Enlarge / Matt Smith in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. (credit: Screen Gems) Actor Matt Smith has joined the cast of Star Wars: Episode IX, according to a report in Variety. The publication claims he will fill a “key” role but does not specify beyond that. Smith might be best known as the 11th Doctor ..
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Enlarge / That’s a bit of that Maji-magic right there. (credit: Sega) Yakuza 2 is a slightly strange chapter in Sega’s charming crime drama series. It doesn’t quite capture the accidental magic of the first game or the blend of soap-opera drama and zany side quests that were perfected when Yakuza went HD with its ..
Enlarge / Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) faces off against childhood nemesis Jody (Jeremy Childs) in the season 3 finale of Preacher. (credit: AMC) We’re three seasons into what some Ars Technica staffers consider the best TV show based on a DC Comics series: Preacher. The sacred and profane collide on a regular basis in this ..
The upcoming video game Cyberpunk 2077 took this summer’s E3 by storm with a behind-closed-doors reveal that set tongues wagging. Now, two months later, the game’s developers at CD Projekt RED have deemed this hour-long gameplay slice worthy of public consumption. We’ve reviewed the footage, which the developer posted on Monday on its own Twitch ..
Tech on TV: Better Call Saul. Click here for transcript. (video link) On the surface, nothing about Better Call Saul appears particularly innovative. Crime and legal dramas stand as one of TV’s oldest formats, and this one happens to be set in the near-past. The show can’t even draw on the latest headlines where the bleeding ..
Enlarge (credit: Epic Games) Epic Games’ popular shooter Fortnite has been out on Android for just a few weeks, and already there are concrete examples of some of the security fears brought about by the game’s unique distribution method. Google disclosed a vulnerability in the Fortnite Installer that could trick the installer into installing something other ..
Enlarge / Come on, you’ve always wanted to do this during gridlock. Admit it. When you think about it, it’s kind of incredible that more games haven’t tried to ape the general premise of 2004’s Katamari Damacy. There’s a unique sense of almost zen calm in gathering up literally everything you see into a big ..
Enlarge [Update: Aug 27: Microsoft confirmed basically all of the details of last week’s reports this morning, launching the Xbox All Access subscription plan as a way to get “Xbox One and 100 games [via Xbox Games Pass]” with “no upfront cost and one low monthly price.” As previously reported, subscribers commit to spending $22 a ..
Enlarge / A photo of the outside of GLHF Game Bar. (credit: GLHF Game Bar) A single shooter opened fire on a Madden NFL 19 tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, on Sunday afternoon. Initial reports suggest four are dead, and at least 11 are injured. At a police briefing held at 4:30pm ET, Sheriff Mike Williams of Duval ..
Enlarge Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. Disney’s 1973 Robin Hood is objectively the best film the studio ever made—send all e-mail disagreements on this point to lee@ars—and my childhood would have been vastly poorer without the song “Phony King of England.” ..
