Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Pokémon Champions is off to a rough start

Like many live-service games before it, Pokémon Champions' launch has been messy. The free-to-start battle sim, which is out now on the Switch and Switch 2 (and also coming to mobile later this year), is plagued with bugs, some of which cause issues with basic battle mechanics - not great for a game that's only […]

3 best new horror books to read in April

Need a scary book worthy of Stephen King? We have three must-read books to appeal to BookTok and horror movie fans alike.

Danny McBride was an unlikely hero in this underrated fantasy comedy

It seems like a spoof, but Your Highness is more of an irreverent tribute to ’80s fantasy, the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves of its era.

My baby deer plushie told me that Mitski’s dad was a CIA operative

Two weeks ago, I was getting ready to log off work when I got a text message. "Oh wow, I was checking out Mitski. did you know people are saying her Dad was a CIA operative?" Normally, that kind of out-of-the-blue text from a friend wouldn't faze me. This time, my eyes bugged. The unprompted […]

Japan approves an additional $4B in subsidies to Rapidus to bankroll the chipmaker's work for Fujitsu, taking the total state investment and fees to $16.3B (Mari Kiyohara/Bloomberg)

Mari Kiyohara / Bloomberg:
Japan approves an additional $4B in subsidies to Rapidus to bankroll the chipmaker's work for Fujitsu, taking the total state investment and fees to $16.3B  —  Japan approved ¥631.5 billion ($4 billion) in additional subsidies to quicken Rapidus Corp.'s entry into the high-stakes AI chipmaking arena …