View Original15 Games That Changed Drastically During Development While many games are changed during development, these famous titles barely resemble the projects they started off as. Any developer will tell you that games rarely turn out the way they were first envisioned. Features get cut or don’t work as planned.
View OriginalThe Endless Quest for the Perfect Computer DisplayBetter refresh rates mean better motion, but gamers will always want more.
View OriginalHow to Build the Lego Collection of Your DreamsYou dream of a basement-wide cityscape, but you also have to pay rent. We asked Lego Master and brickfluencer Stacey Roy how to do it.
View OriginalOnline Word Games Are Ruining My Life. And Probably Yours, Too.I am addicted to Wordle. Goddamn it. I first started playing this cursed game, the bane of my existence, in December 2021. Back then, everyone was doing it. Wordle was the fad of the moment. The internet was flooded with articles about mathematically optimizing your starting word.
View OriginalHow Pokémon's arrival in the UK changed Games Workshop foreverA few years ago, I was changing costumes between scenes in a period drama, stepping out of 18th Century workwear and into some noble's finery, when a fellow cast member told me something I had never expected to hear.
View OriginalRoundtableOn the pope’s waning political influence in Mussolini’s Italy. View of Saint Peter’s, by Federico Zuccaro, 1603. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Digital image courtesy the Getty’s Open Content Program.
View Original25 of My Favorite Books, Articles, Gadgets, Tech, and More (So Far in 2023)What does my audience care about most? Put another way: if nearly two million subscribers to my newsletter voted with their clicks, what most caught their attention thus far in 2023?
View OriginalThe Daguerreotype’s Famous. Why Not the Calotype?In 1839, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, a Frenchman, invented a process for capturing images on silvered copper plate. He made an impression; his name is a singular stand-out in the annals of early photography. But he was not a lone pioneer.
View OriginalMastodon gets better search, onboarding, and cross-server interactionsMastodon, the federated microblogging platform, has been updated to version 4.2, which comes with massive improvements to search and the web interface, particularly for logged-out and first-time users.
View OriginalRoundtableHow to raise a child with taste in eighteenth-century Britain. Interior of a Museum, by Eugène-Louis Lami, nineteenth century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887.
View OriginalThis ex-Googler helped launch the Gen AI boom. Now he wants to reinvent vaccinesHead over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here
View OriginalIreland’s Upper SeaA tale from thirteenth-century Ireland: One day, when the people of Clonmacnoise were gathered in church, they spotted a ship sailing through the sky high above them. As they watched, the ship dropped its anchor, which scudded along the ground before catching on the church door.
View OriginalEcho Hub hands-on: It’s all about the widgetsAmazon was keeping close guard over its new Echo Hub smart controller in the demo room at today’s big hardware event. But I managed to get a few seconds of hands-on with a working tabletop unit before it was whisked away.
View OriginalHow can the UK's inactivity crisis be tackled?It's National Fitness Day, a day to highlight the role physical activity plays across the UK.
View OriginalMy Mother-in-Law’s Idea of “Fun” With the Grandkids Is Basically TortureCare and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. My husband and I are happily married with two children. We are doing very well both personally and professionally.