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After two seasons of comedy and philosophy, The Good Place remains a great joy. It’s the best science fiction show on television, with twists and intricate, earned reveals that hint at a watchmakers' dream of a writers' room. The show's third season doesn't start until late September, but in the hiatus, NBC and its creators…

There might be no better sign of the state of the internet this year than the fact that a potential meme about the president awkwardly drinking water was quickly eclipsed by news of groping allegations against Democratic Senator Al Franken, and then that both of those stories were eclipsed by a tweet from the president.…

When I sit down to play Lumines Remastered—the Nintendo Switch port of the puzzle game that was, at one point, the PlayStation Portable's killer app—I'm invited to put on a belt of Joy-Cons. This "peripheral," designed by the Lumines team for the Nintendo Indies showcase at the Game Developers Conference, is designed to show off…

The sinewy fish-man at the center of The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro’s new film, stands stoic and brave as the rain beats down. But when the director yells “cut,” the man inside the fish suit begins to shiver; the set may look like a Baltimore port, but this is Toronto. Two crewmembers rush…

All Our Asias, a short PC game by independent creator Sean Han Tani (creator of Anodyne and Even the Ocean) , begins in surprising fashion. As the game loads up, before any play begins, the creator introduces himself in a text prelude as "The Storyteller," and explains his vision for the game. All Our Asias…

Click:gold buyers Auckland Throughout its two seasons, HBO’s Westworld has trotted out no shortage of bad guys, from robot gunslingers to mad inventors to dialog that sputters and clunks. There’s literally a Man in Black. But as the plot unfolds, the catalytic evil of the park has turned out to be something far less futuristic…

Very few games have an art style that feels personal. Most major games strive for "realism"—the closest consoles and gaming computers can come at any given time to producing a digital landscape that looks the way we imagine the real world looks. But precious few attempt to approach the way the world feels. Small Talk,…

Last October, at the tail end of a year propelled by circus-like disbelief and political egocentrism, a tweet found its way onto my timeline. “#BlackTwitter alerting friends to the new #BlackPanther trailer,” wrote user @Maria_Giesela. With it, she attached a short clip of Dallas megachurch pastor T.D. Jakes mightily booming, “Wake up! Wake up! ……

Who can even manage to get into the holiday spirit considering the whirlwind week that just passed? Not only was Southern California on fire, but several politicians resigned amidst sexual harassment claims while others continued to run for office despite facing their own sexual abuse allegations. Yes, time continued to speed up last week, but…

The ideas and the imagery of The Matrix run through internet culture like an aquifer—seeping almost undetectably through everything, and then bursting to the surface in unexpected ways. "I know kung-fu." "There is no spoon." But one of those concepts, written by the Wachowskis and delivered by Laurence Fishburne, pooled at just the right place…