Jagex, the developer of the long-lived massively multiplayer game RuneScape, has announced a new spinoff: RuneScape: Dragonwilds, an open-world survival and crafting game in the style of Valheim, Ark, and Minecraft. RuneScape: Dragonwilds will launch into early access on Steam in spring 2025. It’s set in the trad-fantasy world of the cult 2001 MMO, but […]

Writer Kij Johnson has always used animals to tell the stories of people. That’s how the writer and designer of Kobold Press’ upcoming tabletop role-playing game RiverBank put it to me in our recent email exchange. Like the novel it’s inspired by — The River Bank, Johnson’s 2017 sequel to Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in […]

Amazon has officially launched its AI-powered Alexa Plus – but it’s only available to a “small number” of customers to start, Amazon spokesperson Kristy Schmidt confirmed to The Verge. As shown on its early access page, Alexa Plus also doesn’t come with all the features Amazon showcased during its recent devices event, like the ability […]

The family of a deceased Black man told local news they’d dedicatedly been visiting his unmarked grave for over the past year until something both concerning and confusing occurred: a tombstone appeared...but it didn’t belong to their family.

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Whenever Verge staffers are asked to describe their smart tech, office tools, kitchen gadgets, or whatever else, they talk about things they recently bought, things they picked up 10 years ago, or things they’ve had sitting around their house for decades. We’ve gathered a few of the items that our staffers have enthused about in the past […]