Another Fallout game needs your help. I’ll mark it on your map. Since yesterday morning, Bethesda has been drawing more than 100,000 Twitch viewers to a static “Please Stand By” screen with a Fallout Pip-Boy in the foreground. Today, those patient fans were rewarded with a rather cryptic, gameplay-free trailer for Fallout 76, the next ..
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Enlarge / Roulette is a particularly silly form of gambling. (credit: Yuki Shimazu / Flickr) Game companies now lean heavily on loot boxes to monetize their products. Legislators around the world are threatening to impose regulations on the boxes, claiming that they’re gambling. Industry groups, however, insist that the boxes are not. I play games that ..
Enlarge / DropMix, complete with phone and cards. (credit: Charlie Theel) Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. Trying to explain what DropMix is can prove a challenge. It’s a game, it’s a chunky piece of hardware, and it’s a centerpiece that breeds ..
Enlarge / I mean, we’re still in the hands of some master filmmakers when it comes to building moments. (credit: Lucasfilm) It’s been a good month for ships. Just this week, one of the most iconic vessels to ever clear the Kessel run in 12 parsecs returned to theaters in a very high-profile manner. But ..
Boba Fett’s last major toy incarnation, from 2015. (credit: Sam Machkovech) On the eve of one major Star Wars film launch, fans learned that the Disney and Lucasfilm empire have yet another iconic-character project in the works: a Boba Fett film. The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, each citing their own “sources,” reported the film’s ongoing ..
Unlike this ceramic replica, video game loot boxes are not filled with real candy. (credit: ThinkGeek) As governments around the world enact or consider regulations that would treat randomized video game loot box purchases as gambling, Entertainment Software Association President Michael Gallagher defended loot boxes as just an example of innovative and creative new monetization ..
Enlarge / A screenshot from the beta version of the Steam Link app, which has been denied approval by Apple. (credit: Steam) Valve says Apple has denied approval for the iOS version of its Steam Link app—which allows users to stream PC games from a computer on the same home network—after Apple initially approved the ..
EA/DICE EA and DICE’s reveal event for Battlefield V concluded on Wednesday with a whopper of a “real-time” gameplay trailer—and an apparent about-face from the developer’s previous microtransaction strategies. The military shooter sequel will launch on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Windows PC on October 19, with pre-order and special-edition versions unlocking on October 16, while ..
Enlarge (credit: Sony) Yesterday, when Sony told Japanese investors that the PS4 is “entering the end of its lifecycle” (as translated by The Wall Street Journal‘s Takashi Mochizuki), we held off on repeating the news until we got clarification on what exactly that meant. Today, Mochizuki reports in WSJ that it means the PS4 has ..
Netflix / ULULU Simpsons creator Matt Groening’s next animated series will arrive on Netflix on August 17, the streaming service confirmed via Twitter on Wednesday. Netflix also took the opportunity to reveal a few preview screens of the fantasy-obsessed series, which—as we expected—looks like Tolkien through a bug-eyed, Simpsons/Futurama filter. The series’ title, Disenchantment, along with ..
