e-paper has been having a bit of a moment recently. First, the Boox Palma shrank the form factor of eReaders down to something a bit more pocketable and less proprietary than the Kindle. Then, open ...

After years of leaks and anticipation, it finally happened: Rockstar released gameplay footage of Grand Theft Auto VI, the most expensive video game in history. And boy does it look the part. Vice ...

The first time I wrote about the upcoming 1666: Amsterdam was when the game's reveal was found to be riddled with some absolutely dogshit AI-generated imagery. The second, and hopefully final, time is ...

For the better part of a year I was fascinated by a specific trackball that never seemed to materialize: Keychron’s Nape Pro. It is a unique and baffling object from a company not normally known for ...

If you haven’t been keeping up via weekly streams and a near-nonstop barrage of clips, Infowars—the Sandy Hook-denying conspiracy mill once headed up by Alex Jones—is now in the playfully nefarious ...

The following is an excerpt from CTRL: Essays on Video Games, a book published by The Lilliput Press and edited by Dean Fee. Chasing Lilacs, by Brenda Romero, is a personal history told through the ...

James Pond, a classic fish-based 1990 platformer that spawned (I am not sorry) a few sequels is, decades later, getting not only a surprise new game in the series, but a rerelease of the originals as ...

Welcome back to The Work, a column about resistance in fiction. This month: The Ultimates (2024), by Deniz Camp, Juan Frigeri, et al. Is the superhero over, or are reports of their demise overstated?

Today Xbox CEO Asha Sharma took a trip to Bethesda Game Studios in Rockville, Maryland. She was welcomed with open arms, of a sort. Those arms belonged to a giant inflatable version of Scabby, a rat ...

Grand Theft Auto VI, less a video game at this point and more a long-prophesied messianic figure, is just over a week away from its big, brazenly opportunistic Netflix “extended look” preview. Fans, ...

Let’s say you’ve already spent some time in the United States Army, a vicious colonial project that in recent years has been weaponized by a government with even more openly fascistic tendencies than ...

Has there ever been a clearer and purer game pitch than "Tony Hawk but you’re a train"? Denshattack is a game I have been both playing a lot of but also thinking about a lot. About how fun it is, yes, ...