Enlarge / Title page of the first edition of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, relating the fictional adventures of one Lemuel Gulliver. Meisei University Library, Tokyo, Japan reader comments 57 with 34 posters participating Share this story Gulliver’s Travels is justly regarded as one of the best satirical novels of all time, although its author, Jonathan ..
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reader comments 11 with 11 posters participating Share this story L-R: Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez perform as Buke and Gase in November 2018. Each holds one of the band’s titular, custom-built instruments: a baritone ukulele and a guitar-bass fusion. Sam Machkovech Sanchez’s seated position lets him activate the bass-drum switch with one foot and ..
Enlarge / Michael Burnham is all of us. reader comments 227 with 99 posters participating Share this story In many ways, this season felt very much like a much-needed reset from the previous one. The Klingon war is over, and the Federation is consumed by a new scientific pursuit: mysterious red bursts of light that ..
Enlarge / Scorpion has come a long way in Mortal Kombat 11, but he’s still a golden ninja with flaming powers, so it works for me. reader comments 45 with 33 posters participating, including story author Share this story I was 15 when Mortal Kombat first hit the arcades in 1992. It was a different ..
reader comments 8 with 6 posters participating, including story author Share this story A month ago, I asked readers to donate to our 2018 Charity Drive sweepstakes. All told, Ars Technica readers donated $20,210.66 to Child’s Play and the EFF through the charity drive. That brings our total donations over 12 years of charity driving ..
reader comments 25 with 19 posters participating Share this story Days after a nasty public split with cloud gaming developer Improbable, Unity has reinstated the company’s license and updated its own terms of service to offer what it is calling a “commitment to being an open platform.” “When you make a game with Unity, you ..
reader comments 80 with 70 posters participating, including story author Share this story Welcome to (Netflix’s) Space Force. Steve Carell as Ed McGovern during a NASA-themed skit on Saturday Night Live in 2018. This is currently our best estimate of what Carell might look like on Netflix’s Space Force. Getty/Will Heath/NBC/NBCU The teaser trailer, embedded ..
reader comments 10 with 7 posters participating, including story author Share this story The Art of Video Games at the Smithsonian (2012). Not every tour or museum exhibit has to be this on-brand for Ars to visit, but of course we were going to this one. Maybe Ars hasn’t been attending E3 (2008) quite as ..
Enlarge / Who ya gonna call? Three of the four original Ghostbusters: Bill Murray, the late Harold Ramis, and Dan Ackroyd. Columbia Pictures reader comments 45 with 39 posters participating Share this story Fire up your proton packs, people, because there’s going to be another Ghostbusters movie from Sony Pictures, according to Entertainment Weekly. Jason ..
Artist’s approximation of the status of EA Vancouver’s Star Wars video game. reader comments 48 with 43 posters participating Share this story Ahead of an official EA announcement, Kotaku has gone forward with major Star Wars gaming news. The most troubled game in the EA and Star Wars deal, which was signed in 2013, has been canceled. ..
