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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...

E3 is officially dead, and so is the version of the industry it was made for

Direct online marketing, distribution made an expensive annual show unnecessary. 118 Update (Dec. 12, 2023): After missing four years in a row due to COVID and waning...

Against The Storm feels Like WarCraft without The War, And It’s Weirdly Calming

Build a town, direct its workers, and be pleasantly tranquil as it washes away. 65 Back when WarCraft, StarCraft, and other real-time strategy games were all the rage,...

The Fallout TV Series Trailer Is Here, And It’s Loaded With Homages To The Games

The show looks faithful—maybe to a fault. Let's look at what the trailer reveals. https://youtu.be/0kQ8i2FpRDk The trailer for Amazon's Fallout TV series dropped this weekend, and it's either...

Grand Theft Auto VI trailer arrives early with a crime-crazy Florida

First female protagonist and sun-soaked, satire-drenched tone on display. 187 Grand Theft Auto VI, like its protagonist, Lucia, keeps finding itself in an awkward spot because of...

After a chaotic three years, GPU sales are starting to look normal-ish again

Supply and demand are syncing back up after years of GPU market turmoil. 53 It's been an up-and-down decade for most consumer technology, with a pandemic-fueled...

Dragon Age: Dreadwolf teaser proves EA hasn’t forgotten about the game

A full trailer and release date announcement are being promised for next summer. https://youtu.be/tCokMTQ6qKk Hey, remember Dragon Age: Dreadwolf? It has been over a year since the game's...

Netflix lands its first big-name games with Grand Theft Auto trilogy

Package includes GTA 3, GTA Vice City, and GTA San Andreas. 30WITH Netflix subscribers will be able to play the three original 3D Grand Theft Auto games on iOS...

Guidemaster: Game controllers to turn your smartphone into a mobile gaming machine

Amp up your smartphone gaming experience with these game controllers. 43WITH With smartphones getting more powerful processors and integrated graphics, gaming on mobile is a firmly...

Baldur’s Gate 3 bug caused by game’s endless mulling of evil deeds

"Unnoticed and eternally active acts of theft and violence" to be fixed soon. 109WITH One of the best things about playing Baldur's Gate 3 (BG3) is the way that...

DOS_deck offers free, all-timer DOS games in a browser, with controller support

47WITH Revisiting a classic game from the AUTOEXEC.BAT/CONFIG.SYS era of MS-DOS can be a fun distraction. But the more friction and configuration between you and...

GameMaker throws shade at Unity, makes its 2D engine free or $100 for most

For most games, a license is either free or the cost of a medium-nice dinner. 91WITH Up until this year, game engines were not something most...

Cities: Skylines 2’s troubled launch, and why simulation games are freaking hard

Elaborate parking booths, Q4 financials, game engines, and the nature of sims. 98WITH The worst thing about Cities: Skylines 2 is that it was recently released. If this hugely...

Switch’s Super Mario RPG remake updates one of the SNES’s weird gems

Beginner-friendly RPG is true to the original, but with new graphics and sound. <img src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SuperMarioRPG_scrn_27-800x450.jpg" alt="<em>Super Mario RPG 153WITH Even among the many standout titles in the...

Valve celebrates 25 years of Half-Life with feature-packed Steam update

New MP maps, widescreen/Steam Deck support, and more come amid "free to keep" weekend. 36WITH This Sunday, November 19, makes a full 25 years since the...
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