reader comments 13 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. Miniature battle games have been around as long as the tabletop hobby itself. From industry giants like Warhammer 40,000 to competitors like Frostgrave, The Walking Dead, ..
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reader comments 41 with 31 posters participating, including story author Share this story [embedded content] New trailer for Anna and the Apocalypse. Update: During Fantastic Fest 2017, we saw a movie so good we couldn’t wait for others to see it (and simply ran the review). Anna and the Apocalypse is an extremely clever mash-up ..
Enlarge / Theresa “Tree” Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) is back and stuck in a murderous time loop again, this time along with her friends. Blumhouse Productions reader comments 3 with 3 posters participating Share this story There’s nothing better than a clever take on the classic sci-fi time-loop trope—and that’s what we got in last year’s ..
Enlarge / Clouds contain billions of individual water droplets that are difficult to plot in computer graphics for movie scenes. Dartmouth Visual Computing Lab reader comments 33 with 23 posters participating Share this story Animators will now be able to precisely control how microscopic particles interact with light in their renderings of objects, thanks to a ..
reader comments 184 with 105 posters participating Share this story Al Lowe, chatting at his Seattle-area home with MetalJesusRocks. Metal Jesus Rocks An apparently rare copy of Lowe’s Black Cauldron spin-off game. Metal Jesus Rocks The Leisure Suit Larry 1 source code has been sitting in this box in Lowe’s attic for decades. Its disks. ..
Enlarge / The bad guys of Hell’s Kitchen won’t have Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), aka Daredevil, to beat to a pulp anymore. reader comments 209 with 145 posters participating Share this story The hits just keep coming for the various Defenders series. Per Deadline Hollywood, Netflix announced this evening that it has canceled Daredevil, just ..
Enlarge / DCI John Luther (Idris Elba) is tracking yet another elusive serial killer in the long-awaited fifth season of BBC’s award-winning crime drama, Luther. (credit: YouTube/BBC) It’s been a long three years without our favorite brooding London detective, but the BBC just dropped its first trailer for the highly anticipated return of its award-winning ..
This morning, Nintendo sent out one of its periodic brag-heavy business press releases, this time focusing on a strong start to the US holiday shopping season. In addition to updates on lifetime US sales for the 3DS family of systems (22 million), and recent Classic Edition systems (2.5 million for SNES Classic, 2 million for ..
Following the success of Nintendo’s hot-selling series of “Classic Edition” plug-and-play HDMI systems, Sony is jumping into the fray this week with the PlayStation Classic. Unfortunately, the $100 emulation box, collecting 20 early CD-ROM games, is a bare-bones experience that comes with a lot of compromises that get in the way of even nostalgic appreciation ..
Enlarge / Artemis Fowl (Ferdia Shaw) and his loyal protector, Butler (Nonso Anozie), stumble onto the world of fairies while searching for his missing father. (credit: Disney) A 12-year-old criminal mastermind gets embroiled in the world of fairies in the first trailer for Disney’s film adaptation of sci-fi/fantasy novel Artemis Fowl. And we’re not talking ..
