Enlarge / A massive Smash Bros. mural from a trade show. We’re still two weeks away from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate‘s official December 7 release, but Nintendo is already struggling to squash holiday weekend leaks of everything from the game’s animated cut scenes and hidden content to its massive, remix-filled soundtrack. The earliest evidence of ..
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Enlarge / Members of Harvey Washington Wiley’s “poison squad” voluntarily dined on borax and formaldehyde to test the safety of these once-common food preservatives. (credit: FDA/Public domain) As you gathered to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday last week—avoiding romaine lettuce potentially contaminated by E. coli—we hope you remembered to give thanks for the landmark 1906 Pure ..
Enlarge / The below article has nothing to do with a Surface Pro. But after my headaches, I wanted to smash any Windows logo with a mallet. (credit: Lora Machkovech) Sometimes at Ars Technica, a staffer has to call in “sick” for reasons other than illness, emergency, or hangover. Those are all poor working states, ..
Enlarge (credit: FFG) Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. It’s early during my first play as Calvin Wright, a tormented guardian willing to sacrifice body and soul for the residents of Arkham. Sitting in hushed silence, I hide on a bridge wedged ..
Enlarge / Sign artist Lester Carey often incorporated doodles from New Orleans flora and fauna, like his trademark pineapple or this cool portrait of Louis Armstrong. (credit: Cheryl Gerber / LesterCarey.com) Few if any cities value local culture as much as New Orleans, but even the Crescent City has to navigate modern realities of change. ..
Enlarge / D’awwww… newly anointed baby Simba is presented to his people for the first time. (credit: Disney) The fine folks at Disney just gave us a last-minute holiday surprise by releasing the first trailer for its hotly anticipated live-action remake of the 1994 animated classic, The Lion King. The Mouse House sneakily didn’t give any ..
Enlarge / The kiss, which takes place during one of the episode’s final scenes. (credit: CBS) 50 years ago—November 22, 1968—NBC aired an otherwise-forgettable Star Trek episode with an unforgettable moment. Captain James Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura, under mind-control by aliens in a totally ridiculous plot involving adherents to Plato, kiss for a few fleeting ..
It’s not Christmas yet, but Nintendo is already wishing Switch owners a Merry Yoshi-mas via a Thanksgiving-timed eShop sale. (credit: Nintendo) While you’ll want to stay tuned to our regular Dealmaster guides for this week’s range of Thanksgiving-timed sales, we wanted to quickly point out a rarity in the digital-gaming world: a legitimately good (and ..
Enlarge / Elizabeth Banks as Lucy (aka Wyldstyle) and Chris Pratt as Emmett are back to take on LEGO DUPLO invaders from outer space in The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part. (credit: Warner Bros. Picture) It has been five years in the making, but the defenders of the LEGO universe are back to fend ..
Video shot by Justin Wolfson and edited by Lee Manansala. Click here for transcript. Welcome to the latest edition of “War Stories,” where we sit down with video game developers and cajole them into talking about the gameplay design elements that almost broke their brains. In this episode, we’re chatting up Tim Jones, the lead ..
