Austin Butler: The Last American Boy Scout the World Never Ordered By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, somewhere over Greenland Let us begin with the obvious: the planet did not wake up yesterday screaming for another blue-eyed Californian who can cry on cue. Yet here he is—Austin Butler—hovering above the international dateline in a…
Square Enix: The Japanese Dragon Still Trying to Breathe Fire in a World of Mobile Micro-Transactions Tokyo, Japan – On the 18th floor of the Shinjuku Eastside Square tower, the air smells faintly of matcha, desperation, and freshly unwrapped PlayStation 5 dev kits. This is the headquarters of Square Enix Holdings, a company that once…
Coop Live: Manchester’s Newest Temple to Late-Stage Capitalism Opens Its Doors—The World Watches, Slightly Hungover By our correspondent who still owns a Discman Manchester, United Kingdom – Humanity has finally built the thing it always needed: a £365-million arena bolted to a shopping centre, wrapped around a train station, stuffed with tacos, and christened “Coop…
