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Delta Is an iOS Game Boy Emulator That (Likely) Won’t Get Taken Down
A new app called Delta that lets iPhone owners play old Nintendo games is available on...
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The Best Podcasts for Everyone
Get your fix of tech, true crime, pop culture, or comedy with these audio adventures.
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How a Picturesque Cozy Game Hit Its Anti-Authoritarian Stride
The title character of Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley scares cops and destroys park signs in the...
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The More People Say 'Megalopolis' Is Unsellable, the More We Need to See It
Sci-fi fiends have a long history of saving their darlings. Francis Ford Coppola’s epic Megalopolis, 40...
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Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’ Plays Both Sides
Civil War is a big and loud and visually arresting film, but its politics are confused...
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Taylor Swift’s Music Is Back on TikTok—Right Before Her New Album Drops
Taylor Swift has seemingly reached a deal with TikTok to get her music back on the...
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'Fallout' Nails Video Game Adaptations by Making the Apocalypse Fun
Westworld creator Jonathan Nolan’s new show keeps Fallout’s gallows humor. He also packed the first season...
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Influencers Are Trying to Go Viral by Playing a Game About Going Viral
Horror game Content Warning is a metanarrative about the things streamers will do to get clicks.
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Did Social Media Kill the Pop Song?
A new study found that song lyrics are now angrier, more repetitive, and vain. Consensus wavers,...
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The 50 Best Shows on Disney+ Right Now
From X-Men ‘97 to Renegade Nell, here’s everything you should be watching on Disney+.
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An Interview With a Guy Who Got a Vasectomy During the East Coast Earthquake
Where’s the last place you want to be during an earthquake? For Justin Allen, it was...
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'The Matrix' Is Getting a Fifth Movie—Without a Wachowski Directing
Drew Goddard, who has worked on everything from The Martian to The Good Place, will write...
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The Best Queer Batman Parody You Almost Never Saw
When Vera Drew set out to make The People’s Joker her goal was to tell a...
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The Future of Video Games Is ... Reality TV?
When you play The Crush House, it’s your job to capture the drama and please “the...
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AI-Generated Spoofs of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Are Flooding Instagram and TikTok
The next Drag Race Ru-volution doesn't involve Ru at all.
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The 25 Best Shows on Apple TV+ Right Now
From The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin to Constellation, here’s everything you need to be watching...
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A 'House of the Dragon' Star Made a Video Game to Grieve His Father
Abubakar Salim lost his father a decade ago. The actor and creative director embraced "gamifying" grief...
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Here's How Generative AI Depicts Queer People
WIRED investigates how artificial intelligence tools, like OpenAI’s Sora, currently portray members of the LGBTQ community....
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A Haunted Discord Server Is the Last Good Place Online
In the indie game This Discord Has Ghosts In It, your mission is—prepare yourself!—to communicate.
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The 16 Best Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now
From Everybody's Talking About Jamie to Bottoms, these are the must-watch films on Amazon Prime Video.
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Welcome (Back) to Beyoncé’s Internet
The release of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter exposes the tenor of online fandom today—and the fiction of...
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Disney+ Has a New Look—Which Is No Look at All
If you thought Disney’s app looked different this week, you’re right. Welcome to the dull days...
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Is AI the Future of NPCs?
Artificial intelligence is poised to have a massive impact on video games in the next few...
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Sci-Fi Author Vernor Vinge, Who First Wrote of the AI Singularity, Dead at 79
Vernor Vinge’s writings heavily influenced futurists like Ray Kurzweil, who in turn influenced those at companies...