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The terrible Nintendo controller that helped make VR happen

The Nintendo Power Glove was not good. It's important that you know that. The Power Glove was ambitious, impressive, even important - one of the very first mainstream devices that let you control a game using your body instead of just your thumbs - but it was not good. In some ways, its not-good-ness is […]

Avatar 4 without James Cameron? Only person could take over.

If Fire and Ash is the end for Cameron — and sure it feels like a finale — Hamnet proves Chloé Zhao could take on the franchise

2025’s best video game remakes and remasters

2025 continued gaming's trend of publishing remakes, remasters, and re-releases — but many were legit terrific this year.

Lou Gerstner, a former IBM CEO and chairman credited with turning the company around, died at 83; IBM's market value rose from $29B to ~$168B during his tenure (Patrick Oster/Bloomberg)

Patrick Oster / Bloomberg:
Lou Gerstner, a former IBM CEO and chairman credited with turning the company around, died at 83; IBM's market value rose from $29B to ~$168B during his tenure  —  Louis Gerstner, who took over International Business Machines Corp. when it was on its deathbed and resuscitated it as a technology industry leader, died Saturday.

Shadow of the Vampire at 25: How 2000 comedy-horror revamped the Nosferatu myth

E. Elias Merhige’s 2000 comedy-horror sports a unique take on F. W. Murnau’s classic