Man, I sure am enjoying this season of Fortnite, my favorite persistent, open and interoperable ecosystem.(1) And thanks to Disney’s new $1.5 billion investment, I can’t
It’s a big day for AI in journalism–or at least, for Microsoft. This morning, Semafor revealed a partnership with Microsoft to bring AI to its newsroom. Meanwhile, CUNY’
On Friday night, the inscrutable whims of the YouTube algorithm landed me on Barber Westchester, a full-length, independent animated film from 2021 that I’d never heard of before. Here’
Public implosions are on my mind this week. On the journalism side of things, we saw media startup The Messenger shut down after less than a year in the centrist
Spec Ops: The Line, Yager’s 2012 “what if Call of Duty but also Bioshock” shooter, has been delisted from Steam, with other online stores to follow. It’s a
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League has been at the center of some controversy this week, not just for it going live yesterday (for people who pre-ordered) only to be
A pre-production Deus Ex game has been cancelled and 97 employees have been laid off, Bloomberg reported Monday. It will not surprise you that Embracer Group had a hand in
Confusing mobile game ads are basically a meme now, with perhaps none quite so notable as Hero Wars. For years, we were taunted by auto-playing ad rolls of logic puzzles
