Back in Slate and back to Middle-earth, because I wrote about how, nestled in the very boring Sack of Eregion, is a moment that epitomises how The Rings of Power has managed, somehow amid its messy second season, to give us a Sauron worth watching.
Finally, some complexity.
For Eurogamer, I revisited the world of blind and visually impaired accessibility to find out where we really are in terms of giving players games they can experience without sighted assistance, in honour of the release of Periphery Synthetic.
Progress in the blind and visually impaired accessibility space is happening, but it's slow. Periphery Synthetic's sound-first design offers a way forward.
Back in WIRED for the first time in a while, where I spoke to Jonas Jödicke about his journey from the mass counterfeiting of his art to fighting back, and what it might mean a current art landscape dominated by AI. Big thanks to @waterslicer.bsky.social for bearing with me while this came together.
When his galaxy wolf illustration was stolen by countless online stores, artist Jonas Jödicke decided to fight back.
As a seasoned K-drama campaigner (k-ampaigner?) I feel confident enough to finally get something off my chest: Kopiko look horrible and no amount of a K-drama screeching to a halt to have a sudden ad for them will make me want to try them.
I got screeners for The Rings of Power and... it's not great. It has its moments but is mostly just callbacks to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and hoovering up whatever he didn't include in his trilogy. Yet, somehow, as I explored in Slate, it bears little resemblance to its sources.
It’s almost impressive how Amazon’s extraordinarily expensive series, now in its second season, amounts to so little.
In other news, Periphery Synthetic released and its a weird, curious, and accessible adventure into space mystery driven almost entirely by sound. One more in a long legacy of excellent audio games. I got hands on at The Verge.
Sound on.
Been tardy with this stuff, but here's me in Time Magazine up to my usual tricks. This time looking back on Netflix's Miss Night and Day after its finale, which was only a few insignificant beats away from being a perfect K-drama, and how South Korea has mastered mixing odd genres.
The Netflix series represents the pinnacle of what K-dramas have often done so well: seamlessly blend disparate genres for something completely fresh.
Back in WIRED for the first time in a while, where I spoke to Jonas Jödicke about his journey from the mass counterfeiting of his art to fighting back, and what it might mean a current art landscape dominated by AI. Big thanks to @waterslicer.bsky.social for bearing with me while this came together.
When his galaxy wolf illustration was stolen by countless online stores, artist Jonas Jödicke decided to fight back.
We spent so long asking Where's Waldo? We didn't think to ask how's Waldo? How's he doing, you know? Why's he hiding? We should check in with Waldo now and then.
