Enlarge (credit: EA Sports) Update, 8:20pm ET: EA issued an apology on Thursday after rapper Big Sean accused the game maker of censoring his song in new video game Madden NFL 19. The game maker took full responsibility for the song’s edit and issued a statement to Ars Technica on Thursday: We made an unfortunate mistake ..
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Enlarge / An artist’s approximation of what an in-car Tesla game might look like. Remember, steer into the Nazis. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) Scrutiny over Tesla autodriving issues apparently hasn’t dissuaded the car maker’s CEO from suggesting potentially unsafe products—and for once, we don’t mean The Boring Company’s $500 flamethrowers. On Wednesday, Elon Musk used his ..
Enlarge / Robin Sloan likes to play with robots in fiction and real life. He also makes his own olive oil. Robin Sloan writes about machine learning, but he’s writing with it, too. His 2017 novel Sourdough has been hailed as one of the best and most accurate novels about machine learning ever published. In ..
Enlarge / One of many pieces of art commissioned for the cards in Artifact, coming to Steam in November of this year. (credit: Sam Machkovech) Valve Software’s first brand-new video game since 2013, the digital card-dueling game Artifact, finally has a release date: November 28. This is the first Valve game since Counter-Strike: Global Offensive ..
A scene from Abstractism, which allegedly hid a cryptocurrency miner behind an innocuous-looking Steam game. Valve has removed simple 2D platformer Abstractism from its Steam platform after allegations that the app hid a secret cryptocurrency miner and used misleading item-trading tactics to attract players. YouTuber SidAlpha highlighted earlier accusations of the game’s illicit cryptomining functions ..
The promo for The 2000s. “We’re in for the communications ride of our lives,” CNN’s Greg Lefevre says in a January 2, 2000, broadcast dug up for the news network’s latest decade documentary, The 2000s. “The coming years see cell phones small enough to fit in your pocket, the promise of video phones coming true, tiny ..
Sony When Gran Turismo Sport arrived for the Playstation 4 at the end of last year, I wrote that it was a great game. Any lingering problems I’d had with the way Polyphony Digital had been simulating tire physics disappeared, plus it looked and sounded better than any prior installment of the franchise. But it ..
Enlarge (credit: Nate Anderson) Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. At a local game night this week, my table was playing Splendor. If you don’t know it, the game is a light “engine building” affair in which you gather gems, then use ..
Enlarge / Giddy up, little insectoid friend. We have fightin’ (and learnin’) to do. (credit: Team Cherry) The video game Hollow Knight may look like it has familiar trappings: Ssde-scrolling combat; deadly, hand-animated insects; a massive, explore-and-return world. Another Metroidvania, right? I made a similar assumption before diving into the 2017 game, which has since ..
Enlarge (credit: Lucasfilm) Lucasfilm took the wraps off the primary players for the next Star Wars film on Friday, and the studio is wasting no time clarifying a key player in the film: Carrie Fisher. A statement from Star Wars: Episode IX director and co-writer J.J. Abrams confirms that the character of Princess Leia will ..
