AI digests repetitive scatological document into profound “poop” podcast ~tech Article 587 words 13 votes
Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees ~games Article 669 words 56 votes
Decades later, John Romero looks back at the birth of the first-person shooter ~games Article 535 words 18 votes
Nintendo pre-announces a Switch 2 announcement is coming… eventually ~games Article 462 words 25 votes
Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the most inventive 2D Mario in decades ~games Article 1094 words 29 votes
Developers restore “retail” Xbox emulators after Microsoft crackdown ~games Article 695 words 15 votes
FTC: Xbox-exclusive Starfield is “powerful evidence” against Activision deal ~games Article 765 words 52 votes
Why game archivists are dreading this month’s 3DS/Wii U eShop shutdown ~games Article 800 words, published Mar 15 2023 10 votes
A brief history of (unintentionally) unbeatable games ~games Article 781 words, published Jun 21 2022 4 votes
Eve Online fans literally cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual Fanfest ~games Article 525 words 18 votes
Valve argues anti-Steam suit lacks “the most basic elements” of antitrust case ~games Article 747 words 13 votes
Cheat-maker brags of computer-vision auto-aim that works on “any game” ~games Article 1322 words 19 votes
Nintendo's Game Builder Garage hides powerful programming tools behind a cute interface ~games Article 989 words 11 votes
Humble Bundle creator brings antitrust lawsuit against Valve over Steam ~games Article 1071 words 19 votes
Super High-Fidelity Mario: The quest to find original gaming audio samples ~games Article 1635 words 11 votes
GameStop's stock has surged 1,500% in nine months after activist investors take board seats along with a massive short squeeze ~finance business Article 1607 words 30 votes
Xbox’s “instant on” feature could consume four billion kWh of energy by 2025 ~games Article 766 words 15 votes
Xbox Series X/S vs. PlayStation 5 - A direct comparison and the Ars launch-month verdict ~games Article 1068 words 13 votes
Untitled Goose Game ditches plastic for its eco-friendly game cases ~games Article 825 words, published Aug 6 2020 17 votes
2K Games breaks gaming's de facto $60 (USD) price ceiling, announces MSRP for next-gen NBA 2K21 as $70 ~games Article 815 words 21 votes
Riot Games' new Vanguard anti-cheat system for Valorant involves a kernel mode driver that launches at boot, raising security concerns ~games Article 1332 words 28 votes
Inside TASBot’s semi-secret, probably legal effort to control the Nintendo Switch ~games Article 861 words 17 votes
Collector acquires rare Konami Space School cartridge and QTa adapter for Famicom, dumps them for emulation ~games Article 463 words 7 votes
SNES emulator bsnes now supports a new method of overclocking that removes slowdown without any framerate or pitch distortion ~games Article 694 words 12 votes
Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo team up to force loot box odds disclosures ~games Article 379 words 18 votes
New standard Switch model coming in August/September will improve battery life forty to eighty percent ~games Article 311 words 13 votes
Atari’s new VCS isn’t a console, but it isn’t quite a computer either ~games Article 829 words 8 votes
Bethesda's latest Elder Scrolls adventure taken down amid cries of plagiarism ~games Article 990 words 10 votes
The ROM image for Akka Arrh, an extremely rare Atari arcade prototype was dumped and added to MAME recently, but now there are allegations that the ROM was stolen from a collector's machine ~games Article 1736 words 14 votes
Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, and Detroit: Become Human are coming to PC, leading next wave of Epic Games Store exclusives ~games Article 460 words 13 votes
Rumor: Microsoft is working on bringing Xbox Game Pass to Switch, including Xbox One games playable via streaming ~games Article 1007 words 10 votes
Sony is using the open-source emulator PCSX ReARMed for the PlayStation Classic ~games Article 356 words 25 votes
Valve seems to be working on tools to get Windows games running on Linux ~games Article 498 words 39 votes