Throughout the game industry's short history, there's been ample debate about how much piracy actually impacts a game's legitimate sales. On one side, some publishers try to argue that every single pirated download should count as a "lost sale" that they would have logged in a theoretical piracy-free world. On the other side, some crackers argue that...

Shazad Latif stars as Captain Nemo in Prime Video's new series, Nautilus. Captain Nemo is one of 19th-century French novelist Jules Verne's most captivating fictional characters, appearing in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1875). Prime Video is bringing us a 10-episode...

Tabletop board games and video games typically offer ways to reduce their difficulty. But getting and keeping a group together for a semi-regular game night or impromptu session across different schedules and experience levels? That can be fiendishly hard. That, more than anything, is what Sunderfolk wants to make easier. At its core, it’s a turn-based...

After a great event last month in San Jose, Ars is switching coasts for October and descending in force on our nation's capital. If you're on the East Coast and want to come hang out with Ars EIC Ken Fisher and me while we talk to some neat speakers and learn some stuff, then read on! Continuing our partnership with IBM, Ars presents "AI in DC: Privacy,...

Archive.org, one of the only entities to attempt to preserve the entire history of the World Wide Web and much of the broader Internet, was recently compromised in a hack that revealed data on roughly 31 million users. A little after 2 pm California time, social media sites became awash with screenshots showing what the archive.org homepage displayed....

Raspberry Pi owners have always been prone to coming up with elaborate, technically interesting but practically questionable projects, and Pi enthusiast Jeff Geerling has an exciting new submission to that canon: connecting an old AMD Radeon RX 460 GPU to the Raspberry Pi 5's PCI Express bus and managing to play demanding titles like Doom 3 (2004) and Tux...