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The Borderlands movie hides its best ideas under painful jokes

And now you can watch it at home.

Ash Parrish
Civilization 7 lets you mix and match history — and it’s a blast

For the first time in the game’s 30-year history, leaders and civilizations can be chosen independently of one another.

Ash Parrish
Apple’s Sunny imagines a cozy future where screens fade into the background

The murder mystery was a chance for showrunner Katie Robbins to imagine a different kind of sci-fi vision.

Andrew Webster
The making of Eno, the first generative feature film

Director Gary Hustwit tells us about his living documentary and the technology that changes it for every screening.

Kevin Nguyen
The first all-quadriplegic esports team levels the playing field

Director Jess Jacklin talks to The Verge about her new documentary following the first all-quadriplegic esports team.

Aude White
How a musical indie game went against the grain to explore the Deaf experience

Harmonium: The Musical took a lot of time and resources, but according to its developers, it was worth it.

Ash Parrish
Even Elden Ring’s game director knows Erdtree is too hard

But he thinks players will be able to handle it.

Ash Parrish
Dragon Age: The Veilguard has more magic, color, and customizations

Game director Corinne Busche talks about the next entry in the RPG franchise.

Ash Parrish
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence addresses the company’s divisive app redesign

He stands behind the new app, which underwent months of testing, but acknowledges that Sonos should’ve warned its (very) passionate customers about missing features.

Chris Welch
For the director of I Saw the TV Glow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer was just the start

To understand Jane Schoenbrun and their new film, I Saw the TV Glow, you have to appreciate how Buffy the Vampire Slayer evolved in its second season.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Russell T. Davies turned to fantasy to make Doctor Who think harder

Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies says that bringing a bit more fantasy to the sci-fi show was key to making the new season feel fresh.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi wants you to watch his new movie at least twice

The director explains why you need to see his new film, Evil Does Not Exist, two or three times to understand the ending.

Kevin Nguyen
The little smart home platform that could

How Home Assistant plans to transition from an enthusiast platform to a mainstream consumer product.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
How Phish turned Las Vegas’ Sphere into the ultimate music visualizer

Four nights of unique set lists and long jams presented a much different production challenge than U2’s 40-show residency.

Chris Welch
The composers of X-Men ‘97 had to evolve the show’s sound to honor its roots

To create the X-Men ‘97 score, Andy Grush and Taylor Stewart had to work through their nostalgia and create new sounds from the future.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
A period piece, a contemporary drama, and a speculative sci-fi movie all in one

Director Bertrand Bonello tells us how his new film confronts the past, present, and future

Robyn Kanner
Why Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is the internet’s unlikely defender

What free speech, war zones, and Aristotle have to do with internet infrastructure.

Nilay Patel
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Alex Heath
Avatar’s Paul Sun-Hyung Lee wants to geek out with the fans of the future

As Paul Sun-Hyung Lee sees it, truly loving a genre franchise means wanting to share it and pass it along to the next generation of fans.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s creators want you to embrace the stress

Don’t worry, there’ll be plenty of ‘wonder and excitement’ to embrace as well.

Ash Parrish
The direct influence of Twin Peaks on Zelda

An interview with Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost reveals a fateful conversation with Nintendo in 1990.

Scott Meslow
For Netflix’s live-action Avatar to work, Zuko had to find his heart a little faster

Avatar: The Last Airbender actor Dallas Liu opens up about turning to YouTube and co-star Paul Sun-Hyung Lee to figure out who the new Prince Zuko really is.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Platformer’s Casey Newton on surviving the great media collapse and what comes next

The editor of the popular tech newsletter talks about leaving Substack and where he’s seeing successful business models in media.

Nilay Patel
Why Sen. Brian Schatz thinks child safety bills can trump the First Amendment

The Democratic senator from Hawaii on regulating social media: ‘An algorithm doesn’t have a First Amendment right.’

Nilay Patel
Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence

And he doesn’t want to control it. Maybe.

Alex Heath
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ new titans were inspired by the weird freakiness of nature

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters VFX supervisor Sean Konrad opens up about the challenges of creating new nightmares for Godzilla’s kaiju canon.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Why Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen took his company back

His replacement got the boot barely a year into the job. What brought Petersen back?

Nilay Patel