There's something missing from indie narrative experiment Her Story : namely, the "story" part. To be fair, Her Story does some interesting things with the idea of video game narrative. The focus of the game is on discovery and research. Settled in front of an ancient (and completely ridiculous)…

C an we just start with the most obvious thing? The show was called Key and Peele . Excusing the “e” in that second surname, it was a title that seemed like a directive. Whether “peel” was to “reveal or expose” and “key” was an adjective meaning “crucial,” a verb meaning “to scar or deface,” or a…

The last four times porn star James Deen tried to cast a black male performer in a scene for his website, the female star or her agent refused. In one case, an agent using the shorthand for “interracial” texted him to say that his client “does not do IR yet.” In another, Deen asked up front via text…

The Big Show hoists up R-Truth at a Wrestlemania bout in April. AP Thirteen-thousand fans pack an arena in anticipation of big fights, championship bouts, and a whole lot of drama. The cheering melts to boos as a blonde woman takes the stage, curvy and intimidating, the kind of character you’d…

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is one of the most castle-like art galleries in the world, and Modern Times, its first ever exhibition of 20th century photography, is an appropriately elegant offering, peopled by the monochrome aristocracy – Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, László Moholy-Nagy. But…

Welcome again to the 1980s, an era of great political and cultural change and importantly for us, changes in the entertainment we played and watched. But does any of this media that people have great nostalgia for hold up to someone who wasn’t there? Last time we judged the animation , this time we…

Illustration by Victor Kerlow “Is the moon getting bigger and bigger?” my three-year-old asked, surveying the horizon. “No, honey,” I chuckled. “That’s an optical illusion caused by how close it is to the horizon.” But then I turned and looked. “Please,” the robot begged. “Please kill me.” The robot…

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google , a leader in efforts to create driverless cars, has run into an odd safety conundrum: humans. Last month, as one of Google’s self-driving cars approached a crosswalk, it did what it was supposed to do when it slowed to allow a pedestrian to cross, prompting its…

Brooklyn Vinyl Works' project manager, Nick Jett, shows off the master of a vinyl pressing. Photo: Nathan Perkel for Vulture That the resurgence of vinyl records has coincided with the rise of music-streaming services is more than just a nostalgic curiosity. It’s one of those times when an idea is…

A listing of N.F.L. scores usually includes a lot of familiar numbers: 21, 14, 35, 17. But this season, just maybe, there might be an unfamiliar number in the mix. Could an N.F.L. game actually end, say, 23-1? It is one of the oddities of American football that a team can score 2, 3, 4, 5 or even…

UPROXX Movies TV Gaming Comics Sepinwall Archive UPROXX Home About About Corporate Privacy Terms Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Get UPROXX Everywhere. Follow @UPROXX Follow UPROXX FlipBoard Sign Up Sign In Is Han Solo Stupid? An Investigation 08.07.18 3 days ago The Bomb Inside Darth Vader No…

Konami The latest installment to Konami’s Metal Gear Solid franchise is drumming up all kinds of praise from the video game press for the title’s intelligent, thoughtful gameplay and its immersive story. To a casual gamer unfamiliar with MGS , one aspect of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain that…

P resident George W. Bush stood on the mound at Yankee Stadium on October 30, 2001, before Game 3 of the World Series, anxious. The ball was heavy in his hand. “Standing on the mound at Yankee Stadium was by far the most nervous moment of my presidency,” he says in the new 30 for 30 short First…

In today’s ever-expanding content megaverse, intellectual property never really dies. It merely hibernates until weather conditions prove more hospitable to its environmental needs. Case in point, this weekend’s relaunch of Project Greenlight — the indie film reality competition co-produced by Ben…

bulimia.com Be honest—when you think "gamer," you probably imagine a nerdy white guy playing Halo while downing Doritos and Mountain Dew in his parents' basement. Right? Like many stereotypes, this doesn't quite paint the whole picture. Roughly half of gamers are female , though you wouldn't…

Oftentimes people think that being in a successful relationship means never fighting, learning to communicate effectively with one another, and always doing romantic gestures to show them that you care. While these are indeed all great things to strive for, they do not paint a realistic picture of…

Comin’ (Back) At Ya: A Look Back At The 1980s’ Brief, Bizarre 3-D Movie BoomBy Noel Murray A few months ago, Flicker Alley released the Blu-ray anthology 3-D Rarities , collecting some of cinema’s early 3-D experiments, alongside shorts and trailers from the format’s 1950s heyday. Those first,…

After searching through the Ashley Madison database and private email last week, I reported that there might be roughly 12,000 real women active on Ashley Madison . Now, after looking at the company’s source code, it’s clear that I arrived at that low number based in part on a misunderstanding of…

A track-by-track dissection of the cinematic Wu-Tang sequel, as explained by producer Adrian Younge In 2013, the Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah was continuing a ridiculously long streak of quality solo releases when he released his 10th LP, 12 Reasons to Die. Arguably one of the best in his…

Current Month august 200 years of the National Museum of Antiquities - Leiden Leiden Pieterskerk Event Details This year marks 200 years since the National Museum of Antiquities opened in Leiden. So if you haven't already visited, then this is your time to go! With over more Event Details This year…

The day Banksy unveiled “ Dismaland ” — a sprawling exhibition of conceptual art that is itself a concept, with mock security guards and mouse-eared employees instructed to frown instead of smile — its ticketing website was so overwhelmed it crashed. Hours before the opening of the park, which is…

Prior to its second season premiere date, True Detective made headlines after hiring several porn actresses for what the Hollywood Reporter called a “deliriously vast orgy sequence involving dozens of naked bodies in Eyes Wide Shut -caliber sex antics.” Turns out that, according to a new report by…

I n 1982, on Late Night With David Letterman , pro wrestling made a surprise run-in. Andy Kaufman — comedian, star of Taxi , and frequent Saturday Night Live guest — had been improbably feuding with Memphis wrestling star Jerry “the King” Lawler. The two had been at odds since Kaufman had shown up…

Photo Stephen Rannazzisi and Katie Aselton in "The League." Credit Patrick McElhenney/FX Unlike most other TV shows, FXX’s fantasy football-themed comedy “The League” has never needed a writers’ room. Its husband-and-wife creators, Jeff Schaffer and Jackie Marcus Schaffer, write the show’s story…

By Beth Schwartzapfel A few years back, Jennifer Vekris says she was prescribed the sleeping pill Ambien for insomnia. It took her a while to figure out that the drug was affecting her in dangerous ways. “I'd wake up to car damage, bruises, fast-food wrappers, and who knows what else, because I was…

1:15 pm ET By Nick Corasaniti 1:15 pm ET By Nick Corasaniti Tea Party and other conservatives had hoped to make their gathering in Washington on Wednesday a clarion call to rally against the Iran nuclear deal, drawing on the star power of Donald J. Trump, the rhetoric of Senator Ted Cruz and a cast…

Dawn is breaking over the Kungenga diamond mine, a crude pit of conflict capitalism and child slavery hacked into the jungle straddling the lawless border of Angola and Zaire. The place is thick with gunmen — irregular forces loyal to the ruling Buta tribe — so I took my time infiltrating, carefully…

The developers at Ashley Madison created their first artificial woman sometime in early 2002. Her nickname was Sensuous Kitten, and she is listed as the tenth member of Ashley Madison in the company’s leaked user database. On her profile, she announces: “I’m having trouble with my computer ... send…

For a Silicon Valley gadget designer, Robert Brunner can get surprisingly nostalgic. “Very few people print pictures anymore,” says the founder and president of design firm Ammunition. “Now, you share on social media, or at a party you pass the phone around. Photography used to be about that sense…

DJ Premier and Dr. Dre are widely considered to be two of Hip-Hip’s greatest producers of all-time. While the two have worked on the same projects occasionally over the last two decades, and maintained a friendship along the way, they had not had released a full collaboration, until now. The arrival…

When I set out for my first expedition in Renowned Explorers , I had one goal: win only by talking. I was not disappointed. Renowned Explorers: International Society is a new turn-based tactics game about fantastical expeditions in the 19th century. I’ve been playing for a couple hours, and so far,…

Apple stumbled into the games business almost by accident not long after it released the iPhone in 2007, igniting a new multibillion-dollar mobile games industry in the process. Could a new Apple device — one linked to the television — shake up the market for game consoles? The idea no longer seems…

It sounds impossible but it's true: a Grammy-nominated, critically acclaimed, indisputably hot rock star with no groupies. Yet in a fascinating Twitter stream of consciousness this weekend, Neko Case, the New Pornographers vocalist and solo artist, admitted a dark, often sexless secret of celebrity.…

Ad blocking started as an initiative by independent developers who wanted to improve our browsing experience. Now that at least one company, Apple, has made Content Blocking “official”, ad-supported publishing business models are in trouble. Back in the days when we bought a newspaper or magazine at…

And I know I’m over my limit of one fictional hero, but my new book focuses on a 9-year-old boy, and my favorite child protagonists are Sherman Alexie’s semifictional alter ego in “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” and the 11-year-old pop-star protagonist from Teddy Wayne’s “The Love…

Phish singer Trey Anastasio "phlipping the bird." A few hours ago I published a story on Noisey called Phish Has Been a Band for 30 Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time . While this wasn't exactly James Agee-caliber hard-hitting journalism, I thought I had a few choice zingers in…