Category: Arts Entertainments

Daly’s pro se legal representation in the case was notable for its use of several […]

Nintendo also accused Genki of “extensive use of Nintendo trademarks” in association with their unlicensed […]

Last year, we reported on the efforts of classic iPod fans to preserve playable copies […]

A video shows how different storage media can affect Mario Kart World load times. CD […]

However, it’s important to note that neither of those metrics gives as complete a picture […]

An influx of players excited for this morning’s launch of Hollow Knight: Silksong are encountering […]

A Sega fan and collector since his youth and an emulator hobbyist since the early […]

Overall, though, you can see a clear and significant downward trend to the year-over-year pricing […]

Earlier this month, EA announced that players in its Battlefield 6 open beta on PC […]

Then there’s the way the game stresses a number of early dialogue choices, telling you […]

The long and winding road It’s hard to remember now, but Star Citizen‘s then-impressive $6.3 […]

It’s been a busy year for Framework, the company behind the now well-established series of […]

Hollow Knight: Silksong will be released on September 4. It will come out simultaneously on […]

Asus and Microsoft will be launching their ROG Xbox Ally series of handheld gaming PCs […]

Sony will join Microsoft and Nintendo in raising US prices across its entire game console […]

If you like something a little more statement-y, the Fractal Design North ($155) and Lian […]

A lot of times, the titles that went for this on some level seemed more […]

The Mini SSD card isn’t and may never be a formally ratified standard, but it […]

In my decades as a video game player and reviewer, I’ve used the humble PC […]

Bad news if you’re one of the handful of people using Steam to play games […]

Framework has also published basic templates for both the tiles and the top panel so […]

Slowed tech progress, inflation, and global trade wars are doing a number on game console […]

The kinds of randomized options you’ll have to choose between waves. The kinds of randomized […]

The Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs won’t be totally abandoned after 2025; Nvidia says it […]

With Red Viper’s built-in color support, though, anyone with a 3DS modded for homebrew software […]

I maintain a to-do list of story ideas to write at Ars, and for about […]

The brief message has replaced many adult games previously available on itch.io. The brief message […]

Julian LeFay, “the father of The Elder Scrolls,” has died at 59 – Ars Technica […]

After 5 years in development, the Assassin’s Creed TV series is happening – Ars Technica […]

PC-like power, console-like benefits Cyberpunk is a big get for the Mac’s gaming team, as […]

A collection of ports in the rear of the monitor. While the stereoscopic effect was […]

There are countless Android-powered gaming handhelds, but they go beyond the usual slate of Android […]

Valve’s famously permissive rules for what games are and are not allowed on Steam got […]

This Kong’s got a funny face… Credit: Nintendo This Kong’s got a funny face… Credit: […]

Greetings, Arsians! We love games here at the Ars Orbiting HQ, and I’m not just […]

In 2019, Nintendo announced a new benefit for subscribers to its Switch Online service: a […]

Epic Games, buoyed by the massive success of Fortnite, has spent the last few years […]

Two key writers of HBO’s series The Last of Us are moving on, according to announcements […]

Table of Contents Jump to section The road to Glacier To understand exactly what’s going […]

A clear improvement As you can see in the included charts, SteamOS showed noticeable frame […]

There’s also a new loading screen with more detailed information and more interactive elements, which […]

Those who’ve played the excellent Pac-Man Championship Edition series will be familiar with the high-speed […]

Microsoft’s “Xbox Series” consoles haven’t exactly been tearing up the sales charts. Credit: Microsoft Microsoft’s […]

Earlier this week, the makers of the popular Mig Flash cartridge, which allows users to […]

Link’s Awakening, Switch 1, docked. Andrew Cunningham Link’s Awakening, Switch 1, docked. Andrew Cunningham Link’s […]

The nsOne project joins a growing community of homebrew PlayStation 1 hardware developments. Other recent […]

While that kind of item-based back-and-forth isn’t new to Mario Kart, it feels like it […]

One weakness of Valve’s Steam Deck gaming handheld and SteamOS is that, by default, they […]

At its Worldwide Developer Conference today, Apple unveiled a new iOS Games App that Apple […]

Back in March, we outlined six features we wanted to see on what was then […]

As an included freebie with the Switch 2 system, this would merely be tedious. As […]

Link’s Awakening, Switch 1, docked. Andrew Cunningham Link’s Awakening, Switch 1, docked. Andrew Cunningham Link’s […]

But this kind of online gaming moderation is typically designed for situations where players could […]

It’s a whole lot of commotion for a GPU that is otherwise about as ho-hum […]

The current state of the GPU market At this point in 2025’s graphics card market, […]

Once I brought the original Switch close by to start the transfer process, I was […]

“Free Roam” mode is Mario Kart World’s killer app – Ars Technica Forza Horizon, Diddy […]

You can use mouse mode to navigate system menus I stumbled on this feature when […]

Nintendo’s Switch 2 has a small handful of new releases in its launch lineup, but […]

There are a few crucial tweaks to the Elden Ring formula aiding you in this […]

Valve’s instructions will walk you through downloading a SteamOS recovery image and copying it to […]

That blue bar sure does take me back… That blue bar sure does take me […]

Consoles like these may get banned from Nintendo’s online services, but they tend to still […]

AMD didn’t provide much by way of performance comparisons, but it’s promising that the cards […]

Tell it to the judge In an attempt to force Apple’s hand, Epic filed a […]

Anno 117 Pax Romana hands-on: Gorgeous, deep, and tricky to learn – Ars Technica Anno […]

For voice actors who previously portrayed Darth Vader in video games, the Fortnite feature starkly […]

New episodes of season 2 of The Last of Us are premiering on HBO every Sunday […]

If you build up a big area of plains on your board, you can drop […]

Like the acorn example above, we had known what to do—we had just not done […]

When Nintendo took the wraps off the Switch 2 in early April, it announced that […]

In that sense, the vulgar Vader situation creates a touchy dilemma for Epic Games and […]

Digital Foundry also notes that the Switch 2’s stated clock speeds can be tuned to […]

We’ve known for months now that Valve is expanding its Linux-based SteamOS operating system beyond […]

While working on our review of Doom: The Dark Ages last week, I was unable […]

Switch and Switch 2 users who try to hack their consoles or play pirated copies […]

In between all the parrying, you do get to shoot stuff. Credit: Bethesda Game Studios […]

Yesterday’s naming of Chicago native Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV—the first American-born leader of […]

You could even argue that Nintendo is more likely to offer longer-term support for Game […]

Nvidia will release the GeForce RTX 5060 on May 19 starting at $299, the company […]

While Gemini is using its own model and reasoning process for these tasks, it’s telling […]

New episodes of season 2 of The Last of Us are premiering on HBO every Sunday […]

Consider the PlayStation 2. Not all of the PS2 Slim’s streamlining came from chip improvements—it […]

Broadly, UESPWiki is an impressive information repository of The Elder Scrolls franchise. It also documents […]

Rockstar’s highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI will finally launch on May 26, 2026, Rockstar […]

It has been over six years since Epic started undercutting Steam’s 30 percent revenue share […]

Microsoft is increasing the recommended asking price of Xbox hardware and accessories worldwide starting today […]

End of an era Polygon was founded in 2012 when Vox Media spent significant money […]

In a statement provided to Ars Technica, an Apple spokesperson said, “We strongly disagree with […]

A March video explaining the new Virtual Game Card system that launched via system update […]

To be sure, Patrick Stewart’s regal delivery in the early game helps paper over a […]

“Bethesda has always been supportive of community projects like ours, and we don’t see that […]

US preorders for the Nintendo Switch 2 console went live at Best Buy, Target, and […]

Wizards of the Coast has released the System Reference Document, the heart of the three […]

Bethesda isn’t officially supporting mods for the newly released Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered. But […]

That said, Virtuos has also made changes on that front. Most notably, today’s announcement revealed […]

In the descriptions for those videos, though, Coincident acknowledged some of the reasons that Okuplok’s […]

New episodes of season 2 of The Last of Us are premiering on HBO every Sunday […]

A tipped-cap moment The center of Whisky’s homepage. The page now carries a persistent notice […]

Assassin’s Creed titles are cozy games for me. There’s no more relaxing place to go […]

The creators of Sunderfolk wanted to make a video game that would help players “Rediscover game […]

The Switch 2 hardware will still retail for its initially announced $449.99, alongside a $499.99 […]

For Sigman and the Darkest Dungeon team, it was important to establish an overarching design […]

Earlier this month, Nintendo let Ars Technica and other outlets have access to a small […]

As with its other 50-series announcements, Nvidia is leaning on its DLSS Multi-Frame Generation technology […]

Razer’s iOS app showing its width of game discovering. Who wants to stream some Solitaire? […]

As seen previously, the Joy-Cons will be bigger than on the original Switch and will […]

“No ads, no hosts, no sponsors, just games.” The Triple-i Initiative‘s pitch for its now-annual […]

And there are real concerns and annoyances that will come with Game-Key cards. Normally, the […]

The verified TeamYouTube account responded to LocalThunk on X (formerly Twitter) late Monday, stating that […]

While Nintendo could theoretically avoid tariff impacts by moving Switch 2 production into the US, […]

$70 was a common price for N64 software, and that was in 1997 dollars! $70 […]

The current generative Quake II demo represents a slight advancement from Microsoft’s previous generative AI […]

Things just cost more now In justifying the $450 price of the Switch 2, Nintendo […]

After dealing with years of widespread reports of “stick drift” on the original Switch Joy-Cons, […]

Actor Val Kilmer—star of Top Gun, The Doors, and Batman Forever, among other roles—has died […]

You can read a lot more about original Switch games’ compatibility on the Switch 2, […]

A mouse? On a game console? Nintendo has a history of trying to differentiate its […]

Road trips with just two people always have their awkward silences. In Dustland Delivery, my character, […]

This morning’s announcement that Nintendo is delaying US preorders for the Switch 2 immediately increased […]

Nintendo Switch 2 preorders, which were due to begin on April 9, are being delayed […]

In the wake of the Switch 2 reveal, neither Nintendo nor Nvidia has gone into […]

The Switch 2’s additional power opens the door to more complex games that could lag […]

Not all game releases will follow Nintendo’s pricing formula. The Switch 2 release of Street […]

We’ve known for a few months now that the Nintendo Switch 2 will support backward […]

Implausible: Long-suffering Earthbound fans have been hoping for a new game in the series (or […]

Switch players who buy their games on physical cards are used to being able to […]

GT Sophy can now race at 19 tracks, up from the nine that were introduced […]

When Nintendo finally officially revealed the Switch 2 in January, one of our major unanswered […]

More than just rolling for initiative Obsidian added a turn-based mode to Pillars of Eternity II: […]

The product has evolved into something akin to Slack, but for personal use. It’s used […]

“I don’t feel comfortable dragging people through getting world buffs, flasks, and consumes etc., just […]

Nvidia has seen its fortunes soar in recent years as its AI-accelerating GPUs have become […]

Harrington (left) poses with Scott Walker. Harrington (left) poses with Scott Walker. Credit: Monica Harrington […]

Where previous models wandered aimlessly or got stuck in loops, Claude 3.7 Sonnet plans ahead, […]

I can say this for certain: The game’s tutorial does a lot of work in […]

A bargain at twice the price The extensive Portal theming on the table seems to […]

“Google wanted games that only worked in the cloud—which don’t exist,” Raccoon Logic co-founder & […]

A sample result from the DSP sample test program. Credit: Allan Cecil A sample result […]

A month ago, Civilization VII launched to generally positive critical reviews, but user reviews on […]

Using a Windows PC with an Arm-based Snapdragon processor in it feels a lot like […]

Last year, Microsoft showed off a pair of concept videos highlighting how “real-time conversations with […]

Bring old Xbox games to PC The ultimate handheld system seller. Credit: Microsoft / Bizarre […]

Nvidia has launched all of the GeForce RTX 50-series GPUs that it announced at CES, […]

When you think about it, the keyboard is the most complex video game controller in […]

Like the 7950X3D and 7900X3D, these new X3D chips combine a pair of AMD’s CPU […]

Viral success (for someone else) VoltekPlay writes on Reddit that it was only alerted to […]

The pricing effects of those tariffs might not be immediate, as console makers work their […]

Even if they come with a performance hit, new upscaling algorithms can still improve performance […]

One thing Shadowveil: Legend of the Five Rings does well is invoke terror. Not just the […]

Most readers come away from George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984 with the same singular […]

“4090 performance at $549.” That’s what Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said of the GeForce RTX […]

Zach Barth, the namesake of game studio Zachtronics, tends to make a certain kind of […]

For most modern players, the worst thing about a video game classic like Portal is […]

The integrated heat spreaders put on CPUs at the factory are not the most thermally […]

AMD’s new Radeon RX 90-series cards and the RDNA4 architecture make their official debut on […]

And let’s not forget that millions of gamers already have easy access to SteamOS through […]

Inside the source code are some wonderful reminders of what Windows game development from 1995 […]

AMD is releasing the first detailed specifications of its next-generation Radeon RX 9070 series GPUs […]

Sony’s first PlayStation VR for the PlayStation 4 hit stores at the right price at […]

Game studio Monolith, part of Warner Bros. Games until yesterday’s multi-studio shutdown, had a notable […]

Don’t you dare give me hope The newly discovered engine updates are a particularly good […]

The Monaco 2 demo includes four classes of thieves, each with their own unique way […]

In Framework’s first-party case, the PC starts at $1,099, which gets you a Ryzen AI […]

Popular Amazon-owned game streaming platform Twitch announced Wednesday that it will be imposing a 100-hour […]

Though we’ve tested and re-tested multiple cards with recent drivers in our updated testbed, we […]

Valve’s updates to its classic games evoke Hemingway’s two kinds of going bankrupt: gradually, then […]

That demonstrator currently generates the resulting video based on pre-recorded inputs, at a rate much […]

Nvidia’s PhysX offerings to developers didn’t always generate warm feelings. As part of its broader […]

On the right side, a USB-A port and headphone jack form a nostalgia nook at […]

For years, Maciej “Groobo” Maselewski stood as the undisputed champion of Diablo speedrunning. His 3-minute, 12-second […]

The GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 are both very fast graphics cards—if you can look […]

Avowed‘s quests almost all boil down to venturing from a city to some far-off spot […]

While writing a wide-ranging history of Windows Minesweeper for Boss Fight Books in 2023, I […]

The 12VHPWR and 12V-2×6 connectors are both designed to solve a real problem: delivering hundreds […]

Bismuth explains the unreasonable luck needed for a record-setting Tyson fight at around the 56:30 […]

A short emulator-aided demonstration of how the broken ladder glitch works (not shown: the dozens […]

The developer’s statement notes that preorder customers are getting refunds. Answering a question that has […]

Despite all this, The Sims is worth a look It’s telling that in a market […]

It’s been a month since we first heard rumors that the Switch 2’s new Joy-Cons […]

Since our first glimpse of the Switch 2 last month, we’ve been left guessing on […]

AMD announced its fourth-quarter earnings yesterday, and the numbers were mostly rosy: $7.7 billion in […]

I’ve spent comparatively little time playing other 4X games. I had a couple of weeks […]

The strategy with the 5080 looks pretty similar. You get a mild increase in core […]

In the intro video, Salvador talks about looking through their archives and stumbling on the […]

Black & White was intriguing; it had classic Molyneaux over-reach and deserves, in the words […]

Sony’s game publishing arm has done a 180-degree turn on a controversial policy of requiring […]

Retro game enthusiasts may already be acquainted with Analogue, a company that designs and manufactures […]

We’ve tried to strike a balance between games with ray-tracing effects and games without it, […]

Nvidia is launching the first volley of RTX 50-series GPUs based on its new Blackwell […]

In place of Doom Eternal‘s “jump and shoot” gameplay loop, The Dark Ages focuses on […]

Four out of five game developers are currently working on a project for the PC, […]

So what’s up with that new dock? So what’s up with that new dock? Credit: […]

After 14 years, EA will retire its controversial Origin game distribution app for Windows, the […]

After months and years of rumors and official hints, Nintendo has finally pulled back the […]

A scaled comparison between the Switch 2 and the Steam Deck OLED shows Nintendo’s system […]

Age transitions feel like starting a new game The most significant change compared to prior […]

We do see a hint of extra improvement in Forza Horizon 5, a game where […]

Here at Ars, we’re suckers for stories about hackers getting Doom running on everything from […]