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Xbox Cuts Game Pass Price, Will No Longer Include New ‘Call of Duty’ Less than a year after hiking the price of Game Pass, Xbox is bringing it back down.

NEW: Xbox is cutting the price of Game Pass Ultimate from $30 to $23/month... and will no longer put new Call of Duty games on Game Pass.

The first big move of new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's tenure: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Supreme Court long relied on careful, time-tested procedures to issue decisions. But secret memos by the justices, obtained by The New York Times, show how the court decided to bypass those procedures and create its modern “shadow docket.” See key takeaways: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

At some point this week, I started a new TextEdit file, typed "Everyone knows that " (with a space at the end), and then... never finished that thought? This is gonna haunt me for years

this was a bad idea from people that are unbelievably high off their own supply

From Clickhole's "Incredible! We Asked These Astronauts What It’s Like To Be In Space," Barry Wilmore: You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.

One of the very best from Clickhole

Run The Jewels vs. Gorillaz Mixtape YouTube video by Dee Jay Park

Today the YouTube rec algorithm did VERY good indeed. Run the Jewels vs. Gorillaz Mixtape www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmGV...

(Not enough Damon, but that's a very small gripe given I've already listened to this whole mixtape twice)

In absence of any sports, my local bar had put on the game show Chain Reaction and now the whole room is shouting answers. It’s gotten very intense

For $200 more, you can get a MacBook Air Joanna Stern talks Apple’s most imitated product.

I love my current era MacBook Air, but this piece from @theverge.com and @joannastern.bsky.social reminded me of how great the 2010s version of the laptop was.

I even had two of them … because we couldn’t stop accidentally knocking drinks over onto their keyboards … www.theverge.com/tech/901698/...

I'm just saying it'd be the funniest thing for LaserWriter II to crack the top 10.

(This doesn't track time spent, does it? I've spent much too long clicking) www.theverge.com/cs/tech/9004...

Hey, my first game, a surreal visual novel set in a near-apocalyptic Texas, is on sale for 25% off. In 2026 it is cheaper than like half a burrito. You should get it, so that I can keep making cool stuff for you.

🚨 KILN OPEN BETA, PREORDER & LAUNCH INFO🚨

Our pottery party brawler launches on APRIL 23, 2026!

Please wishlist it! We like feeling important. 😌

PS5: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/kiln/
Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC: https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/kiln
Steam: https://bit.ly/Steam_Kiln

Couple things here:

1. What the fuck
2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen
3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out!

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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Congrats to the 22 people who defeated Slay the Spire 2's first enemy: Steam's pummeled servers

Bullet Train is loud, funny, violent, beautifully crafted, and utterly bonkers. I adore it Sometimes you just want to watch a great dumb fun movie over and over, and that's totally OK.

Sometimes you need a little escapism. And sometimes you just want to watch a great dumb fun movie over and over, and that's totally OK mbh4h.substack.com/p/bullet-tra...

Highguard was first revealed 68 days ago

DDR is the community where I made my first real gay friends, where I met a Trans person for the first time. A game I fell into out of a deep love of techno and house music that eventually taught me about found families and vibrant communities

Resolving to solve every NYT crossword in 2026. One month down, 11 to go

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🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (HH288_offset). RGB Filters: 470, 356, 150
PI: McCaughrean, Mark J., program 04548. CRVAL: 9.293072, 64.062915
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

Cried at work today. @kristenradtke.bsky.social www.theverge.com/policy/86856...

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

We also had HEATED RIVALRY on the short list, but that really good hockey show happened, so we went with the original title.

😉

That is a helluva concession for Netflix, but also: for how long? Years? Less?

Source: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/b...

Ted Sarandos says Netflix will commit to 45-day theatrical releases Netflix’s co-CEO insists that he still wants to keep the box office alive.

Ted Sarandos says Netflix will commit to 45-day theatrical releases

Ash is great, please keep her in mind for future opportunities!

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch!
www.ashparrish.com

Whisky Friday can't even compare