The first thing you learn playing video games is how hard they are; the second thing is how many hours they take to play. Illustration by Vasili Zorin I’d never held a video-game controller until last
The New Yorker , May 28, 2001 P. 88 Maps of Britannia show a boomerang-shaped island with the cities of Minoc and Vesper at the northern end, Britain and Yew in the middle, and Trinsic in the south. T
On the first night of the new millennium, Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, was in a CNN studio, being interviewed by Larry King. Early in their conversation, King asked Gates, "Do you ever want
War tourism is nothing new; from Waterloo to Gettysburg, armies gathering on battlefields have long been trailed by packs of eager spectators. What is new, says Philip Stone, director of the Institute for Dark Tourism Research at the UKs University of Central Lancashire, is the commercialization of…
On August 5th, officials at the Central Intelligence Agency, in Langley, Virginia, watched a live video feed relaying closeup footage of one of the most wanted terrorists in Pakistan. Baitullah Mehsud
A cluster of teen-agers gathered around a small table, and passersby could hear them exclaim, “Asian! Yeah, I knew it!” and “Aryan? That seems ridiculous.” They hovered over two iPads in the Grand Gal
In the fall of 1992, a twentysomething college dropout and former juvenile offender named John Carmack was hard at work in Mesquite, Texas, on a new concept for a video game. It would merge the first-
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Did we have a lot of people in the closet in the administration? says one former senior official in the Bush White House whose office included at least three gay staffers. I used to say we had an entire warehouse.
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E very so often, one woman engages with me on Twitter who is against women's suffrage. That's right - she believes women shouldn't have the right to vote . I always hoped it was a fake account, but no
I want to tell you about my wife, a kayak, and how a video game space marine prevented us from having a terrible fight on our honeymoon. First, though, I need to give you a little background. I have l
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Ebola is nightmare fuel: a biological doomsday device conspiring with our bodies to murder us in uniquely gruesome fashion. Its also killed fewer than 2,000 people. How has a virus with such a modest body count so fiercely captured the darkest corners of our imagination?
Game of Thrones has always been a show that delights in rewriting its own rules, even to the point of creating new ways to think about the profitability of television as a whole . Incoming, massive, G
(Illustration: Jeremy Dimmock) A few years ago, Gene Robinson , of Urbana, Illinois, asked some associates in southern Mexico to help him kidnap some 1,000 newborns. For their victims they chose bees.
“No one wants to be a woman," cartoonist and noted misogynist Dave Sim once said in one of his many screeds on the inferiority of the female gender. Judging by most video games, you'd think he was rig
F or years, we women have kept our heads down and played by the rules. We’ve been certain that with enough hard work, our natural talents would be recognized and rewarded. We’ve made undeniable progre
I really don't want to open an article with how I cried when I saw Yuna again. Crying over video games is uncomfortable to talk about, and it's the mark of a "feelingsy" game critic, isn't it? It's no
The rise and fall of Lance Armstrong is not simply a story of one mans moral failures. To understand Armstrong you have to understand the people who use their money and power to shape the culture of competitive sports. And if you follow the trail of money and power in this particular case, it will…
Are you sexist? I am. This is a realisation that has slowly dawned on me over the last few years. Without really meaning to do so, I have been going around saying and doing things that demean women an
The pack-in Kinect is no more, and while Microsoft remains bullish on the camera's place at the heart of "the premium Xbox One experience", the reality is clear: for all the right reasons , Kinect has
With heroin use at epidemic levels, harm reduction a bold, long-contested approach to treating addicts is gaining political traction.But are we ready to make it easier to shoot heroin even if it means fewer deaths?
In Srebrenica, which has come to symbolize the Bosnian wars brutality, the remains of those killed keep turning up, unsettling the reconciliation between Muslims and Serbs.
A few experts weigh in regarding the amount of code that’s been written for the ACA site: Over many years of research, programmer productivity in lines of code has been observed to range from 3,200 li
The Plucky Squire turns Edge 389 into a fantasy storybook with exclusive fold-out cover By Edge Staff published 7 September 23 News 2D or not 2D: that is the question in All Possible Futures’ Nintendo
As the fight against terrorism broadens to Africa, the United States faces a tricky balance: how to fight an enemy without actually doing the fighting.
Your stress levels will spike. Your career prospects might suffer. Youll get sicker, busier and possibly even lonelier than ever. But, hey: anything for our kids, right?
Are you still using real money? That flimsy paper stuff that crumples up in the bottom of your pocket, the kind flight attendants wont even accept anymore? Then you havent embraced Bitcoin. Or maybe you just dont understand what exactly it is and how to, you know, get it. We decided it was time to…
(Note- this essay was written before Ubisoft indicated that the figure was Asian with dyed blond hair and that he was a villain. I feel that my greater point on perception and South Asian representati
So, new comments from Assassin's Creed Unity's creative director Alex Amancio at E3 help us to disentangle the situation around Ubisoft Montreal's removal of female avatars from the game, although whe
Lara Croft is a strange icon, and her recent arc in games is even stranger: We're going to legitimize this fetish object from the 1990s by battering her, and then taking her to therapy. I winced when
After years of passing more conventional capabilities by, I think it is time for the Marine Corps, and the "Gator Navy" for that matter, to get serious about getting the very most out of their soon to
Tuesday morning, I logged into a chat room full of refugees of the since shuttered PUAHate forum once frequented by University of California-Santa Barbara shooter Elliott Rodger. And I stayed there, s
The state of Israel controls a large amount of neighboring territory, seized in war, in which the inhabitants are divided by ethnicity, with one group, the original inhabitants of the land or refugees
Most US airlines follow the same procedure for allowing non-first-class passengers to board a plane. T hey let people who are sitting in the back board first, then people in the next few rows, gradual
Nintendo is hurting . The Wii U isn’t selling, it’s lacking mainstream publisher acceptance, and the core Nintendo titles don’t seem to be energizing the company’s base of fans. Product lines are bein
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