reader comments 31 with 29 posters participating, including story author Share this story The global chip shortage has made a serious impact on the production of upcoming portable gaming devices this week. Barely a day after Valve announced that its handheld PC, the Steam Deck, would be delayed two months, the Game Boy-like Playdate console, initially slated to ..
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reader comments 115 with 60 posters participating, including story author Share this story Discord’s CEO is publicly backing away from hints that the gaming-focused social networking company was seeking to integrate non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrency wallets into the platform directly. The news comes after Jason Citron, who founded and leads the company, tweeted a mockup on ..
Enlarge / The hotly anticipated Wheel of Time series debuts on November 19, 2021, on Amazon Prime. reader comments 125 with 60 posters participating Share this story Amazon’s adaptation of The Wheel of Time series begins airing on November 19 after years of development and false starts. And as Ars Technica’s resident WoT book nerds, Andrew Cunningham (that’s ..
Enlarge / A preciousssss deal for all involved. reader comments 33 with 25 posters participating Share this story Unity, the company best known for its line of popular video game engines, has announced plans to purchase the tech division of the Peter Jackson-led, New Zealand-based visual-effects studio Weta Digital for $1.625 billion in cash and ..
reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating, including story author Share this story Enlarge / Coming to Switch and PC on November 16 and to Netflix Gaming “soon.” Riot Games Last week, Netflix Gaming formally launched in a way we didn’t predict when the service was first teased earlier this year. Instead of churning out ..
reader comments 19 with 16 posters participating, including story author Share this story [embedded content] Fortnite‘s “Out West” emote. Epic temporarily disabled the “Daily” section of Fortnite‘s in-game item shop just hours after it was updated Sunday with an “Out West” emote featuring Travis Scott. The move comes after the tragic events at Houston’s Astroworld ..
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 241 with 157 posters participating, including story author Share this story These days it seems like everybody and their corporate parent company is talking about “the metaverse” as the next big thing that’s going to revolutionize our online lives. But everyone seems to have their own idea of ..
reader comments 44 with 42 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] The fourth season of Stranger Things will debut on Netflix in summer 2022. It’s Stranger Things Day, marking the anniversary of Will Byers’ mysterious disappearance (on November 6, 1983) in S1 of the hugely popular Netflix series. The streaming giant is marking the ..
Enlarge / A nice CPU that doesn’t play nice with some DRM… reader comments 79 with 63 posters participating Share this story Longtime Ars readers probably remember some of the many cases in which overly onerous DRM prevented game owners from playing their legitimate purchases. We’re seeing that situation play out again today, this time thanks ..
reader comments 34 with 30 posters participating Share this story The brilliantly nerdy, high-strung German safecracker Ludwig Dieter (Matthias Schweighöfer) was a highlight of Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead. Now he has his own prequel origin story with Army of Thieves. Nathalie Emmanuel co-stars as Gwendoline, a mysterious woman who entices Dieter (aka Sebastian ..
