Video Games / Virtue And A Sledgehammer Declares War On AI Maybe the only way to save everyone is to pick up a sledgehammer and march towards the nearest data center By Harper Jay MacIntyre / 28 Oct 2026
pokemon / I Sold $16K In Pokémon Cards And It Fucking Sucked I can definitively say that this experience was not worth this, nor any, amount of money By Lucas DeRuyter / 26 Oct 2026
Feature / Inside Polymarket's Paid Quote-Retweet Esports Program "This needs to look organic," wrote a Polymarket rep in an internal Discord server for the program. By Mikhail Klimentov / 15 Oct 2026
pokémon / Pokémon Fangames Evolve Beyond Their Origins For fangame creators, the work they develop and the communities they inspire are inextricably tied. By Ana Diaz / 1 Oct 2026
Video Games / Fortnite Is Selling Your Favorite Characters Back To You As Husks Fortnite's latest crossover season is a weird branding exercise that's bad for both companies and fans By Sam Greszes / 18 Sep 2026
Video Games / Screw It, I'm Starting A Bracer Guild The Trails in the Sky series has always understood that the big heroics aren’t the only thing that make a hero. By Harper Jay MacIntyre / 17 Sep 2026
music / At Brooklyn's MPreg SpongeBob Rave, 'Shitposting Is Catharsis' The bouncer rubbed his face wearily. 'I don’t see how SpongeBob is related to any of this.' By William Antonelli / 16 Sep 2026
pokémon / Pokémon Is For The Gays This year, the Pokémon World Championships are in San Francisco — so here are the many reasons why Pokémon is gay as hell By Marisa Ingemi / 28 Aug 2026
Feature / 'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam 'You work six years on a game, you line up press and events for the launch, and then some guy at Valve clicks on a checkbox and blocks everything.' By Jay Castello / 17 Aug 2026
Labor / Layoffs Leave The Future Of Xbox’s Award-Winning Accessibility Efforts In Doubt Former workers say Xbox cuts leave less resources and experts to make sure games are developed, labelled, and tested with accessibility in mind By Grant Stoner / 22 Jul 2026
Labor / Game Workers Rally Against Microsoft Layoffs: 'Corporate Greed Is Destroying Our Games And Our Livelihoods’ Former and current workers and supporters rallied outside ZeniMax offices across the US and Canada to protest Microsoft's latest cuts By Mikhail Klimentov / 16 Jul 2026
music / Saros Is Peak Doom Metal Saros was inspired by, and created in the oppressive light of, doom metal. By Eden Kupermintz / 30 Jun 2026
