Pivot to Video: Inside NBC’s Social Media Strategy for the 2018 Winter Games
This year’s Olympics will be the “most live” Winter Games in history. While marquee events like figure skating and snowboarding will be given a proper prime-time presentation, NBC plans to air the events in Pyeongchang, South Korea live across all time zones, no delays. Perhaps more telling, high-quality videos will be hitting your social feeds…
No Man's Sky Finally Gets Multiplayer, and Everything Else in Games This Week
Welcome to Replay, our weekly roundup of all the gaming news and happenings you might've missed while you were, y'know, playing games. This week, we've got some big growth for some big titles, alongside a very late bug fix and an excellent Nintendo Switch port. No Man's Sky Is Finally Adding Multiplayer to its Giant…
Radical As Ever, Boots Riley Takes On the Tech Boom
When I meet Boots Riley at an art studio in Downtown Oakland, he’s wearing a little bit of everything. On top, a checkered blazer over a cardigan and a white dress shirt open to the fourth button; below, salmon pants and bright white sneakers. His outfit is accented by a pocket square, and by his…
Metal Gear Survive Is the Rebirth and Death of Metal Gear
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, the last Metal Gear game helmed by series creator Hideo Kojima, begins with the destruction of a military base. This building, an off-shore platform designed as the home for a mercenary army, falls into fire and rubble, collapsing into the ocean as enemy guns and bombs tear it…
Emilia Clarke Wants a Chewbacca Tattoo—and a Dragon
If anyone is destined to be the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, it’s Emilia Clarke. As the woman who plays Daenerys "Mother of Dragons" Targaryen on Game of Thrones, she’s got more of a right to sport dragon ink than anyone. Well, it turns out, she’s got one in the works. That’s not the only…
While You Were Offline: So What Did Trump and Kim Jong-Un Agree on Anyway?
It seems like we say this every seven days now, but man, a lot happened last week. For one, President Trump's campaign chair Paul Manafort went to jail the same day it was reported his attorney Michael Cohen was apparently open to flipping. For another, trolls forced Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown off Twitter.…
Movies Have Always Reflected the World. This Year, So Did the Oscars
When Frances McDormand took the stage to accept her Academy Award for Best Actress for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri at the 90th Oscars last night, she looked frazzled. She acknowledged as much. “I'm hyperventilating a little bit,” she said as she took the stage. “If I fall over, pick me up—because I’ve got some…
Seniors Get a Wii Bowling League of Their Own
When Dennis Berkholtz’s parents moved to a retirement home in 2004, he worried they’d get bored. “People were just playing bingo,” he recalls. But a couple of years later, Nintendo released the Wii, and Berkholtz—a former Olympic handball player and coach—saw an opportunity. With $120,000 from investors, he launched the National Senior League for Wii…
The Best Movies You Missed in 2017
Every year more movies hit theaters than any sane person could ever hope to try to see. Yet we here at WIRED are crazy enough to try to see as many as we can. And in the process we often catch films that might fall under the radar (or just get overlooked in lieu of…
Now That We've Finally All Seen It, Let's Talk About Black Panther
In case you haven’t been near a theater, TV, mall, or interstate overpass, and haven’t seen the news, Black Panther opened this weekend. And it opened big. Like, history-making box office numbers big. With good reason—T’Challa (aka Black Panther) is a hero fans have been anticipating for a long time. As WIRED’s Jason Parham noted…