is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011. Coming ...

Excuse the sour attitude, but that’s my conclusion after spending the day fiddling around in Cybertown. In the beginning, the idea of the simulated city at cybertown.com was enchanting, a “free, clean ...

There’s trouble in Cybertown, and that’s a good thing. In Cybertown there are houses, factories, train tracks, an airport, a military base and power plant models. All of these wire back to a server ...

A few years ago I wrote about a project to revive the early 3D virtual community Cybertown, and yesterday, I got an alert that Cybertown is “back and fully restored” as of this month. There’s a bit ...