Stranger Things Companion

The official behind-the-scenes companion audio guide to the first two seasons of Stranger Things and beyond.

Stranger Things 3: The Game is the official companion game to Season 3 of the hit original series! Play through familiar events from the series while also uncovering never-before-seen quests, character interactions, and secrets!

“Stranger Things,” Netflix’s sci-fi success story, hit the zeitgeist last year with the force of an invisible telekinetic blast from a psychic pre-teen on the run from government operatives. It did this by unabashedly culling references from 1980s pop culture, repurposing the pulpy horror tropes of the era into a story that resonated with a contemporary audience. There’s nothing wrong with “style over substance” as a guiding aesthetic for a series like this; when done well, that sense of surface-level nostalgia can help create a world that feels both familiar and intriguing. With music, however, the same effect can be trickier to pull off. More often than not, when artists wholesale copy well-known motifs and themes, you’re left with an empty pastiche or an uninspired facsimile of a better musician.

For anyone who's been listening to great music during the past half-century, Paul Simon is certainly no stranger. So one of the most remarkable things about his extraordinary new masterpiece, "Stranger to Stranger", Paul Simon's 13th solo record, is that it conjures a vivid and vital new context to his well-established genius as a singer and songwriter. Full of thrilling textures that feel fresh and modern, while still offering subtle and artful allusions to our shared musical past, "Stranger to Stranger" presents the perfect opportunity to get to know Paul Simon in a new way.

'The idea is not to just make another album,' Simon explains. 'The idea is to make something that s really worth a listen.'

Microsoft has fun on Twitter teasing a new release of Windows 1.0 and all its apps, including the game Reversi. The company hasn't explained what it's planning but told a fan to "just take a chill pill and enjoy the ride, man".