Microsoft President Brad SmithPhoto: Valeria Mongelli / Bloomberg (Getty Images) Earlier today, Microsoft President Brad Smith and Xbox boss Phil Spencer talked briefly to the media about its ongoing attempt to consume Activision Blizzard King, continuing once again to act like the larger spat is mostly about Call of Duty. At one point, Smith said
Screenshot: ISD | Roblox A 16-year-old boy has been detained by Singaporean authorities under the country’s strict new terror laws, after he was found to have been playing on ‘multiple Islamic State-themed servers on Roblox’. Watch CC Off English God Of War Is Still The GOAT For Opening Boss Fights The Anime Series With Better
Gif: Firaxis The Civilization series has been with us so long that it can sometimes feel like part of the furniture. A game comes out, is played for years, another follows, repeat until the heat death of the universe. But it has actually been a very long time since the last game! Watch CC Off
Image: Yuichiro Chino (Getty Images) The award-winning Clarkesworld Magazine has helped launch the careers of science fiction writers for almost 20 years, regularly featuring work from Hugo Award nominees and winners like Elizabeth Bear, Peter Watts and Catherynne M. Valente. But right now, in quite the ironic situation, it finds itself battling against that most
Image: Atlus / Unsplash / Kotaku They call it a crush for a reason. It’s the unbearable weight of desiring and wanting to be desired. Crushes have long been reserved for that fumbling, end-of-the-world teenage kind of love where vulnerability is reserved for under the streetlights of a convenience store past curfew. Who cares if
Image: Mojang Much of the science fiction genre would have you believe that artificial intelligence would bring about humanity’s downfall by rising up and slaughtering its creators, but the recent boom in AI tech has instead amounted to labor crimes like journalistic malpractice and robbing artists of their commissions. So while AI is mostly being
Screenshot: Supermassive Games / Kotaku The Dark Pictures Anthology developer Supermassive Games will release a scary, shooter spinoff for the PS VR2, Switchback VR, later this month. A new gameplay walkthrough trailer reveals a grim roller coaster ride into a series of nightmares, made even more gruesome by eye-tracking technology that pulls enemies to you
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Photo: Justin Sullivan / Reddit / Kotaku (Getty Images) Taylor Neubert did what so many GameStop employees have only dreamed about: quit on the spot. Fed up with working 10-hour days all by herself between piles of video games and stacks of Pokémon merchandize for less than $15 an hour, she closed her store in
The MysteriesImage: Bill Watterson / John Kascht / Simon & Schuster Bill Watterson, the man responsible for a decade of Calvin & Hobbes comics, is coming out of retirement for a new illustrated storybook, The Mysteries, that is set to release this October. Just in time for spooky season. Watch CC Off English Netflix’s Junji