Day February 16, 2017

For Honor: The Kotaku Review

I’ve chopped, smashed, and stabbed more medieval bodies in the past few days than I can count. I’ve also been cut open, impaled, and beheaded more times than I care to admit. Kill and be killed—that’s the proposition at the…

Monopoly Is Being Gentrified, One Token at a Time

On Thursday, Hasbro announced that the humble thimble, Monopoly’s least beloved game piece, would be getting the boot from “an upcoming version of the game.” Cynically, the toy company framed the eviction as a simple reflection of the people’s will,…

Jack Dorsey is ready to give Twitter an AI makeover

Jack Dorsey is ready to give Twitter an AI makeover @Jack is ready to give Twitter an AI makeover.Image: Pavlich/Newspix/REX/Shutterstock By Karissa Bell2017-02-15 21:24:44 -0700 Jack Dorsey thinks AI-driven personalization could be the solution to Twitter’s problems. Speaking to investors…

Female-Fronted Horror Anthology XX Finds the Dread in Domesticity 

Four talented female writer-directors and one animator contribute segments to horror anthology XX, all decidedly female-centric stories driven by powerful female performances. That said, absolutely anyone who prefers the unsettling creep of dread to predictable jump scares will enjoy this…