Games
How piracy made game culture thrive in my small Indian town
What happens when all you can get is a handful of pirated games? And what changes when you can finally buy everything ever made?
Culture
Read, watch, and gather
Technology
Answering the call
Phones have fallen victim to becoming an open platform with no barriers to entry and a simple system for computational calling to make it a breeze for scammers.
Culture
Fans produce the never animated final episode of the 1980s D&D cartoon
The series was cut short, robbed of the last episode that was written but never made. But now we can watch it thanks to this fan project.
Media
How 'The Million Dollar Homepage' has aged, and what it means for digital history
Researchers look back on the seminal marketing website and check the active links – and debate how to improve digital archives in future.
Culture
Tokyo Olympics opening blasts classic videogame themes across the world
Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger and many more all had orchestral music featured in the Tokyo 2020(+1) opening ceremony.
Art & Design
Italian museums now use cameras to see which art you look at most
Visitor's eyeballs will decide how these galleries redesign their layout and which artworks are put on prime display.
Games
Get on the games: we chat with Mashd N Kutcher about their gaming-themed new track
From "Get on the Beers" to a Turtle Beach mashup, Mashd N Kutcher share their love of games and details about their new videogame-inspired track.
Art & Design
Watch almost 200 Georges Méliès classic films for free online
Collected from across a wide range of YouTube sources, here's a playlist of 194 Georges Méliès classics in chronological order.
Technology
A movie just launched 91,000 NFTs to pro– nope, I'm not doing this...
Digital artists getting paid thanks to NFTs is great. Movies and companies creating NFTs to score some free promotional value suck.
Culture
Two new Lego sets let you chill with buds like Thor and Seinfeld
New Lego sets are coming with the apartment set from Seinfeld as well as Thor's bachelor pad in New Asgard. The cleverness is in the details.
Big Ideas
LEGO is prototyping bricks made from recycled bottle plastics
The company is investing $400M into sustainability projects, including turning recycled PET plastics into LEGO. And research is going well.
Business
Sotheby's will accept Bitcoin and Ether for a 101-carat diamond auction
For the lucky billionaires who are afraid to turn their crypto back into fiat currency, Sotheby's is ready to take your coin. HODL or buy?