Logitech reveals a $100 Litra Beam key light for creators

Logitech has unveiled two new products aimed at creators, including one designed to help them look their best while streaming or recording videos. Litra Beam is a key light that has a three-way adjustable desktop stand, which should help you find the right height, tilt and rotation for your needs. Logitech notes that, by adding […]

Return to Monkey Island is about ‘unfinished business’ for its creators

Few adventure games series have the staying power of Monkey Island. Something about the humor and heart in the ongoing travels of Guybrush Threepwood as he strives to become a mighty pirate has resonated with players ever since the point-and-click adventure game The Secret of Monkey Island first released over 30 ago.  Following the 1991 […]

Stranger Things Creators to Adapt Stephen King’s The Talisman at Netflix

RELATED STORIES Stranger Things masterminds the Duffer Brothers are keeping the creepy vibe going at Netflix: The pair are turning the Stephen King novel The Talisman into a series for the streamer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Co-written by King and Peter Straub and first published in 1984, The Talisman centers on a 12-year-old boy […]

Little Britain Creators Apologize for Blackface After Show’s Removal From Netflix and Other Streaming Platforms

RELATED STORIES Little Britain creators Matt Lucas and David Walliams have issued a formal apology in the wake of their series being pulled from Netflix and the BBC for its use of blackface. Both Lucas and Walliams simultaneously tweeted public apologies Saturday, four days after the series’ removal from the streaming platforms. Lucas wrote, “David […]

The Crown cancelled: Why is The Crown season 5 the last EVER? Creator’s shock revelation

Morgan said: “I’m absolutely thrilled to confirm Imelda Staunton as Her Majesty the The Queen for the fifth and final season, taking The Crown into the 21st century. “Imelda is an astonishing talent and will be a fantastic successor to Claire Foy and Olivia Colman. “At the outset I had imagined The Crown running for six seasons but now […]

Secrets of The Likely Lads revealed: How creators convinced reluctant star to make show

We have been storytellers all our adult lives, ever since we first scribbled lines together for a sketch in the early Sixties in an Earls Court pub. It began a career that, amazingly, has lasted longer than Rodgers and Hammerstein, Gilbert and Sullivan, Laurel and Hardy and Morecambe and Wise. The first characters we created […]

National Inventors Hall of Fame honors creators of Unix, power drills and more

The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) joined Engadget on stage today at CES to announce its 2019 class of inductees. While the official induction ceremony won’t actually happen until May 2nd at the National Building Museum in DC, we can tell you that 19 separate innovators representing 12 different inventions will be honored. The […]

Pokémon Go creators launch AR-game contest that (nearly) resembles American Idol

Enlarge (credit: Niantic) How could Niantic, the leading developers of Pokémon Go, possibly top its augmented-reality (AR) gaming sensation? Today’s announcement from the studio hints at its future strategy: find someone else to do it. The Niantic Beyond Reality Developer Contest talks up a prize pool of more than $ 1 million, but the real […]

Mirai botnet creators praised for helping FBI, won’t serve prison time

Enlarge / Fiber optic cables, center, and copper Ethernet cables feed into switches inside a communications room at an office in London, U.K., on Monday, May 21, 2018. (credit: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Over nine months ago, three men pleaded guilty to creating and operating the Mirai and Clickfraud botnets. However, on Tuesday, after […]

YouTube’s non-skippable ads are coming to more video creators

Starting next week, you might come across more YouTube ads that don’t come with the option to skip to the video you want to watch. The video-sharing website has announced through its official Creator Insider account that it’s rolling out non-skippable ads to all the channels that can already monetize their videos. YouTube first made […]