Game hardware maker Analogue has made a name for itself selling the Nt, an exorbitantly expensive and beautiful version of a classic NES system. And yet somehow, the company found a way to outdo itself. To commemorate the 30th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda franchise, Analogu … | Continue reading
In the first pages of Marvel’s Black Panther #1, penned by author and Atlantic correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coates, we see a country at war. The subjects of the fictional African nation of Wakanda are in open revolt against T’Challa, their king and the Black Panther himself. “Death to … | Continue reading
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee just debuted a little over a month ago, but TBS has already ordered 26 more episodes of the series, Deadline reports. The renewal will extend the show's run to the end of 2016, giving Bee plenty of time to satirize the upcoming presidential election … | Continue reading
No show likes to troll its audience quite like The Walking Dead. Game of Thrones may kill off people you love, and Homeland may test your patience, but there’s something unique about The Walking Dead’s ability to get you invested, hold your hand through long stretches of dialogue … | Continue reading
Nathan Drake’s last adventure will also be his biggest. The scale of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End — the closing chapter in the series, which launches later this month on PS4 — is bigger than its predecessors not just in terms of the adventure it takes players on, but also the way i … | Continue reading
BlackBerry is making some key BBM privacy features free for all users. In an update to BBM on BlackBerry, iOS, and Android, users will be able to use Retract, which allows you to delete a message from both the sender and recipient, and Timer, which set limits on how long a messag … | Continue reading
Lots of frequent fliers (especially West Coast ones) are going through a range of emotions in the wake of the news that Alaska Airlines is buying Virgin America in a $2.6 billion deal. Virgin America customers tend to be fiercely loyal to their little airline, which is known for … | Continue reading
Alaska Air has announced it is buying Virgin America, beating out rival JetBlue in a bidding war and leapfrogging the latter to become America's fifth-largest airline. The company paid $57 per share in cash for Virgin America (a total of $2.6 billion), but says the deal's aggrega … | Continue reading
Now that the Oculus Rift is (mostly) shipping it’s time for the HTC Vive to take center stage. Created in partnership with Valve, the $799 HTC Vive will begin shipping on Tuesday, April 5th. But unlike the $599 Oculus Rift, Vive owners will receive their hand-held motion controll … | Continue reading
An Android app developed by the Taliban has been removed from the Google Play store for promoting hate speech, the BBC reports. The Pashto-language app, called Alemarah, contained official statements, videos, and other content from the Islamist group, which has been waging war in … | Continue reading
Few countries are as synonymous with smoking as France, where cigarettes like Gauloises and Gitanes are as much a part of the cultural fabric as croissants and labor strikes. But cigarettes sold in the country will have a different face very soon, thanks to a new law that will st … | Continue reading
Truly, we live in a golden age of Putting Dangerous Things On Drones. We've seen people strap fireworks, paintball guns, real guns, and even flamethrowers to quadcopters and the like, and so it was only a matter of time before someone tried with power tools. A group of Finnish fi … | Continue reading
Ever since the project was announced at Comic-Con last year, we've been dying to see what the animated adaptation of Batman: The Killing Joke will look like. Well, the first teaser trailer for the film has now appeared, along with a 10-minute behind-the-scenes featurette. The pro … | Continue reading
Having made a habit of emulating (if not outright imitating) Apple's MacBook and MacBook Air lines in recent years, HP believes its latest laptops are going to propel it to a position of design leadership. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal ahead of unveiling a new premium lapto … | Continue reading
Oscar nominee Amy Adams will star in Sharp Objects, a new HBO show based on the book of the same name by Gillian Flynn, the writer of tense psychological thriller Gone Girl. Adams will play a reporter tracking the murder of two young girls, herself dealing with the aftermath of p … | Continue reading
The steering wheel setup in the Tesla Model 3 — seen above in a shot from the media event last week — is not the version that will be in the final car, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said tonight in a series of tweets.Instead, the "real steering controls and system" for the Model 3 feel "li … | Continue reading
Blizzard has released the second in a series of four short animated videos ahead of the launch of multiplayer shooter Overwatch on May 24th. It'd be easy to write off the game — Blizzard's first new property in nearly two decades — as just another arena shooter. But it's far more … | Continue reading
Every few years, a public figure proposes repression and violence in the name of patriotism, and we go back to the dystopian novel It Can’t Happen Here. Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 book is currently being read in the context of Donald Trump’s presidential run, built on bare-faced xenoph … | Continue reading
Apple's new headquarters is no simple office building. Yes, it looks like a UFO. And, yes, it is estimated to cost close to $5 billion dollars. But it is shaping up impressively ahead of its planned late 2016 or early 2017 completion date. Just a few months ago, the buildings ap … | Continue reading
Opening Day is here, and baseball fans are getting some welcome Siri upgrades for the new season. Siri now has some more baseball smarts: it can answer questions about more detailed statistics, according to Apple, including historical stats going back to the beginning of baseball … | Continue reading
Depending on who you ask, April is the time to buy a new smartphone, and it looks like Walmart would like you to pick one up in its stores. The retail giant is taking $100 off all iPhones and $150 off Samsung smartphones including the Galaxy S7 and S6. There is a catch, however: … | Continue reading
This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now rectifying this oversight.Okay, I’m probably about to piss off a bunch of scientists … | Continue reading
Oculus won itself the distinction of launching its virtual reality headset first, but it hasn't been all smooth sailing. Even though Rift headsets officially started shipping on March 28th, many customers who preordered the $599 device have yet to receive any shipment updates. To … | Continue reading
Tesla didn't expect preorder interest in the new Model 3 to be as high as it is, according to company CEO Elon Musk.In a number of tweets this afternoon, Musk both expressed his appreciation to current and future Tesla owners for their faith in the company, and revealed that Tesl … | Continue reading
Amazon will soon start treating its Prime Now same-day delivery service like a core part of its business. The company will bring Prime Now to Amazon.com this May, according to Bloomberg. That marks a major change from the current setup for the delivery service, which is only avai … | Continue reading
This summer, many traditional media outlets will abandon a last vestige of old technology journalism: the capitalized "Internet." The Associated Press has announced that its highly influential style guide will be updated this year to require "internet" be kept lowercase. The "web … | Continue reading
Josan Gonzalez’s future is the kind of dystopia you want to hang out in.The Spanish illustrator is currently in the midst of crowdfunding a second book in his series, The Future is Now, and it’s the kind of grimy cyberpunk world where everyone seems to feature some kind of roboti … | Continue reading
The internet and technology have totally changed sex and relationships, we know you — you adults, anyway, this column is not for children! — have questions about the world of sex. In order to answer them, we've asked our friend Stoya — a professional sex-haver — to field any … | Continue reading
Electric skateboards are an exciting new technology that is currently being hampered by cost. Few companies offer boards below the $1,000 mark, which is five to ten times as expensive as a traditional skateboard or longboard. Price is such an issue with electric skateboards right … | Continue reading
Tech giants are gathering in support of the Obama administration's contested plan to shift the US toward clean energy. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon joined together to file a court brief on Friday, describing their reasons for supporting the Environmental Protection Agency … | Continue reading
What in god’s name is this thing!?! It looks like Scarlett Johansson, but it also looks like it’s about to kill me? Let’s band together to try to figure out what the hell is going on in a dialogue format.Russell Brandom: So the obvious thing to say is that this is creepy as hell. … | Continue reading
Google has already killed its controversial "mic drop" April Fools' joke from Gmail, but the company went even further this afternoon with a detailed apology and a post-mortem on what went wrong. Attached as an update to the top of the original Gmail blog post, the apology explai … | Continue reading
What if Ableton music software had a built-in Github so musicians could contribute and modify samples? That’s essentially the idea behind Splice, a cloud-based music production platform built for collaboration and remixing, and its Beat Maker tool, a new sequencer that allows use … | Continue reading
Judging from the $200 million in deposits Tesla has already raked in, the Model 3 has quickly found its fans in the last 24 hours — so quickly, in fact, that Elon Musk is openly wondering how he'll make all those cars.Don't get me wrong, the car looks nice (complaints about the g … | Continue reading
Shige Honjo, a veteran executive at Nest, and Scott Mullins, a senior engineering manager, are leaving the company, according to multiple sources.Honjo, the VP in charge of program management and manufacturing, will depart at the end of May. Mullins is shifting over to Google to … | Continue reading
Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and I promise you this is a prank-free space. I’m not sure what exactly would constitute a prank here — every SoundCloud and YouTube embed points you towards Rick Astley’s greatest hit? — but I … | Continue reading
Let us pull you out of the muck that is April Fools' day. Cartoon Network unveiled a weird and fun thing that will give you the power to get through April 1st by turning yourself into a Powerpuff Girl.There are plenty of customization options that let you choose the hair, what yo … | Continue reading
Private spaceflight company Blue Origin is planning to launch and land its New Shepard rocket again for the third time tomorrow. CEO Jeff Bezos tweeted out today that the company will be flying the same vehicle that successfully launched and landed once in November and then again … | Continue reading
When I reviewed Microsoft's Surface Book last year, I was struck by how badly Windows 10 handled pen support. Windows has supported styluses since the days of tablet edition for Windows XP, but Microsoft hasn't really invested heavily in building ink into every part of Windows. A … | Continue reading
Google and Acer have teamed up to release the $799 Chromebase for meetings, an "all-in-one standalone secure video conferencing device" designed for small areas like desktops or office phone booths. Google has other Chromebase devices on the market (made by both LG and Acer), but … | Continue reading
The next time you call for a Lyft car and instead you get a DeLorean from Back to the Future, or a horde of hungry zombies, or a faceful of chicken feathers, you'll have one person to thank: Ethan Eyler, Lyft's resident merry prankster.While other Silicon Valley startups have rec … | Continue reading
A baby takes up a surprisingly large amount of space. Not the actual baby, of course, but the piles of onesies, newborn diapers, teething toys, and bottles that parents buy to go along with that cuddly lump. With all this extra stuff around, I perk up when a traditionally-large b … | Continue reading
The number of people in the world who are obese skyrocketed to 641 million in 2014 from 105 million in 1975, according to a new study published in the medical journal The Lancet. That’s a sixfold increase in about 40 years.The study compared the Body Mass Index (BMI), a measure o … | Continue reading
Starman, the old '80s romance film dressed up as a sci-fi flick, is getting a remake with Night at the Museum director Shawn Levy, according to a report today from The Hollywood Reporter. The original starred Jeff Bridges, fresh off the original Tron two years prior, as an alien … | Continue reading
The shutting down of Facebook’s free internet service in Egypt wasn't about net neutrality as was initially believed, according to a new report from Reuters. The social media platform refused to give the Egyptian government permission to spy on users through its Free Basics progr … | Continue reading
Jeremy Williams, who previously designed light-up video game pixel art, has built a virtual reality pinball controller from scratch. He designed it to work with the game Pinball FX 2 VR, currently available on the Oculus Rift. Williams posted his finished rig to Twitter earlier t … | Continue reading
Imagine what kind of cultural experiences $28 can buy you. A decent show ticket. Three matinees at a suburban movie theater. A couple ritzy museum admissions. Nine movie rentals on iTunes. Three months of Spotify. Twenty-eight CDs, probably.Now instead of any of those, imagine sp … | Continue reading
Slack, the fast-growing office messaging tool has finally completed a new round of funding, including new investor Thrive Capital, it said Friday.The funding has been expected for a while and has been much reported. There are other new investors, such as Comcast Ventures and GGV, … | Continue reading