“Everybody I’ve talked to are still adamant,” even after previous rumors didn’t pan out. If you can take your mind way back to the beginning of 2025, you might remember a fresh wave of rumors suggesting that Half-Life 3 was finally reaching the final stages of production, and could…
Project Misriah creator vows to use new experience “to cook up something else.” Last month saw the release of Project Misriah, an ambitious modding project that tried to re-create the feel of Halo 3 inside Valve’s Counter-Strike 2. That project has now been taken down from the Steam Workshop,…
Help raise a charity haul that’s already past $11,000 in just a couple of days. If you’ve been too busy floating in your new WoW house to take part in this year’s Ars Technica Charity Drive sweepstakes, don’t worry. You still have time to donate to a good cause…
Original KOTOR director Casey Hudson returns to Star Wars with new studio Arcanaut. Over two decades after the release of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II, a new project described as a “spiritual successor” to that seminal RPG series was announced at The Game Awards Thursday night.…
Preview: Order of the Sinking Star started small but became a “combinatoric explosion.” Back in 2016, after six-and-a-half years spent working on puzzle-adventure opus The Witness, Jonathan Blow says he needed a break. He tells Ars that the project he started in The Witness’ wake was meant to serve as…
“We all kinda immediately agreed this was way too cool to change.” Long-time World of Warcraft players have been waiting 21 years for the new in-game housing features that Blizzard officially announced last year and which launched in early access last week. Shortly after that launch, though, players quickly…
“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…
