Enlarge / The mechs crumple, explode, list, and flare with a surprising amount of detail. reader comments 213 Share this story Game details Developer: Harebrained SchemesPublisher: Paradox InteractivePlatform: Windows (reviewed), OS XRelease Date: April 24, 2018ESRB Rating: N/APrice: $40Links: Steam | Official website BattleTech is out to get me. The turn-based tactics game from Harebrained Schemes—the ..
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Enlarge / Oculus’s latest headset prototype, the Half Dome, as revealed at the F8 Developer Conference. reader comments 49 Share this story Oculus is only one day into the launch of a new, $199 VR headset, but the company has already begun hinting at the future of its higher-end line of Rift products. Wednesday saw ..
Enlarge / Some might object to using a slot machine to illustrate a piece on loot boxes, but Juniper directly calls them “a form of in-game gambling” so… reader comments 140 Share this story Video game loot boxes View more stories With all the controversy, scrutiny, and international regulation randomized video game loot boxes are facing these ..
reader comments 161 Share this story Mobile games represent over half of this graph for the first time in 2018. Mobile spending is over-represented in Asian countries like China and Japan, helping drive the global boom. Mobile gaming’s global dominance is only set to increase in coming years, according to Newzoo. Just over two years ..
reader comments 54 Share this story On the heels of announcing the new Echo Dot Kids Edition, Amazon has a new offering tailored to parents who want more convenient, kid-friendly content for their family. The company now offers Prime Book Box, a curated box of two or four children’s books available for Prime members for ..
reader comments 35 Share this story The US Army Corps of Engineers’ Nuclear Power Plant Sturgis enters the Panama Canal in 1968. The barge had originally been a WWII Liberty Ship called the SS Charles H. Cugle. It was repurposed to house a 10MW, MH-1A nuclear reactor, and it was stationed in the Panama Canal ..
reader comments 69 Share this story More Human Than Human comes along at a time when perhaps no reminder is necessary: leaving life to bots—whether that means machine learning, artificial intelligence, genuine human-like androids, etc.—might get messy for us humans. Westworld gives us one version of a sentient-machine uprising every Sunday, and news cycles like those ..
reader comments 29 Share this story It’s not just Batman v. Joker in feudal Japan; the whole Gotham gang joins in on the action. Perhaps not as much of a film mainstay as other Batman villains, Gorilla Grodd factors prominently here. Some of the anime touches to familiar characters are pretty great (monkey sidekicks in ..
Enlarge / Variety is the spice of life, and Forza Motorsport 7 has a lot of variety. Early racing games, though? Phew… reader comments 20 Share this story Like it or not, there’s no denying that the entire history of video games as a popular medium can be told through the steady evolution of three ..
Stonemaier Games reader comments 15 Share this story Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. In 2011, game designer Rob Daviau released Risk Legacy, a campaign-driven reimagining of the classic strategy game Risk. In the process, he created an entirely new way of ..
