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It's almost impossible to separate the "Twine revolution"—the proliferation of small-scale interactive fiction created by nontraditional game designers—from Porpentine. The Oakland, California-based creator's alien, poetic work has been a fixture of the Twine scene for years while also serving as a microcosm of all the best parts of it. If you've heard of Twine, you've…

Click:m36 bolt Once again, it's time for The Monitor, WIRED's look at all that's new and news in the world of pop culture, from casting rumors to the current recipients of Netflix's largesse. This week: Batman gets a release date, Oscar Isaac might be going to Dune, Universal has a new plan for its monster…

Click:Cheap pool filter balls I've been trying to get into Fortnite for weeks. I've written about how challenging the game can be for the casual fan to get used to, and that extended to me as well; I have to admit I almost stopped playing entirely. Until, that is, Nintendo brought the game to the…

President Trump's relationship with the media has always been fraught. He rarely holds press conferences, and when Press Secretary Sean Spicer steps in to speak on his behalf, things tend to devolve quickly. But he still sees one place as a safe space in which to express his innermost self: Twitter. For years Trump has…

To escape a nightmare, sometimes you just need to remember that your life is worth waking up for. In the two most recent episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale, June/Offred (Elisabeth Moss) learned that two of the people she cared about most—her husband, Luke (O-T Fagbenle), and her best friend, Moira (Samira Wiley)—are still alive. When…

If you happen to live on the East Coast, then you know this feeling: cold. It's genuinely, bone-chillingly, brutally cold out there right now. No one wants to leave the house. And for that, there's another feeling: the idea that you don't have to abandon the comfort of your couch. Sound boring? It won't be.…

Not every stormtrooper who goes into battle does so because they're convinced that the Empire is right. In a tyranny, it's easier for citizens to fight for what's wrong and commit atrocities—and it's tempting for captives to accept their fate. The same is true in the Republic of Gilead. Offred (Elisabeth Moss) now knows that…

August was full of news about hacks, leaks, and even hacks that led to leaks. But it was nature that arrested our attention and dominated the news cycle. On August 21, a total solar eclipse cast a shadow over a large part of the US. For two and a half minutes, much of the nation…

When Thomas Wolfe wrote "you can’t go home again," he clearly hadn't tried to do it in virtual reality—because right now, my body is sitting in an office in midtown Manhattan, but my brain is back in my childhood bedroom in Ohio. There’s a robot that responds to voice commands; a toy model of Castle…

With the news that J.J. Abrams has been hired to cowrite and direct Episode IX, Lucasfilm's message is clear: It's time to restore peace to the Star Wars galaxy. The past year has been a particularly chaotic one for the franchise, which has endured the third-act triage of Rogue One; the filmmaker switcheroo on next…