Enlarge / The 2019 BMW 8 Series Coupe, as rendered in real time using the Unity graphics engine and its newly announced Nvidia RTX pipeline of ray tracing. Unity / BMW reader comments 22 with 20 posters participating Share this story GDC 2019 View more stories SAN FRANCISCO—Unity, one of the leading 3D-rendering systems used ..
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reader comments 24 with 23 posters participating Share this story GDC 2019 View more stories SAN FRANCISCO—Activision has taken the wraps off its first major Call of Duty video game for smartphones. The title is simple enough: Call of Duty Mobile. The online, multiplayer-only game will arrive later this year, but neither Activision nor any ..
reader comments 227 with 98 posters participating, including story author Share this story There’s a scene somewhere in the middle of a new flat Earth documentary that acts as metaphor for so much that surrounds it. Two of the central figures of Behind the Curve are visiting a spaceflight museum that pays tribute to NASA, ..
Enlarge / An artist’s representation of a Cas9 protein immediately interrupting and changing a living creature’s genes. reader comments 80 with 36 posters participating, including story author Share this story Ars at SXSW 2019 View more stories Here’s a poorly kept secret: the internal chatter at a given research and scientific institution is typically more ..
reader comments 14 with 14 posters participating Share this story Breathe in that calm Convention Center floor on Day 1 of registration—the chaos will be coming soon. Nathan Mattise If you love film poster art, SXSW gives you ample sessions, workshops, and art exhibits to enjoy it… Nathan Mattise Within the SXSW Film Poster exhibit, ..
reader comments 47 with 32 posters participating, including story author Share this story My pick for SXSW 2019’s best VR film, Metro Veinte, asked viewers to sit in wheelchairs while they watched the 18-minute film. Sam Machkovech Another top pick, the BBC’s Nothing to Be Written, had viewers sit next to a wall of replica ..
reader comments 14 with 11 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. “Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games.” Call me odd, but the above description was enough to get my heart racing ..
Enlarge / Peter Quill/Starlord, Groot, Draxx, and Gamora: dusted Guardians of the Galaxy. YouTube/Marvel Studios reader comments 143 with 83 posters participating Share this story Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is back in production after an unofficial hiatus, according to reports from Deadline and Hollywood Reporter. If you’re for any reason fatigued by Marvel Studios ..
reader comments 49 with 38 posters participating Share this story Valve is opening up its latency-reducing, DoS-protecting network relay infrastructure to every developer using its Steamworks platform. A few years ago, large-scale denial-of-service attacks against game servers were making the news and becoming a frustratingly frequent occurrence in online gaming and e-sports. To protect its ..
Enlarge / Despite what you may have read, Epic says this is not spyware. reader comments 83 with 57 posters participating Share this story This week, certain corners of the gaming Internet have been abuzz with a bit of self-described “amateur analysis” suggesting some “pretty sketchy,” spyware-like activity on the part of the Epic Game ..
