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Oh Goody: Wendy's Is Getting Surge Pricing Next Year
27.2.2024
Wendy’s will start experimenting with surge pricing, much like Uber and Lyft, as the company rolls out digital menus to all its United States restaurants by 2025, according to the company’s February earnings call. Under the test, burgers, Frosties, and other menu items will have “dynamic prices,”...
I Live In NYC Now, But Cyberpunk 2077's Night City Still Feels More Like Home
28.9.2023
Sometimes I forget I live in New York City. Sure, I’m hit with a battering ram of a reminder when my enormous rent bill shows up, but even when I ride the subway to Manhattan or see some of my best friends who have lived here their whole lives, it often feels like I’m just visiting.Read more
AIs and fries: Wendy’s to trial chatbot drive-thru operator
10.5.2023
Wendy’s says its "FreshAI" bot reduces costs allowing funds to be focused elsewhere, others worry that eventually, those less skilled will be jobless
Arizona Senator Launches Bill to Make Bitcoin Legal Tender
27.1.2023
A senator in the U.S. state of Arizona has introduced a set of cryptocurrency bills, one of which seeks to make bitcoin legal tender. “Centralized digital money controlled by the central bankers is slavery. Decentralized bitcoin is freedom,” the lawmaker said. Arizona Lawmaker Wants...
Grubhub Is Ready To Enlist You In Its Underpaid PUBG Army
9.12.2022
The Game Awards are full of commercials. Some are glitzy reveals for exciting games while others are for stuff like Grubhub’s crossover with PUBG where you can order food IRL and then pretend to be the underpaid driver delivering it inside the popular battle royale. Read more
Halo Infinite Finally Gets Co-Op Next Month, But As A Beta
8.6.2022
Halo Infinite will finally get some form of co-op for its campaign, 343 Industries announced today. It’ll be playable as one of those basically-just-a-beta “technical flights,” the same method the studio used last summer to get players into the first-person shooter’s initial multiplayer...
Real-Life Spy Agencies Troll Each Other Over Wordle
3.2.2022
Wordle continues its gentle taking over of the world. In the days following the surprise announcement that the New York Times is buying the game for at least a million bucks, the head of the UK secret intelligence service, MI6, tweeted complaining about people’s results from the word game appearing...
Wendy’s Roasts Xbox Over Lack Of Halo Infinite Campaign Co-op
14.1.2022
In case you forgot, 343 Industries’ Halo Infinite doesn’t have co-op play in its campaign mode. Well, the fast-food burger company Wendy’s hasn’t forgotten, and decided to hit Twitter to roast the official Xbox account over the lack of inclusion of the mode at launch.Read more
P2E game Nyan Heroes aims to save 1 billion sheltered cats
7.1.2022
“We need to realize that building a game is not only about the game play, but about the economic system and how sustainable everything is,” said co-founder Wendy Huang
Streamers React To Leaked Twitch Income Rankings With Jokes, Criticism
7.10.2021
An anonymous hacker leaked payroll information for every streamer on Twitch yesterday, and predictably, the revealed incomes have become an inescapable topic of conversation for streamers in their Twitch chats and on social media. The range of reactions to the leak has been vast, with some...
Tales Of Arise: The Kotaku Review
15.9.2021
Dozens of hours into Tales of Arise, a new role-playing game from Bandai Namco, one of your party members asks, “Is it over?”Read more
Seven Years With Destiny
15.9.2021
It’s 3 a.m., and I’m searching for a gun. Not just any gun but a primary sidearm that shoots rounds vibrating with a dark crystal energy that only drops from Destiny 2’s seasonal competitive slog known as Iron Banner. The gun is called Peacebond, an early contender for best new sidearm in the game...
Microsoft Is Making An Xbox Mini Fridge Because Capitalism
14.6.2021
Most press conferences at E3 end with some kind of exciting, beautiful-looking, not-yet-released game developers can’t wait for you to experience.Read more
Presenting The Takeout’s official Fast Food Fish Sandwich Power Ranking
3.3.2021
The Lenten season requires you to suspend your disbelief. Not sure about a skinny 33-something dude turning down a loaf of bread after fasting in the wilderness for 40 days? It’s Lent, baby! Get over it! Planning to give up sugar for six weeks? Sure, okay—Lent! A little shaky on hand-washing...
Wendy McElroy: Crypto is Banking for Anarchists and Average People
10.2.2020
“What I love about Bitcoin is that instead of some rich old guy on Wall Street, young poor people are the ones getting rich” —Eric Finman No Longer Is Economic Sovereignty Just for Politicians and Bankers “Cryptocurrency is for the rich”; this pernicious myth causes...