Two weeks after Logan Paul's video surfaced featuring an apparent suicide victim, YouTube is taking action. Polygon's Julia Alexander and Rooster Teeth's Jon Risinger join Cheddar to discuss YouTube's next move and more from the media world. Alexander weighs in on whether she thinks the video platform went far enough in its punishment, and if the controversy will result in more editorial oversight for YouTube.
Nintendo surprised fans by announcing the new games coming to the Switch in 2018. Risinger says the new slate proves the gaming giant is doubling down on nostalgia. After 2017 saw the Switch become the world's fastest-selling console thanks to Zelda and Mario games, the host says it makes sense that they would continue with this strategy.
Finally, we break down some of the biggest Marvel headlines of the week. The studio found a writer for a standalone "Black Widow" movie, but Risinger isn't so sure this means we'll ever see it in theaters. Plus, after an ABC exec implied the network will cancel "Inhumans," we discuss what the show's failure means for the studio's upcoming TV projects.
The chief suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway has admitted he beat the young Alabama woman to death on a beach in Aruba after she refused his advances. New details in the killing emerged Wednesday as Joran Van der Sloot pleaded guilty to extorting Holloway's mother, resolving a case that has captivated the public’s attention for nearly 20 years.
The trial of a Fugees rapper, who was convicted this year in multimillion-dollar political conspiracies, stretched across the worlds of politics and entertainment — and now the case is touching on the tech world with arguments that his defense attorney bungled the case, in part, by using an artificial intelligence program to write his closing arguments.
Israel said Wednesday that it will allow Egypt to deliver limited quantities of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the first crack in a 10-day siege on the territory. Palestinians reeled from a massive blast at a Gaza City hospital that killed hundreds the day before and grew increasingly desperate as food and water supplies ran out.
A 4000-year-old slab of rock is being dubbed a treasure map for archaeologists. The rock was found in 1900 at the site of an ancient tomb in northwestern France and it was declared Europe's oldest known map in 2021.
