Microsoft will lay off about 650 people from its gaming division, largely in "corporate and support functions," according to an email from Xbox head Phil Spencer sent to
For most of the history of console gaming--and we're talking decades here--generations of and updates to machines tended to mean something. Each new batch of consoles offered substantial
There is no experience quite like writing with a good fountain pen. Holding one in your hand makes you want to write huge amounts of big flowery script. Fountain pens
It's been a hellish few years for people employed in the video game industry, as big studios have been laying off workers every chance they get while smaller
Over the past couple of months, my husband and I have gotten really, really into the early 2000s FX show The Shield. Watching makes me long for the halcyon days
Good ideas are born of careful consideration – of reading the room and giving the people precisely what they seem to want. Great ideas are born of ignoring the room altogether
Once in high school, I’d finished some unnecessary standardized test early and was staring into space when a man I’d never seen before asked me what I’d
Do you feel that chill in the air? The crunch of red and yellow leaves as you step out into the rapidly-dimming daylight? Me neither. Climate change has ruined everything,
Of all the consoles I have ever bought, few rival the sheer usefulness of my MiSTer. Based on a Terasic DE-10 Nano development board, the open source project encompasses a
