Video shot by Nikola Mosettig and edited by Lee Manansala. Click here for transcript. Ars would also like to extend special thanks to Croteam members Davor Hunski and Damjan Mravunac, who were instrumental in helping this video project come together. Welcome to another edition of “War Stories,” where we coerce developers into talking about problems that ..
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Enlarge / Black Mirror is one of the Netflix shows reportedly getting the branching narrative treatment soon. Over the past decade or so, Netflix has become a market leader in delivering linear TV and movie narratives via Internet streaming. Now, Bloomberg reports the company is on the verge of greatly expanding its effort to let ..
Enlarge / Is that what you’re wearing to the Apocalypse? Wynonna (Melanie Scrofano) confronts the demon Bulshar (Jean Marchand) in the Season 3 finale of Wynonna Earp. (credit: Michelle Faye Fraser/Wynonna Earp Productions) It’s hard not to root for Wynonna Earp, Syfy’s underdog supernatural series about the demon-fighting great granddaughter of the Old West lawman Wyatt ..
Enlarge / Body-cam video taken from an apparent Seattle police response to a hoax hostage-situation report. (credit: Seattle PD) The practice of “swatting,” or calling in fake threats to activate an aggressive police response to an unwitting home or business, has unfortunately lingered for the past few years. Starting this week, one police department in ..
Étienne Léopold Trouvelot We live in a golden age of astrophotography, with a feast of jaw-dropping images from the farthest reaches of space crossing our news feeds on a daily basis. But sometimes it’s good to revisit the imagery of our pre-photographic past—in this case, the work of 19th-century illustrator Étienne Léopold Trouvelot. The Frenchman, ..
Enlarge / Yes, those are crickets adorning this otherwise standard chips-and-guac. (credit: John Timmer) Around this time last year, one of our intrepid staff members took on something that’s on the verge of being a culinary trend: eating bugs. In Beth’s case, this involved incorporating cricket-based flour into a traditional muffin recipe. The results were ..
Enlarge (credit: Charlie Theel) Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. Root does something special: it breaks a conflict-heavy wargame with fully asymmetric roles into easily digestible chunks, then wraps these complex bits in stylized fur and medieval garb. It’s a sophisticated design that ..
Enlarge / Look through the window and see your future! (credit: Marlowe Bangeman) We saw a lot on our family vacation to California this summer: epic coastline views, acre after acre of almond groves, forest fires, and Venice Beach, to name a few things. Thanks to friends and colleagues, we had a long list of ..
This month’s major Nintendo Direct video presentation included a reveal of another New Super Mario Bros. game—a Switch port of its last Wii U installment—with one curious twist. It includes a few new playable characters, and one of those, Toadette, can don a crown power-up and turn into a Toadette-Peach hybrid dubbed Peachette. Fans didn’t take ..
Microsoft After six years spanning three previous installments across two consoles, it’s fair to say the Forza Horizon franchise is well established. This concept should sound familiar by now: an open-world driving game you can play solo or online, with a traveling music festival in the background. It’s the work of Playground Games, built on ..
