The best lightsaber fight in the entire Star Wars canon doesn’t happen in a movie. Hear me out, friends, hear me out. It’s in the 20th episode of the third season of the cartoon Star Wars: Rebels. Short version: the Sith-trained Darth Maul (you know the one, face like a hockey fan) confronts the Jedi […]
With 2018 just weeks away, there's no shortage of games we're most excited about. A mixture of big budget games and potential sleeper hits, our gaming calendar for the new year is looking jam-packed already—even if those pesky release dates haven't quite been ironed out yet. Dragon Ball Fighter Z (January 26) Revealed at E3 […]
This year WIRED ramped up its longstanding commitment to publishing deeply reported narratives and investigations, both online and in print. In the process we covered everything from a strange pink pigment to a casino hacking caper to an obsessed robot-making scientist. Our writers spanned the globe, alighting in Japan, France, Silicon Valley, and Kansas. As […]
A favorite motif of Westworld is the shattering of its heroes. Bernard isn’t only a thoughtful-yet-murderous host, he’s Arnold! Then there’s gallant, love-struck William—oh wait, he’s the Man in Black! Sweet, all-suffering Dolores—crap, she’s also the crazy killer Wyatt. Season 2 of the futuristic drama is no different. But this time the reversal is on […]
There’s no denying it; Black Panther is one of the most thrilling superhero movies in quite some time, introducing audiences to a whole new world within the Marvel universe and a cast of soon-to-be-faves. While Chadwick Boseman’s onscreen incarnation of the hero (and a few of his fellow Wakandans) will return in this summer’s Avengers: […]
Click:chinese novel Virtual reality has never been a subtle technology—and the same goes for its treatment in popular culture. When VR jumped its sci-fi firewall to sweep through Hollywood in the 1990s, it was a thing of maximalist, fantastic promise: brushed steel headsets and space-age gloves on the outside, swirly colors and stylized hacker dreams […]
Privacy, Facebook, surveillance, net neutrality, gender issues, climate change, hacking: The list of opinion topics that most attracted attention from WIRED readers in 2017 doubles as a list of Things That Gave Us Angst This Year. Here are the dozen most-read Opinion pieces of 2017. FCC Wants to Kill Net Neutrality. Congress Will Pay the […]
The most recent episode of Rotten Tomatoes' new movie-review series, See It/Skip It, opened not with a rave, nor a thumbs-down, but a semi-apology. "We've seen the conversations online about the Justice League Tomatometer," co-host Jacqueline Coley told her Facebook Watch audience, "and we get it: You guys are passionate about this film. But we […]
Another December, another massive opening for a Star Wars movie—this time to the tune of $450 million worldwide. That alone isn't really surprising; Star Wars fans tend to be the See It Opening Weekend type. What is surprising, though, is how divisive the film turned out to be. (Star Wars fans also tend to be […]
Living in New York, one grows accustomed to building safeguards. Commuting via the subway, for instance, requires specific defensive measures. The MTA suffers from chronic delays, regular breakdowns, the occasional track fire, and serious overcrowding. One conventional escape for most passengers is the application of headphones. Listening to music or a podcast (the city is […]