Data transfer speeds are much lower for Switch 2 Game Cards than for downloaded games. Nintendo’s data-free, download-unlocking Game Key Cards have proven popular with game publishers, even as they’ve drawn ire from many fans of games stored on physical media. Now, though, a developer on Star Wars Outlaws…
Valve’s usually stable platform struggles thanks in part to lack of pre-loading options. An influx of players excited for this morning’s launch of Hollow Knight: Silksong are encountering widespread errors purchasing and downloading the game from Steam this morning. Ars Technica writers have encountered errors getting store pages to…
You don’t have to track down pricey retro hardware to play the Pioneer LaserActive anymore. Here in the year 2025, it’s not every day that a classic gaming console from the 20th century becomes playable via emulation for the first time. But that’s just what happened last week with…
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…
