A long time ago, in a small town far, far away, a young man named George Lucas had an idea for a story:A simple young farmboy gets a magic sword from an old wizard so he can defeat an evil knight, rescue a princess, and save the world.Actually Lucas wasn't the first person to have…

Happy Friday and welcome to this week's edition of Replay, WIRED's videogame news roundup. The week's biggest news is clearly the forthcoming reincarnation of gaming's biggest, most dead franchise. That's not all, though. Let's get to it.That Half-Life You Like Is Coming Back in Style in Valve's New VR ExclusiveRemember Half-Life? You probably do; the…

A great way to anger the gods is to call your ship unsinkable. People thought the Titanic couldn't go down, and as Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio found out the hard way, that clearly wasn't the case. (Leo himself was also, in fact, quite sinkable.) But at the University of Rochester, scientists have defied the…

Watching Tesla design chief Franz von Holzhausen smash the Cybertruck’s supposedly unsmashable window with a metal ball may have been the most awkward moment of Thursday night’s presentation, but it wasn’t the most confusing. That came when Elon Musk wrapped up the debut of his new electric pickup truck, told the crowd of whooping Tesla…

A few weeks ago, we were talking about whether companies like Facebook and Twitter should ban all paid political advertising from their platforms. Now the debate has narrowed to a secondary question: Where political ads are allowed, should their micro-targeting be prohibited? Google is the first to make this restriction formal policy: The company announced…

No matter how frequently it happens, when people online love something obsessively, when they simply must stan, it always brings out the cynics. Their cynicism, in turn, will be understood as intellectual seriousness. As maturity. To wit: This week the internet pledged its fealty to Baby Yoda—the tiny alien from Disney+’s The Mandalorian—and was immediately…

Within moments of arriving at Seattle’s Addo restaurant, I was handed a Nintendo Switch controller and a can of Georgetown Brewing Company’s Bodhizafa IPA.While chef Eric Rivera shuttled back and forth to the kitchen to bring out Puerto Rican snacks, Addo’s director of operations Ingrid Lyublinsky took another controller, jumped into a game of Mario…

T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach affecting more than a million of its customers, whose personal data (but no financial or password data) was exposed to a malicious actor. The…

Last week, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, we sat down with Maryanna Saenko and Steve Jurvetson, investors who came together to create the investment outfit Future Ventures roughly…

The Naspers spinoff hopes to become a global food delivery leader Prosus Ventures last week filed a hostile offer for British food delivery startup Just Eat, an attempt to defeat…