reader comments 25 with 18 posters participating, including story author Share this story Back in 2018, at the dawn of the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds phenomenon, designer Brendan Greene told Ars Technica that he thought every genre—not just shooters—could potentially benefit from sampling the last-man-standing concept of the battle royale genre. Since then, games like Tetris 99 and ..
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reader comments 0 with 0 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris hosts the Smithsonian Channel’s new documentary series The Curious Life and Death of…. Infamous historical cold cases get a scientific face-lift in The Curious Life and Death Of…, a new documentary series from the Smithsonian Channel. Hosted by author ..
reader comments 16 with 13 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] The Marvel’s 616 trailer Disney+ has a broad variety of content at this point—family shows, animated films, The Mandalorian, and so on. But there’s a distinct, Disney-specific formula that has emerged for the streaming network’s original series: documentaries talking up the cultural importance of ..
Enlarge / Whoever wins this case will get a llama full of prizes. reader comments 97 with 60 posters participating, including story author Share this story Epic vs. Apple/Google View more stories Federal District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers heard arguments this morning regarding Epic’s request for a temporary injunction in its case against Apple. That ..
reader comments 46 with 38 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Trailer for Feels Good Man. There’s no shortage of documentaries about our current political climate or the fact that the Internet might be bad, but Feels Good Man focuses on the craziest intersection of these two modern realities: Pepe, the cartoon frog. If you’re ..
Enlarge / There’s still a lot of stuff in this box. Cephalofair Games reader comments 4 with 4 posters participating Share this story Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. There’s a reason Gloomhaven (read our 2017 review) is so popular. There’s also ..
Aurich Lawson / Getty Images reader comments 10 with 10 posters participating Share this story Pop musicians have spent centuries flirting with technology to push the boundaries of the art, from the Theremin to mid-century tape experiments. Despite this fascination, only a tiny niche have gone so far as to programmatically generate music via code. ..
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell fans, it’s a good fall. reader comments 10 with 9 posters participating Share this story Do fairies exist? To steal us away, to cast curses, to impurify our bloodlines? Let’s say yes. We have artists, don’t we? Sensitive types, so fragile and retreating. The best of them seem touched by ..
reader comments 131 with 77 posters participating, including story author Share this story The now-standard streaming-game-service shot of titles running on many different kinds of screens. Here’s all those screens running Metro Exodus. Just some of the streaming games that will be available from Luna+ and the Ubisoft Channel. From the service’s first trailer, another ..
reader comments 25 with 21 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Simon Pegg and Nick Frost play ghost hunters in the new Amazon Prime horror comedy Truth Seekers. Back in July, during the virtual San Diego Comic-Con@Home, Amazon Studios released a beguiling teaser for Truth Seekers, the forthcoming sci-fi/horror/comedy series starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. It looked like ..
