In a year full of gnarly horror movies—Hereditary, Halloween, Vice—no film prompted me to squirm away from the screen quite as frequently as the teen drama Eighth Grade. Bo Burnham's directorial debut follows the genial but despondent Kayla (Elsie Fisher) […]
Last week started with President Trump announcing that his chief of staff would be leaving by the end of the month, something that later became potentially untrue because no one wants the job. Apparently, it might end up being Jared […]
If your workspace has seemed a bit shoutier than usual in the last few days, you might have Nicole He to blame. The Brooklyn-based programmer and technologist is the creator of ENHANCE.COMPUTER, an online “cyberpunk game” that recalls the futuristic […]
It’s time once again to turn on The Monitor, WIRED’s roundup of the latest in the world of culture, from casting to big streaming deals to box-office news. In today’s installment: The Star Wars Holiday Special takes to the stage; […]
It is hard to imagine how last weekend’s Unite the Right rally in DC, the nervously awaited second coming of the white nationalist group that wreaked havoc in Charlottesville last year, could have been less successful. A paltry few dozen […]
This week, as the year begins to wind down, the news certainly doesn't. We've got the ending of a long, nasty lawsuit, a couple of big moves from Epic Games, and one very fast, very uncanny hedgehog movie. Let's get […]
By now it's a running joke: Anyone who works on any of Disney's super-secret projects, be they Star Wars or Marvel, always fears the snipers. The Mouse House is so protective of its properties and their plot details, the thinking […]
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds—or PUBG, as fans know it—has fundamentally overhauled the gaming landscape since its release less than a year and a half ago. By popularizing battle-royale gameplay, it gave rise to Fortnite and an entire generation of similar titles, selling […]
Red Dead Redemption 2 begins in the harsh dead of winter. As roaming outlaw Arthur Morgan, you accompany your half-extinct gang into a barn, barely making it out of the terrible blizzard before hypothermia sets in. It's a slow, miserable […]
The world WIRED celebrates is a place of hard work and innovation, but also creativity, fun, and delight. We are as excited about the future of personal genetic testing as we are about art, science, and even the future of […]