How one writer became the core of early Apple II culture
Softalk magazine helped the idea of everyday computer entertainment—and games—to flourish.
God of War Ragnarök feels trapped between great design and blockbuster movies
The results are captivating and inconsistent
The Case of the Golden Idol review - model murder mystery mayhem
We didn't start the satire.
Book Review: Mizuki Tsujimura’s Lonely Castle in the Mirror
The easy and well-adjusted adult thing to say is that Lonely Castle in the Mirror is the book I needed when I was a teenager...
Amazon’s The Peripheral turns a piercing William Gibson novel into generic sci-fi
The new adaptation waters down the book’s bite in favor of more straightforward action
Acronym casts a long shadow over cyberpunk fashion
The inspirations behind the techwear seen in games like Death Stranding often come from the same place
For ‘The Midnight Club’ Author, This Netflix Moment Is Long Overdue
Teens have loved Christopher Pike’s horror novels for decades. But it took Mike Flanagan bringing those stories to Netflix to help convince Pike of his own popularity.
One of Gaming’s Greatest Writers Is Busy Crafting Romance Novels
WIRED talked to Jane Jensen about her prolific publishing, shape-shifting dogs, and the hope of seeing Gabriel Knight 4.
Betrayal at Club Low review - a dice-fuelled night on the tiles where everything and anything can go wrong
Pizza, love, unity, respect.
I can’t get Immortality’s slow, neurotic mystery out of my head
What happened to Marissa Marcel?
The Road to Heaven
Neocolonialism and digital colonialism in the infrastructure of Death Stranding
Jankcore is the new aesthetic
Curators of forgotten, flawed adventures and FMV are ensuring they will never die.
How '90s interior design software laid the foundation for today's life sims
The unsung influence of 3D home design programs.
How Nokia ringtones became the first viral earworms
Ring, ring
Someone should make a game about: pop band fight clubs
Hello! Welcome back to a stray installment of our occasional series, Someone Should Make a Game About. This week Alexis looks at the glory days of pop.
These "CSS crimes" turn social media posts into games
Cohost is a different vision for social networks
Book Review: Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan
There’s a certain strain of post-apocalyptic speculative fiction that gives off a curious prairiecore vibe.
The world's first syndicated game journalist was an 11-year-old kid
In the early '80s, Rawson Stovall started reviewing Atari games for the local paper. Before long he was the first syndicated game critic.
How EcoQuest brought Wikipedia into my childhood in 1993
Learning about other cultures through games, even if they’re not always 100% accurate
Stray is the work of sly cat people, and it’s a triumph
And yes, you can scratch the rugs
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