(credit: Valve) Valve is quietly discontinuing Steam Link, the in-home streaming box it first launched in late 2015. A low-key announcement on Valve’s Steam Link news page suggests that production of new units has ceased and that Valve is currently selling off the rest of its “almost sold out” inventory in the US, after selling ..
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Enlarge / Jason Momoa stars as Arthur Curry, aka Aquaman: half human, half Atlantean. (credit: Warner Bros. Pictures) We’re just one month away from the release of Director James Wan’s Aquaman, the first full-length feature film centered around Jason Momoa’s Justice League superhero. Now the final trailer has dropped, with all the magical tridents, warrior ..
Enlarge / Scott Lang, aka Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), and Hope van Dyne, aka the Wasp (Evangeline Lilly), would need 100 times more oxygen than usual at smaller scales. (credit: Marvel Studios) The ability to rapidly shrink down to bug size (and beyond) gives Ant-Man and the Wasp tremendous advantages. But it also comes with some ..
Enlarge / Elijah Price, aka “Mr. Glass” (Samuel L. Jackson), Kevin Wendell Crumb, aka “The Horde” (James McAvoy), and David Dunn (Bruce Willis) find themselves thrown together in a mental institution. (credit: Universal Pictures) An evil genius in a wheelchair and a psychotic serial killer with superhuman abilities join forces to escape from a mental ..
Enlarge / It’s a beta! A beta that will take your money. (credit: Valve Software) Valve’s next video game, a card-battling computer game called Artifact, will be a tricky one to review for a few reasons. For one, it inevitably comes with the baggage of being “Valve’s next video game.” Whatever Artifact is, it isn’t ..
Throw traps, shoot guns, grind rails: that’s the Sunset Overdrive way. Update: There’s no shortage of new games this 2018 holiday season, but we wanted to bring a surprise gem to your attention: 2014’s Sunset Overdrive, a high-octane, parkour-driven visual stunner. With seemingly zero fanfare, a $20 PC version arrived yesterday for Windows PCs (Steam, ..
Enlarge / Reef is a bright, inviting game with a lot of fun, colorful pieces. (credit: Aaron Zimmerman) Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. Abstract, family-style board games are all the rage these days, and for good reason. They tend to occupy ..
Psht, who needs ‘em? (credit: Squirmelia) Microsoft is planning to release a disc-free version of the Xbox One as early as next spring, according to an unsourced report from author Brad Sams of Thurrott.com (who has been reliable with early Xbox-related information in the past). The report suggests the disc-free version of the system would ..
Enlarge / Screenwriter William Goldman attends a special screening of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at Tribeca Film Festival in April 2009. (credit: Joe Kohen/WireImages/Getty Images) Legendary Hollywood screenwriter William Goldman has died at the age of 87 from colon cancer and pneumonia, The New York Times reports. Goldman won two screenwriting Oscars, for ..
Video shot and edited by John Cappello. Click here for transcript. If you had asked us a year ago whether the Nintendo Switch would ever deliver a shooter on par with the online team-questing of Destiny, we would surely have laughed you off. A solid, connected, shooting-filled 3D game for Nintendo’s handheld? Go back to ..
