With every theorised apocalypse – biblical, nuclear or otherwise – comes the inevitable question of, ‘How would you survive in the wasteland?’ Set 200 years after global nuclear destruction, open-world role-playing game Fallout places this question of macabre fantasy at its core. With well over 30 million units sold to date, and with the soon-to-be-released Fallout 76 offering new, innovative...
Yes – there are still Pokémon games other than Pokémon Go. Ahead of the November release of Pokémon Sun and Moon, six new beasts have been revealed as joining the roster. We’ve already met some of the new Pokémon set to appear in the upcoming Nintendo 3DS titles, with the reveal of the new starters Litten, Popplio, and Rowlet, to Legendary Pokémon Solgaleo and Lunala. There was even a trio of...
There is, and seemingly always has been, a dance for every letter of the alphabet. From the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance of the Middle Ages (in which residents of the Staffordshire village run around with reindeer antlers) to the traditional Greek Zonaradiko (whereby dancers hold on to one another’s belts), we have always loved a good routine. Yet while you could peer into an 1870s debutante ball or...
Catching ’em all just got a lot harder. Niantic, the developer of Pokémon Go, has made collecting all 151 creatures more difficult with a series of updates and disabled access to Pokévision. Using Niantic’s API, the tracker grabbed the location of all nearby Pokémon and placed them on a map. It’s not the only tracking website that appears to have gone offline, Pokéhound displays the message: “We...
If you were looking forward to making your real-world Pokémon journey that much more authentic, we have bad news – the release of Nintendo’s Pokémon Go Plus accessory has been knocked back by several months. The Bluetooth device connects to smartphones and notifies players of developments in the game without them having to keep the app permanently open on their screens. With LEDs and a rumble...
The ability to breed Pokémon has been a fixture of the core games since Pokémon Gold and Silver. As could be expected, the feature makes a return in the latest instalments, Pokémon Sun and Moon, but like many familiar aspects of the series, it’s undergone something of an overhaul. Here’s the WIRED guide on how to breed Pokémon in Sun and Moon, get more starter Pokémon Litten, Rowlet, and Popplio...
The illustration style is flat, geometric, figurative, and usually made up of solid colours. Nondescript figures are plastered across train stations and bus stops, from fintech company MoneyFarm, to Trainline, to the Viagra delivery service GetEddie. Even Transport for London’s own branding, with a special place in the history of Modernist graphic design, has started to replicate the style. It’s...
Podcasts are big business. In this post-Serial audio world, journalists, celebrities, academics and yes, anyone else who owns a mixing desk and a microphone, now has a regular show. The quality is generally high but some efforts can still be hit and miss with dozens of podcasts popping up around the same themes or TV shows. To help you out we curate this every-changing list of interesting podcast...
Jada Pinkett Smith has finally spoken about the shocking moment her husband, Will Smith, slapped the comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars, saying she hopes that “these two intelligent, capable men have an opportunity to heal, talk this out, and reconcile”. On the latest episode of her Facebook Watch show, Red Table Talk, Pinkett Smith turned her husband’s blowup into a teachable moment about...
Anti-hate groups including the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, the Auschwitz Memorial and Hope Not Hate have condemned Jimmy Carr for his comments about the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community in his Netflix special. The show, called His Dark Material, was released on Christmas Day but received widespread attention on Friday after a clip was posted and shared online. Carr said: “When people talk...