video games Counter-Strike skin sells for $400,000 Grant St. Clair

tech The legal and creative battle over who gets to modify beloved games Séamus Bellamy

books John Shirley's guide to wrecking your career in science fiction John Shirley

politics The easiest way to sink Trump: hitting billionaires' portfolios by reducing your spending on technology Ellsworth Toohey

music Bandcamp bans AI-generated music, unlike Spotify's slop-filled playlists Grant St. Clair

Department of War Whiskey Pete's "double tap" is an effort to keep boat survivors out of court Jason Weisberger

Games Fans bring back Sony's $400 million gaming disaster from the dead Grant St. Clair

gaming Of Floating Isles: gaming memoir explores identity and loss Ellsworth Toohey

Games Pokémon thief had to catch them all—at gunpoint Rob Beschizza

Entertainment First Look: Inside Epic Universe's mind-blowing Harry Potter Paris / Ministry of Magic land Ruben Bolling

mistakes Missiles now biggest killer of airplane passengers Rob Beschizza

13 trillion miles since the last fatal airplane crash in U.S. Rob Beschizza

propaganda Hitler Death Head stamp: how spies infiltrated Nazi mail system Ellsworth Toohey

Games Nintendo would rather you not see its games running better on other companies' hardware Rob Beschizza

fantasy Peter Bebergal's "Appendix N" in a revised, expanded edition Gareth Branwyn

Japan Tokyo nightlife scams: how to avoid the sneaky tricks of the "kyakuhiki" Mark Frauenfelder

Games I played the Banana "game" so you don't have to Gail Sherman

gaza Major union votes to strike in solidarity with pro-Palestine university protestors Natalie Dressed

Congress circus sideshows Marjorie Taylor Green and others shout body-shaming insults on House floor: "bad-built butch body" (video) Carla Sinclair

animals How the Hollywood actors' strike is hitting animal actors Thom Dunn