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iPod fans evade Apple’s DRM to preserve 54 lost clickwheel-era games

Dozens of previously hard-to-access games can now be synced via Virtual Machine. Mom: We have the Game Boy Advance at home / At home: Credit: Aurich Lawson Old-school Apple fans probably remember...

Sunderfolk is a couch co-op tactical RPG you play with a phone. No, really.

Blizzard vet says both tabletop pros and casual types have a place on the...

“So aggravating”: Outdated ads start appearing on PS5 home screen

Players are annoyed as new home screen needs work. Update, September 30, 2024, 6:34 p.m....

Nintendo, The Pokemon Company sue Palworld-maker Pocketpair

Japanese patent-infringement lawsuit follows "investigation" announced in January. Nintendo and The Pokemon Company announced they have filed...

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...

iPod fans evade Apple’s DRM to preserve 54 lost clickwheel-era games

Dozens of previously hard-to-access games can now be synced via Virtual Machine. Mom: We have the Game Boy Advance at home / At home: Credit: Aurich...

Sunderfolk is a couch co-op tactical RPG you play with a phone. No, really.

Blizzard vet says both tabletop pros and casual types have a place on the couch. Credit: Dreamhaven Tabletop board games and video games typically offer ways...

“So aggravating”: Outdated ads start appearing on PS5 home screen

Players are annoyed as new home screen needs work. Update, September 30, 2024, 6:34 p.m. ET: It seems that the new home screen experience that users...

Nintendo, The Pokemon Company sue Palworld-maker Pocketpair

Japanese patent-infringement lawsuit follows "investigation" announced in January. Nintendo and The Pokemon Company announced they have filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair, the makers of the heavily...

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...
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