That is a helluva concession for Netflix, but also: for how long? Years? Less? Source: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/b...

Ted Sarandos says Netflix will commit to 45-day theatrical releases

Ash is great, please keep her in mind for future opportunities!

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch! www.ashparrish.com

Whisky Friday can't even compare

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come watch us talk about mothership.blog LIVE!!!!! this afternoon~~~

"Directing The Beatles: Rock Band is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life."

I've seen some folks giving into doomerism by citing the US's history of paramilitary violence shutting down fair elections in the South, and I want to add some historical context to support Jamelle here (as an historian of Reconstruction paramilitary violence)

Gotta say: this one hurts a lot more than the VOA stuff imho

Our next big project is live! @lewisgordon.bsky.social spent the past few months tracking down nine people who worked on DICE's innovative 2008 parkour runner.

leave aside any awkward questions about LLMs and whatnot, how do you make a "put a fictional character in a lava lamp" desk toy this boring

The first two hours this morning

Taylor Swift publicist Tree Paine runs into The Verge’s background policy. If you want to be in our stories as an official spokesperson, you have to be on the record! www.theverge.com/report/84572...

helllllllll yes! ALSO: excited to return to CES!

Before you watch The Game Awards, find out how the show actually works. - The voting - The categories - The many different names and reboots over the years - The body paint - The politics and lack thereof - And soooooo much more

And here's @jaypeters.net on the new Steam Frame, the first VR headset that feels like it has a straightforward consumer purpose: being a big virtual screen for your gaming PC www.theverge.com/games/816118...

The Verge exists so @seanhollister.bsky.social can go deep on the new Steam Machine, the culmination of over a decade of Valve investing in making Linux run Windows games better than Windows www.theverge.com/games/818622...

He's discussed stop motion animation and movies in previous clips, and now, @leepetty.bsky.social is talking about artist Max Ernst's influence on his creative mind, and how Ernst's work tied into Keeper's development. Don't miss the full interview -------> youtu.be/eCYsZy974zo

2 Woke 2 Furrious

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

If you are not there constantly attacking you have no idea what issues will catch salience. The right knows this. The left let's quantitative polling dictate the few things they allow themselves to talk about with who knows how many missed opportunities along the way.

Once again I have become 76% smarter reading @happicamp.bsky.social's essay on Roadside Picnic, a book I only just read and already adore. (And also 👀 on the illustrations) mbh4h.substack.com/p/roadside-p...

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Band: So glad to see everyone here celebrating the 20th anniversary of our album Also band: why is everyone whining about my request to get as low as you can? Stop whining like your knees are bad

The Portland frog protester has become a WWII-era meme

This frog is your FRIEND He fights for FREEDOM

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

Sora is 100% cool with a videos about Bluey boxing Pikachu but heaven forbid I twerk with aliens

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So damn excited for this new @theverge.com podcast that's basically The Rewatchables but for key tech moments. Great guests, stylish b-roll (yes I really mean that). Kudos to @davidpierce.xyz @reckless.bsky.social and the whole team www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOCd...

it's a small thing right now but if the worst people in the country are upset by a failure to mourn properly they will collapse where they stand when the day comes and there's actual spontaneous celebrations

Most important part of the iPhone Air announcement

Happy Silksong weekend to all who celebrate. A reminder to take a pause from the game to read @ohnorosco.bsky.social's Reddit clown meme essay and my homage to art mbh4h.substack.com/p/hollow-kni...

Eerily prescient clue from the NYT crossword puzzle published last night (spoilers I suppose)

Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight. I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open: emmkid.info

After an hour of playing, I am happy to confirm that Silksong is exactly what I wanted: an endless parade of weird little guys

We're 100 minutes away from Silksong's release. Mourning the end of very creative shitposting from r/Silksong and r/HollowKnight. As always, incredible lead art from @happicamp.bsky.social, who took no convincing at all when I asked if he could draw clown makeup. open.substack.com/pub/mbh4h/p/...

This sort of admission—the VP is involved in prosecutorial decisions, the "concerns" arise from political actors, and the administration knows they don't have probable cause—would have prompted the Founders to impeach everyone involved.

I really love this new @happicamp.bsky.social essay and James' brilliance in tying Foundation (the book) to the modern deification of technology. And also I'm glad I had somewhere to share this wild anecdote from a couple weeks ago. mbh4h.substack.com/p/foundation...

BREAKING: Mass layoffs at Xbox have started. Candy Crush maker King told employees that it is cutting 10% of staff, or 200 jobs. Bethesda's Europe offices were hit too. U.S. offices are expected to inform people this morning. More to come shortly www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I would wager an espionage act prosecution of an American journalist / news outlet simply for publishing something true and classified is coming within these four years I hope I’m wrong, but I do believe trump and notable members of the administration, including some of the sources we spoke to for…

Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state. That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress: Sit back and do absolutely nothing.

Donkey Kong Bananza looks really good. I'm especially excited to play around with DK Artist, but uh... this is gonna become a thing on the internet, isn't it? www.youtube.com/live/YVUidGT...

Hard to believe that yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of Steve Jobs' commencement speech at Stanford. It's as relevant today as it was in 2005, and a must-watch if you’ve never seen it, and worth watching again, even if you have www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiHZ...

Forgot I wrote this in 2013! “What will happen 12 years from now? Which widely-held opinions will flip? Maybe…gamers of 2025 will recognize Aliens: Colonial Marines for the masterpiece we can't currently see it to be. In 2025, perhaps gamers will finally deduce that The Last of Us was a bad joke”