On Tuesday, Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced his company will be launching its own social media platform, news he buried at the end of a long, tone-deaf manifesto about how
From the minds that brought you the alliterative Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the ESA today announced the Interactive Innovation Conference, which they are calling "iicon" and not I2,
Scrolling the internet this morning, I came across the trailer for an upcoming game called Gold Mining Simulator 2. The idea that there would be not just one but two
I don’t need to tell you things are, uh, stressful. There are all kinds of healthy ways you can deal with this–friends and family, exercise, eating right, getting
In the Aftermath newsletter last week, I wrote about the tragic end of a recent run I was on in The Long Dark, my favorite survival game. I almost immediately
My main knowledge of escape rooms is that Bob’s Burgers episode where two angry couples are trapped together in a crappy puzzle room, though my perception of them was
Today, several staffers at G/O Media (which previously employed all of us here at Aftermath) pointed out the proliferation of AI-generated articles on news site Quartz. Written in a
A new season of Severance is finally upon us! Gita, Chris and Riley sat down to talk through the season premiere, which is enigmatic as ever.
Gita: Chris! Riley! Last
Lonely Mountains: Downhill is one of my favorite games, a 2019 mountain biking sort of racer/ sort of Zen exploration of a virtual wilderness. Developer Megagon released a skiing-focused sequel
If you’ve had better things to do than follow internet drama on a Saturday night, let me catch you up: TikTok went offline Saturday evening, with parent company ByteDance
Grand Theft Hamlet is a documentary that follows two out-of-work actors, struggling during UK covid lockdowns, trying to stage a production of Hamlet in Rockstar’s online game. It tells
