Category Archives: Gaming

Fallout 4 mod uses voice AI to add sensible reactions, more RPG-like choices

Enlarge / Just because you’re still alive in a retro-futuristic-post-apocalyptic Commonwealth doesn’t mean you’re necessarily [...]

Microsoft wins battle with Sony as UK reverses finding on Activision merger

Enlarge / Sony’s PlayStation 5. Sony UK regulators reviewing Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard [...]

The Ars Technica GOG collection: Our picks from GOG’s big Spring Sale

Enlarge / Frostpunk, an alternate history survival city building simulation game. GOG.com Several staff members [...]

How The New York Times managed to avoid ruining Wordle

Enlarge / Sometimes, building better Wordles means building the same Wordles… Aurich Lawson | Getty [...]

Framework’s first gaming laptop features upgradeable GPUs, swappable keyboards

Framework We were skeptical at first, but Framework has delivered on the promise of its [...]

Epic’s new motion-capture animation tech has to be seen to be believed

Enlarge / Would you believe that creating this performance took only minutes of video processing [...]

Redfall offers a compelling mix of Dishonored, Borderlands, and Buffy

Enlarge / Whoa-oh… purple is the color of my energy… Arkane / Bethesda When people [...]

Beethoven’s genome, sequenced for first time, yields clues on cause of death

Enlarge / Portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820 Beethoven-Haus Bonn Ludwig van Beethoven [...]

Counter-Strike 2 will bring a huge technical overhaul to the classic shooter

A promotional video from Valve detailing the approach to map reworks in Counter-Strike 2. Valve [...]

Microsoft says its new developer tools can reduce Xbox’s climate impact

Enlarge / These tools won’t literally make vines grow out of your Xbox, but that’s [...]