Enlarge (credit: Asmodee Digital) Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. Terraforming Mars is one of the most popular heavy strategy games of the last two years (read our 2016 review); it earned a nomination for the Kennerspiel des Jahres (expert’s “game of ..
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Enlarge / Inside that tiny box is the same open source emulator you can download right now on your PC (plus 20 game files). (credit: Sony) Sony’s upcoming PlayStation Classic uses the open source emulator PCSX ReARMed to recreate its selection of 20 classic games. Kotaku’s recent hands-on report with the plug-and-play HDMI system noticed ..
Enlarge / It’s here, and it’s beautiful. (credit: Enhance Games / Aurich) Before I began playing this week’s new game, Tetris Effect, I found myself tempted to compare it to other versions of the puzzle series. That’s an easy trap to fall into—a bullet-point sorting of tweaks, features, and differences—and one that gets pretty unwieldy with ..
Expert: Sarah Sanders tweeted altered Acosta video. Video expert Abba Shapiro told the Associated Press that he believes the White House circulated a doctored video of an interaction between CNN reporter Jim Acosta and a White House intern. In the above video, Shapiro walks frame by frame through the AP’s unaltered clip of the incident ..
Enlarge / For now, a YouTube search is as close as we’re gonna get to Super Mario Sunshine on Nintendo Switch. (credit: Sam Machkovech) Following a wave of rumors, Nintendo confirmed on Thursday that its Nintendo Switch console has added an official YouTube app to its meager selection of media-viewing options. Google’s app is now ..
Enlarge (credit: Eliot Peper) I’m not proud of it, but it’s true: I read the bulk of Eliot Peper’s latest sci-fi thriller, Borderless, over multiple trips the bathroom. It probably deserved drawn-out sessions in a fireplace-adjacent armchair or at least an airplane ride with a cheap mixed drink at the ready, but hey. Given all ..
Enlarge / It’s not as solid as the PC version, but at least today, it’s free-er. (credit: Xbox/PUBG Corp.) Performance issues have plagued the Xbox One version of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) long enough to make us wary of recommending the game at its $30 retail price point. But at the low, low price of totally ..
Enlarge Two women—one who used to work at Riot Games, and one who currently does—have now sued the game studio, alleging violations of California equal pay laws, sexual harassment, and discrimination. Just three months ago, in August 2018, Kotaku published an extensive story outlining a “culture of sexism” inside the company behind League of Legends. ..
Enlarge / This image, along with one with a more obvious “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” logo, is still live at Sony’s official PlayStation.net servers, linked specifically to the logo codes that are normally assigned for retail games. PUBG has not yet been announced for PS4. (credit: PlayStation.net) Nearly a year after the popular PC shooting game PlayerUnknown’s ..
Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. This past weekend, tens of thousands of tabletop gaming fanatics made a pilgrimage to the German city of Essen for the annual Internationale Spieltage fair—better known to board gaming fans simply as Spiel (or Essen). It’s ..
