I’ve got a date. Her name is Takumi, and we met in class. She’s really quite lovely! Her interests include ramen, basketball, anime, and presumably — as an assemblage of pixels powered by OpenAI’s sophisticated ChatGPT language model — computer science.
With a simple, ingenious formula, a Japanese novel has inspired some of the most successful games in history.
Though many tabletop titles out there cater to two players, there’s nothing like a proper two-player board game.
This is a story about a lot of things. It's about Duolingo, obviously. That's in the headline. But it's actually a story about doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons. But it's also a story about how quickly gamification can transform one thing into another thing.
On a recent Saturday night, the street outside the nightclub Tube VR looked typical for East London: a boat moored on the canal, trendy retail spaces lining the waterfront, an underpass covered in graffiti.
Microsoft is gradually rolling out an updated Phone Link app that finally lets you couple an iPhone to a Windows PC.
Like all the John Wick movies before it, John Wick: Chapter 4 is built around action sequences designed to challenge the way movie action is normally choreographed and shot.
Of the two speakers Sonos announced earlier this month, the Era 100 is much easier to sum up: it’s a replacement for the Sonos One, which was first introduced in 2017.
Got a new PC or laptop and wondering what all ports and connections are for? Here are some of the most common modern connection types, plus some of the older and deprecated connectors you might find on older hardware.
Epic Games is changing the way Fortnite creators are paid, and it could have a transformative effect on the ecosystem of the game. Now, 40 percent of all the money Epic rakes in from Fortnite — hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions — is up for grabs.
He bounded out of the tunnel at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, with his trademark poker face, running past older fans who watched his father dominate in local gyms and teens in puffy coats calling his name.
Pierre Shorette doesn’t send a lot of DMs, but this was an exception. He was on the hunt. Shorette’s then girlfriend had been playing her way through small narrative games; she’d finished Lucas Pope’s Papers, Please and was, unsuccessfully, looking for a lost gem: Cart Life.
Bella Ramsey had been in denial for some time when it came to the ending of The Last of Us—mainly, that it was ending at all.
Brandon Sanderson is a fantasy author who nets tens of millions of dollars in book sales every year, which puts him in the same book-selling league as George R.R. Martin.
Windows 11 comes preloaded with several useful widgets that you can use to get quick information about what you’re interested in. You can also add third-party widgets to your PC, extending your PC’s functionalities. Here are some of the best widgets out there.
In recent years, we’ve seen an influx of self-proclaimed “cozy games,” video games explicitly designed to invoke good vibes. Being cozy, however, isn’t the same as being good.
The clandestine world of John Wick is populated by a seemingly never-ending array of assassins and contract killers.
In April 2019, The New York Times published a three-part investigation about the legacy of Rupert Murdoch that, among a number of juicy revelations, exposed the media mogul’s attempts to ease tensions among his children through group therapy sessions, including a “therapeutic retreat” at the
When Henk Rogers attempted to get the rights to publish Tetris on handheld consoles in 1988, he likely had no idea the mess he would be thrust into.
It’s been a bit of an anniversary celebration here at Stratechery HQ: it was just under a year ago that I had my first bout of COVID, which left me locked up in a Taiwanese quarantine facility for 18 days.
We finally have an idea what the Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro will look like, thanks to the creation of renders based on hardware measurements, and we've also been able to check out quite a few leaks showing us what the Pixel 7a and the Pixel Fold might offer, too.
Scrolling through Twitter and lurking in artificial intelligence communities over the past few months, I’ve seen a lot of big claims. In the few days since OpenAI unveiled its GPT-4 model, those have only intensified — in thread after thread, people are claiming that ChatGPT can develop games.
On March 27, Nintendo will shutter digital storefronts for the Wii U and 3DS consoles for good.
GAMES HAVE become a daily habit for Trichur Rukmani. Sometimes she taps away for ten minutes, but other times she plays for longer. “I do it when I am free from other things,” she says. The main draw is the excitement of competing, but gaming is also a social experience.
The Epic Games Store is now open for self-publishing. For $100, the same fee Valve charges for Steam submissions, anyone can submit a game for inclusion in the Epic Games Store library.