reader comments 44 Share this story In its first development roadmap update of 2018, Destiny developer Bungie is promising to rebalance Destiny 2‘s microtransaction and raids systems to give players more satisfying rewards that are less dependent on luck. In the lengthy development update posted Thursday evening, Game Director Christopher Barrett admitted up front that, currently, “the ..
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reader comments 70 Share this story Note the MAXIS copyright on the title screen. Yup, that’s a menu all right. Do you remember where you were during the 2010 Boston nuclear meltdown? Advisor Wright seems kind of nervous about that plane crash. In the SNES version, this purple beat is replaced by Bowser. The on-screen ..
reader comments 4 Share this story Over the last month or so, I’ve been pestering Ars readers to give as much as they could in our 2017 Charity Drive sweepstake. All told, Ars Technica readers donated $36,738.11 to Child’s Play and the EFF through our 2017 charity drive. That’s a bit below the roughly $38,000 ..
Valentina Palladino reader comments 63 Share this story About one year after the YouTube ad-pocalypse shook up the online video website, the company is handing down a punishment to another YouTube star for posting an obscene video. Logan Paul, a YouTube creator with 15 million subscribers, has been removed from Google’s Preferred ad platform. YouTube ..
reader comments 53 Share this story [embedded content] After gently teasing fans all week, Nintendo suddenly threw up a bevy of Nintendo Switch announcements via a “Nintendo Direct Mini” video presentation this morning. Nintendo and Japanese third-party partners seem eager to provide the millions of Switch owners out there with quickly available, prepackaged content in ..
Enlarge / Not an actual picture of the Ultra Game Boy. reader comments 51 Share this story There has been plenty of nostalgic attention being paid to classic console hardware updates in recent years, from Nintendo’s official plug-and-play Classic Edition consoles to third-party clone consoles. But for all the focus on the TV-based game consoles ..
Stay with us; this will make sense I swear. MDickie.com / TommyWiseau.com reader comments 42 Share this story Recently, Mat Dickie boarded a train out of London and came across a kid, face-down in a smartphone game, sitting in Dickie’s ticketed seat. As the furious tapping played out in front of him, Dickie contemplated whether ..
Enlarge / Recently discovered EA research aims to keep players “engaged” with its single-player and multiplayer products. The methods explored in published papers are a little subtler than the above illustration. reader comments 123 Share this story The practice of incorporating micro transactions and loot boxes into video games has grown from sporadic to omnipresent ..
reader comments 40 Share this story Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) has offered a strongly worded response to a lawsuit brought last month by CryEngine maker Crytek, saying that suit “never should have been filed” and that its “contrived claims… sacrifice legal sufficiency for loud publicity.” Crytek’s lawsuit alleged that CIG broke a CryEngine ..
Enlarge / We’ve enjoyed Age of Empires so much, we’d probably play this version, too. reader comments 34 Share this story Not much about Age of Empires isn’t epic. Over the last 20 years, these epoch-spanning games have starred more than 50 historical civilizations, sales have surpassed more than 20 million units, and a core ..
