“Redstone” is a promising mix of old and new ideas, but Nvidia is years ahead. Nvidia, AMD, and Intel have all made high-quality image upscaling a cornerstone feature of their new GPUs this decade. Upscaling technologies like Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS), AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), and…
Help yourself to prizes by helping us raise money for good causes. It’s once again that special time of year when we give you a chance to do well by doing good. That’s right—it’s the 2025 edition of our annual Charity Drive! Every year since 2007, we’ve encouraged readers…
2025 was a very good year for my favorite genre. It’s time to admit, before God and the good readers of Ars Technica, that I have a problem. I love roguelikes. Reader, I can’t get enough of them. If there’s even a whisper of a hot new roguelike on…
Valve tells Ars its “trying to unblock” limits caused by open source driver issues. When Valve announced its upcoming Steam Machine hardware last month, some eagle-eyed gamers may have been surprised to see that the official spec sheet lists support for HDMI 2.0 output, rather than the updated, higher-bandwidth…
Avellone recaps his journey from learning on a TRS-80 to today. Chris Avellone wants you to have a good time. People often ask creatives—especially those in careers some dream of entering—”how did you get started?” Video game designers are no exception, and Avellone says that one of the most…
CD Projekt Red says shift to Unreal Engine allows for more rapid development. It’s been over 10 years since the launch of the excellent The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and nearly four years since the announcement of “the next installment in The Witcher series of video games.” Despite those…
Interview: Storied designer talks lost RPG, a 3D Monkey Island, “Eat the Rich” philosophy. If you know the name Ron Gilbert, it’s probably for his decades of work on classic point-and-click adventure games like Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the Monkey Island series, and Thimbleweed Park.…
DOS platformers didn’t have a reputation for being fun, but this one is a blast. Boy, was 1992 a different time for computer games. Epic MegaGames’ Jill of the Jungle illustrates that as well as any other title from the era. Designed and programmed by Epic Games CEO Tim…
Upcoming gaming box will be priced in line with a similarly specced PC, Valve says. After Valve announced its upcoming Steam Machine living room box earlier this month, some analysts suggested to Ars that Valve could and should aggressively subsidize that hardware with “loss leader” pricing that leads to…
There are fan-made browser versions of Red Alert, Unreal Tournament, and more. Over the past couple of weeks, friends and colleagues have made me aware of multiple ingeniously implemented, browser-based ways to play classic MS-DOS and Windows games with other people on basically any hardware. The late 1990s and…
