Enlarge / Sophie Thatcher (right) and Pedro Pascal in Prospect. Check out the trailer here. Prospect film still reader comments 30 Share this story Ars at SXSW 2018 View more stories AUSTIN, Texas—Make no mistake, South by Southwest conference film darling Prospect takes place within a giant, intergalactic reality. Even lower- to middle-class adventurers like ..
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reader comments 43 Share this story Anybody familiar with Nintendo’s hardware history knows better than to expect the company to rest on its laurels. Sure enough, as the company’s Switch continues racking up sales, a hint at its next portable system has already arisen in the form of a patent application that is too bonkers ..
Enlarge / The player boards. Charlie Theel reader comments 9 Share this story Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. Fallout, Star Wars, and The Godfather all became board games—why not Jurassic Park? That appears to have been the question asked by Pandasaurus Games, ..
reader comments 13 Share this story Early in 2018, YouTube made changes to how us commoners can earn money through its Partner Program (or “YPP”). You probably heard about it here and, oh yeah, here. Now seems like a good time to describe my own (less tumultuous) history with YPP. I play tuba Before becoming ..
Enlarge / Former Epic Games design director Cliff Bleszinski speaks onstage at Spike TV’s 2011 Video Game Awards at Sony Studios in Los Angeles. reader comments 53 Share this story Former Epic Games developer and director Cliff “CliffyB” Bleszinski took public shots at his former employer on Friday in what appears to be a hiring ..
reader comments 171 Share this story The familiar silhouette of White Castle against a dreary spring sky. Eric Bangeman Spoiler alert: They are not kidding. Eric Bangeman The Impossible Slider comes with smoked cheddar cheese and costs $1.99. The Impossible Slider is cooked on its own special grill. Regular beef sliders in progress on the ..
reader comments 41 Share this story I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say it has never been easier to get into motorsport. A plethora of grassroots endurance racing series have sprung up in recent years, making wheel-to-wheel racing cheaper than it has been in decades. However, even this route isn’t exactly cheap; in addition ..
Enlarge / Luke Woodham (left) is a professional drift racer. Theo Thomas (right) is a gamer and vlogger. They both raced on an off-road track in real cars but without being able to see out the windshield. reader comments 38 Share this story I don’t know about you, but when I play racing games—which I ..
Aurich Lawson reader comments 26 Share this story Steam Gauge View more stories In light of Internet and social-media privacy landing at the top of major news outlets this week, another major online service announced its own privacy-policy updates on Tuesday. The latest change comes from Steam, the Western world’s largest online PC game seller. ..
Enlarge / The 19 OG Xbox games coming to Xbox One by the end of April. reader comments 25 Share this story While Microsoft has arguably fallen behind in some current-gen gaming console metrics, the company has taken a clear lead among the big-three systems’ backwards-compatibility efforts. That’s been evidenced in a regular drip-feed series ..
