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The things we’re building

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 126, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I need 10 or 15 skirts from Calvin Klein, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) Happy Ruthless Self-Promotion Week! We're dedicating almost all of this […]

Playing Esoteric Ebb is like rolling the dice with a great DM

It took me a while to get into Esoteric Ebb, a new CRPG from developer Christoffer Bodegård. The elevator pitch is basically Disco Elysium, but in the fantasy style of Dungeons & Dragons: You play as a cleric wandering around a small town who's trying to figure out, among other things, the mystery of why […]

My Hero Academia's last episode 'More' gives the series its second perfect ending

MHA gets a second finale with episode 171, 'More,' which ties up loose ends and gives fans a glimpse into the lives of grown-up Deku and his friends.

Between Devil Wears Prada movies, Anne Hathaway became a kaiju

The underseen gem Colossal is streaming on Netflix. This offbeat monster movie is one of Hathaway's best films. She says so herself.

A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI's Microsoft deal on track and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI's Microsoft deal on track and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO  —  The chief financial officer is managing Sam Altman—and ambitions for one of the biggest IPOs ever.  She has pulled off impossible ones before.