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Cheap stuff that doesn’t suck, take 3
From fancy OLED TVs to robot vacuums with arms, we tend to cover a lot of cool stuff here at The Verge that, unfortunately, often costs as much as a month’s rent (or more). But with the ongoing tariff situation in the US and a global memory shortage pushing up the cost of, well, everything, we’re well aware that not […]
The Pitt: The Video Game parody will brighten up your weekend
The Pitt: The Video Game imagines what the HBO Max medical drama that just wrapped up its second season would look like as a retro video game
A profile of OpenTable CEO Debby Soo, who shifted its focus from diners to restaurants; it now seats ~2B diners a year across 65K restaurants, an all-time high (Brent Crane/Bloomberg)
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A profile of OpenTable CEO Debby Soo, who shifted its focus from diners to restaurants; it now seats ~2B diners a year across 65K restaurants, an all-time high — The pioneering reservation app was losing marquee restaurant groups before its chief executive made some big changes.
One Last Fight TTRPG drops players straight into a final boss battle
The terrific GM-less boxed one-shot TTRPG One Last Fight is built around the grand finale of a Dungeons & Dragons-style fantasy campaign.
A lost fantasy book might finally get an animated movie adaptation
The new animation company Underneath the Umbrella plans to adapt Walter Wangerin’s Book of the Dun Cow, once heralded as equal to Lord of the Rings.