Enlarge / Ursula Le Guin at home in Portland, Oregon, December 15, 2005. Dan Tuffs/Getty Images reader comments 53 Share this story Before Donald Trump ever uttered a word about building a wall, author Ursula K. Le Guin, who passed away on Tuesday, wrote of a world that had built one—a wall that divided two ..
Tag : Gaming & Culture
Enlarge / You’re gonna need a more precise clock to measure those 90 fps frames… Back to the Future reader comments 123 Share this story Of all the things we expected to come out of the rise of Oculus and the still-burgeoning era of consumer virtual reality, a new fundamental unit of time was not ..
reader comments 68 Share this story [embedded content] Video of Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 for the PS2 running on an unlocked PlayStation 4. After years of work, hackers have finally managed to unlock the PS4 hardware with an exploit that lets the system run homebrew and pirated PS4 software. In a somewhat more ..
Enlarge / Counterpart is ready to give you all the JK Simmons you can handle. reader comments 34 Share this story Warning: The following preview outlines general details for the premise of Counterpart, a new Starz sci-fi series debuting this weekend. The “actor as multiple roles” genre has been done in a seemingly infinite amount ..
Enlarge / Starting sometime this year, you’ll be able to pay up front to fake as any of Rift Prime‘s heroes. reader comments 35 Share this story The online game-subscription model has generally waned in recent years, overtaken by the popularity (and apparent profitability) of the “free-to-play” (F2P) paradigm. One of the earliest MMORPGs to ..
Enlarge / The components are (generally) good quality. Owen Duffy reader comments 28 Share this story Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. For millennia, humans have been captivated by Mars. To the ancient Romans, the “red planet” represented the god of war, ..
Enlarge / We will admit, new sales for the consoles shown here did not do very well in 2017. reader comments 190 Share this story It’s hard to remember now, but we’re only four or five years out from widespread and confident predictions that the game console market was effectively dead or dying. In 2012, ..
reader comments 1 Share this story After writing up Nintendo’s Wednesday reveal of its new Labo playsets (coming April 20 to the US and Japan and April 27 to Europe), I realized I’d forgotten to add an important word to the article’s introduction: “what.” More specifically, the drawn-out, question-marked version I should have shouted when ..
Enlarge / Philadelphia miner Matthew Freilich shared this picture of his mining rig, which contains eight Nvidia GTX 1070 graphics cards. Matthew Freilich reader comments 145 Share this story The market for high-end graphics cards used to work like the market for almost any other piece of computer gear. You’d go to your local electronics ..
reader comments 32 Share this story The Amazon-owned video site Twitch announced it’s introducing new tools for its creators, essentially, to build hype around their upcoming videos. Twitch, which is best known for live-streamed gaming content, will debut “video producer” tools today that let creators make landing pages, countdown timers, and reruns for their content. ..
