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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 Pokémon-inspired Palworld. The Tokyo District Court...

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...

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...

“Pokémon with guns”: Palworld’s runaway Steam success should be a lesson for Game Freak

Op-ed: Dark comedy is part of the draw, but many want a game with bigger ideas. I'm whacking at a rock as the sun sets....

Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds

Create a bootable, working Pokémon game by recording it crash multiple times. Sometimes, a great song can come from great pain. The Game Boy Advance...

Asgard’s Wrath

Worthy Of The Gods Asgard’s Wrath 2 stands out in a sea of virtual reality titles available on the market today. As the showcase piece...

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a new first-person Nazi-whipping journey

Modern action/FPS is set inside Indy's classic post-Ark, pre-Crusade era. Almost two years ago to this day, Bethesda told everyone its Machine Games subsidiary was working...

Game developer survey: 50% work at a studio already using generative AI tools

But 84% of devs are at least somewhat concerned about ethical use of those tools. A new survey of thousands of game development professionals finds...

Harmonix is ending Rock Band DLC releases after 16 years, ~2,800 songs

Previously purchased songs will still be playable via Rock Band 4. Here at Ars Technica, we remember covering Rock Band's weekly DLC song releases way back in 2007,...

Valve request takes down Portal 64 due to concerns over Nintendo involvement

It's not the use of Portal, it's the use of an N64 SDK that's the issue. Any great effort to generate appreciation for Nintendo's classic platforms,...

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet players spot Legendary Easter eggs in epilogue boss fight

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet‘s expansion, The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero, tells a continuous story centered on new human characters and Legendary Pokemon. Both The...

Portal 64 is an N64 demake of Valve’s classic, now available as a “First Slice”

It's shocking how good the Portal Gun feels on late 1990s tech. James Lambert has spent years making something with no practical reason to exist:...

Cobalt Core is a tight, funny roguelike deck-builder deserving of many runs

It's got style, dialogue, and even a plot on top of procedural card battling. Games come and go through my Steam and Nintendo Switch libraries:...

‘Escape From Tarkov’ Wipe And 0.14 Patch Confirmed To Launch Tomorrow

Developer Battlestate Games has confirmed that the next Escape From Tarkov wipe will take place tomorrow, December 27 at 7am GMT / 2am EST. The new wipe...

First wave of AAA iPhone games sees a big new release—and a notable delay

The first of three major AAA game releases for the iPhone has arrived. https://youtu.be/YZPhr79hlu4 Apple's AAA gaming ambitions for the iPhone 15 Pro saw both a...

Debt-laden Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount consider merger

WBD could have 2nd most streaming subscribers if reported meeting leads to deal. 138 The CEOs of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and Paramount Global discussed a...

Doom’s creators reminisce about “as close to a perfect game as anything we made”

In 30th anniversary stream, Carmack and Romero recall a game dev "perfect storm." https://youtu.be/QvAkaJsvAXs While Doom can sometimes feel like an overnight smash success, the seminal first-person shooter...
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