Shopify pulls Kanye’s website offline over swastika merch
Shopify pulls Kanye's website offline over swastika merch Shopify pulls Kanye’s website offline over swastika merch On Tuesday, Shopify shut down the Yeezy store run by Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) after it listed shirts with swastikas for sale as reported earlier by Bloomberg and NBC News. Ye advertised the site in a commercial […]
Unity unites the indie game industry against its new pricing model
Unity unites the indie game industry against its new pricing model Unity, a company that makes a suite of video game development tools, has recently sparked a major controversy in the industry after announcing changes to its pricing model. Under the new model, Unity plans to charge developers on a per-install basis after certain revenue […]
YouTube is now even bigger on TVs than phones
YouTube is now even bigger on TVs than phones It’s official: people are spending more time watching YouTube on their TVs than on their phones. In the platform’s annual letter, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan revealed that viewers are watching more than 1 billion hours of YouTube content on their TVs every day. For the past […]
Discord now lets you quietly block people
Discord now lets you quietly block people Discord is offering users a new way to block people without the confrontational nature of an actual block. The new feature, called Ignore, is essentially a mute function that can hide annoying or abusive users without attracting unwanted attention — thus avoiding unnecessary anxiety or flare-up drama. You […]
Teenage Engineering OP-XY review: extremely fun, extremely powerful, extremely expensive
Teenage Engineering OP-XY review: extremely fun, extremely powerful, extremely expensive The OP-XY is a surprisingly powerful — and unsurprisingly expensive — sequencer, synthesizer, sampler, and live performance instrument. Teenage Engineering is a design firm as much as it is a musical instrument company. Its devices rarely look or behave anything like what youâd buy from […]
Here’s Tim Cook hanging out in New Orleans for the Super Bowl
Here's Tim Cook hanging out in New Orleans for the Super Bowl Here’s Tim Cook hanging out in New Orleans for the Super Bowl Tim Cook at last year’s Super Bowl game. Apple CEO Tim Cook was seen making the rounds yesterday in New Orleans, where the Super Bowl LIX matchup between the Kansas City […]
Sony is giving PS Plus members extra days following PSN’s big outage
Sony is giving PS Plus members extra days following PSN's big outage Sony is giving PS Plus members extra days following PSN’s big outage Following the huge PlayStation Network (PSN) outage that ended yesterday, Sony is giving an automatic five extra days of service to PlayStation Plus subscribers, according to a post from the official […]
Two new games you can play basically forever
Two new games you can play basically forever Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 70, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If youâre new here, welcome, go Chiefs I guess, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, Iâve been reading about kicking […]
Civilization VII is getting a Quest VR port this spring
Civilization VII is getting a Quest VR port this spring Finally, a strategy board game without all the setup. | Image: 2K Games The Civilization franchise is getting the VR treatment with Sid Meier’s Civilization VII – VR on Meta Quest headsets this spring, 2K and Firaxis Games have announced. The “virtual and mixed reality” […]
PS Plus members can score nearly 20 percent off a PlayStation Portal right now
PS Plus members can score nearly 20 percent off a PlayStation Portal right now We rarely see deals on Sony’s handheld remote player. Sony can be somewhat stingy about offering discounts on first-party accessories like the PlayStation Portal, which is why the latest PlayStation sale is worth checking out. Now through February 19th, PlayStation Plus […]