Game Info Platform Win Publisher Surprise Attack Games Developer Osmotic Studios Release Date Oct 27, 2016 It's timely that Orwell , a game about state surveillance from developer Osmotic Studios, is set in a fictional country (called The Nation) that's not unlike Britain, a country which once…

Photo: Getty Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, has an economic firestorm on his hands following his decision to ban the 500 and 1,000 rupee notes. In his monthly address on Sunday, Modi took his ambitions further with a call for a cashless society. According to a translation by Reuters , Modi…

I think there is something wrong with us. I think we have a problem with power, and with our fantasies about power. Just a few weeks ago, I would have said I was an evangelist, a person who believed in the power of technology and entertainment to teach us things, and to be good for us. Now it’s as…

Paul White. Photo by Owen Richards. If you’ve been following rap from 2011 to now, chances are very likely you’ve heard the work of Paul White . The London producer’s name has been attached to several critically acclaimed projects in 2016 alone. This year, he released a collaborative album with…

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Most people realize that fast food isn't the healthiest or best-tasting cuisine. It is, however, expected to be fast. Because, you know, that's what it's called. Many chains like McDonald's have struggled with slower food delivery in recent years, because there are more items on the menu (among…

Getty This weekend, San Francisco’s Municipal Railway was savaged by hackers demanding over $70,000 in bitcoins, leaving the metro system unable to collect fares. But the hack may be much more devastating for the transit agency, according to a list of servers allegedly compromised by the hackers and…

Sharon Jones sang and moved in a way that seemed so pure and instinctive it made every other performer in her orbit appear calculated and sluggish by comparison. Photograph by Tom Watkins / REX / Shutterstock In early 2014, I sat down for breakfast with the soul singer Sharon Jones. She was giving a…

(Ringer illustration) There’s a scene in the fourth season of Weeds where Mary-Louise Parker’s character Nancy gets stuck in abysmal border-crossing traffic on the way to Mexico. After sipping on her ever-present Starbucks Venti iced latte for hours, she breaks down, removes the top from the empty…

Karim Rashid is one of the most prolific designers of his generation, he has actually made an art of bringing new ideas and innovation to the widest-possible audience. Karim Rashid is the paramount design mind in popular culture today, something he understands as a universal global culture. Yet as a…

Looking back a couple of decades, it’s not that much of a shock that turntablism produced a masterpiece. It’s more of a shock that it produced only one masterpiece. DJing, of course, had been a vastly important part of hip-hop for decades before 1996, the year DJ Shadow released Endtroducing….. .…

Sun., May 15, 2016 Karim Rashid had a very Karim Rashid-specific problem. It was March, and the industrial designer, who doesn’t believe in checked baggage for most travel, arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan, with his carry-on packed precisely for the warm forecast, and his preferred colour scheme. Karim…

San Francisco Municipal Railway riders got an unexpected surprise this weekend after the system’s computer systems were apparently hacked. According to the San Francisco Examiner , the MUNI system had been attacked on Friday afternoon. MUNI riders were greeted with printed "Out of Service" and…

Mr. Rashid, 54, is a designer whose real estate projects include work for HAP Investments in East Harlem and Chelsea. He is best known, however, for industrial designs, including work in home furnishings, brand identity and packaging. Among his creations are the bobble water bottle, the Oh Chair and…

Karim Rashid has made an art of bringing new ideas and innovation to the widest-possible audience. A recipient of hundreds of international awards and creator of thousands of paradigm-shifting designs, Rashid lectures extensively, creates interiors for a wide range of hospitality venues and…

As America -- and the world -- continues to shake off the giant hangover that was the Great Recession, there remains one symbol of our excess and, some might say, poor judgment, that can elicit a particular type of groaning and remorse: the McMansion. Anyone who's watched an episode of Cribs or…

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Alexei Druzhinin/Associated Press) Eric Chenoweth is co-director of the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe. In assessing Donald Trump’s presidential victory , Americans continue to look away from this election’s most alarming story: the successful effort by…

President Obama and President Raúl Castro of Cuba at the end of a press conference in Havana in March. Alejandro Ernesto/European Pressphoto Agency WASHINGTON — President Obama said on Saturday that the death of Fidel Castro was an occasion for Americans to “extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban…

Photo-Illustration: Vulture This week, Vulture is taking a look at great unproduced, unreleased, or unheralded entertainment. In 1994, British rock writer Clinton Heylin published Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording Industry , an entertaining history of the illicit form. Tracing the…

In the recent bestselling video game Life Is Strange , a teenage heroine gains the ability to rewind time. She uses it to solve problems, address regrets, and return to a period in her life when she was completely carefree. It’s a game that seems deliberately crafted to make the adults playing it…

Marina Abramovic thinks I think too much, and am not very useful besides that. And she is not wrong. Abramovic, when she turns her tractor-beam Slavic-magic gaze on you, sees a lot. Being with her, under the spell of that attention, makes you feel both protected by and protective of her. It’s a bit…

Donald Trump on Tuesday at the New York Times. That morning, he described the newspaper as “failing”; in the afternoon he praised it as a “great American jewel.” PHOTOGRAPH BY SPENCER PLATT / GETTY The second week of the Trump transition brought several new appointments, the first specific policy…

Life’s too short to build something nobody wants… When thinking of User Experience, we often think of a simple, beautiful, and easy to use feature-set of a product, that makes the user’s life easier. But as a matter of fact, features are merely a small, fragile part of the product. They are only a…

Excerpt from Savage Sword of Jesus Christ. Photo: Metal Mammoth Inc. The God of All Comics is about to tackle the God of Abraham. Celebrated comics writer Grant Morrison — scribe of acclaimed works like The Invisibles , All-Star Superman , Animal Man , New X-Men , JLA , and an epic run on various…

(Fox/NBC/TBS/Ringer illustration) You could sure use some super-weird TV right now — disarming and surrealist and a little silly. Maybe a lot silly, with deep-thought philosophical overtones if you want ’em, but it’s cool if you don’t. Nothing too grim or dense or prestige. Also, whatever you…

Vandalism, offensive jokes, even criminal assault — reports of bias-based harassment have spiked since Donald J. Trump’s victory in the presidential race. Few of the perpetrators have been caught, but here is a look at five cases in which people have been directly accused. Some apologized. One…

Count Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s White House consigliere-in-waiting, as the latest political operative who has extrapolated a single, narrow presidential victory into a blueprint for a generation of electoral dominance. “The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class…

Donald Trump schlepped across town on Tuesday to meet with the publisher of The New York Times and some editors, columnists and reporters at the paper. As The Times reported , Trump actually seemed to soften some of his positions: He seemed to indicate that he wouldn’t seek to prosecute Hillary…

I had just shaken the president-elect’s normal-size hand and he was moving on to the next person when he wheeled around, took a half step back, touched my arm and looked me in the eye anew. “I’m going to get you to write some good stuff about me,” Donald Trump said. It’s entirely possible. I keep an…

President-elect Donald Trump, in Washington, has continued to criticize the media in the days since the election. Photograph by Zach Gibson / Getty The fantasy of the normalization of Donald Trump—the idea that a demagogic candidate would somehow be transformed into a statesman of poise and…

Just because Donald Trump was willing to enter the enemy’s den and soften his rhetoric doesn’t mean that anything about his approach to the Presidency has changed. PHOTOGRAPH BY LUCAS JACKSON / REUTERS Evidently, it was the Dr. Jekyll version of Donald Trump who left his Fifth Avenue aerie around…

AMERICA is about to take a hard right turn. All that is in doubt is whether the final destination is one that Ronald Reagan might have saluted—a country of low taxes, light regulation and free markets, in which individuals and businesses are free to seek prosperity with a minimum of government…

Photo: Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty Images Almost 59 million people voted for Donald Trump yesterday. On January 20, 2017, Donald Trump will become the 45th president of the United States. Simply put, a lot of white people learned last night that white supremacy is everybody’s problem. Black…

This article originally appeared on VICE France One Saturday night, while waiting for my train at Paris' République Station, a stranger asked: "Should we get to know each other a bit better?" "Okay," I replied. The guy froze and stared at me as if I was messing with him. "Really? You're actually up…

I’m not going to sugarcoat this at all. We are in for a full-blown assault on LGBTQ rights the likes of which many, particularly younger LGBTQ people, have not seen. Progress will most certainly be halted completely, likely rolled back. And it’s already underway. First, forget any of your thinking…

Photo of Emily Witt by Noah Kalina/courtesy of the author When I met Emily Witt six years ago, I felt that touch of vertigo that comes when you realize you're in the presence of a highly sophisticated and committed mind. Witt is an alumnus of Brown, the Columbia School of Journalism, and Cambridge.…

Lyft Around the time that the ridesharing economy began booming in major U.S. cities, an embarrassing trend emerged. Drunk and/or privileged people began assuming every car on the street was their Uber or Lyft. We so quickly became accustomed to ordering private cars via smartphone that the issue of…