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Satisfactory is officially released, officially a scary wonderful time sink

Even people with 1,000 hours in the game are still learning about it. The company that compels you to industrialize an untouched alien planet in Satisfactory, FICSIT, is similar to Portal's Aperture Science...

Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 is serious heavy-metal shooting and slashing

Strong first impressions of a game filled with enemy hordes and dark metal lore. If...

Sony is shutting down Concord, refunding players after just two weeks

Team-based shooter eight years in the making had just 25,000 estimated sales. <img src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/concord-800x450.jpg" alt="This...

New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time

Dobos: "Why write rules for software by hand when AI can just think every...

Valve’s worst-kept secret is no longer a secret

Deadlock is now on Steam and on streams. If you read Ars Technica regularly, you've known since...

Satisfactory is officially released, officially a scary wonderful time sink

Even people with 1,000 hours in the game are still learning about it. The company that compels you to industrialize an untouched alien planet in Satisfactory, FICSIT,...

Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 is serious heavy-metal shooting and slashing

Strong first impressions of a game filled with enemy hordes and dark metal lore. If you had given me, at age 15 or so, a...

Sony is shutting down Concord, refunding players after just two weeks

Team-based shooter eight years in the making had just 25,000 estimated sales. <img src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/concord-800x450.jpg" alt="This team-based FPS combat scene was apparently too familiar to attract...

New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time

Dobos: "Why write rules for software by hand when AI can just think every pixel for you?" On Tuesday, researchers from Google and Tel Aviv...

Valve’s worst-kept secret is no longer a secret

Deadlock is now on Steam and on streams. If you read Ars Technica regularly, you've known since May that Valve is working on Deadlock, a mishmash of genres that...

Tactical Breach Wizards weaves engaging tactics with lively dialogue

An arcane combo of witty dialogue, turn-based tactics, and magical friendship. Tom Francis and his Suspicious Developments team spent 6.5 years crafting the perfect finale...

Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”

Pitchford's prediction that Steam could be "a dying store" have not come to pass. <img src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/bl4-800x332.png" alt="Artist's conception of Randy Pitchford surveying the Epic Games...

Metropolis 1998 lets you design every building in an isometric, pixel-art city

Devs cite Rollercoaster Tycoon, Dwarf Fortress, and, yes, SimCity as inspiration. Naming a game must be incredibly hard. How many more Dark Fallen Journeys and Noun: Verb of the Noun games can fit...

Is Palworld a “dead game”? Who cares, says the game’s developer

Maybe, just maybe, players want more new ideas rather than live services. Palworld's head of community has a radical idea: Stop caring about how many...

FTC attacks Microsoft’s post-merger Game Pass price increases

Regulator says move is "exactly the sort of consumer harm" it warned about. The FTC says the across-the-board price increases that Microsoft recently announced for its Xbox...

Full dev build of Space Marine 2 leaks, and players are already leveling up

Developers canceled a beta test—but may have gotten one anyway. How badly do you want to play the upcoming Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 ahead of its...

The new Riven remake is even better than Myst

The original developers revised puzzles and realized the immersive world in 3D. A remake of Riven: The Sequel to Myst launched this week, made by the original...

Lightening the load: AI helps exoskeleton work with different strides

A model trained in a virtual environment does remarkably well in the real world. Exoskeletons today look like something straight out of sci-fi. But the...

Apple rejects PC emulators on the iOS App Store

New iOS emulation rules only apply to "retro game consoles," not retro computers. <img src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/doomios-800x703.jpg" alt="Don't get your hopes up—this iOS version of <em>Doom</em> was...
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