Andrew Webster Profile and Activity

Senior entertainment editor

Andrew Webster is the entertainment editor at The Verge, where he oversees the site's coverage of the intersecting worlds of gaming, film, and television. He joined the site in 2012 and has covered major events like E3, TIFF, Sundance, and GDC; served as a judge at The Game Awards and E3; interviewed industry luminaries like Shigeru Miyamoto, Phil Spencer, and Hironobu Sakaguchi; and reviewed countless games, movies, and shows including basically every Pokémon release. He has also edited several special issues covering topics like the history of PlayStation and how creatives get paid online.

Before his time at The Verge, his work was featured in outlets like Ars Technica, Wired.com, Eurogamer, and others. He studied professional writing at York University in Toronto and is currently based in Hamilton, Ontario. (Go Leafs Go.)

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Netflix is launching its Queen’s Gambit chess game in July

Andrew Webster

Jun 6

Andrew Webster Jun 6

Is Ted Lasso over or what?

The end of season 3 of Ted Lasso sure felt like a finale for the show, but we still don’t have confirmation either way. Now Apple seems to be teasing that things aren’t quite over yet — but whether that will come in the form of a new season or a spinoff isn’t clear. Nate isn’t talking, though.

Andrew Webster Jun 6

Don’t forget about Pikmin.

Yeah, sure, Nintendo just released a little game about saving the realm of Hyrule (again). But it also has another notable Switch release for the summer: Pikmin 4. It’s launching on July 21st, and you can get a brief glimpse at the new character creator in the latest trailer.

Andrew Webster Jun 6

Capcom joins the summer gaming fun.

Fresh off the launch of Street Fighter 6, Capcom has announced that it’s joining the not-E3 frenzy with a showcase event at 6PM ET on June 12th. (That’s just a few hours after Ubisoft’s event on the same day.)

It’s expected to last around 36 minutes, and you can probably expect to see updates on the company’s big franchises, like Resident Evil and Monster Hunter, alongside new titles like the dino shooter Exoprimal. If we’re very lucky, we’ll see a new Ace Attorney.

You can keep up with the increasingly complex web of summer gaming events right here.

Capcom Showcase

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Andrew Webster Jun 5

Fortnite is getting wild.

Fortnite’s current cyberpunk-themed season is ending soon, and Epic is already teasing what’s next: a season dubbed “Wilds,” which kicks off on June 9th. Better use those web shooters while you still can.

Andrew Webster Jun 5

A different way to go birding this summer.

Bird Box was a big hit for Netflix back in 2018, so it’s no surprise we’re getting more. The new film is described as an “expansion” of the original and, as you can probably gather from the title, it explores how Barcelona is dealing with the post-apocalypse. It starts streaming on July 14th.

Andrew Webster Jun 3

How much free time do you have this weekend?

Because it sure was a packed week in the world of entertainment. We’ve got the excellent sequel to Into the Spider-Verse; a brilliant revival of Street Fighter; remakes of the classics games System Shock and Etrian Odyssey; and the season finales for Yellowjackets and Ted Lasso. Oh, and if you pre-ordered Diablo IV, you can dig in a little early.