‘Black Mirror’ season 8 announced for Netflix, with creator Charlie Brooker back at the helm

‘Luckily it does have a future, so I can confirm that ‘Black Mirror’ will return, just in time for reality to catch up with it.’

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 192 — Space, 2026!

On Episode 192 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik looks forward to 2026, which promises to be the most exciting year in the new space age yet!

The Playdate gets its Monument Valley
The Playdate gets its Monument Valley

Diora might be the most ambitious game I’ve played on the Playdate. It’s all about perspective: You turn the handheld’s crank to rotate your viewpoint of the bite-size 3D landscapes, which lets you peek around corners to find solutions to various puzzles. On a device with a 1-bit, black-and-white display, the miniature worlds feel miraculous, […]

What’s on your desk, Stevie Bonifield?
What’s on your desk, Stevie Bonifield?

Stevie Bonifield is a news writer here at The Verge and, they say, “I cover a little bit of just about everything, from the FCC to AI shopping tools to Linux.” Before joining our news team, they wrote weekend news for PC Gamer and did reviews, news, features, and guides for Laptop Mag, along with […]

A charity speedrunning event has turned into a perfect showcase for smaller games
A charity speedrunning event has turned into a perfect showcase for smaller games

Games Done Quick, the biannual charity speedrunning event currently going on right now, not only helps organizations like the Prevent Cancer Foundation and Doctors Without Borders – it helps indie games get noticed, too. Indie game developers face an incredible uphill battle not only getting their projects funded, completed, and launched, but discovered as well. […]

Lynley season 2 hasn’t been confirmed — but its cast think there’s ‘scope’ for even more than that

Four episodes of Lynley didn’t feel like enough, but is a second series of the BBC crime show happening? According to its cast, ‘there are so many places to go’.

‘I don’t think we can call ourselves a toy anymore because we’re an iconic experience company’ — Lego on how Smart Bricks expand the system and how ‘this just adds a new dimension’

After eight years in development, Lego’s Smart Play system brings custom silicon, sensing, and responsiveness to a familiar form: the Smart Brick. To unpack what that means for the future of physical play, TechRadar spoke …

X accuses music publishers of ‘weaponizing’ DMCA takedowns
X accuses music publishers of ‘weaponizing’ DMCA takedowns

X is suing music publishers and their trade group, the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), accusing them of attempted coercion in their ongoing battle over licensing, as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. The Elon Musk-owned platform accuses music publishers of colluding with the NMPA to “coerce X into taking licenses to musical works from […]

Avengers: Doomsday could change the X-Men forever, and that’s a good thing

The teaser for Avengers: Doomsday hints at massive changes for Marvel’s X-Men, which could make these superheroes even better on film.
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