“Gaming Chromebooks” with Nvidia GPUs apparently killed with little fanfare Article 545 words 11 votes
The “Shove” mechanic in Baldur’s Gate 3 - What my brave warrior's death to a lowly goblin taught me about dice anarchy Article 600 words 32 votes
FTC: Xbox-exclusive Starfield is “powerful evidence” against Activision deal Article 765 words 52 votes
Why game archivists are dreading this month’s 3DS/Wii U eShop shutdown Article 800 words, published Mar 15 2023 10 votes
A brief history of (unintentionally) unbeatable games Article 781 words, published Jun 21 2022 4 votes
Eve Online fans literally cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual Fanfest Article 525 words 18 votes
Building a retro-gaming super-console with $100 and a Raspberry Pi: 2022 edition Article 681 words 8 votes
Valve argues anti-Steam suit lacks “the most basic elements” of antitrust case Article 747 words 13 votes
Playdate, the console with a crank, gets July preorder for $179, game details Article 921 words 16 votes
Nintendo's Game Builder Garage hides powerful programming tools behind a cute interface Article 989 words 11 votes
Valve has been secretly building a Switch-like portable PC designed to run a large number of games on the Steam PC platform via Linux Article 982 words 35 votes
Super High-Fidelity Mario: The quest to find original gaming audio samples Article 1635 words 11 votes
Xbox’s “instant on” feature could consume four billion kWh of energy by 2025 Article 766 words 15 votes
Xbox Series X/S vs. PlayStation 5 - A direct comparison and the Ars launch-month verdict Article 1068 words 13 votes
Making Civilization Revolution work on consoles - A chapter reprint from the new book Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games Article 1181 words 6 votes
The MUGEN community has put two decades of fan work into creating the ultimate fighting game crossover Article 1082 words 6 votes
Untitled Goose Game ditches plastic for its eco-friendly game cases 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 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 Article 1332 words 28 votes
Half-Life: Alyx review (spoiler-free): The greatest VR adventure game yet—and then some Article 1748 words 21 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 Article 615 words 16 votes
The team behind Warcraft III looks back at the game that birthed a genre, changed a franchise, and earned a Reforge-ing Article 1341 words 5 votes
Inside TASBot’s semi-secret, probably legal effort to control the Nintendo Switch Article 861 words 17 votes
Speedrunning is plagued with cheating, and technological advances are making it more and more difficult to detect Article 790 words 11 votes
Ars Cardboard's picks for the best new board games from Essen Spiel 2019 ~games.tabletop board games Article 1088 words 5 votes
Three "programming" board games: Lovelace & Babbage, Quirky Circuits, and Pixoid ~games.tabletop board games Article 1062 words 9 votes
Minecraft: Builders & Biomes condenses series tropes into a family-friendly board game with tough tactical decisions ~games.tabletop board games Article 1640 words 12 votes
An overview and ranking of the seventeen available Ticket to Ride maps ~games.tabletop board games Article 686 words 13 votes