Emily Henry has written six romances. Barry Brecheisen/Getty Images Emily Henry is, without a doubt, the reigning queen of romance novels. Since 2020, Henry has released six romances, all to great suc...
Things that HP Lovecraft was good at: Creating a mythos. Building atmosphere. Things that HP Lovecraft was bad at: Writing dialog. Creating compelling characters. Not being a racist . As a fan of horr...
Yesterday, Ubisoft confirmed that Rainbow Six Siege had been compromised and that it had shut down the game's servers and marketplace while it resolved the issue. The hackers managed to gain control o...
In this new era of consoleā¦ inclusivity ? driven by Sony and mostly Microsoft bringing their exclusives to other platforms, it's getting harder to highlight games that make a singular console shine. I...
The Klondike gold rush, wolves in the Alaskan snow, adventures on the high seas: Jack London, author of "The Call of the Wild" and "The Sea Wolf," was born 150 years ago. DW looks at his life....
Stranger Things actress Jennifer Marshall, who played Max's mom Susan, has called out her character's absence in the show's final season ā and said that being able to film scenes would have helped fun...
Last year, I had the great pleasure of attending the Games Industry Conference (GIC) in PoznaÅ, Wielkopolska, where I sat in on a number of talks about game development and craft. In one of those talk...
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers , a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Every year, TV makers flock to CES...
Thanks to Avatar: Fire and Ash , Zoe SaldaƱa has officially dethroned Scarlett Johansson as the top grossing actor of all time worldwide. According to The Numbers, SaldaƱaās current gross, which inclu...
Wonder Studios' London team. Wonder Studios AI had a turning point in Hollywood in 2025 with Disney striking an OpenAI deal. Elsewhere, startups are raising money to tackle every stage in the producti...
Jimmy Donaldson, a.k.a. MrBeast, is about to kick off season 2 of "Beast Games." Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Prime Video MrBeast is making the first episode of "Beast Games" Season ...
Flappy Bird was almost preposterously simple. If you ever played the game, even once, you surely remember how it worked, but here's a summary just in case. You were a bird. Your job was to fly, left t...
The Nintendo Power Glove was not good. It's important that you know that. The Power Glove was ambitious, impressive, even important - one of the very first mainstream devices that let you control a ga...
Microsoft has made its first Xbox Game Pass announcement of 2026, confirming a number of big hitters for January. The headline additions are Ubisoftās Star Wars Outlaws and Capcomās Resident Evil Vill...
Disneyland Handcrafted, an upcoming documentary from The Imagineering Story's Leslie Iwerks on the making of Disneyland and the "trials and tribulations behind the rapid construction of the park leadi...
CES 2026 is in the books, and boy was there a lot to see ā new gaming handheld chips , AR glasses for portable big-screen gaming , AI-powered headphones , and a gaming laptop with a rollable expanding...
Hi, I'm the author of The Program audio series, a fairly successful fiction podcast that launched on HackerNews in 2018. Seven years later, this little sci-fi anthology is still ongoing, having releas...
Unlike the day after Thanksgiving, when people are rushing online and to the stores to look for deals, the day after Christmas is usually a time to recover from the festivities and check your budget t...
In the years since Baldur's Gate 3's release, Larian has put a lot of time and energy into updating the game with tons of new content, including new content for some beloved character who got the shor...
The hype around Heated Rivalry has only continued to grow in the weeks after its Season 1 finale and the announcement of Season 2 , continued release of press tour interviews that fans are eating up, ...