How Sega hopes to use Japanese arcades as streaming data centers
5
votes
Showing only topics in ~games with the tag "source.ars technica".
Back to normal view /
Search all groups
-
-
Riot Games' new Vanguard anti-cheat system for Valorant involves a kernel mode driver that launches at boot, raising security concerns
28 votes -
How SNES emulators got a few pixels from complete perfection
17 votes -
Half-Life: Alyx review (spoiler-free): The greatest VR adventure game yet—and then some
21 votes -
ASCII art and permadeath: The history of roguelike games
12 votes -
New patch for The Witcher 3 on Switch enables sharing a saved game with the PC version (Steam/GOG) and adds extensive graphics options
16 votes -
The team behind Warcraft III looks back at the game that birthed a genre, changed a franchise, and earned a Reforge-ing
5 votes -
Inside TASBot’s semi-secret, probably legal effort to control the Nintendo Switch
17 votes -
Speedrunning is plagued with cheating, and technological advances are making it more and more difficult to detect
11 votes -
The modders who spent fifteen years fixing Knights of the Old Republic 2
10 votes -
"Randomizers" are breathing new life into old games
18 votes -
Ars talks fighting games with Guilty Gear creator Daisuke Ishiwatari
3 votes -
Google Stadia will be missing many features for Monday’s launch
9 votes -
Ars Cardboard's picks for the best new board games from Essen Spiel 2019
5 votes -
Three "programming" board games: Lovelace & Babbage, Quirky Circuits, and Pixoid
9 votes -
Minecraft: Builders & Biomes condenses series tropes into a family-friendly board game with tough tactical decisions
12 votes -
An overview and ranking of the seventeen available Ticket to Ride maps
13 votes -
Untitled Goose Game review: The year's best video game about geese, reviewed from a goose's point of view.
12 votes -
Rockstar releases their own game launcher, which is now required to play some of their Steam games like GTA5 and Max Payne 3
15 votes -
Collector acquires rare Konami Space School cartridge and QTa adapter for Famicom, dumps them for emulation
7 votes -
Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot
8 votes -
Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering game that puts the fun in undermining democracy
6 votes -
Eliza review: Startup culture meets sci-fi in a touching, fascinating tale
7 votes -
Ars Technica's list of the hottest new board games from Gen Con 2019
14 votes -
SNES emulator bsnes now supports a new method of overclocking that removes slowdown without any framerate or pitch distortion
12 votes -
Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo team up to force loot box odds disclosures
18 votes -
Subnautica: a world without guns | War Stories
8 votes -
Classic Doom games vanish, reappear on Xbox One with features missing
13 votes -
2019 Board Game of the Year Goes to "Just One"
8 votes -
New standard Switch model coming in August/September will improve battery life forty to eighty percent
13 votes -
Atari’s new VCS isn’t a console, but it isn’t quite a computer either
8 votes -
In praise of ultra-short games
9 votes -
Bethesda's latest Elder Scrolls adventure taken down amid cries of plagiarism
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
14 votes -
New mod for bsnes emulator makes “Mode 7” SNES games look like new
21 votes -
Two devs automated the process of generating and publishing "garbage" mobile slot machine games on Google Play, and made over $50,000
28 votes -
Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, and Detroit: Become Human are coming to PC, leading next wave of Epic Games Store exclusives
13 votes -
Remote Play for PlayStation 4 games is now available on iOS devices
7 votes -
Rumor: Microsoft is working on bringing Xbox Game Pass to Switch, including Xbox One games playable via streaming
10 votes -
Tetris 99 isn’t just a great twist on a classic—it’s a gameplay revolution
28 votes -
ArsTechnica's favorite two-player board games, 2019 edition
12 votes -
Meet MASHBot, the touchscreen-tapping, Nintendo DS-playing robot
3 votes -
Star Control: Origins has been removed from sale on Steam and GOG following DMCA takedown filing by original Star Control creators
8 votes -
Ars Technica’s ultimate board game gift guide, 2018 edition
11 votes -
Sony is using the open-source emulator PCSX ReARMed for the PlayStation Classic
25 votes -
Hollow Knight: Harsh restrictions and subtle lessons make this platformer an excellent teacher
14 votes -
Valve seems to be working on tools to get Windows games running on Linux
39 votes -
Fortnite for Android may not be on play store, presumably to avoid Google's 30% cut
16 votes -
How do you pronounce "NES"? Nintendo throws a wrench in the debate
15 votes -
Skynet meets The Swarm: How the Berkeley Overmind won the 2010 StarCraft AI competition
3 votes