Making fun of The Meg might be more trouble than it’s worth. There’s no hype for this adaptation of a schlocky 1997 novel about a scientifically unsound super-shark. So what if Jason Statham (Crank, Transporter) got caught up in an unfortunate film? Every summer has its low-stakes stinker. But we would be doing summer moviegoers ..
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Enlarge / Divide and conquer. A couple of years ago, we declared the original Overcooked “the new couch co-op champion” thanks to its elegant mix of a charming, simple-to-learn concept, clever level design, and chaotic multitasking gameplay. Overcooked 2 feels more like an expansion pack for that strong basic concept than a full-fledged sequel. Still, ..
Enlarge (credit: Movies Anywhere) Microsoft’s Movies & TV app for Windows 10 and Xbox now supports the Movies Anywhere service. And for a limited time, if you add your Microsoft account to the Movies Anywhere app, you’ll get a free film. Movies Anywhere, originally launched by Disney in 2014, brings together movies you’ve bought from ..
Enlarge / Want to explore Fallout 76 on PC this fall? You’ll need to install the Bethesda.net launcher to do so. (credit: Bethesda) Bethesda has become the latest video game publisher to begin pulling a major game series from rivals’ download services. The publisher’s latest announcement about the online RPG Fallout 76 included hints to ..
Enlarge / Sir Patrick Stewart appeared at Saturday’s Las Vegas Star Trek Convention to announce his return to the role of Jean-Luc Picard. (credit: CBS) At this weekend’s Las Vegas Star Trek Convention, Sir Patrick Stewart took the show’s keynote stage with a surprise announcement: Jean-Luc Picard is back. Stewart confirmed that he will return to ..
Enlarge / Numbers. On cards. And that’s… basically the game! (credit: Charlie Theel) Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. When I first heard The Mind described, it didn’t make sense. This little German game has players cooperate to play cards from their hands ..
Enlarge / Fortnite‘s season five outfits and cosmetics. If XDA’s report is accurate, Epic Games won’t have to give up 30 percent of Android purchases of these outfits to Google. (credit: Epic Games) Update 2, August 3, 1:25pm ET: As Epic prepares to roll Fortnite‘s first Android version out in the very near future, the ..
What you call the system on the left could depend in part on whether or not you grew up with the system on the right… You can keep your long-running debate about how to pronounce GIF. For me, the argument over how to pronounce “NES”—the abbreviation for the Nintendo Entertainment System—is the more interesting and ..
Enlarge A little under a year ago, news broke that Disney was planning its own streaming service for a 2019 launch. The logic from Disney’s perspective is hard to avoid: why let someone else get rich streaming its content? Between Disney’s vast back catalog of animated features plus the Star Wars and Marvel franchises, it’s ..
Enlarge / It’s-a-he, Wario. (credit: Nintendo) Nintendo’s WarioWare Gold launches this week, and if we’re judging the game within a vacuum, it’s pretty good. We’ve been micro-gaming with the WarioWare series for just a hair over 15 years (a squiggly, Wario mustache hair, for sure), and Gold lands as a “best-of” compilation—one that finally brings ..
