Oculus will soon let you see how silly you look while playing VR games

You’ll also be able to keep an eye on your phone notifications without taking off your headset.

Red Sox Fan Makes Greatest Multitasking Bat Catch In Fenway History

Dude kept the cell phone conversation going and hauled in a dangerous flying object at the same time.

Barry Jenkins’ ‘The Underground Railroad’ Is Not A Show To Binge-Watch

The 10-part adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel should disrupt your TV-watching habits.

CAPTCHAs May Soon Go Extinct

Are you a human? It’s an age-old question made more pressing by the ability for millions of computers to shut down websites or snipe auctions out from under regular, non-robotic buyers. What’s more, proving you’re a human reduces spam, abuse, and even theft.

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Cameo, the Home for Loser Celebrities, Offers Trump a Platform

Trump might have been kicked off of just about every major platform, but that won’t stop celebrity shout-out app Cameo from welcoming the former president with open arms.

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D&D's Guide to Ravenloft: Magical Disaster Horrors Await Players

It’s almost time to descend onto the dread demi-plane of Ravenloft and its many realms when Dungeons & Dragons releases its latest sourcebook, Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft. There’s so much more to the horrors of Ravenloft than what our dear friend Strahd is up to though. io9 has a sneak peek inside just one of…

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New Pokemon Snap review: You know, I’m something of a photographer myself

The original Pokemon Snap is a title that I played very enthusiastically as a kid and still think about today. Even though it was a fairly short affair, I squeezed as much gameplay out of it as any person reasonably could have, determined to uncover its secrets and photograph every Pokemon in the game. At many times throughout the past, … Continue reading

New planters just went full Mario Bros on town in UK

A town in England attempted to add some color to the streets with a set of oddly familiar planters for the public. Some are wide, some are tall, all seem to have the same distinctive thick top lip, all appear in downtown Warsall. They all also come in the color green – a very bright green that, along with the … Continue reading

Solar Orbiter scores an unexpected first sighting for NASA’s Sun imager

NASA and the ESA’s Solar Orbiter may not be fully operational yet, but that hasn’t stopped the Sun probe from capturing one of its first gushes of magnetically-charged plasma from the corona of our nearest star. It’s among the first data tidbits from the spacecraft after a long year of travel from Earth to the Sun, where scientists expect it … Continue reading

Epic Games sues AR glasses maker Nreal over its name

It infringes on trademarks for Unreal, according to Epic.