Introducing AMP Stories, a Whole New Way to Read WIRED
A few years ago, WIRED dedicated an entire issue to examining how the smartphone had changed the world. That change continues to evolve: Starting today, if you're using Google to search for something, your results may include a selection of "AMP Stories," including some from us at WIRED. AMP Stories are an entirely new beast.…
Wolverine's Got a Podcast, and Sound Design Has Never Mattered More
There's an ongoing series of disturbing murders in Burns, Alaska, and investigators are frustrated. The killer hasn’t been seen, hasn't been heard. He leaves his victims sliced and dismembered, but Special Agents Tad Marshall and Sally Pierce can’t ever seem to get to the crime scene in time to see his claws. Or to hear…
Why Battle Royale Games Like Fortnite Are Everywhere (It’s Not Just Money)
When Electronic Arts' gaming showcase kicked off on Saturday in Los Angeles, one of the first games up for discussion was Battlefield V. No surprise there—the forthcoming title is part of one of the longest-running and most popular first-person shooter franchises in gaming. But in the course of showing off what was innovative about the…
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…