Video Games Reporter
Ash is a Video Games Reporter for The Verge with a focus on covering marginalized gamers and their communities, writing about the intersection of video games and sex, and finding a way to make the general video gaming public care about the Overwatch League.
Just in time for Deadpool and Wolverine, Xbox is giving away a new controller that puts the “ass” in assassin...and I hate it.
Now, I don’t mind gimmicky controllers. Those furry Sonic controllers didn’t bother me because they were still regular controllers, sweaty hands notwithstanding. But this monstrosity doesn’t even look ergonomically functional. All that ass and no way to properly grip it.
Netflix announced it’s adding a slew of AMC shows on August 19th. They include Preacher, The Terror, Into The Badlands, and the first season of the extremely good Interview With The Vampire. These shows used to be sequestered on AMC Plus, requiring yet another subscription fee to watch. But their Netflix arrival shows cross-platform cooperation ain’t just for Xbox and PlayStation anymore.
Kendrick Lamar’s brutal and relentless takedown of fellow rapper Drake has inspired a wealth of content creators. We’ve had gifs, animated shorts, and now a whole-ass video game. Game designer Richie Branson has made a game where you must “wop wop wop wop wop” on owls as fast as possible to rack up points.
Before Games Done Quick became the premier video game speedrunning event, there was the Nintendo World Championship. On July 18th, Nintendo is bringing that countrywide contest to the comfort of our living rooms with the Nintendo World Championship: NES Edition. Players will be able to compete in over 150 brand new speed contests across a ton of Nintendo classics both online and locally.
Nintendo has just released an extremely creepy 15-second trailer for a game called Emio. The trailer features grainy footage of a person in a trenchcoat wearing a paper bag decorated with an unsettling rictus grin. There’s no other information other than the cryptic hashtag #whoisemio. Whoever he is, the creepypasta loving 12-year-olds in your life are gonna love this.