What I learned playing 30+ years’ worth of Jeopardy! video games
Ars Technica · 16 minFrom the Apple II to PS4, digital Jeopardy! spans 40+ games and traces the medium's history.
From the Apple II to PS4, digital Jeopardy! spans 40+ games and traces the medium's history.
How the pandemic, social unrest, and labor relations have shaped board games and RPGs.
The original product was ungainly, over-budget and nearly canceled. Here’s how it became a hit and reshaped an industry.
Buried deep within Mario’s history are some games that found the Nintendo superstar stepping out of his comfort zone and jumping into some very surprising series.
"Despite the current rush to get a new PlayStation or Xbox, I can’t fully recommend jumping on early for this console generation."
There were plenty of weird and wonderful indie games to look forward to in 2020, and I’m happy to report that there are plenty more to keep an eye out for in 2021. Looking through these upcoming games was exciting.
When most people think of preserving video game history, they probably imagine a museum full of boxed consoles and cartridges, or maybe a massive, digital database of emulatable ROM files ripped from the original physical media.
While 2020 was a trash fire for most of the world, business was booming in the video game industry. Production was hampered by people working from home, but sales skyrocketed, and the games were as good as ever.
Dive into caves, get slightly further than you did last time, and die hilariously: that’s the Spelunky loop, and it’s compelling. With its rideable turkeys, spilling lava and omnipresent hazards, Derek Yu’s subterranean world is entropic but thrillingly conquerable.
Every year it feels like the gaming industry sees the same stories—record sales, unfathomable market reach, and questions of how much higher the market can go.
Video game hits often resemble big budget movies, requiring the labor of hundreds of developers, designers and artists and flashy 3-D graphics and photorealistic characters.
Once again we’ve reached the end of the year, time for best-of lists in every imaginable category, although it feels like in this endless pandemic year some categories are more equal than others.
In a year where so many things went wrong, video games stood out as one of the few highlights of 2020. They were more important than ever, providing new ways for people to connect and creating a much-needed distraction from everything else happening in the world.
As the releases of the Xbox Series S and X and the Playstation 5 bring an era of gaming to a close, The Ringer looks back on the best of the previous generation. The following is a list of the best video games made in the past seven years.
November is the season for blockbuster video games — not even the pandemic has changed that. In fact, the video game industry has seen record spending and profits in 2020.
2020 has been an important year for video games, and not just because we weren’t supposed to leave the house.
We’re now at a point where you can comfortably describe the Nintendo Switch as “mature.” It’s no longer a new device, but one several years into its life, with a robust and varied line-up of games available.
If you’re reading this, congratulations: You made it to 2021. And you’re right to be hopeful that this year will be better than the last. While 2020 was a rough year for, well, just about everything and everyone, many of us found refuge in games.
From time-crunched employees to questionable content and accidentally exposed genitals, Cyberpunk 2077 has faced a litany of issues. It’s rare that anything lives up to its hype.
The ongoing covid-19 pandemic placed a brighter-than-usual spotlight on gaming in 2020, with an isolated population looking for entertainment they could enjoy from the safety of home.
Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com.
The holiday season is always huge for gaming, but this year, it’s even bigger: a new console generation has arrived with Microsoft’s new Xbox Series X / S and the Sony PS5, and gaming itself has gotten even more enmeshed in mainstream culture during the pandemic.
It’s been two weeks since Cyberpunk 2077 officially released. In my initial impressions, I wrote that I was ready for everyone—developer CD Projekt Red, the studio’s PR people, fans—to stop talking about the game and just let me play it.
When a company spends nearly a decade developing the most overhyped and underwhelming video game of the year, the failure has many fathers.
A big, beautiful and broken mess Cyberpunk 2077 review An open world action game set in a dazzling future city, burdened by bugs and baggy RPG systems.