When Dark Souls II came out in 2014, I previewed and reviewed it for Kotaku. After I played the Looking Glass Knight demo at E3, I gushed to a friend that they had not fucked it up. This had been a ...

When the Steam Machine was first announced, a non-zero number of people zeroed in on a single accessory in the video. The Steam Machine takes swappable faceplates, allowing for customization, and the ...

Ubisoft has had a rough month--of all places this CNBC article has the most comprehensive and level-headed roundup I've seen--but among all the disappointment and frustration over everything the ...

Not too long ago I took the plunge and finally bought a 3D printer and, against certain reservations, I decided on the newly released Bambu Lab X2D. Bambu has been killing it over the last few years ...

I adore a garbage paperback. My younger years were spent reading the flimsy science fiction novels they dumped out constantly in the 70s with ancient covers that would disintegrate when you shoved ...

Four gamers are suing Sony Interactive Entertainment for allegedly breaking a California law that requires digital storefronts selling games to make it clear people are buying licenses, not actually ...

Having learned nothing from previous industry attempts to pivot to things that weren't "human beings writing things for others to read", in 2023 Buzzfeed– once one of the biggest media properties on ...

When I want information, like the real stuff, I go to forums. Over the years, forums did not really get smaller, so much as the rest of the internet just got bigger. Reddit, Discord and Facebook ...

Emily Wilson is an accomplished academic and a renowned scholar in the field of Homeric epics. Her 2017 translation of The Odyssey, which shaped the text into iambic pentameter, has sold over a ...

Moxie is a small blue robot with a big expressive face straight out of a Pixar movie. The robot used large language models in the cloud to answer questions, talk, and function. With Embodied out of ...

Welcome signs on the road into Maryland bear a slogan chosen by the governor. The last guy went with “Open for business.” In 2023, the new governor updated the signs with his own motto, the one I saw ...

Palmer Lucky is an evil fucking worm and dipshit beneficiary of government contracts. He’s the Oculus jackass with a shitty soul patch who runs a military defense company called Anduril. I could ...