Aftermath

Twitch, which made headlines (derogatory) in August with platform-wide Amazon AI training that’s opt-in by default, is intertwining AI ever more inextricably with livestreaming despite overwhelmingly negative reception.

As a romance girlie, Firefly Wedding was the easiest add to my Fall watchlist.

As someone who primarily games on PC, I try to leverage the power of my workstation whenever possible.

I’m visiting my parents in Cape Cod, where I arrived by bike last week just in time to be stuck indoors for days due to an early-season nor’easter.

If you haven't already seen the news, last week Australia's Medicare became the first government body in the world (that we know about, at least) to have been compromised by an AI "agent", in this case one developed by OpenAI.

Do you remember the reality show Project Runway?

There’s nothing quite like punching the face of a grandfather clock, winding its arms back, and pursuing an old magazine to balk at how quaint life used to be.

Reviews are out for the snazzy remaster of The Witcher 3 today, which I cannot yet play because I’m away from my computer and also because I haven’t updated to Windows 11.

For someone who really likes driving, I don't get along that well with many of today's driving games.

I don’t really understand what Mark Zuckerberg wants out of VR any more.

The r/Crafts subreddit has been debating banning Harry Potter crafts for months, and came to a decision last week: Explicitly Harry Potter-themed projects are no longer allowed.

He’s not the CEO of Activision anymore, but Bobby Kotick is back in the headlines.

For a few years the Mac Mini was the single best deal in computing.

In the near future, you will see or hear ads on select Aftermath offerings.

Nintendo of America was awarded $4.5 million in damages in its lawsuit against a Reddit moderator who allegedly sold pirated Nintendo Switch games.

Woodo describes itself as a "cozy diorama puzzle game", in which you have to match a succession of items on the side of your screen to their counterparts in a 3D space.

Sniper rifles are one of my least favorite weapons in games– they require patience, confidence, and accuracy, none of which are my strongest skills.

“What else is there to say?”

This week, as part of Xbox’s ongoing, franchise-focused “reset,” Microsoft laid off 268 more workers and reorganized its studios, with multiple teams getting folded into Bethesda and Activision.

I promise you, this is a story about AI art.

Roblox developers are making verbal agreements and paying out employees in Robux in their multi-million dollar deals, and it's creating problems.

Goodbye, Lara is a beautiful anime reimagining of The Little Mermaid that's easily one of the most enchanting anime of the Summer of 2026.

Clearly desperate to find Pokémon cards, an Ohio man named Kent Kubasta admitted in June to placing a tracking device on a Pokémon delivery driver's vehicle to track card restocks, according to records from the Wayne County Municipal Court.

Xbox entered the next phase of its "reset" today, following on the cuts and studio closures it undertook in early July.

In a shocking reversal, Bungie is not giving up on Destiny 2.

Resident Evil is the latest movie by Whitest Kids U'Know’s Abraham Lincoln-reenactor-turned-elevated-horror-director Zach Cregger, the twisted horror-comedy mind behind Barbarian and Weapons.

There are two things I love more than anything else in this world: football and video games.

A couple years back a Kickstarter campaign called "The Electronic Gaming Monthly Compendium" launched, offering a printed, hardcover book "combining meticulously curated excerpts from the magazine with new insights and never-before-told stories".

Welcome back to The Work, a column about resistance in fiction.

Chris reviewed the new Steam Frame VR headset earlier this week, and was really positive about it.

The all-consuming toy box that is Fortnite just saw the release of one of its more unexpected-but-nevertheless-hotly-anticipated collections of playthings in a long time.

Oh hey there.

In the process of reviewing the Steam Frame, I replayed Half-Life: Alyx from start to finish.

Picture this: There’s some kind of argument in your neighborhood.

A former 14-year Activision Blizzard veteran is suing the company over alleged sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

If you're like me and neither got into Clone Wars lore nor paid attention to Star Wars Zero Company's in-universe news broadcasts, then like me you would have reached a point about halfway through this game where a key cutscene happens and you lose your d…

“You’re pregnant and you’re proud!”

Crunch is a pervasive and long-standing issue in video game development.

Like many Marathon players, I was wondering when the hell I would hear any news about the next season of the game.

One Piece has been running since 1997.

After a long, unintended hiatus, You Are Error has returned and is off to an auspicious start: the end of the video game industry.

I’ve been broadly immune from the GTA VI hype, not for any principled reasons but because I’ve just never played a Grand Theft Auto game.

Ziff Davis, the media company that currently owns IGN (along with Eurogamer, RPS and more) has laid off a number of IGN staff just two months ahead of the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI, one of the most colossal news-generating video game releases of all t…

When Nintendo showed the first footage from The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake last week, its new, detailed look reminded some fans of “Focus M,” a meme reimagining the Mario games as gritty AAA.

Being born in 1996 has meant that I’ve always existed on a generational divide: I’m too old to be Gen Z and just on the cutoff as a Millennial.

The Steam Frame comes at a strange time for VR specifically and computing generally.

Amid a bunch of news coming out of Blizzcon over the weekend, two items stood out: firstly, Diablo V is coming, and in what's probably the biggest announcement for a Blizzard game since Overwatch's original reveal, Starcraft is getting an open-world shoot…

For no clear reason beyond cosmic coincidence, mods—you know, the ones hyper-dedicated nerds (complimentary) create mostly for PC games—have broken containment this week.

Some surprising news broke yesterday when it was announced that Physint, the next game from Kojima Productions, was being dropped by PlayStation Studios, only for Xbox to step in and sign it instead.

For reasons I do not completely understand, one of Hasan Piker’s many thirst traps was displayed as part of a sizzle reel meant to hype up the crowd at the Republican National Convention Midterm Convention currently taking place at the American Airlines C…