TC Sottek

Boeing’s Starliner crew flight test patch is out and it really pops. I support going to space if only for the threads.

If you’re a nerd like me you’ve been glued to C-SPAN all week as the House of Representatives struggles to... exist. The nonprofit public service channel is one of the cable TV industry’s best ideas and most enduring creations.

Just look at these outrageous new sonic monuments from Drop, which look like evil wizards’ towers. I want to put them on either side of a giant CRT monitor and fire up some “legally obtained” music on Winamp. Hell yeah.

Thank you all again for reading The Verge. I want to take a moment to also thank all of my colleagues — across text, video, audio, illustration, design, operations, events, and every other facet of Verge production — for the wonderful work they’ve done over several challenging years. If you want to get to know them better, just take a look at all of these incredible people across our masthead.

We’ve had a huge year of reporting, videography, design, and everything else that we love to do at The Verge — including a massive new redesign that has given you all lots of feelings and opinions. I’ve been at The Verge for more than a decade now and seen the site change from the months before launch through all of our various challenges and triumphs.

I really love this piece from my colleague Makena Kelly on the rise of “cozy games”, which both describes a sprawling genre and a cultural movement in gaming. I cut my teeth on a lot of intense FPS and action games growing up, but in recent years I have found a very happy place in games that allow you to have more of a relaxing experience — like wearing a warm sweater during the holidays. I’m happy to see this part of the industry be increasingly rewarded by consumers.

I saw a vague trailer for Knock at The Cabin in theaters a couple months ago and it was scary enough, but the latest trailer adds enough context from the story to amplify the horror substantially. Honestly, though, I’m posting this because we spent a while in Verge chat today talking about how much we stan Dave Bautista.

She’s an Austrian streamer who is currently digging deep in Dwarf Fortress, which loyal readers will know is my recent obsession. I love watching talented people figure out games in ways I can only aspire to.

Inside this Wall Street Journal report on some of the back-and-forth at Netflix around password sharing and product, this little detail really stands out: