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theverge wrote a new post, Nightflyers’ showrunner explains why George R.R. Martin’s massive worlds are ideal for TV, on the site GoGame.com

Sun, 02 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Tonight, the Syfy channel will launch its latest big science fiction show: Nightflyers, based on a story from Game of Thrones author George R.R. Series showrunner Jeff Buhler explains that to bring the show to Syfy, the creative team had to make some changes to the original story. Martin’s Nightflyers and other Thousand Worlds stories lend themselves well to the current streaming environment. They like to binge on content.” He notes that Martin’s approach to creating vast, boundary-less worlds i

theverge wrote a new post, 10 new science fiction and fantasy books to check out this December, on the site GoGame.com

Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Here are 10 books hitting shelves this December that you can pick up as a last-minute present for the holidays. But there’s something wrong with Nellie, and they will have to work together to fix the broken source code. The Shattered Sun by Rachel DunneRachel Dunne’s Bound Gods series comes to an end with The Shattered Sun. December 11thTypeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies by Dave AddeyDave Addey’s new book takes a look at an element behind all science fiction f

theverge wrote a new post, A24’s library is now available to stream for free on Kanopy, on the site GoGame.com

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The news comes in the wake of last month’s announcement that FilmStruck — the equally beloved cinephile streaming service — would close at the end of November (specifically the 29th, this coming Thursday). WarnerMedia and Criterion announced a new Criterion Collection streaming service, which is slated for launch in early 2019. While Kanopy doesn’t have quite the selection FilmStruck did, it does offer a wide variety of classic and contemporary movies — and as the New York Public Library jokingl

theverge wrote a new post, 11 new sci-fi and fantasy books to check out in late November, on the site GoGame.com

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Flash fiction, short stories, and novelettes don’t usually get the same amount of attention as their longer counterparts, which is a shame. But, if longer-form fiction is what you’re after, here are 11 books that caught our eyes coming out in the latter half of November. Publishers Weekly calls the book exceedingly grim, but notes that “Selby has crafted a deeply imagined world.”Read an excerpt here. She has another book in the works right now, but her next will be her first collection of short

theverge wrote a new post, Science fiction shows why Samsung’s folding phones might thrive, on the site GoGame.com

Wed, 14 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

In the process, they’ve given us vivid examples of why folding phones could be more than the latest gadget gimmick or another screen to scratch. The ExpanseThe Expanse is an incredible work of science fiction in so many ways, but here’s a new one, assuming you accept my thesis: its “hand terminals” give us all three of the sci-fi benefits of folding screens in a single package. But I’m including it because I was surprised to find that there weren’t a lot of folding screens when I started looking

theverge wrote a new post, I want to buy this YA trilogy about gene-hacking for every teen I know, on the site GoGame.com

Sun, 11 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

YA sci-fi, then, is akin to walking a razor’s edge authority-wise: be brilliant and naïve simultaneously, or risk losing your audience from the jump. Portland-based author Emily Suvada walks this line better than any YA author I’ve read with her in-progress trilogy, the second book of which, This Cruel Design, was published last month. Along with its predecessor, This Mortal Coil, the series rivals The Hunger Games for its whirlwind life-or-death drama, while giving the carefully crafted science

theverge wrote a new post, Red Moon is a novel full of fascinating ideas that never come together, on the site GoGame.com

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

His latest, Red Moon, is set within spitting distance of today, envisioning the power struggle between an ascendant China and a declining United States. When the novel opens, a technician named Fred Fredericks is visiting the Moon for the first time, tasked with delivering a quantum-enabled phone to a Chinese client, governor Chang Yazu. Unfortunately, while all of that has the potential to be fascinating, Red Moon is a book that never really gels between all of its component parts. Tracked and

theverge wrote a new post, The iPad Pro isn’t an Xbox competitor, even with console-like specs, on the site GoGame.com

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Apple marketing the iPad Pro as a gaming device makes sense: 60 percent of gamers play mobile games on a tablet, like the iPad Pro, according to a 2018 Nielsen survey. The iPad Pro is a great device that’s capable of powerful gaming, but it’s not a home console. “The iPad Pro is a great device that’s capable of powerful gaming.”That doesn’t mean the iPad Pro isn’t a good gaming machine. Having more ports of retro games or lite versions of popular games would make gaming on the iPad Pro more univ

theverge wrote a new post, Lenovo is now licensing Sony’s patents for its PlayStation VR copycat headset, on the site GoGame.com

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Sony has officially licensed its PlayStation VR headset design to Lenovo, which is currently selling a headset that looks a whole lot like the PlayStation VR. The two-year patent licensing agreement, which was announced today, lets Lenovo use Sony’s design for its Mirage Solo headset. Lots of companies copied parts of that design — you can find PlayStation VR DNA in Samsung’s 2017 Odyssey headset, LG’s never-released SteamVR headset, and Lenovo’s earlier Windows Mixed Reality headset. The headse

theverge wrote a new post, The Walking Dead just pulled its best switcheroo in years, on the site GoGame.com

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Warning: Spoilers for The Walking Dead season 9, episode 4 below. All of this has made the upcoming death of lead character Rick Grimes such an unusual case. The Walking Dead still isn’t playing fair, but at least it’s doing it in an enjoyable rather than infuriating way. If the show sticks to its guns, this is an incredibly promising signYes, this could all be just another Walking Dead business-as-usual con. The old Walking Dead relied on tricks and promised gags to keep people watching; the ne

theverge wrote a new post, These two books examine some of sci-fi’s most influential projects, on the site GoGame.com

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Historically, that’s a new development; science fiction was once a reviled genre, dismissed as juvenile trash or escapist nonsense. He was an eager collaborator who wanted to break from the world of science fiction magazines into Hollywood. When all was said and done, 2001: A Space Odyssey debuted to mixed reviews from confused journalists who didn’t understand what they watched. This engrossing history delves into the story of one of the genre’s best-known magazines, Astounding Science Fiction.

theverge wrote a new post, YouTube backed itself into a corner with Logan Paul and PewDiePie, on the site GoGame.com

Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The release has been controversial because it not only seemed like YouTube was rewarding a problematic creator, but also that the company treats Logan Paul differently than other YouTubers. Why has Logan Paul been treated differently than Kjellberg? “Where is Scare PewDiePie season two?” Kjellberg asks. “Bring back Scare PewDiePie,” he demands. If it continues to refuse to release Scare PewDiePie, the YouTube community will be up in arms over the question of fairness.

theverge wrote a new post, A new Kickstarter project will publish an undiscovered novel that inspired The Thing, on the site GoGame.com

Sun, 21 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

John Carpenter’s The Thing is a classic science fiction horror film that has scared audiences for decades. A researcher recently discovered an unpublished, novel-length manuscript of the story, and a small press is using Kickstarter to publish it. Campbell is best known as the long-time editor of Astounding Science Fiction (now Analog Science Fact and Fiction), one of the most influential science fiction magazines of all time. The story was later adapted in 1951 as The Thing from Another World,

theverge wrote a new post, 10 new sci-fi and fantasy books to check out for the rest of October, on the site GoGame.com

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Here are 10 science fiction and fantasy (and related nonfiction) books that are coming out later this month. Publishers Weekly says that it’s “heavy on rousing action scenes, political intrigue, and high AI weirdness.”Read an excerpt. Publishers Weekly says the book leaves “the reader deeply invested in the developing story, with plenty left to tell.”Read an excerpt here, here, here, and here. Publishers Weekly gave the book a starred review, calling it a “major work of popular culture scholarsh

theverge wrote a new post, Neil Gaiman on adapting his and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens for TV, on the site GoGame.com

Sun, 07 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

At New York Comic Con this weekend, Amazon released the first look at its upcoming miniseries, Good Omens, based on the classic fantasy novel. At a press event, co-creator Neil Gaiman and members of the cast explained their approach to adapting the book for television. “I came back from his funeral and started writing the first episode of Good Omens,” he said, “and tried to convince myself that it was funny.”“I was writing them for a very specific audience, Terry Pratchett. That was my standard.

theverge wrote a new post, Talking to Master Replicas’ Hal 9000 smart speaker sent chills down my spine, on the site GoGame.com

Sat, 06 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Steve Dymszo, CEO for the prop-making company, leans in to speak over the noise of the crowd. “What’s the problem?”“I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do,” Hal responds. “You can go on and on with the rest of the sequence.”Announced earlier this year in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the iconic film’s release, the speaker system is an impeccable replica of the artificial intelligence’s hardware. It’s large, designed to be mounted on the wall, with Hal’s uncanny eye

theverge wrote a new post, The tragic end of Telltale Games, on the site GoGame.com

Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

When employees showed up for work on Friday, September 21st, at Telltale Games, there was nothing to suggest the day would be different than any other. In at least one instance, sources say that an employee had recently relocated cross-country to take a job at Telltale. Telltale’s head of HR told employees that because of the company’s financial strain, employees would not get severance pay. “It was something that Pete [Hawley] told us pretty much since he joined the team last year. “We were tol

theverge wrote a new post, YouTube is failing its creators, on the site GoGame.com

Fri, 21 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

YouTube is well aware this is a problem — it seems to come up every month as more creators are affected by the issue. Creators feel that they can’t take a break because they believe the platform favors steady, ongoing uploads, but YouTube itself disputes that this is the case. The data does little more than make YouTube feel like a system that could be gamified if you just knew the right combination of factors. YouTube takes burnout “very seriously,” Wyatt says, but there are also some steps tha

theverge wrote a new post, Twitch is now blocked in China, on the site GoGame.com

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Twitch is now blocked in China. Last month, Twitch hit the No. 3 spot among free apps in China, as locals began downloading the app to watch e-sports matches at the Asian Games. While many citizens reported they could not, the site remained accessible yesterday for some in provinces spread throughout northern and southern China, meaning that the censorship wasn’t consistent nor geographically constrained. Few details were given about what a curated version of Steam that would abide by local laws

theverge wrote a new post, How white supremacists are thriving on YouTube, on the site GoGame.com

Wed, 19 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Lewis set out to understand how YouTube in particular has become a thriving hub of far-right content. When another personality popped up on one of these channels, she began charting that person’s path through YouTube as well. What the section below showcases is that radicalization on YouTube is also a fundamentally social problem. Thus, even if YouTube altered or fully removed its content recommendation algorithms, the AIN would still provide a pathway for radicalization. The website similarly s

theverge wrote a new post, Behind the gorgeous new illustrated edition of Ursula K Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, on the site GoGame.com

Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

One of its latest offerings is a new edition of The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic sci-fi novel about a planet whose inhabitants have no fixed sex. Artist David Lupton, who worked on the publisher’s edition of A Wizard of Earthsea, is also responsible for the art in the new edition of The Left Hand of Darkness. Because this is the first time that The Left Hand of Darkness has been illustrated, Ursula was concerned and adamant that the people and places be represented correctl

theverge wrote a new post, Here’s 7 new sci-fi and fantasy novels coming out this September to check out, on the site GoGame.com

Sat, 15 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s seven new science fiction and fantasy novels hitting bookstores in the later half of September that you should check out. Le Guin’s novel is a classic science fiction novel. Set on a distant, icy planet, it was one of the first to really explore the nature of gender. Now, Tieryas is returning to the same world with a new, standalone adventure following a kid named Makoto Fujimoto. But when his test goes wrong, he washes out, and turns his sights on becoming a civilian pilot as tensions be

theverge wrote a new post, How Tor.com went from website to publisher of sci-fi’s most innovative stories, on the site GoGame.com

Sat, 08 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

In July 2008, science fiction publisher Tor launched a new website called Tor.com to promote its upcoming releases. This week, the site published the anthology Worlds Seen in Passing: 10 Years of Tor.com Short Fiction, which celebrates the best of the site’s fiction in the decade that it’s been in operation. “Right from the start, we wanted it to be publisher- and media-neutral,” covering not just written fiction, but also science fiction television and film. Over the years, Tor.com experimented

theverge wrote a new post, 9 science fiction and fantasy books coming out this September you should add to your reading list, on the site GoGame.com

Sat, 01 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The two are fantasy novellas from Tor’s Tor.com imprint, and each are tiny adventures set in a much larger world. In War Cry, we follow a ranger unit stationed on an isolated plateau in the midst of a World War that’s lasted for as long as people can remember. Publisher’s Weekly says that it’s “a solid start to a series that military science fiction fans should enjoy.”Read an excerpt. Port of Shadows by Glen CookGlen Cook made a name for himself with his Black Company series, a gritty story of a

theverge wrote a new post, Nintendo shuts down the tool behind your favorite Pokémon fan games, on the site GoGame.com

Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Pokémon Essentials, the go-to creation tool for pocket monster fan games, is no longer available following a takedown notice from Nintendo. While many average video game fans might have never heard of Pokémon Essentials, it was the biggest resource for making Pokémon fan games. The Pokémon fan game community has been left reeling. “The Pokémon Essentials Wiki, and all the downloads for Pokémon Essentials, have been deleted due to a copyright infringement claim by lawyers representing Nintendo of

theverge wrote a new post, The Internet of Garbage by Sarah Jeong, on the site GoGame.com

Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This is all deeply ironic because Sarah laid out exactly how these bad-faith tactics work in The Internet of Garbage. (Cathy Gellis, in an amicus brief written for Floor64, additionally argued that an end-run around CDA 230 had also been created.) Thanks to CDA 230, if someone tweets something defamatory about the Church of Scientology, Twitter can’t be sued for defamation. A new exception to CDA 230 aimed at protecting the targets of harassing behavior stands in an uncanny intersection. The cen

theverge wrote a new post, Drawn is a podcast miniseries that explores how your favorite cartoons are made, on the site GoGame.com

Sun, 26 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

It’s a well-researched, engaging podcast to binge on, even if you’re just a casual fan of cartoons. Listening to the entire show, it’s an enlightening series, one that helps shed some light on some of my favorite cartoons, and the industry as a whole. Listen to Drawn on the How Stuff Works website, or on Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Pod Bean, or Stitcher. The partnership between How Stuff Works and Cartoon Network was also useful when it came to conducting research. Sadly, Frey says that the 11-

theverge wrote a new post, The Oscar Wilde of YouTube fights the alt-right with decadence and seduction, on the site GoGame.com

Fri, 24 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

More than most of her contemporaries on “LeftTube,” Wynn has a style; her editorial signature is an unmistakably ornate flourish. Nathan J. Robinson, editor-in-chief at the leftist online magazine Current Affairs, writes that what ContraPoints does is “smart … persuasive … fun. “I think they are worth speaking to, for a few reasons,” she wrote in a lengthy thread defending herself. This, she said, led to newly out trans people looking up to her as an example of confidence and success in transi

theverge wrote a new post, Microsoft to bundle Xbox One consoles, Xbox Live, and Game Pass into a monthly subscription service, on the site GoGame.com

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Microsoft is planning to unveil an Xbox All Access service that will bundle the company’s Xbox One consoles with Xbox Live and Xbox Game Pass for a monthly fee. Codenamed Project Largo, Microsoft has been working towards the subscription service in recent months. Microsoft will limit its Xbox All Access service to US consumers initially, but if it’s successful then it could appear in other markets in the future. Microsoft also offered a subsidized Xbox 360 bundle with Xbox Live Gold more than si

theverge wrote a new post, The Lady Astronaut novels are an enthralling alternate history of the space race, on the site GoGame.com

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The novels play out in a breathtaking alternate world where humanity must establish a foothold off-world after an asteroid devastates Earth. While it took decades for the US to send a woman to space in our world, however, Elma accelerates the timeline in Kowal’s alternate history. And she successfully leads a campaign to get women into the IAC’s astronaut program using publicity stunts like an all-female airshow. But while the world slowly adjusts to the asteroid impact and begins to move on, pe

theverge wrote a new post, Samsung announces two new ‘affordable’ curved gaming monitors, on the site GoGame.com

Tue, 21 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Samsung has announced a pair of gaming monitors at Gamescom 2018, positioning them as “affordable” in the company’s own words. The CJG5 series comes in 27- and 32-inch varieties, both using curved 2560 x 1440 VA panels with a refresh rate of 144Hz. The monitors are listed at £309.99 for the 27-inch version and £359.99 for the 32-inch model; US pricing isn’t yet available. (It’s also debatable whether you’ll get much benefit from the curvature on a 16:9 panel of any size, to be fair.) not one wit

theverge wrote a new post, For women on Twitch, disclosing their relationship status is a minefield, on the site GoGame.com

Wed, 08 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Some viewers expect romantic availability from women streamers, or demand to know their relationship status before investing in them. Twitch streamers, after all, invite fans into their bedrooms, banter with their audiences for hours on end, and often share details about their day-to-day lives. Their relationship status can either influence how open they are during their streams, or how their viewers interact with them. “More often than not, people will still hit on me even after I tell them I’m

theverge wrote a new post, I tried Magic Leap and saw a flawed glimpse of mixed reality’s amazing potential, on the site GoGame.com

Wed, 08 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

It exists only in the lenses of the Magic Leap One, a pair of goggles that Magic Leap hopes will replace phones, computers, and every other high-tech screen in our lives. The darkened lenses are inset with small glass waveguides, which Magic Leap calls “photonics chips.” These chips are manufactured at Magic Leap headquarters, a former Motorola factory. Like every mixed reality company, Magic Leap eventually wants to make a normal-looking pair of glasses that can be worn everywhere. Field of vie

theverge wrote a new post, GUNSHIP’s synthwave sound is rooted in ‘80s cyberpunk nostalgia, on the site GoGame.com

Sat, 14 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The band just announced its sophomore album, Dark All Day, and it retains that same sense of nostalgia that’s fueled stories like Ready Player One and Stranger Things. Earlier this spring, the band released a single called “Art3mis & Parzival,” their interpretation of Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One. Over two years, the duo wrote a number of tracks and refined their sound, recruiting a childhood friend, Alex Gingell, to record the drums. The videos are part of their appeal, rather than a s

theverge wrote a new post, Don’t feed the trolls, and other hideous lies, on the site GoGame.com

Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

According to the conventional wisdom of the internet, there’s one simple guideline for responding to trolls: don’t feed them. Recently, I tweeted about the pervasive nature of trolling and how people have always excused online behavior that is largely inexcusable. But most of all, it became the mantra of how to ignore online abuse completely. “Don’t feed the trolls” also ignores an obvious method for addressing online abuse: skilled moderation and the willingness to kick people off platforms for

theverge wrote a new post, A transgender girl rises up against alien invaders in Rich Larson’s novel Annex, on the site GoGame.com

Sun, 08 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Later this month, Rich Larson will publish his debut novel, Annex, the start to his Violet Wars trilogy. Violet wasn’t interested in painkillers. The electricity had gone out earlier that day, dropping the grimy corridors and sleeping rooms into darkness, and Bo wasn’t going to waste his chance. Bo didn’t let himself slow down, because Lia said you were always meant to pick a spot beyond the finish line and make that your finish line. The whale-thing didn’t respond, still hovering in place.

theverge wrote a new post, I couldn’t test-drive Radio Flyer’s Star Wars landspeeder, but my 5-year-old did, on the site GoGame.com

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Radio Flyer’s toy is loaded with detail — something that many toys have benefited from in recent years. From the time of the announcement to the end of May, the toy’s price dropped from the prohibitive $500 to a far more reasonable $250. After watching it it put to use, it’s clear that this toy was worth every penny. Why imagine that your standard red wagon is a Landspeeder on Tatooine when there’s a replica on the market? More than once, I hear a maniacal giggle as he speeds away down the path,

theverge wrote a new post, Here’s 12 fantastic science fiction and fantasy novels that you should check out this July, on the site GoGame.com

Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Robots are a regular staple in science fiction, from Isaac Asimov’s book I, Robot to the latest episode of Westworld. So while I was at an event in Boston, I picked up Generation Robot: A Century of Science Fiction, Fact, and Speculation by Terri Favro. It’s an interesting and funny book about the intersection of science fiction and reality, and Favro blends memoir, tech reporting, and even a bit of science fiction to look at where robots have come from, and where they could be going in the comi

theverge wrote a new post, Read an excerpt from alternate history novel The Calculating Stars, on the site GoGame.com

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Already on it.” The roar of the jet passed overhead as Major Lindholm and his wing-man did a wide sweep past us. When I opened my eyes, Major Lindholm settled onto the bench across from us. The real Major Lindholm was black, and younger than I’d expected from his voice. The office Major Lindholm showed me to was small and military tidy. I hoped that didn’t mean that Major Lindholm would turn out to be charming but unpleasant too.

theverge wrote a new post, Were real dinosaurs as bulletproof as the one in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom?, on the site GoGame.com

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Like the Indominus rex in the first Jurassic World, the franchise’s latest human-made dino seems to be immune to gunfire. Horner, the science advisor on all the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies, says he actually pushed back against the idea of making dinosaurs bulletproof in the franchise. Initially, the makers of Jurassic World wanted to know if the Indominus rex could be bulletproof, according to NBC News. Take the Gallimimus, for instance, a 400-pound beast depicted in the first Jurass

theverge wrote a new post, The geopolitics of the afterlife get messy in the new sci-fi spy novel Summerland, on the site GoGame.com

Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

When a British agent named Rachel White learns that there’s a highly placed Soviet mole embedded in the Secret Intelligence Service, things get complicated when she realizes that he’s out of reach — in Summerland. Kulagin’s second, a thickset man in a trilby hat, was talking to him, gesturing, pleading: Major Allen, the Service officer on Watch detail tonight. You see, we don’t want the whole world to know that the Crown has something to do with this—’‘I understand the need for discretion, Major

theverge wrote a new post, Steal the Stars is a pulpy audio drama about a secretive government UFO program, on the site GoGame.com

Sun, 03 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

A year ago, science fiction publisher Tor Books announced that it was launching a new imprint: Tor Labs, dedicated to experimental storytelling. Its first project was a serialized podcast called Steal the Stars, a pulpy audio drama about the employees of a secretive government contractor that is studying a crashed UFO. Last year, Tor Labs aired the entire series through weekly episodes, and later released with a commercial-free compilation of the audio drama on Audible. Instead, it illuminates t

theverge wrote a new post, Cult favorite anime FLCL is back with new episodes — but 15 years later, the original still shines, on the site GoGame.com

Sat, 02 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Its legacy is so enduring that 15 years after the miniseries premiered on their channel, Adult Swim has funded two additional seasons: FLCL Progressive, the first episode of which airs tonight, and FLCL Alternative; which debuts in September. The original FLCL follows Naota Nandaba, a pre-teen who lives with his widowed, self-absorbed dad and grandpa in a dead-end town. It’s not entirely starting from scratch, however; the press release teases the appearance of familiar names like Haruko Haruhar

theverge wrote a new post, The 13 enthralling science fiction and fantasy books you need to check out this June, on the site GoGame.com

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been writing and editing military science fiction for years. When people think about robots on the battlefield, they often envision something like the Terminator or the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica. Back in the world of fiction, here are 13 science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels coming out this month that you should check out. With no supplies and no one coming to rescue them, it’s up to them to figure out how to survive. The bureau’s Chicago field office has faced violent attacks

theverge wrote a new post, It’s official: Amazon has saved The Expanse, on the site GoGame.com

Sat, 26 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

It’s official: The Expanse has been saved. After the Syfy Channel canceled The Expanse earlier this month, Alcon Entertainment has confirmed that Amazon will pick up the show for a fourth season, after after outcry from the show’s fans. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made the announcement at the International Space Development Conference: where he appeared next to members of the show’s cast: “The Expanse is saved.”Alcon Entertainment Co-Founders and Co-CEOs Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson issued a st

theverge wrote a new post, Battlefield V fans who failed history are mad that the game has women in it, on the site GoGame.com

Thu, 24 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

DICE is returning to World War II with Battlefield V, and it’s doing so with the help of feeemales. You have til October to fix this shit and give us a realistic gritty WWII experience.” “Very disappointed with the new Battlefield trailer,” wrote another. Women did fight in World War II, from the air force units known as the “Night Witches,” to secret agents like Nancy Wake. Wanda Gertz began her military career during World War I and later commanded an all-female battalion in World War II. Batt

theverge wrote a new post, Twitter is killing off its apps for Xbox, Roku, and Android TV, on the site GoGame.com

Tue, 22 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Today Twitter announced it is killing off several of its apps, including Twitter for Android TV, Twitter for Roku, and Twitter for Xbox. Twitter for Xbox allowed for curated Twitter commentary to display while watching videos, and had a whopping average rating of one and a half stars out of five on the Microsoft store. The dismal feedback is due to the fact that these Twitter apps don’t actually allow you to tweet from your account or fully interact with the Twittersphere in general. Twitter for

theverge wrote a new post, Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality — but it has a long way to go, on the site GoGame.com

Wed, 16 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

In a 52–47 vote today, senators voted to overturn the Federal Communication Commission’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order, which took net neutrality rules off the books. In order for net neutrality to actually be reinstated, two more things have to happen. Instead of 30 signatures, net neutrality supporters have to collect signatures from a full majority of House members. There’s a degree of bipartisan agreement that something needs to be done on net neutrality. In reality, this is more about se

theverge wrote a new post, This illustrated collection of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea books finally does the series justice, on the site GoGame.com

Tue, 15 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Fifty years ago, science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin released A Wizard of Earthsea, the first installment of a well-lauded and influential fantasy series. Sadly, Le Guin passed away in January, but later this year, one of her final projects will be released. Le Guin went on to write four subsequent novels set in the same world: The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, and The Other Wind. The Books of Earthsea contains all five novels, as well as Tales From Earthsea, a collection of s

theverge wrote a new post, A futurist imagines the Earth populated exclusively by the 1 percent, on the site GoGame.com

Sun, 13 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

In this far future tale, Earth is populated and ruled exclusively by super-rich individuals — one million of them, to be exact. Seeing this, Gavin turned away and closed his eyes. And anyway”—and here Neal looked everywhere but at his father’s eyes—“I still say Bernie’s had help running the place.”“This again? “Look!”Eli turned, and Gavin turned, and so just managed to catch the moment when Bernie’s hard-won self-control failed. Douglas Penn-of-Chaffee seemed to glower disapprovingly at Bernie;