Steven Asarch is a tech reporter for Newsweek currently based in New York City. In high school, he started stand-up comedy but quickly learned he wasn’t very funny. After graduating from Baruch ...

It’s not like Minecraft ever really went anywhere. But it definitely spent the past handful of years less firmly entrenched in the zeitgeist than in the first half of the decade. Not so in 2019. The ...

Minecraft was the most popular game on YouTube in 2019, racking up over 100 billion total views. The popularity of Minecraft is unparalleled on the platform, driven largely by controversial YouTuber ...

“It felt like people were playing it just because it was popular, and not because they were actually [having fun] doing it,” Kjellberg said in a recent video. For the first time since January 2017, ...

2019 has had a few constants on the internet so far: “Old Town Road,” Keanu Reeves, Area 51, a general sense of unease about our impending ecological disaster. Surprisingly, a 10-year-old video game ...