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Nintendo may be getting ready to make its Switch 2 console official. According to “industry […]

Neverwinter Nights came out in 2002 and received an enhanced edition in 2018. In 2025, […]

It was about this time that something else began: The Pinball Resource. Becoming The Resource […]

Last month, we asked readers to donate to a couple of good causes in our […]

Here at Ars, we’re judicious about which of the many, many Switch 2 rumors we […]

Of course Atari’s new handheld includes a trackball, spinner, and numpad – Ars Technica Tempest, […]

Just when you thought you had seen every possible Doom mod, two game developers released […]

Nintendo still isn’t ready to officially reveal any details about the Switch 2 (beyond a […]

Nvidia has good news and bad news for people building or buying gaming PCs. The […]

Almost exactly a year ago, we were publicly yearning for the day when more portable […]

Nearly two years ago, AMD announced its first Ryzen Z1 processors. These were essentially the […]

AMD’s batch of CES announcements this year includes just two new products for desktop PC […]

How it works Donating is easy. Simply donate to Child’s Play using a credit card […]

With Valve’s impressive work on the Proton tool for Linux and the Mac’s Game Porting […]

Nvidia is reportedly gearing up to launch the first few cards in its RTX 50-series […]

The more than two decades since Half-Life 2‘s release have been filled with plenty of […]

It’s a WebAssembly application, but it was made via a human language, prompt-driven web development […]

So here’s to you, Stardew Valley. You were one of the brightest parts of my […]

At this point, any serious retro gamer knows that a bulky cathode ray tube (CRT) […]

How it works Donating is easy. Simply donate to Child’s Play using a credit card […]

-Kevin Purdy Sixty Four Oleg Danilov; Windows, Mac I try not to think about, or […]

So when Sony put out the recent “remaster” of Zero Dawn, I was cautiously optimistic. […]

How it works Donating is easy. Simply donate to Child’s Play using a credit card […]

When the impossibly punctuated S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl released on November 20, after many […]

In theory, it ought to be as good a time as ever to be a […]

When Sony revealed the PlayStation 5 Pro a few months ago, some wondered just how […]

When Nvidia replaced the longstanding GeForce Experience App with a new, unified Nvidia App last […]

Rumors have suggested that Nvidia will be taking the wraps off of some next-generation RTX […]

When Sony launched the PlayStation Portable almost exactly 20 years ago, the value proposition was […]

GPU power consumption numbers under load. Credit: Andrew Cunningham Power consumption is another place where […]

If you’ve been too busy punching virtual Nazis to take part in this year’s Ars Technica […]

Are humans just squishy machines? Can an artificially intelligent robot create a true moral compass […]

It’s once again that special time of year when we give you a chance to […]

The itch.io domain was back up and running by 7 am Eastern, according to media […]

As podcaster Ryan Zhao put it on Bluesky, “The design process has gone wrong when […]

As you crisscross the map, you also invariably stumble on a seemingly endless array of […]

Steam Machines 2.0? While there hasn’t been any wider official rollout for the Powered by […]

Turnover at the top of the company isn’t stopping Intel from launching new products: Today […]

The Steam Link was a little box ahead of its time. It streamed games from […]

GOG’s version goes a bit beyond the classic versions that were on sale on Blizzard.net. […]

There are better versions of these games The VIP package Atari sent me, along with […]

Bloomberg reports that Sony is “in the early stages” of work on a fully portable […]

The bow is a bit too effective at taking out early enemies from afar Credit: […]

You’re getting pretty close to the ground there, chief. But the good news is, you’re […]

Despite the new weapons and mechanics that were already in the works for Episode 3, […]

It’s Half-Life 2 week at Ars Technica! This Saturday, November 16, is the 20th anniversary of the […]

The classic PC games market is “in a sorry state,” according to DRM-free and classic-minded […]

It’s Half-Life 2 week at Ars Technica! This Saturday, November 16, is the 20th anniversary of the […]

In a field packed with quality roleplaying game developers, this is where BioWare has historically […]

It’s Half-Life 2 week at Ars Technica! This Saturday, November 16, is the 20th anniversary […]

And Half-Life 2’s Gravity Gun, which dramatically built on past games’ physics mechanics, is in […]

Spotify has lost all enthusiasm for the little music devices it sold for just half […]

Sega has put dozens of its Master System, Genesis, Saturn, and other console titles onto […]

Confirming previous rumors, Variety reports that Amazon will be moving ahead with producing a TV […]

As US states were busy counting votes to confirm who would be the next president […]

In many ways, the timing of Sony’s 2016 launch of the PS4 Pro couldn’t have […]

Metal Slug Tactics pushes hard on the boundaries of the vaunted run-and-gun arcade series. You […]

Even the bad clickwheel iPod games—like Sega’s nearly impossible-to-control Sonic the Hedgehog port—might find their […]

Some of my favorite games deny me the thing I think I want most. Elden Ring refuses […]

Last night, Nintendo pulled off a surprise launch of a new Nintendo Music smartphone app, […]

You might think that since Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (which was released last […]

Cyberpunk 2077, one of the most graphically demanding and visually impressive games in recent years, […]

Apple will adapt the classic educational game The Oregon Trail into a big-budget movie, according […]

In an odd footnote, the Register also notes that emulation of classic game consoles, while […]

The UK equivalent of a Pip-Boy 3000, which is nice to see after so many […]

It’s been just over two years now since soon-to-depart CTO John Carmack told a Meta […]

Arena Commander was revealed to the public at PAX East in April 2014. From our […]

There are multiple layers to a Clans battle. There is your actual movement, which can take getting […]

It’s been exactly one year since the initial announcement of the Analogue 3D, an HD-upscaled, […]

Dreamhaven Studios provided a round-trip train from Washington, D.C. to New York and accommodation for […]

After a US court ruled earlier this week that Google must open its Play Store […]

There comes a point in most experienced Steam shoppers’ lives where they wonder what would […]

A few years ago, the idea of running PC games on a Mac, in Linux, […]

The longer a game’s DRM lasts, the fewer new sales are left to be affected […]

The motion detectors reportedly work with various bed sizes, from twin to king. As users […]

Internally, the Quest 3S sports the same Qualcomm Snapdragon XR Gen 2 processor as the […]

As with smartphones, it will probably take a while for developers to really figure out […]

Months ago, 13-year-old Willis “Blue Scuti” Gibson became the first person to “beat” NES Tetris, […]

When faced with a legal threat from Nintendo, most alleged modders, ROM pirates, and/or emulator […]

When we reviewed Diablo IV, the latest installment in the long-running action roleplaying game series […]

Crafting in Alien: Isolation has a lot more purpose than in most first-person games. Credit: […]

Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the long-anticipated next major release in the popular historical open-world game franchise, […]

In the last few years, large swaths of the game industry have embraced generative AI, […]

The Last of Us season 2 trailer. Today marks the debut of the first full […]

Phil Spencer’s Tokyo Game Show update. Beloved real-time strategy classics StarCraft and StarCraft II will […]

Valve sued lawyers behind arbitration claims Valve used to prefer arbitration because few consumers brought […]

Your first Halls of Torment run starts with a basic warrior, but new classes quickly […]

The new suit makes heavy reference to arguments from the Epic v. Google case alleging […]

I was on vacation last week, the kind of vacation in which entire days had […]

Update, September 30, 2024, 6:34 p.m. ET: It seems that the new home screen experience […]

In the wake of those legal efforts against other Switch emulator developers, the Ryujinx developers […]

Enlarge / These copyrighted Switch games shown on Ryujinx’s former GitHub page probably didn’t curry […]

Enlarge / Installing the Epic Games Store on Galaxy phones is impossible with the “Auto […]

Getty Update, September 30, 2024, 6:34 p.m. ET: It seems that the new home screen […]

Enlarge / Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg announces the Meta Quest 3 headset. At a Connect conference […]

Artist’s conception of Miyamoto preparing to fend off investors eager for more generative AI integration. […]

Valve Corporation, tired of paying arbitration fees, has removed a mandatory arbitration clause from Steam’s […]

The Last of Us season 2 trailer. Today marks the debut of the first full […]

Phil Spencer’s Tokyo Game Show update. Beloved real-time strategy classics StarCraft and StarCraft II will […]

Enlarge / The future’s so bright, Mark Zuckerberg’s gotta wear shades. Thus far, Meta’s heavily […]

Enlarge / The dual protagonists of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Ubisoft Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the long-anticipated […]

Sony’s <em>Ghost of Yotei</em> trailer. If you’ve been sleeping on the Akira Kurosawa-inspired, Assassin’s Creed-esque […]

Enlarge / Artist’s conception of angry PC gamers launching an attack on PSN sign-in requirements. […]

Enlarge / Hey, welcome back to “Talkin’Minesweeper,” the podcast where AI hosts discuss a book […]

Enlarge / I hope you like radial menus, because you’ll be looking at a lot […]

Enlarge / Frostpunk 2 has you planning and building districts, rather than individual buildings or […]

Enlarge / Artist’s conception of what used to be possible, before BattlEye ruined things. Last […]

The PS5 Pro version of the 30th anniversary bundle comes with both varieties of DualSense […]

Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Pocketpair lawyers establishing a defensive position against Nintendo’s coming legal […]

Enlarge / The final boss of the new WoW raid, who will now be beatable […]

Enlarge / Imagine owning one of those funky birds as an NFT! Fans of ultra-viral […]

Enlarge / This screenshot of a “Cloud in a dress” mod is being used in […]

Enlarge / Just some of the inventive character designs included in UFO 50. Mossmouth If […]

Enlarge / The “VP” on the cab light is a nice touch. Last month, in […]

Unity Unity, maker of a popular cross-platform engine and toolkit, will not pursue a broadly […]

Enlarge / Notice anything missing from the one and only model of the PS5 Pro? […]

Enlarge / Where are the gentle creatures and native plants you first saw when you […]

Enlarge / The cool racing stripe means it’s faster. Sony today announced the PlayStation 5 […]

On Friday, Roblox announced plans to introduce an open source generative AI tool that will […]

If you paid $40 for the physical edition of Concord, you can make a lot […]

At first glance, these AI-generated Super Mario Bros. videos are pretty impressive. The more you […]

LocalThunk, the pseudonymous lead developer of the surprise smash hit deckbuilding/roguelike/poker-math-simulation game Balatro, has long […]

Enlarge / There are different types of Space Marines. Some of them are traitors. All […]

Jason Momoa and Jack Black star in A Minecraft Movie. Minecraft is among the most […]

Enlarge / This team-based FPS combat scene was apparently too familiar to attract all that […]

Enlarge / It’s hard to fit the perfomance-minded but pricey ROG Ally X into a […]

Enlarge / The feeling when you know your ball is just gonna get buried in […]

Enlarge / Any resemblance to the Dreamcast is completely coincidental, we’re sure. If you’re familiar […]

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images On Tuesday, researchers from Google and Tel Aviv University unveiled […]

Enlarge / It’s hard work, survival crafting, but there are moments for song, dance, and […]

Tetris Forever includes several versions of the game that had been released over the years. […]

Enlarge / Look! A wild Valve game appears! Valve If you read Ars Technica regularly, […]

Nvidia Back in 2013, Nvidia introduced a new technology called G-Sync to eliminate screen tearing […]

Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Randy Pitchford surveying the Epic Games Store landscape years after […]

Enlarge / A time traveler with a flashlight would blow Indiana Jones’ mind. At first […]

Enlarge / The player has a lot of agency in this game to choose exactly […]

Enlarge / So I’m not stuck on Xbox, eh? Bethesda Bethesda’s Indiana Jones and The […]

Welcome back to Albion. 22cans When gods play with Legos, they use building-sized pieces. 22cans […]

Enlarge / Firaxis has upped the ante on presentation for the cities. It’s still a […]

Enlarge / At this rate, it might be the only graphics card you’ll ever need? […]

Enlarge / Kind of a weird image to post if you’re trying to convince people […]

In my mind, this image is slowly drawing into place, with the text arriving last. […]

Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Epic dodging harm from Apple’s decisions (and perhaps its own). […]

Those of us who collect classic game consoles and computers (here’s looking at you, AI […]

Enlarge / Diablo running in Firefox on macOS. Samuel Axon You can now play the […]

Enlarge / Getting this photo took a lot of effort with unofficial ISOs that won’t […]

Enlarge / The start of any journey in MS-DOS. Samuel Axon After a 14-year journey […]

Enlarge / He’s gesturing towards a PC port that’s just out of frame. Trust me. […]

Enlarge / I don’t know what this flame crossbow (?) is from the Legacy of […]

Enlarge / NZXT’s subscription program charges $169/month for this build. NZXT, which sells gaming PCs, […]

Enlarge / A thing that exists through ROM hacking, and ROMHacking.net: Super Mario Land 2, […]

Enlarge / There is something so wonderfully obscene about having a town with hundreds of […]

Enlarge / The tumbling continues. Microsoft’s revenue from Xbox console sales was down a whopping […]

Enlarge / If you enjoyed taking out adorable, if dangerous, widdle cweatures with an assault […]

Enlarge / One day, using pixellated fonts and images to represent that something is a […]

The Lego Mario & Yoshi set is an homage to 1990’s Super Mario World. The […]

Enlarge / Access to first-party games on launch day remains a major selling point for […]

Nintendo’s Joy-Con Charging Stand (Two-Way) seems useful, but it’s coming out at a strange time […]

Enlarge / Get ready to repeat this ~25-second slice of Mario over and over… and […]

Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Valve’s micro-employees hard at work inside your Steam installation. Getty […]

Enlarge / Heresy must be punished. Focus Entertainment How badly do you want to play […]

Enlarge / Space Cadet Pinball has never been so portable… or so tiny! One month […]

Enlarge / Analogue is launching another limited-edition version of its Pocket console, this time with […]

Enlarge / Man vs. machine in a sea of stones. Getty Images In the ancient […]

Enlarge / An Arm sample image meant to show off its new “Accuracy Super Resolution” […]

Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Microsoft executives after today’s Game Pass pricing announcements. Getty Images […]

Enlarge / Vampire Survivors on the iPhone. It doesn’t look like much, but it sure […]

Fallout: London as it looked back in December, when its planned April 23 release was […]

Enlarge / Artist’s impression of a squid jumping forth from an HP 200LX. Aurich Lawson […]

Enlarge / Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney. It’s been a whirlwind journey of […]

Enlarge / The same gorgeous vistas return in the Riven remake. Samuel Axon A remake […]

Enlarge / Don’t get your hopes up—this iOS version of Doom was ported from open […]

The streaming-only Xbox would have looked like a smaller, squarer relative of the Series S. […]

Enlarge / Blast away all the guilt you want in PowerWash Simulator, but there’s no […]

John Romero remembers the moment he realized what the future of gaming would look like. […]

Enlarge / Features like Image Playground won’t arrive in Europe at the same time as […]

Enlarge / What could have been. PC gamers of a certain vintage will remember tales […]

Enlarge / Zork running on an Amiga at the Computerspielemuseum in Berlin, Germany. You are […]

Bandai Elden Ring was my first leap into FromSoftware titles (and Dark-Souls-like games generally), and […]

It has now been almost exactly seven years since Nintendo first announced Metroid Prime 4 and […]

Enlarge / For an unreleased game, Star Citizen still has some really pretty ships… RSI […]

Enlarge / “So slim you can play it anywhere.” Gamers of a certain age may […]

Enlarge / Remember, folks inside those polygons: If your housing feels too expensive, spend less […]

Enlarge / Do you have a few hundred hours to hear the good news about […]

Enlarge / Illustration of the Apollo lunar lander Eagle over the Moon. On Friday, a […]

Much of the time, the game looks a lot like Civilization, like in this city […]

Enlarge / Looking more like a refrigerator than ever before. A new version of Microsoft’s […]

Enlarge / The “Xbox Series V” was a social media hoax, but the idea of […]

2K / Imgur 2K Games is expected to show the first trailer footage of the […]

Enlarge / All these goons are targeting Captain America, as shown in icons above their […]

Enlarge / A slide-up screen is just one of the novel features for Adata’s Steam […]

The new PS5 packaging, as seen on the PlayStation Direct online store, is missing the […]

Enlarge / At least my son will be able to use my copy of Fallout: […]

Aurich Lawson Members of the Legendary Computer Bugs Tribunal, honored guests, if I may have […]

Enlarge / How well do you know your friends and family? Can you smack a […]

Enlarge / Sony’s marketing image for PSVR2 on PC. Sony It doesn’t seem like PlayStation […]

Enlarge / After nearly four years of the PS5, a lot of people are still […]

Enlarge / Is this an aspirational image for mass shooters? The families of multiple victims […]

Enlarge / Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann, seen here not questioning the accuracy of a PR […]