On paper, “Epic RPG” is a fully fleshed-out video game. Intrepid adventurers grind out currency to purchase enchanted armaments from their local outfitters, and delve into dungeons to slay wolves, scorpions and killer robots. You fish, cut down trees, and scavenge for food, and a continuous drizzle of experience points showers your character. Every two […]
Note: This piece contains significant story spoilers for “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla” and numerous other titles in the series. The most amazing thing about “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla,” a game about Vikings, is how it somehow articulately ties together the stories of pirates, ancient Egyptian curses and George Washington. It seems alien to describe an “Assassin’s Creed” […]
Goodbye 2020, and good riddance! But before we slam the door shut on this tumultuous year, let’s try to raise a smile or two by revisiting some of the more amusing tech stories that landed on the pages of Digital Trends over the last 12 months. Here’s a recap of the weirdest, wildest, and most […]
VB Transform The AI event for business leaders Hosted Online July 14 – 17 Register Today Last Chance: Register for Transform, VB’s AI event of the year, hosted online July 15-17. Though Apple’s free News app has been an unqualified hit with iOS, iPadOS, and macOS users since its 2015 release, its $ 10 monthly news […]
The Dark Eye is one of those tabletop role-playing games that doesn’t get a lot of attention in North America. It’s known as the “Dungeons & Dragons of Germany,” and it’s spawned a number of PC role-playing games along the way (like The Blackguards series and Drakensang: The Dark Eye, an underrated release from 2009). […]
Video shot by Justin Wolfson, edited by Parker Dixon. Click here for transcript. We’re resurfacing our Prince of Persia war story from last month to coincide with the release of PoP creator Jordan Mechner’s book, The Making of Prince of Persia. If you missed the video last month, here’s another chance to give it a […]
Video shot by Justin Wolfson, edited by John Cappello. Click here for transcript. Is it better to build a game by hand, piece by piece, or to program a computer that can build that game for you? In the cast of MotionTwin’s Dead Cells, the answer is a little mix of both. In Ars Technica’s […]
It’s 1968 in the small town of Mill Valley, home to a haunted mansion and a mysterious book, in Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark. All those frightening tales kids tell around the campfires to spook their friends come to terrifying life in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, a new film from […]
The year was 1978 and Annie Griffiths, at the age of 25, had just landed a job at National Geographic. She was one of the first women to be hired as a photographer by the magazine, and also the youngest. At that time, she had never been outside of the United States, but quickly found […]
Enlarge / Actually, I think that was a popular timepiece style when the site first started. Aurich Lawson / Getty Images It’s true—Ars Technica is in the process of turning 20 years old throughout 2019. If you’ve ever looked at the whois info, our official birthday hits on December 29. But Ars was really birthed […]
In 2018, Indiegogo campaigns took 1,300 products from ideas to shipped products. The crowdfunding platform shared the statistic for the first time at the start of the new year, along with reviewing milestones like new partnerships designed to bring more projects to life. Last year, about 1.4 million people made 2.1 million contributions to projects […]
Following tech news can feel like living on the DMZ between a utopia and the apocalypse. We’re always one public scandal, earnings call, or product announcement away from tipping the scales in either direction. This year, both sides showed up in full force. Yes, these are the tech stories in 2018 that frightened and challenged […]
When tech historians of the future look back at 2018, it may stand out as the year that the wheels came off Facebook or at least its original platform. Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus all had their troubles but managed to escape the year without seeing their brands trashed in quite the same way as their […]
Our staff had a busy 2018. We wrote hundreds of news stories, interviews, reviews, previews, and more. We covered the biggest events in the industry, including the Electronic Entertainment Expo and the Game Developer’s Conference. Honestly, at the end of year, it’s hard to remember just exactly what we wrote in 2018. But some stories […]