(credit: Valve Software) Steam, the long-running PC games marketplace operated by Valve Software, has consistently run into issues with approved and restricted content, and arguments about those guidelines have heated up in recent weeks. After Valve removed various “ero” games and then approved the sexualized, violence-against-women simulator Agony, users began asking what was up with Steam’s content ..
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Enlarge / Get used to never seeing this Guitar Hero TV screen (or any like it) starting in December. In an unceremonious blog post this weekend, publisher Activision announced it will be shutting down the servers for Guitar Hero Live‘s “Guitar Hero TV” mode effective December 1. The move will effectively end access to hundreds ..
Enlarge (credit: FlightSimLabs) The last time FlightSimLabs made news outside of the insular community of high-end flight simulator fans, it was for some invasive password-extractor malware included with a recent add-on package as an ostensible “anti-piracy” measure. Today, the company is again making waves for what many see as overzealous legal threats in response to ..
Enlarge / Deadfire‘s presentation feels improved in nearly every way over its predecessor. My sword really likes being stabbed into people. I know this because she (he? it?) told me so. Her name is Modwyr, and she only stops insulting me when the conversation turns toward potential violence. It’s making me uncomfortable, but the bonus ..
Asus After the Razer phone, Sony Xperia Play, and I guess the Nokia N-Gage, someone is trying to make a gaming smartphone again. This time it’s Asus, which has tapped its PC gaming sub-brand, “Republic of Gamers,” to create the Asus ROG phone. The phone is still made out of the usual high-end smartphone parts, ..
Ars Frontlog, episode 001. FF to roughly 7:00 for gameplay. Ars Technica’s gaming trust has always strived to recommend the best in clever and killer video games. But a rising trend has made that mission more difficult: a seemingly endless fountain of content. This statement of fact is by no means a complaint. There are ..
Enlarge / Cutting edge at the time, we swear. Doom (1993): Doom’s success lay not only with its addicting gameplay and technical innovations, such as its introduction of a portable game engine, but also in its innovative digital distribution. Note the prominent “shareware” advertisement on the top front of the game packaging. This groundbreaking game ..
Enlarge / There’s reason to believe this blurry, leaked photo of Nintendo’s E3 booth materials is authentic. (credit: AAMARMO Twitter / 4chan) A number of credible leaks and reports suggest that Epic Games’ ultra-popular battle royale game Fortnite will be getting a Switch port in the near future. The scuttlebutt around the Switch port started ..
Seen here in a 2014 photo, Huston Huddleston shows off a vinyl wall panel that he rescued from the trash heap. (credit: Cyrus Farivar) Huston Huddleston, the man who gained some nerd cred in August 2012 after he “saved the bridge” of a discarded Enterprise-D touring set, has been arrested in Southern California on child ..
Tom Murphy explains how he got a Super NES game running on an unmodified NES. At this point, we’re used to modern computers being able to perform near-perfect emulation of older gaming hardware via software trickery. The latest project from Tom “Tom7” Murphy, though, seems poised to coin its own definition for “reverse emulation” by ..
