reader comments 19 Share this story New version! New characters! New content and packaging! AUSTIN, Texas—Sega hosted a South By Southwest 2018 panel about all things Sonic the Hedgehog, and the panel began with good news for anyone wanting a physical version of last year’s tremendous 2D throwback, Sonic Mania. Their wishes will be granted in ..
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Marvel Studios reader comments 99 Share this story Marvel Studios is on quite the roll. Black Panther has already grossed over a billion dollars and doesn’t look like it’s done making money, and the studio’s accountants must be rubbing their hands with glee as thoughts turn to the next tentpole release, Avengers: Infinity War. That ..
Enlarge / Storm troopin’ across the universe… reader comments 86 Share this story Nearly four months after shutting down micro transactions over widespread fan outrage, EA has announced a new “Progression Update” for Star Wars Battlefront II that will bring real-money purchases back to the game on March 21—but only for cosmetic items. The game’s ..
reader comments 192 Share this story Ars at SXSW 2018 View more stories AUSTIN, Texas—The five-person team behind a simple WordPress plugin, which took three hours to code, never expected to receive worldwide attention as a result. But NRKbeta, the tech-testing group at Norway’s largest national media organization, tapped into a meaty vein with the ..
Enlarge / No word on whether study participants were more likely to do a cool walk away from explosions without looking back. reader comments 112 Share this story A new, longer-term study of video game play from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Germany’s University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf recently published in Molecular Psychiatry found ..
Enlarge / Tracy Fullerton is the director of USC’s Game Innovation Lab and has created a number of indie games that experiment with game design and storytelling. reader comments 17 Share this story After nearly 50 years of innovation, where are video games headed next? Ars Technica Live returns with guest Tracy Fullerton, an award-winning, ..
reader comments 248 Share this story AUSTIN, Texas—Following the world premiere of The Director and The Jedi, a comprehensive two-hour documentary about the making of the latest Star Wars film, South By Southwest Film Festival attendees got a Last Jedi double-whammy. After the curtain raised at the Paramount Theater, director Rian Johnson and actor Mark Hamill ..
reader comments 28 Share this story The T-GT wheel. Jonathan Gitlin The wheel was designed specifically for Gran Turismo Sport. Those four colored dials are mapped to control the game’s multifunction display so you can quickly and easily change your brake bias or traction control settings on the fly. Please excuse the dust on the ..
reader comments 19 Share this story No, this wasn’t some kind of Lyft brand activation. DC rolled out three Bat vehicles for its SXSW setup, including this Batmobile from the Val Kilmer era. Nathan Mattise Those little museum stands have info on each of the vehicles displayed. Kilmer’s Batmobile used the engine of a Chevy ..
reader comments 47 Share this story BELLEVUE, Washington—We’ve visited Valve Software’s Seattle-area headquarters in the past, but this week’s gameplay reveal for a new release was met with something else: a chance to check out the company’s biggest-ever office upgrade. I took my camera on this office visit expecting to maybe see a big new ..
