Netflix’s ‘Cowboy Bebop’ is everything wrong with nostalgia reboots
Cowboy Bebop was like nothing else when it premiered twenty years ago. It was a neo-Western set in space; a noir thriller alongside the spectacle of martial…
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OnePlus Harry Potter smartwatch cashes in on millennial nostalgia
How much do you still like Harry Potter? Enough to put up with a device that our own Dan Siefert called “basic and boring” and which Gizmodo’s Victoria…
You Can Go Home, and This Time Be the Hero
I’m weaving my way down the streets of Manhattan when I stumble upon it rather suddenly: my old apartment, right at the corner of 8th Avenue and 23rd street.…
The Strangest Time for Nostalgia Is Now
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.Tomorrow marks the 20th…
Nintendo’s Nostalgia is Holding its Online Features Back
You have to give it to Nintendo: Anytime it makes an announcement, it’s all over the internet. When Animal Crossing: New Horizons got a new trailer a…
Here’s how Grid Studio are bringing framed Apple, Nintendo and Sony nostalgia to your walls
A company by the name of Grid Studio has been lovingly taking apart certain devices and placing them into picture frames for customers to hang up in their…
Disney Plus needs less nostalgia and more original ideas
After finishing the excellent MODOK series earlier this week, I found myself aimlessly browsing Disney Plus looking for something to watch. After a short…
When the Game Is Over, Where Do Our Avatars Go?
In the 2003 Major League Baseball season, Oreo Queefs stood five-foot-zero, weighed 385 pounds, and, impossibly, stole 214 bases, obliterating the…
‘Emily Is Away’ Re-Creates Social Media’s Awkward, Early Days
Ask someone who played it what they think of the indie game Emily Is Away, and they might confess to shedding a tear at the end. If they did, they’re…