For our C:ArsGames series, we look at the controls conundrum of early 3D. For a lot of the games I’ve written about in the C:ArsGames series, I’ve come to the conclusion that the games hold up pretty well, despite their age—Master of Orion II, Jill of the Jungle, and…
Development hasn’t exactly been smooth since the extraction shooter’s 2023 announcement. It has been nearly three years now since Destiny maker (and Sony subsidiary) Bungie formally announced a revival of the storied Marathon FPS franchise. And it has been about seven months since the game’s originally announced release date…
Xbox maker needs some fresher ideas for expanding access to cloud gaming. Currently, Microsoft’s long-running Cloud Gaming service is limited to players that have a Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription. Now, new reporting suggests Microsoft is planning to offer non-subscribers access to game streams paid for by advertising in the…
Developers say “this was not something we wanted” as they purge open source project. A PC mod that added online gameplay to Rockstar’s 2006 school-exploration title Bully was abruptly taken down on Wednesday, roughly a month after it was first made available. While the specific reason for the “Bully…
Zippy action, fun upgrade system make for a great pick-up-and-play shooter. Since the days of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, the humble first-person shooter has flourished in myriad and complex directions. The genre has expanded in narrative and gameplay terms to include everything from sprawling sci-fi epics to dense objectivist…
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…
