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Bethesda is shutting down The Elder Scrolls: Blades on June 30
It's a sad day for the dozens of players still grinding The Elder Scrolls: Blades. Bethesda announced that it's permanently shutting down the servers for its free-to-play mobile spinoff on June 30....
The Avatar fighting game will release on July 2 for PC and consoles
The fighting game community is going to have their hands full this summer between the release of Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls and Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game. The studio behind the 2D fighting...
Bluesky’s next product is an AI assistant that helps build custom social media feeds
Bluesky is the latest social media platform to throw its hat into the AI chatbot ring. Bluesky, but specifically its chief innovation officer Jay Graber and her new Exploration team, built a new AI...
Can my favorite Game Boy gadget tell fake cartridges from real?
The GB Operator. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge The $50 Epilogue GB Operator has a brand-new trick up its sleeve. In addition to backing up Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance...
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
In the coming years, HBO wants its new Harry Potter series to become "the streaming event of the decade" as it adapts each of the franchise's seven original books. The show could very well become a...
Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is a great time to get a fancy, AI-powered bird feeder
Bird feeders have come a long way since their inception in the early 1900s. These days, it’s not all that surprising to see feeders kitted out with cameras and solar roofs, two marquee features...
The Macintosh changed computers forever
Apple's most legendary computer has two legacies: there's the computer itself, and there's the commercial. That commercial. Only a couple of days before Steve Jobs debuted the computer that would...
Apple’s long, bitter App Store antitrust war
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the legal travails of Big Tech, follow Adi Robertson. The Stepback arrives in our...
The larger stakes of Trump’s redesign of Washington, DC
Workers add Donald Trump's name to the facade of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on December 19, 2025. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images While President Donald Trump has been flexing...
Why people are having such strong reactions to Lindy West’s new memoir
West performs onstage at the Larkin Comedy Club on June 4, 2017, in San Francisco, California. | FilmMagic/FilmMagic You might remember feminist writer Lindy West from her days on X (né Twitter)...