reader comments 15 with 14 posters participating, including story author Share this story Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. PAX Unplugged, the tabletop board gaming conference that emerged from the PAX video game conference empire, took place in Philadelphia last week. It ..
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reader comments 72 with 47 posters participating, including story author Share this story A landscape in The Outer Worlds. The color palette seems vibrant. Obsidian Entertainment A cityscape in the game. Obsidian Entertainment Dialogue looks a lot like Fallout: New Vegas. Obsidian Entertainment It looks like there’s a mix of melee and gun combat, of ..
Enlarge / “Part of the journey is the end.” How many of the original Avengers will survive Avengers: End Game? We’ll have to wait until May 3, 2019 to find out. Marvel Entertainment reader comments 178 with 92 posters participating Share this story There is much rejoicing on the Internet today as Marvel Studios finally ..
reader comments 24 with 19 posters participating Share this story The forthcoming new season of Stranger Things will be accompanied by its own mobile game. Series creators Matt and Ross Duffer announced a new mobile game, simply titled Stranger Things 3: The Game, last night at The Game Awards and dropped a short trailer to ..
Enlarge / The Epic Games Store logo. reader comments 154 with 95 posters participating Share this story PC gamers accustomed to the literally thousands of new games that flood Steam every year may be surprised that Epic is launching its recently announced Game Store tonight with just three third-party titles. A small handful more are ..
reader comments 7 with 7 posters participating Share this story On Thursday, Valve Software surprise-launched a comprehensive update to its five-year-old game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) with two equally major changes: a new battle royale-inspired combat mode and a shift to the free-to-play economic model. Air-dropping onto an island to fight a bunch of other ..
Enlarge / Starting from random play and knowing just the game rules, AlphaZero defeated a world champion program in the games of Go, chess, and shogi (Japanese chess). DeepMind Technologies, Ltd. reader comments 43 with 30 posters participating Share this story Google’s DeepMind—the group that brought you the champion game-playing AIs AlphaGo and AlphaGoZero—is back ..
Enlarge / Steam is the guy standing his ground on the left. Epic is the guy jumping in with a Superman punch on the right. reader comments 205 with 110 posters participating Share this story Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of new PC game platforms try to make a dent in Steam’s market-dominating ..
Enlarge / The rankings are based on an “influence score” determined by how many times each film has been referenced in subsequent films. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer reader comments 6 with 6 posters participating Share this story Well, this is sure to spark some intensive debate. The classic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is the most influential ..
reader comments 94 with 69 posters participating, including story author Share this story [embedded content] Video shot by Justin Wolfson, edited by Lee Manansala. Click here for transcript. Update: On November 30, 1998, gamers began to learn that being stealthy could be a viable strategy, too—that’s because game developers at Looking Glass released the landmark ..
