Enlarge / You are a glowing dog. The humans lack all purpose. You must direct them to their final ascension. That’s the game. reader comments 37 with Share this story Is it a bad time or the perfect time to release a game about humans mindlessly marching toward their doom unless an ethereal Shiba Inu ..
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Enlarge / Angry bird is angry. reader comments 115 with Share this story Back in the days before practically every mobile game was a free-to-play, ad- and microtransaction-laden sinkhole, Rovio found years of viral success selling paid downloads of Angry Birds to tens of millions of smartphone users. Today, though, the company is delisting the ..
Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Valve’s anti-cheat tentacles rising up to catch those caught by its memory honeypot. reader comments 12 with Share this story The cat-and-mouse battle between game makers and cheat makers has seen plenty of inventive twists and turns over the years. Even amid that backdrop, though, Dota 2 stands out for ..
Enlarge / The familiar hallways of Black Mesa can be made new with some generative lighting. reader comments 37 with Share this story Half-Life is a legendary game, a title that was ahead of its time in its storytelling, mechanics, and technology. Graphically, though, it can’t help but look extremely 1998. A new, free ray-tracing ..
Enlarge / The big old question mark just got a lot bigger… reader comments 120 with Share this story As the Nintendo Switch approaches the sixth anniversary of its launch, Nintendo has been extremely coy about the prospects for a true successor to the console (no, the Switch OLED doesn’t count). This week, though, a ..
Enlarge / A human player races against several instances of GT Sophy, a highly capable racing AI developed by Sony. reader comments 28 with Share this story Last year, Sony AI and Polyphony Digital, the developers of Gran Turismo, developed a new AI agent that is able to race at a world-class level. At the ..
Enlarge / The glorious future that awaits you in Atomic Heart involves dismantling a lot of the glorious future constructed by an alternate-history Soviet Russia. Mundfish / Focus Entertainment reader comments 29 with Share this story Note: Atomic Heart arrived to us in the middle of last week, with its embargo falling on a holiday Monday. ..
Enlarge / Will someone please get this girl an electric heater? reader comments 23 with Share this story HBO’s “The Last of Us” season one View more stories New episodes of The Last of Us are premiering on HBO every Sunday night, and Ars’ Kyle Orland (who has played the games) and Andrew Cunningham (who ..
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Primate Labs reader comments 122 with Share this story We review a lot of hardware at Ars, and part of that review process involves running benchmark apps. The exact apps we use may change over time and based on what we’re trying to measure, but the purpose is the same: to compare the relative performance ..
