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Things are surprisingly quiet on the Star Wars front right now, even though Solo is slowly but surely making its way to its release date and Episode IX is prepping to shoot in a few months. But, as everyone should know by now, there's always something stirring in the galaxy far, far away. (For all […]

Some good news for once: After a two-week hiatus, the MoviePass unlimited subscription—the one that lets you see a movie a day, every day, in theaters, for $10 a month—is back. And MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe says the company is "absolutely committed" to keeping it around. That wasn’t always a given. Just last week at […]

Last decade, the technology was questionable; this decade, the content. But today the greatest challenge for VR—as both an industry and medium—is no longer the tech or the content but the problem of time and attention. How, exactly, will or does VR fit into the collective human schedule? When and where will large numbers of people “do” […]

Early last winter, while browsing Manhattan’s Strand bookstore, roommates Carina Hsieh and Claudia Arisso came upon a keychain featuring a tiny version of the totemic, subway-friendly Strand tote bag. “Claudia said, ‘I wish there was a ‘Commuter Barbie’ who came with a Strand bag,’" Hsieh recently recalled. “And I was like, "Oh my God—we have […]

Three decades after Watchmen's release, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' dark, cerebral graphic novel remains one of most critically celebrated works of the superhero genre. On the commercial side, the comics world of the Justice League (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc.) contains some of the most well-known superhero stories of all time. So last year, […]

Kids aren’t getting behind the wheel as much these days. But contrary to popular belief, it’s not just because smartphones and social media let them stay connected. 71% of high school seniors have a driver’s license—the lowest percentage in decades. 15% of teens cite being able to communicate online as a reason for not getting […]

Shadow of the Colossus is a simple story about a boy and his horse. It's a messy story, about hubris, and mortality, and the desperate greed of love that can cause us to do things we know full well will end in disaster. It is also, incontrovertibly, one of the most important videogames in the […]

Click:custom clothing dance costume Florence is a romance you unravel with your fingertips. Based on the first love of its titular character, the mobile game takes that most classic of coming-of-age tales and does something special. Using the touchscreen interface, it guides players through all the waxing and waning of Florence Yeoh's relationship: falling in […]

San Francisco is a little bit more crowded than usual today, thanks to the 2018 Game Developers Conference. For a week each March, developers from all over the world come to learn, play new games, and hopefully get a job—while journalists congregate to report on the activity of said developers (and also to get jobs). […]

Not long after I met my boyfriend, I put a tracking device on him. I didn’t quite mean to do that. What I did, really, was follow him on Strava, the GPS-powered social app that maps your workouts. I was 23, and a nonexerciser who stayed fit with a precarious regimen of genetics. My new […]