GameScent Wants You to Smell the Gunfire While You Play Video Games
Burnt rubber and gunfire are not the most pleasing of smells, but for action games, they might be the most…
Europe’s Biggest Salt Mine Is Now in ‘Minecraft,’ and It’s Helping Ukraine Rebuild
On February 24, 2022, Stepan Bandrivskyi woke up before dawn and got ready for a special day: his birthday. It…
Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ Adapts the Unadaptable
Scientists keep taking their own lives, and no one knows why. That’s the central mystery at the start of 3…
‘The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’ Initial Prototypes Were ‘Chaos’
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom developers had a problem: The land of Hyrule kept falling apart. Anyone…
What Happens When a Guy and His AI Girlfriend Go to Therapy
Annie feels a jolt of alarm. “I could just set her there,” Doug says. “That’s easy enough.” “I know, but…
The Filmmaker Who Says AI Is Reparations
What changed for you? I had meetings lined up with four different agencies, including MACRO, one of the biggest. Then…
‘Photographer’ Isn’t About Photography at All
Each episode starts with a specific assignment and then goes deeper into the personal lives of the photographer. Mental health…
No One Knows What TikTok Is
“Most of these push notifications went to minor children, and these minor children were flooding our offices with phone calls,”…
The Small Company at the Center of ‘Gamergate 2.0’
“There are marginalized devs who work on these games, and they want to put that stuff in their games,” Belair…
The Kate Middleton Photo’s Most Glaring Photoshop Mistakes
Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, needs to brush up on her Photoshop skills, apparently. Over the weekend, the royal…