Amid player complaints, EA says 330,000 cheaters were stopped in beta’s first two days. Earlier this month, EA announced that players in its Battlefield 6 open beta on PC would have to enable Secure Boot in their Windows OS and BIOS settings. That decision proved controversial among players who…
Ars analysis shows missing price cuts are costing console consumers hundreds of dollars. Today’s video game consoles are hundreds of dollars more expensive than you’d expect based on historic pricing trends. That’s according to an Ars Technica analysis of decades of pricing data and price-cut timing across dozens of…
French report also suggests Star Citizen might hit 1.0 release in “2027 or 2028.” The single-player Star Citizen spin-off Squadron 42 is slated to finally be in players’ hands in 2026, 11 full years after its initial 2015 release target. And after all that time, Cloud Imperium Games CEO Chris…
Preview: The sequel’s prologue stresses meaningful choices, wry humor It has been nearly six years now since The Outer Worlds threw players into the deep end, forcing them to acclimate to the game’s far-future, ultra-corporate intergalactic dystopia amid lots of Fallout-style shooting and questing. The prologue for The Outer…
Hollow Knight fans found strange ways to cope with impatience and anticipation. Hollow Knight: Silksong will be released on September 4. It will come out simultaneously on Windows, macOS, Linux, Xbox, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, the Nintendo Switch, and the Nintendo Switch 2. On paper, “game gets release date”…
Revisiting the 1996 RPG exposes both genius and madness. Ostensibly, C:ArsGames is to some extent about actually driving a few game purchases, but in reality it’s mostly an excuse for me and my colleagues to wax nostalgic about the games that were formative for us. Case in point: This…
Dual mouse controls work surprisingly well—if you find somewhere to use them. In my decades as a video game player and reviewer, I’ve used the humble PC mouse in hundreds of games for everything from first-person aiming and third-person character movement to basic menu navigation and unit selection. In…
Frantic positional resource management is engrossing without becoming overwhelming. As satisfying as a successful real-time strategy game campaign can be, dealing with a complex RTS map can often be overwhelming. Keeping track of multiple far-flung resource-production bases, groups of units, upgrade trees, and surprise encounters with the enemy requires…
Red Viper on the 3DS makes Nintendo’s failed ’90s experiment look like new. Here at Ars, we’re big fans of classic console emulators that go beyond providing perfect re-creations to those that actually improve on original hardware with new features we could only dream of as kids. So we were…
