AI / How AI Is Ruining Education, In One Handy Chart A Brown professor suspects students used AI to cheat on their midterms By Riley MacLeod / 8 Jul 2026
News / Union Promises To Take ‘All Necessary Legal And Contractual Action’ To Fight For Laid-Off Workers As Impacts On Blizzard, Id Software Become Clear "Entire teams have been gutted or even outright eliminated with institutional knowledge lost that can't be replaced" By Nathan Grayson / 7 Jul 2026
Movies / Tenet Is Christopher Nolan’s Best Film Don’t try to understand it. Feel it. By Gita Jackson / 7 Jul 2026
Video Games / Well At Least The Future’s Looking Bright For Bethesda’s *Checks Notes* ‘Strongest Franchises' A memo from Bethesda's boss says the company will focus on "our franchises and IP with meaningful long-term potential" By Riley MacLeod / 7 Jul 2026
Anime / Chainsmoker Cat's Anime Opening Is Absolute Cinema The actual show? Not so much. By Isaiah Colbert / 7 Jul 2026
News / Microsoft Layoffs Hit Bethesda, Obsidian, And Id Hard As Workers Brace For More “It was already excruciating [to wait] over the long weekend—which made it impossible to relax. Now we have it indefinitely, and nobody knows who it will hit” By Nathan Grayson / 6 Jul 2026
xbox / You Don't Have To Hand It To Microsoft For A Well-Planned Bloodbath People are being laid off in a horrendous job market. You do not have to praise the muddled prose of the rich and insulated. By Chris Person / 6 Jul 2026
News / Xbox Will Lay Off 3200 Workers And Cut Four Studios Loose CEO Asha Sharma called it "the most significant restructure in XBOX history" By Riley MacLeod and Nicole Carpenter / 6 Jul 2026
Podcasts / What Is The Point Of A Video Game Console Now? "I’m just like ehhhh. That new Naughty Dog game will probably be good, but I don’t need to buy a now-$900 PS5 Pro to play it" By Nathan Grayson / 3 Jul 2026
Video Games / I Guess These Are The Games, And Memories, I'm Stuck With For The Rest Of My Life Physical games recall physical experiences By Luke Plunkett / 2 Jul 2026
Blog / Asha Sharma Is Microsoft’s Pain Sponge Succesion is a documentary By Gita Jackson / 2 Jul 2026
Feature / With Layoffs Looming, Microsoft Unions Plan To Battle To The Bitter End: ‘It’s A Fight For Dignity And Respect’ “This fight, in my opinion, is not just a fight for unions, but a fight for working people" By Nathan Grayson / 2 Jul 2026
