Gaming & Culture / Gaming & Entertainment
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Poignant The Midnight Sky wrestles with whether humankind is worth saving
George Clooney directed and stars in adaptation of the Lily Brooks-Dalton novel
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Microsoft Flight Simulator in VR: A turbulent start for wide-open skies
Basic impressions of what to expect—and hopes for patches to come.
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Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings have unique microbiomes, study finds
Research could help slow down deterioration of aging artwork, unmask counterfeits.
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Ars Technica’s best games of 2020
These 20 titles helped a quarantined 2020 pass by that much more quickly.
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Lost Sega arcade classics born anew in cute, $130 Astro City Mini [Updated]
Fun, clicky buttons, Sega rarities, and solid emulation—albeit with some issues.
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Review: Alice in Borderland takes us down a deliciously bonkers rabbit hole
Alice in Wonderland and Ready Player One meet Lord of the Flies and Cube.
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Humanity is in danger of becoming obsolete technology in LX 2048
Director Guy Moshe chats with Ars about his ambitious sci-fi film.
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The 15 best films of a bizarre (and probably historic) year for film
Some good 2020 news: Most of our favorite films this year can now be enjoyed from home.
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Miyamoto leads fans through Super Nintendo World—and it looks incredible
Nintendo, Universal Studios went all out to deliver a Nintendo-fan destination.
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Greenland is as much a love story as an epic spectacle of impending disaster
Director Ric Roman Waugh on bringing hope and humanity to a harrowing tale.
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Back 4 Blood alpha test: Building decks, killing zombies, having co-op fun
Design director says he's learned from Evolve—and fun, familiar co-op combat checks out.
War Stories: How Nintendo sold the NES to a skeptical country
Convincing the public to love home video games again after Atari's dramatic fall.
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Sony delists PlayStation version of Cyberpunk 2077, offers refunds to all owners [Updated]
Follows abysmal performance issues on base PS4; Xbox offers refunds, doesn't delist.
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Jeremy Bulloch, the original Boba Fett, has passed away
News confirmed by the actor who played childhood Boba in prequels.
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“Simp,” “incel” part of newly banned insults on Twitch
New policies also tighten restrictions on sexual harassment, hateful content.
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MindGeek: The secretive owner of Pornhub and RedTube
Porn is everywhere, but the company that owns the most popular sites is out of sight.
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Don’t try this at home: George’s Marvelous Medicine is quite toxic
Roald Dahl's classic children's story proved "remarkably accurate" about toxic effects.
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HBO Max patches its Roku hole six months after launch
Adds over 100 million potential users; follows deals for PlayStation 5, Amazon Fire.
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What makes The Expanse so great: Good science, balancing epic with personal
Ars chatted with showrunner Naren Shankar and writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.
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The Super-est SuperFX: An unmodified SNES, revved up with ray tracing [Updated]
FPGA board adds real-time RT effects, "sticks to the broad spirit of '90s technology."
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Alan Tudyk plays a crime-solving alien in disguise in Resident Alien trailer
Syfy series is adapted from the Dark Horse comics by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse.
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CDPR admits it “ignored the signals” of Cyberpunk 2077’s console issues
Refund requests are dependent on console/retailer policies, CDPR says.
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Modern Vintage Gamer talks dev details and hardware hackery
Maker, breaker, emulator co-developer, YouTuber—MVG's been around the block.
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Twenty years later, Dungeons & Dragons gets another movie adaptation
Co-director clinches a Freaks & Geeks full-circle conclusion.
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EA set to pay $1.2 billion for Codemasters and its stable of racing games
$1.2 billion purchase is part of a trend of game industry consolidation.
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Amid massive bugs, CDPR offers refunds for Cyberpunk 2077 on consoles
Studio promises patches in next two months will fix “most prominent problems.”
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Stroll down memory lane with this 1996 instructional video on How to Internet
Everything You Need to Know About... Introduction to the Internet is on the Internet Archive.
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We have a winner in the world’s first quantum chess tournament
It’s like playing in a multiverse “but the different boards are connected to each other.”
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VR meetings are weird, but they beat our current reality
VR app called Arthur lets you, distant colleagues collaborate within a 3D meeting space.
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Copyright law is bricking your game console. Time to fix that
Op-ed: An exemption to the DMCA could make DIY console repairs possible—and legal.
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The Expanse S5 review: The show is bigger, bolder, and better than ever
The board is set, the pieces moving, and the show's fifth season is devastatingly good.
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We’ve got our first real look at Loki as Disney drops lengthy teaser trailer
It was just one of a smorgasbord of offerings presented at Disney's Investor Day.
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More Disney 2021 plans: Kate McKinnon as Elizabeth Holmes, Y: The Last Man on FX
Wait... they got Mahershala Ali to revive Blade, too?
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Disney+ drops Andor teaser, announces gazillion other Star Wars projects
Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy introduced them all at Disney's Investor Day.
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R.I.P. Henri, le Chat Noir, angst-ridden feline YouTube star for the ages
Will Braden, aka the "thieving filmmaker," announced Henri's passing on Facebook.