He’s barely been in office for a month, but already Donald Trump has given the world a fearsome amount of wild, delirious quotes. They’re sentences that not even the best satirical writer could come up with—and weirdly enough, they make for uncomfortably believable quotes for Marvel’s premiere fascist supervillain.
In a chat with the press in Seattle earlier today, Valve boss Gabe Newell spoke about the effects President Trump’s (temporarily halted) travel ban would have on the company’s employees, along with its esports events.
The company behind mobile games Dots, Two Dots, and Dots & Co doesn’t usually speak directly to its players about what’s going on in the world, but following President Trump’s Friday executive order banning travel from several Muslim-majority countries, Playdots, Inc. decided to push out an update asking its audience…
Yesterday evening, Sean Spicer took to the press briefing room to criticize the media for how it had emphasized the low attendance at President Trump’s inauguration the day prior. “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period,” he said. Minutes later, the Internet unleashed its latest meme.
Punching Nazis is something of a time honored tradition in the United States. So is making memes. It seems natural then that the Internet wouldn’t waste any time in making a video of white supremacist and neo-Nazi Richard Spencer getting punched in the face go viral.
Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th president of the United States was an appropriately staid and stately affair. The inauguration party in virtual world Second Life was much more colorful.
For the past 11 years, an eternity in internet time, Reddit has touted itself—repeatedly, and loudly—as the place to have “authentic conversations” online. For a variety of reasons, that sentiment has always rang hollow. Now, Reddit, in its goal to be a laissez-faire haven of (relatively) free expression, has been…
Yesterday, the New York Times released The Voter Suppression Trail. The politically-charged Oregon Trail-inspired mini-game has players fight off long lines and intimidating “observers” to finally vote and describes certain hurdles some voters will face on November 8th.
There is nothing funny about the real Donald Trump, a raisin company mascot channelling the spirit of an internet commenter. What is funny is the voice actor behind Futurama’s Zapp Brannigan reading some of Trump’s dumbest quotes in character. UPDATE, SEP 28: Now featuring snippets from the first Presidential debate.
The first presidential debate is tonight, and you can watch it for free. But for journalists piling into Hofstra University, the price of doing business has gotten steeper.
It’s been an open secret for some time that Palmer Luckey, the 24-year-old founder of VR company Oculus Rift and heir apparent to the future of gaming, is a strange guy—the type who argues with his customers on Reddit and casually cosplays as My Little Pony characters. Turns out, he also appears to be an active…
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have finally broken their silence on Pokémon Go. Their statements today are about what you’d expect.
This week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared to publicly denounce the political positions of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign during the keynote speech of the company’s annual F8 developer conference.
Down to two health and two armor against a player with multiple Legendaries on the board, it looked like prolific streamer Trump was doomed. Then Frost Mage magic happened.
