We’re eagerly awaiting the two-part finale to the fourth season of Stranger Things. Will Hawkins survive? It was admittedly an odd creative decision to split the fourth season of Stranger Things into two unequal parts. While Part 1 (consisting of the first seven episodes) was a bit bloated, it nonetheless told a compelling story, set…
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Enlarge / Beavis and Butt-head, seen here potentially succumbing to space madness. (credit: Paramount) The Mike Judge-verse has long toyed with the inherent comedy of utter stupidity. But as anyone who has looked beyond the incessant “heh heh heh” of Beavis and Butt-Head knows, Judge’s cartoons, TV series, and films are at their best when…
Enlarge / A promised patch should soon allow KOTOR II players to beat the game on Switch. Last week, publisher Aspyr officially acknowledged the existence of a game-breaking glitch in the recent Switch port of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II. That glitch, which crashes the game after the “Basilisk Crash” cutscene on…
Enlarge / A diver with the Return to Antikythera project carefully excavates an artifact. (credit: Nikos Giannoulakis/Return to Antikythera) The so-called Antikythera mechanism, recovered from the wreckage of an ancient cargo ship off the coast of Antikythera Island in Greece, might be the world’s oldest analog computer. The mystery surrounding its purpose and origin continues…
Enlarge / You know the sweet old nursery rhyme: Mary had a little lamb, but then it was resurrected by the devil and forced to create a murderous cult. (credit: Devolver / Massive Monster) When I first played Cult of the Lamb, launching August 11 on PC and all major console families, I imagined that…
A recent trailer for Final Fantasy XVI hints at a Game of Thrones-style epic war storyline. Next year’s Final Fantasy XVI aims to be the first mainline, numbered game in the franchise to receive an M (for Mature) rating from the Entertainment Software Rating Board. That’s according to producer Naoki Yoshida, who told GameSpot in…
Enlarge / Just some of the game franchises represented by studios coming out in support of reproductive rights today. Last month, Insomniac Games (Spider-Man) CEO Ted Price reportedly told his employees that parent company Sony “will not approve ANY statements from any studio on the topic of reproductive rights.” That is apparently no longer true,…
Enlarge / Players that Microsoft bans from Minecraft will soon also be prevented from joining private servers like this one. (credit: Tynker) Since its initial release over a decade ago (and even following Microsoft’s 2014 acquisition of developer Mojang), Minecraft has let players create private servers where they’re in full control of what behaviors (and…
Enlarge / “Your feedback is appreciated.” (credit: Epic Games) Last week, Epic finally added a user review system to its PC Game Store, nearly 3.5 years after the service’s initial launch. The first set of public ratings produced by that system is now live for hundreds of titles on the Epic Games Store (skip to…
When Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman spoke to Ars in April, shortly after the surprise announcement of Return to Monkey Island, they weren’t ready to discuss details on where the franchise’s story would be going after LeChuck’s Revenge. Today, though, a new trailer and marketing materials for the game give us our first hints of…