The sudden closure of hundreds of storefronts isn’t exactly a great sign… Six and a half years ago—after a failed corporate sale attempt, massive financial losses, and the departure/layoff of many key staff—I wrote about what seemed at the time like the “imminent demise” of GameStop. Now, after five…
After record-setting launch, Western holiday sales are down compared to the first Switch. Nintendo’s Switch 2 was an unmitigated market success for Nintendo following its launch last June, selling a record-setting 3.5 million units worldwide in its first four days and reaching over 10 million shipments in just under…
Legion Go 2 support announced at CES, wide support for Arm hardware coming soon. SteamOS’s slow march across the Windows-dominated PC gaming landscape is continuing to creep along. At CES this week, Lenovo announced it will launch a version of last year’s high-priced, high-powered Legion Go 2 handheld with…
Four new monitors promise “effective motion clarity of a theoretical 1,000 Hz monitor.” It’s been almost exactly two years since Nvidia announced G-Sync Pulsar, its new backlight strobing technology designed to limit display motion blur caused by old images persisting on the viewer’s retina. At the time, Nvidia said…
Replay the troubled jetpack shooter before the servers shut down for good on Jan. 12. We’ll admit that we weren’t paying enough attention to the state of Anthem—BioWare’s troubled 2019 jetpack-powered open-world shooter—to notice EA’s July announcement that it was planning to shut down the game’s servers. But with…
Ars’ total charity haul since 2007 now tops $585,000. Last month, we asked readers to donate to a couple of good causes in our 2025 Charity Drive sweepstakes. And boy, did you deliver. With the drive now complete and the donations all tallied, we can report that Ars Technica…
Today is your last chance to add to this year’s charity haul of nearly $38,000. If you’ve been too busy replaying all of Ars’ top games of 2025 to take part in this year’s Ars Technica Charity Drive sweepstakes, don’t worry. You still have until the end of the…
Most things Privateer did have been done better, but it’s still a classic. Ever since 1993, I think I’ve unconsciously judged almost every game by how well it can capture how Wing Commander: Privateer made me feel. Steam and PlayStation (the two platforms I use the most) have been…
A mix of expected sequels and out-of-nowhere indie gems made 2025 a joy. When we put together our top 20 games of last year, we specifically called out Civilization 7, Avowed, Doom: The Dark Ages, and Grand Theft Auto 6 as big franchise games we were already looking forward…
He had worked on Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Titanfall, and Battlefield. Vince Zampella, a video game developer who has co-created or helmed some of the most popular franchises in the world, died in a car crash on a Los Angeles highway at 12:45 pm Pacific time on…
