PC Gamer: It’s understandable that these streamers aren’t particularly mad—with rough subscriber coun...
I’ll admit I’ve never been a fan of the Carnage character. Like Venom as a hero, the red symbiote creation always felt ...
Thoughts on Nick Spencers final issue of ASM
Amazing Spider-Man #74 is a rushed, artistically disjointed, and confusing end to Nick Spencer’s run on the title. Betwe...
Apple bans Fortnite from the App Store until court battle is over
Chance Miller for 9to5Mac: Apple’s legal team wrote in a notice that Apple will not allow Fortnite back on the App Stor...
Reading comics by email sucks so Substack is partnering with Panels
David Brooke for AIPT: Turns out, reading comics in an email may not be the best choice so Panels allows them to not on...
PlayStation finally got to have their big 2021 presentation, and it wasn’t just an incredible show in its own right; it...
Scott Snyder inks huge deal with ComiXology and Dark Horse
Zack Quaintance for The Beat: Writer Scott Snyder has signed a deal with comiXology Originals that will see him and a s...
Dead Space remake coming to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC
Tom Ivan for VGC: Fans will experience an improved story, characters, gameplay mechanics and more as they fight to surv...
Popular Podcast App Pocket Casts Joins Automattic
Eli Budelli for Wordpress.com: Pocket Casts will be joining Automattic, making it easier for podcast fans to discover n...
Tesla admits Musk is bullshitting about full self-driving
Andrew J. Hawkins for The Verge: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been overstating the capabilities of the company’s advanced dr...
The implosion at Basecamp
Casey Newton for The Verge: Discussion about the [racist list of customer names] and how the company ought to hold itse...
Spotify is letting Joe Rogan push anti-vax nonsense
Ashley Carman for The Verge: In a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the world’s most popular podcaster sugges...
GG moving from Discord to Guilded
GG on Twitter: In recent months the mod team has found that our community has grown too large for Discord’s functionali...
I am not a fan of [Joe] Rogan’s podcast; I think it sounds like if you grafted a mouth onto a lifted Dodge Ram covered ...
Perhaps E3 doesn’t need to go, so much as it needs to change. It serves as a good anchor for these conferences in the s...
Microsoft is making Xbox Series X themed mini fridges
Patrick O’Rourke for MobileSyrup: Following a Twitter brand competition that saw Xbox take top honours, Microsoft’s Aar...
Marvel signs distribution deal with Penguin Random House
Brett Schenker for Graphic Policy: Marvel announced an exclusive deal with Penguin Random House to distribute their com...
Ghost 4.0
It’s exciting to see John and the team roll out the much-anticipated new version of Ghost that includes a new dashboard,...
Apple discontinuing original HomePod
Matthew Panzarino for TechCrunch Apple has discontinued its original HomePod after four years. It says that it will con...
Marvel's Avengers is adding more grind for some reason
Simon Cardy for IGN: The dev team recently announced an XP rework that will make grinding hero levels a slower process ...
Caroline Leigh Layne replacing Rebekah Isaacs on Money Shot
Graphic Policy: Vault Comics has announced that Caroline Leigh Layne is the new regular artist on the hit ongoing serie...
Marvel's Infinite Destinies gets new release dates, creators
Joe Grunenwald for The Comics Beat: Today the publisher announced release dates for the first three annuals of the even...
Batman '89 and Superman '78 comics coming soon from DC
Dan Greenfield for 13th Dimension: We’ve had Batman ’66 and Wonder Woman ’77 and now DC is finally giving fans what the...
Not everyone hates the Mako
Luke Winkie for IGN: Most people today regard the Mako as one of the hilariously botched eccentricities in the Mass Eff...
Players have had enough of GTAO and RDR2 hackers
Cass Marshall for Polygon: These third-party mods allow hackers to access the IP address of other players on the server...
Marvel's Avengers Hawkeye content, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S info coming next week
Adam Bankhurst for IGN: Marvel’s Avengers next War Table will take place on February 16, 2021, and it will showcase bot...
Horror anthology series The Silver Coin coming to Image in April
Graphic Policy: Eisner Award-winning artist Michael Walsh will team up with an all-star lineup of collaborators—Chip Zd...
Resident Evil 8 arrives in May, PS5 demo available today
Sam Machkovech for Ars Technica: RE8 will launch on May 7 on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC. All platforms...
Neal Kirby, son of Jack Kirby, denounces Capitol rioters who wore Captain America symbols
Neal Kirby via Comics Beat: "These images are disgusting and disgraceful. Captain America is the absolute antithes...
Microsoft, Amazon, and Google prepping for gaming acquisitions
Andy Robinson for VGC: Microsoft, Amazon and Google are actively seeking further video game company acquisitions, with ...
WandaVision rights wrongs for MCU's Scarlet Witch and Vision
Gavia Baker-Whitelaw for Daily Dot: It’s wonderfully refreshing to see Vision and Scarlet Witch completely abandon thei...
2020
Marvel releasing a series of variant covers by Michael Cho in March 2021
Joe Grunenwald for The Beat: Marvel Comics has announced a new series of variant covers for their March-shipping titles...
Thoughts on the new volume of Black Cat
It dawned on me yesterday when I got my weekly pull list email that the new Black Cat series is spinning out of the King...
Mariko Tamaki taking over Detective Comics next year
Susana Polo for Polygon: Tamaki will be only the second woman in comics history to be the lead writer on a core Batman ...
Hitman developer IO working on a new James Bond game
Chris Moyse for Destructoid: Given the tense, stealth-action gameplay, deep comic-book lore, and decadent, globe-trotti...
The M1 Macs
John Gruber for Daring Fireball: I chatted with one Apple employee who’d been using this hardware for months, and after...
Moguri Mod breathes new life into Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy IX turns 20 years old today and still stands for me as the best entry in the series. The scale of the game...
Slime Tunnel
Slime Tunnel on Gumroad: A 26 page Horror comic. A man discovers a strange tunnel in his late father’s bedroom. Slime ...
Dan Didio has left DC Comics
Gregory Lawrence for Collider: DiDio was instrumental in many of DC’s contemporary shifts and successes, including The ...
2019
River City Conventions shutting down permanently
Central Canada Comic Con on Facebook: River City Conventions after 25 years will be closing its doors permanently. Ther...
Winnipeg comic convention cancelled indefinitely
Central Canada Comic Con on Facebook: it is with a heavy heart and great sadness that we have to announce that C4 will ...
2018
Marvel doing weird things with numbers again
Jude Terror for Bleeding Cool: That’s right, in addition to Amazing Spider-Man #17 and #18, March will also see the rel...
The talent and design at the heart of TKO Studios
TKO has been fun to follow. I was a little skeptical at first but they’ve been bringing on great talent, the books they’...
Apple Music Twitter account fiasco
Gary Ng for iPhone in Canada: YouTube tech reviewer Marques Brownlee seems to be the ultimate sleuth when it comes to T...
Persona 5’s Joker coming to Smash Bros. Ultimate
Chaim Gartenberg for The Verge: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is almost here, but Nintendo isn’t resting on its laurels. O...
Tumblr banning all adult content on December 17th
Shannon Liao for The Verge: Banned content includes photos, videos, and GIFs of human genitalia, female-presenting nipp...
Elza Walker's biker outfit will be a alternative costume in the Resident Evil 2 remake
Jenni Lada for Siliconera: Elza Walker was a Ducati bike rider who attended Raccoon University. She was in the Resident...
2017
Brian Michael Bendis signs exclusive to DC Comics
Justin Carter for CBR: Brian Michael Bendis has written for Marvel Comics for nearly 18 years, working on titles rangin...
The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 by Mondo and Project Raygun
Mondo: In The Thing™ Infection at Outpost 31, relive John Carpenter’s sci-fi cult classic as a hidden identity game des...
On the outrage around the higher price of the new iPhone
Matthew Panzarino on Twitter: Get real. Unlocked buyers won’t care. It will cost everyone else $10/mo more. This is the...
Alan Wake leaves Steam next week
Andy Kelly for PC Gamer: According to a tweet by Remedy Entertainment, Finnish creator of Alan Wake, its atmospheric ho...
2016
Samsung Galaxy S8 reportedly removing headphone jack, home button
Jordan Kahn for 9to5Google: A new series of reports today from SamMobile, a blog that often provides accurate details o...
Users bombard the App Store with negative reviews for Super Mario Run, stock drops
Usman Qureshi for iPhone in Canada: Disappointing early reviews and sales of Nintendo’s latest ‘Super Mario Run’ smartp...
New documentary takes a look at the Doom that could have been
Andy Chalk for PC Gamer: Doom 4 was “a lot more cinematic,” and had “a lot more story to it, a lot more characters arou...
Marvel moving Venom book to legacy numbering
Brett White for CBR: May 2017’s issue of “Venom” will be numbered #150, a number taking into account all of the previou...
Google Play Music design overhauled, machine learning for better discovery
Gus Lubin for Business Insider: Play Music’s latest update blows up the concierge in favor of a new array of recommenda...
Google just updated Gmail for iOS
Napier Lopez for TNW: Gmail for iOS is getting a big revamp today in what Google calls “the biggest overhaul of the app...
Razer attacks Apple's new MacBook with awful tweet
I'd be embarrassed to have anything in my house made by Razer at this point but, hey, if you know of a better way to wi...
The touchscreen MacBook
Jon Fingas for Engadget: Why should you scrub through a video timeline on your keyboard when you could manipulate it di...
Mockingbird writer Chelsea Cain harassed by trolls, deletes Twitter account
Heidi MacDonald for The Beat: Mockingbird writer Chelsea Cain, the bestselling author of Heartsick and other thrillers,...
On the Pixel's apparent lack of premium features
Russell Holly for Android Central: This is a fantastic phone, but there’s clearly room for improvement and it’s importa...
New Batwoman ongoing series arriving in 2017
Meagan Damore for CBR: Written by “DC Bombshells” scribe Marguerite Bennett and drawn by “Velvet” artist Steve Epting, ...
Cutting through the noise on Apple's AirPods
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for Computerworld: To catch you up on the story, Apple dumped the headphone jack in iPhone 7....
Bioware reveals first Mass Effect: Andromeda gameplay footage
While the footage is light on action, graphically, it looks incredible and definitely feels like a Mass Effect game. I c...
Hideo Kojima doesn't understand Metal Gear Survive either
Daniel Robson and Jose Otero for IGN: Kojima took the opportunity to distance himself from Konami’s forthcoming game Me...
Telltale releases trailer for second episode of Batman: The Telltale Series
Davey Nieves for The Beat: Last month Telltale Games made a huge splash with the debut of their new Batman inspired ser...
Early thoughts on Android's Pixel Launcher
David Ruddock for Android Police: First off, this new launcher does away with the app drawer icon. The drawer itself re...
Deep diving into Greg Smallwood's Moon Knight artwork
John R. Parker for ComicsAlliance: Greg Smallwood is one of the most fascinating artists to have emerged in the last fi...
Apple's process behind removing the headphone jack in the iPhone 7
Juli Clover for MacRumours: The idea for the removal of the headphone jack was raised during the development of the iPh...
Konami has no plans to release MGS V: The Phantom Pain's controversial Mission 51
Brian Ashcraft for Kotaku: One of Metal Gear Solid V’s most important plot points, Mission 51, ended up on the cutting ...
Otto Schmidt signs exclusive to DC Comics
Christos Tsirbas for CBR: DC Entertainment has just signed international artists Robson Rocha and Otto Schmidt to exclu...
RIP Nexus, hello Pixel
David Ruddock for Android Police: Speaking to two independent sources, we now strongly believe that Google’s formerly-m...
Newsarama has a new design and strange logo
Newsarama: Newsarama will not be updating until Tuesday morning, August 30th, but please come back then for a little ne...
RE7 submitted to ESRB, plot details revealed
Jenni Lada for Siliconera: The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) has issued a “Mature” rating for Resident Evi...
CBR.com has been redesigned, rebranded
Heidi MacDonald for The Beat: At least one of the top rotating stories on the new site is about comics. And there are s...
Star Citizen demos alpha 3.0 update at Gamescom 2016
Alice O’Connor for Rock Paper Shotgun: Fancy space games are certainly more common now than when Star Citizen was annou...
Facebook considering autoplaying videos with sound on mobile
Ben Lovejoy for 9to5Mac: Facebook has confirmed to Mashable that it is testing a new version of autoplay videos in its ...
Thoughts on the design of the Xbox One S console
Andrew Kim via Paul Thurrott: “We also wanted to simplify the hardware to align with the new Windows 10 design language...
EA now considering remasters, including the Mass Effect series
Mike Futter for Game Informer: In our conversation at EA’s Gamescom welcome event, Soderlund stopped short of confirmin...
Konami unveils first post-Kojima Metal Gear game, Survive
Chris Carter for Destructoid: The gist is that it seems like canon, following the story of the soldiers left at Mother ...
Twitter's night mode coming soon to iOS
Mark Linsangan for The Verge: Last month, Twitter added a night mode for Android users, hoping that it would drive peop...
New images reportedly show black next-gen iPhone
Nick Salerni for iPhone in Canada: The black colour on the iPhone looks incredibly stylish, complete with little detail...
George Lucas buys original art from Han Solo comic
Anthony Couto for CBR: It turns out “Star Wars” creator George Lucas is a big fan of Marvel Comics’ new “Han Solo” seri...
Samsung preemptively mocks Apple's decision to remove headphone jack
Juli Clover for MacRumours: While on stage describing the new Galaxy Note7, Samsung marketing VP Justin Denison made su...
BioWare closing most community forums
Chris Carter for Destructoid: If you frequent the BioWare forums, you better sit down. Over the weekend, the publisher ...
Instagram tackling abuse while Twitter sits on the sidelines
Jacob Kastrenakes for The Verge: Online harassment is a serious issue that any network needs to deal with, period. And ...
Marvel's "ongoing" comics
Michael Doran for Newsarama: What exactly is an “ongoing” series in 2016? …and does Marvel actually publish them anymor...
Pocket Casts 6 brings dark mode, multitasking, and more to its iOS podcast app
Zac Hall for 9to5Mac: Pocket Casts is a cross-platform podcast player with apps on iOS, Android, the web, and even Wind...
2016 iPhone reportedly being called iPhone 6SE
Gary Ng for iPhone in Canada: What is Apple going to name the next iPhone? According to the latest rumour from Apfelpag...
Facebook is killing Paper
Bryan Clark for The Next Web: Paper was beautifully designed and almost universally adored by the design community for ...
Some early thoughts on Pokémon Go and its many technical issues
Austin Walker for VICE: So, you connect and head to one landmark, you wait for it to load in. It fails to load in, but ...
Revisiting Resident Evil 1.5: Who is Elza Walker?
Dehorvie on Tumblr: Elza Walker in Resident Evil 1.5 (バイオハザード 1.5) – The first footage of the game was shown at the V J...
CD Projekt Red announces The Witcher 3: Game of the Year Edition
Samit Sarkar for Polygon: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt developer CD Projekt Red is planning to release a Game of the Year E...
Resident Evil 7 looks to return the series to its roots
Sam Byford for The Verge: Not to take anything away from Resident Evil 4, which is one of the best and most influential...
Bethesda and Arkane rebooting Prey again
Adam Smith for Rock Paper Shotgun: Just as DOOM is not Doom 4, Prey is no longer Prey 2. That makes sense, given that i...
Apple Podcasts need to be decoupled from iTunes
Zac Hall for 9to5Mac: iTunes in its current form can be a mess as a music player, but at least that tries to be its pri...
Twitter's Android app gets Material Design inspired update
Ian Hardy for MobileSyrup: Twitter has announced its native app has been overhauled with a “revamped look and feel” in ...
ComiXology launches Unlimited: an all-you-can-read service for comics
Brett White for CBR: For the flat cost of $5.99 a month, readers will be given access to titles from Image Comics, Dark...
Pebble takes to Kickstarter again for Pebble 2, Time 2, and Core
Patrick O’Rourke for MobileSyrup: With the help of crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, Pebble has revealed plans to laun...
Google debuts Spaces, a new group sharing app
Luke Wroblewski for Google: When someone shares something new to a space, the conversational view lets you see what the...
Siri for Mac’s dock icon leaked ahead of OS X 10.12 announcment
Juli Clover for MacRumors: In the menu bar, there’s a simple Siri black and white icon that features the word “Siri” su...
DC Comics reveals new logo
Meagan Damore for CBR: Following its debut on “Rebirth,” the logo — which was developed in partnership with Pentagram —...
Apple Music reportedly getting design overhaul for iOS 10
Tim Hardwick for MacRumors: Details about the upcoming Apple Music redesign have been shared by 9to5Mac. It is said to ...
The connective tissue of the Dark Souls games
Robert Zak for Rock Paper Shotgun: Where before the Souls games were only cryptically connected with each other, leavin...
Instagram testing redesign on iOS
Chance Miller for 9to5Mac: Instagram, following the controversial announcement that it would change the order in which ...
CDPR shares progress on Witcher 3: Blood and Wine
Jordan Devore for Destructoid: I know people who are anticipating the next Witcher 3 expansion, Blood & Wine, more ...
Nintendo's "NX" console arrives March 2017
Nick Summers for Engadget: We’ve heard plenty of rumors since then, including a console-handheld hybrid, a system more ...
Fallout 4 wins GOTY at the BAFTAs
Mike Diver for VICE: Fallout 4 didn’t win in any other category at the BAFTAs. Audio and Music awards went to Everybody...
Podcasts hit Google Play Music this week
Micah Singleton for The Verge: Podcasts have finally made their way to Google Play Music, the company announced today i...
MacStories' iOS 10 concept video
Federico Viticci for MacStories: Every year, I put together a list of the changes I’d like to see in the next version o...
Twitter's Moments feature now live in Canada
Ian Hardy for MobileSyrup: Rory Capern took over leadership at Twitter Canada and stated the country is a top ten marke...
New Fear Effect game launching via Kickstarter
Michael McWhertor for Polygon: Fear Effect: Sedna will be the third official game in the franchise, if it meets its cro...
Google debuts new family of Play icons
Android Blog: You’ll start to see the new Google Play icons across devices and online in the coming weeks. We hope you’...
Source code hints at switch from OS X to macOS
Rob Lefebvre for Cult of Mac: We’ve all noticed Apple’s latest operating system nomenclature, with each new release a d...
DC announces new All-Star Batman series
Rich Johnston for Bleeding Cool: Elephant in the room is Scott Snyder, Jim Lee says. Jim is announced that Scott Snyder...
Google working on Echo-like hardware
Chris Welch for The Verge: Google executives have seen and heard all the positive buzz around Amazon’s Echo speaker, an...
Batman v Superman slammed with negative reviews
Mike Sampson for ComicsAlliance: The first critic reviews of Batman v. Superman hit the web last night and early word w...
Smartwatch maker Pebble is laying off 25% of its staff
Ian Hardy for MobileSyrup: Pebble is laying off 25 percent of its total staff this week (about 40 employees). CEO Eric ...
Konami wanted Hayter out before Metal Gear Solid V
Owen S. Good for Polygon: In a blunt interview with Game Informer’s podcast, David Hayter, the longtime voice of Solid ...
Firewatch sells half a million copies
Owen S. Good for Polygon: Panic, the publisher who partnered with developing studio Campo Santo, announced the sales to...
Google releases Android N Developer Preview
Ron Amadeo for Ars Technica: Google I/O is happening on May 18-20, but forget Google I/O—the developer preview of the n...
Spider-Man's MCU Civil War suit is perfect
Chris Plante for The Verge: Spider-Man just leapt into the final shot of the Captain America: Civil War trailer, tingli...
Sean Parker of Napster is creating a day-and-date movie release service
Mariella Moon for Engadget: Sean Parker, Napster co-founder and ex-Facebook president, is cooking up another big projec...
Ubisoft banking heavily on success of The Division
Brian Crecente for Polygon: This week doesn’t mark just the launch of Ubisoft’s latest new franchise with the release o...
Sony's Venom movie has a writer, studio eyeing a potential franchise
Meagan Damore for CBR: “Venom” is swinging back to Sony. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the studio has hired Dant...
Nintendo’s 3DS woes
Rollin Bishop for Motherboard: Well, the days when Nintendo can count on its portable business may very well be coming ...
Trademark suggests an Alan Wake sequel is coming
Nick Summers for Engadget: A trademark application for “Alan Wake’s Return” was spotted by a user on the gaming forum N...
Apple's iPad Pro likely revealed in March
Gary Ng for iPhone in Canada: While we all suspected an iPad Air 3 was set to be announced, Gurman now says it’s going ...
Resident Evil 4, 5, and 6 coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Andrew Webster for The Verge: A trio of Resident Evil games is on its way to modern consoles. Today Capcom announced th...
Apple is removing Pencil navigation in iOS 9.3 beta
Serenity Caldwell for iMore: Apple’s pressure-sensitive tool is incredible for drawing and writing on the iPad Pro’s sc...
DC pivoting once again post-New 52 with Rebirth event
Chris Arrant for Newsarama: “The whole point of ‘Rebirth,’ for all of us, is to get back to the essence of the characte...
Tom King is leaving The Vision, book wrapping with issue 12
Rich Johnston for Bleeding Cool: It is very possibly the best comic book Marvel Comics is publishing. But Tom King is a...
DC Comics celebrating the five year anniversary of the New 52
Susana Polo for Polygon: May 2016 is the month that every title that launched at the start of the New 52 will hit its 5...
Quality over quantity: No Assassin's Creed this year
Allegra Frank for Polygon: Assassin’s Creed is taking the year off, Ubisoft announced today. The publisher won’t releas...
Xbox fans are upset Quantum Break is also coming to PC
Ben Kuchera for Polygon: The anger seems to be directed at the idea that platform exclusives should stay exclusive, eve...
The Division open beta kicks off next week
Edgar Alvareza for Engadget: If you didn’t participate in The Division’s recent closed beta, don’t worry – you’re going...
Google's visual identity
The Rivalry: We were invited to create a new visual identity for GOOGLE that would adapt to the ever-evolving multi-scr...
Google ads going all-HTML, banning Flash
Ron Amadeo for Ars Technica: On the Adwords Google+ page, Google just announced a timeline for banishing Flash from its...
VAIO just announced a new Windows smartphone
Mat Smith for Engadget: VAIO’s Windows Phone runs Windows 10, and (on paper) has the specifications to make that work –...
Sunrise will be shuttered in favour of Outlook on mobile
Blair Hanley Frank for Macworld: Microsoft hasn’t said exactly when it plans to end support for the app it acquired las...
The end of Windows Phone
Tom Warren for The Verge: Windows Phone started off life as a promising alternative to Android and iOS five years ago. ...
Google updates Chrome for iOS: now faster, more stable
Jared Dipane for iMore: Google has pushed an update to its Chrome browser for iPhone and iPad, making it nearly 70 perc...
IO's Next Hitman game will release episodically
Hayden Dingman for Rock Paper Shotgun: Hitman still technically releases on the same day, but at about one-third the si...
Lenovo moving away from Motorola, becoming Moto
Ryan Whitwam for Android Police: According to Motorola CEO Rick Osterloh, Lenovo will keep the Motorola name around at ...
iPhone 7 apparently debuting alongside new wireless EarPods by Beats
Oscar Raymundo for Macworld: There’s a reason why the iPhone 7 is getting rid of the 3.5 mm headphone jack. According t...
Final Fantasy IX is coming to PC via Steam
Tom Sykes for PC Gamer: Final Fantasy IX, the secret best Final Fantasy title, is coming to PC, only 15 years after it ...
Gizmodo's take on Apple this year is unsurprisingly negative
Mario Aguilar for Gizmodo: In 2015, Apple made a series of flashy new introductions of both hardware and software. Seve...
2015
Google and Ford working together on self-driving cars
Ron Amadeo for Ars Technica: Google just found a major partner for its self-driving car program. A report from Yahoo Au...
Apple isn't too late to the streaming music market
Micah Singleton for The Verge: Let’s lay out just how large the head start its competitors have. Apple Music is essenti...
Vaughan, Martin, and Vicente release first issue of Barrier
Zachary Clemente for The Beat: Out today, likely timed with this week’s release of the hardcover physical release of th...
Reeder 3 available on iOS
Chance Miller for 9to5Mac: First off, the update adds support for using Instapaper as a sync service. Instapaper joins ...
Sony is working on PS2 emulation for the PS4
James Vincent for The Verge: What exactly is Sony up to with emulating PlayStation 2 games on the PS4? A report this we...
The MCU needs more Doctor Doom
Alex Abad-Santos for Vox: While a First Family reunion and subsequent integration into the Marvel Cinematic Universe wo...
Director Jon Watts talks about his Spider-Man comic book inspirations
Rob Leane for Den of Geek: We have the freedom to pull from anything, but I really like what [Brian Michael] Bendis did...
Ubisoft unveils Far Cry Primal, coming in 2016
Sam Machkovech for Ars Technica: Far Cry Primal will take players to a prehistoric era that, according to today’s new t...
PS Vita successor doubtful, Sony blames mobile gaming
Owen Good for Polygon: Shuhei Yoshida, the worldwide studios chief for Sony Computer Entertainment, told a panel this w...
Pebble debuts the Pebble Time Round smartwatch
Greg Kumparak for TechCrunch: Pebble, the company that arguably sparked the whole smartwatch trend with a $10M Kickstar...
Konami done with AAA games, despite success of Metal Gear Solid V
Alec Meer for Rock Paper Shotgun: Our chums at Eurogamer are lending their trusted backing to recent claims that publis...
iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus features new 3D Touch
Dieter Bohn for The Verge: There’s a consistent use case for 3D Touch: “peeking” into the thing that’s being linked. So...
Artist Kevin Wada shares Scarlet Witch design process
George Marston for Newsarama: Kevin Wada has become one of Marvel’s go-to artists for redesigning and updating their ch...
The review embargo has lifted on Metal Gear Solid V
Michael McWhertor for Polygon: Series creator Hideo Kojima has been making Metal Gear games with publisher Konami for c...
DC pushing "back to basics" approach to writers
Rich Johnston for Bleeding Cool: This morning we mentioned that DC Comics was down over $2 million on planned revenue/e...
Until Dawn finds inspiration in classic horror movies
Andrew Webster for The Verge: The best horror movie of the year might just be a video game. Though it’s available on th...
Resident Evil 2 remake getting traction within Capcom
Capcom’s “H” via Polygon: Right after the RE HD Remaster project was finished, I actually started putting together my i...
Odin Sphere HD remaster coming to PlayStation consoles
Michael McWhertor for Polygon: Vanillaware’s side-scrolling, fantasy action-role-playing game Odin Sphere is coming bac...
iOS 9 beta users can no longer review apps
Juli Clover for MacRumors: This is a much needed change that will prevent developers from having their App Store rating...
Remembering City Of Heroes
John Walker for Rock Paper Shotgun: I stuck with CoH longer than any other MMO, even World Of Warcraft. I’ve never like...
iOS 9 adds lowercase keys to the iPhone keyboard
Greg Kumparak for TechCrunch: Apple Finally Fixes The iPhone Keyboard’s Worst Flaw In iOS 9. It’s the little things in ...
The Verge is turning off comments
Nilay Patel for The Verge: What we’ve found lately is that the tone of our comments (and some of our commenters) is get...
Marvel announces 45 new comics, many arriving in October
Jamie Lovett for Comic Book: Today, comic shop retailers across the globe received the All-New, All-Different Marvel Pr...
Google Hangouts for iOS gets a redesign
Billy Steele for Engadget: Frustrated with the Google Hangouts app on iOS from time to time? Us too. Mountain View upda...
Google officially announces Android M
Molly McHugh and David Pierce for WIRED: We’ve gotten our first official look at Android M, and it offers scores of sub...
Tweetbot for Mac 2.0
M.G. Seigler via ParisLemon: Twitter for Mac continues to suffer from its on-again, off-again death. They clearly don’t...
Resident Evil Zero HD remaster announced
Alice O’Connor for Rock Paper Shotgun: Capcom announced this morning that they’re giving the 2002 prequel to Resident E...
First look at Google's new photo service
Liam Spradlin for Android Police: We’ve been hearing for a very long time (…) that Photos would be splitting off from G...
Ouya (the company) is reportedly for sale
Adi Robertson for The Verge: Embattled gaming company Ouya might be in even more trouble: according to a leaked memo, i...
Why comic fans dislike the idea of Batman v Superman
Steven Lloyd Wilson for Pajiba: Snyder setting the two up to be enemies so that they fight? Bullshit. The two are frien...
The Batman v Superman trailer has leaked
Alex Abad-Santos for Vox: “Tell me, do you bleed?” a Batman with glowing eyes asks Superman. The sky is dark and rainy....
Apple Watch sells out in less than six hours
Joe Rossignol for MacRumors: The stainless steel Apple Watch retained fairly better shipping estimates after the pre-or...
Adam Hughes reflects on his Women of DC poster
Andrew Wheeler for ComicsAlliance: It’s inspired cosplayers and artists alike, and hangs in pride of place on many comi...
The hidden arc in the design of Mass Effect
Ben Kuchera for Polygon: Any two images from a Mass Effect game look like they came from not only the same game, but th...
Reports suggest new Apple TV with App Store, Siri coming in June
Jacob Kastrenakes for The Verge: According to BuzzFeed News, Apple is planning to debut a revamped Apple TV at its Worl...
Superman and Wonder Woman getting new costumes
Jesse Schedeen for IGN: A handful of upcoming comic book covers have revealed new costumes for both Superman and Wonder...
PC companies bash Apple’s new MacBook
Mac vs. PC is always fun. It’s a never-ending war of words between Apple fans and Microsoft fans, mixed with tech spec ...
Google Calendar hits iOS
Jon Fingas for Engadget: Do you prefer the iPhone, but would like to use Google’s calendar app to keep track of your li...
Bombshell is a Duke Nukem game starring a robotic woman
Chris Plante for The Verge: “It was Duke [Nukem] replaced with [the character] Bombshell.” The heroine, a former explos...
DC Comics ending physical and digital combos in March
Rich Johnston for Bleeding Cool: At the DC Retailer Roadshow on Friday in New York, DC Comics announced they would be e...
Pebble isn't an Apple Watch and it shouldn't try to be
With the rumoured new watch from Pebble with a colour e-paper display, the company has been able to completely change my...
Tizen vs. Android UI
Ron Amadeo for Ars Technica: With the release of Tizen, Samsung now has two smartphone interface designs under its belt...
iOS 8 adoption: 72%, Android Lollipop: 1.6%
Juli Clover for MacRumors: Though adoption of iOS 8 has been slower than iOS 7 adoption rates, Apple is still way ahead...