Some of Twitch Turbo’s icons, with its special smiley face flipped in light of today’s Twitch Prime news. (credit: Twitch) On Monday, Twitch announced a major downgrade coming soon to its paid Twitch Prime service. Starting September 14, any renewal of the paid service (as part of a paid Amazon Prime subscription) will have its ..
Tag : Gaming & Culture
Enlarge / The boardgame for the book is better crowd? (credit: Charlie Theel) Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. Few moments linger in my brain like a particular scene in John Carpenter’s movie The Thing. In the cold of an Antarctic night, ..
Enlarge (credit: Netflix) Netflix has confirmed a major change to its video-streaming service, effective as of this week for at least some users: video ads for other Netflix series between episodes. The news emerged via user reports, particularly on the primary Netflix Reddit community, in which users claimed that ads for entirely different series would ..
Enlarge / A Philadelphia cryptocurrency miner snapped this shot of his rig for us earlier this year. (credit: Matthew Freilich) For almost a year, cryptocurrency miners have snapped up all the graphics cards they could get their hands on. That was a financial windfall for Nvidia and AMD, the leading makers of consumer graphics cards. ..
Enlarge / On Disenchantment, plague happens. (credit: Netflix) Our review of Matt Groening’s new TV series went live before its formal premiere on Netflix today. We’re reposting the review as a reminder: You can now watch all ten episodes of Disenchantment‘s first “half-season,” and we’re happy to confirm that the episodes we didn’t see in ..
Enlarge / HBO offered this teaser image with its Watchmen announcement today. (credit: HBO) Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ groundbreaking comic series Watchmen is set to emerge once more on the pop-culture stage—this time as a live-action series on HBO. The channel’s announcement pegs the series’ launch for “2019,” with no news of a narrower window nor any ..
Enlarge (credit: Disney) Another month, another new Star Wars TV show. On Friday morning, Disney released a trailer for Star Wars Resistance, a new animated series that debuts on the Disney Channel on October 7. Set between the events of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, the show will follow the adventures of ..
Enlarge / Train up: Iron Fist‘s second season premieres on Netflix on September 7. (credit: Netflix) You’d be forgiven for losing track of Marvel’s various Defenders series and characters on Netflix over the past few years—particularly if you let its weakest standalone series, Iron Fist, fall through your viewing queue. But thanks to the new ..
A previous, browser-based proof-of-concept test from YouTuber Nintendrew shows how Switch-based VR could work. (credit: YoutTube / Nintendrew) Hackers have uncovered and tested a screen-splitting “VR Mode” that has been buried in the Switch’s system-level firmware for over a year. The discovery suggests that Nintendo at least toyed with the idea that the tablet system ..
Enlarge / An artist’s approximation of what Diablo III: Eternal Collection may look like when it arrives on Nintendo Switch by year’s end. (credit: Blizzard / Aurich Lawson) Blizzard’s first-ever video game for the Nintendo Switch, Diablo III, was unveiled on Wednesday following an article’s apparent accidental publication. Forbes published an article on Wednesday confirming ..
