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  1. Beavis and Butt-Head’s streaming-only return on June 23 is sci-fi for morons

    Titular duo spacewalks, travels to future later this month. Heh, heh, "titular."

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  2. Sega, still doing what Nintendon’t, announces a tiny Sega CD retro console

    Announcement is Japan-only for now, console is coming in October.

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  3. What the simple mathematical abilities of animals can tell us about ourselves

    Ars chats with UCL's Brian Butterworth about his new book Can Fish Count?.

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  4. Sony’s latest State of Play: Street Fighter 6, Final Fantasy XVI, new PC ports

    More big teases of PlayStation VR2, though the headset doesn't have a release date.

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  5. BioWare reveals Dreadwolf as the next Dragon Age title

    New game will focus on antagonist Solas, won't be coming before 2023.

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  6. Employee’s family drops wrongful death lawsuit against Activision Blizzard

    Parents asked for dismissal "with prejudice" earlier this month.

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  7. Diablo Immortal impressions: A good smartphone game saddled with F2P nonsense

    Great ARPG-on-phone production values hampered by terrible economic decisions.

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  8. Two European countries won’t get Diablo Immortal because of loot box laws

    Belgium, Netherlands ruled in-game random item boxes "illegal gambling" in 2018.

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  9. We tasted the expanded collection of Star Trek wines and found them… wanting

    Picard's John de Lancie (aka Q) joined Ars for an informal Star Trek-themed wine tasting.

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  10. Are TikTok algorithms changing how people talk about suicide?

    Social media users have adopted terms like "unalive" to avoid platform censorship.

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  11. Review: Obi-Wan Kenobi debuts with prequel redemption in its scope

    The first third of Disney+'s latest limited series is a slow, family-friendly burn.

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  12. Top Gun: Maverick spoiler-free review: A worthy return to the danger zone

    Old and new come together to surpass expectations, take our breath away.

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  1. Microsoft’s plans for an Xbox streaming stick head back to the drawing board

    Company is "pivot[ing] away from the current iteration" of its "Keystone" device.

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  2. Disney+ drops teasers for Andor and Willow TV series at Star Wars Celebration

    Also: news on The Mandalorian S3, Ahsoka, and kid-centric series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

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  3. Are we on the verge of an 8K resolution breakthrough in gaming?

    Studies show extremely diminishing returns from pushing out even more pixels.

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  4. Sony estimates its PC games sales will jump 375% over next year

    Massive year-over-year growth will require more PC launches—so it's time to speculate.

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  5. War Stories: How Gears of War almost didn’t have multiplayer

    Gameplay designer recalls early multiplayer map tests were "always a train wreck."

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  6. Metal: Hellsinger hands-on: First-person demon-slaying, cranked to 11

    This "sometime in 2022" game could overtake Doom 2016 as the most metal FPS ever.

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  7. After 30 years, the world can now play the lost Marble Madness II

    Scrapped Atari arcade rarity traded trackballs for joysticks—was it the right call?

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  8. Big-budget The Lord of the Rings: Gollum video game gets a 2022 release date

    It's the first triple-A video game set in Middle-earth since 2017.

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  9. Gorr the God Butcher is coming for Thor in new Love and Thunder trailer

    “Let me tell you the story of the space viking, Thor Odinson….”

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  10. Sony’s classic games blunder: Why PAL isn’t your friend

    First-party PlayStation Plus classics launch at slower 50 Hz standard.

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  11. The kids are older and not all right in final Stranger Things S4 trailer

    This season's big bad is Vecna, a villain straight out of Dungeons and Dragons.

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  12. Mission: Impossible–Dead Reckoning trailer teases Ethan Hunt’s swan song

    "Your days of fighting for the so-called greater good are over."

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  1. PSA: Fund your 3DS and Wii U digital wallets today before it’s too late

    Spend money now to make purchases before the shutdown next March.

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  2. Review: New Chip ‘N Dale movie hilariously spoofs classic games, cartoons

    A Shrek for a new era, as Disney lets Lonely Island go nuts (in PG fashion).

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  3. Blizzard offers refund for nerfed $25 Hearthstone card

    Original buyers get in-game gold—and they can keep the card.

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  4. A time paradox births a “freaking Kugelblitz” in Umbrella Academy S3 trailer

    Too many siblings and not enough timeline spells trouble in this Netflix series.

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  5. Multiversus hands-on: Finally, a compelling Smash Bros. clone

    Yes, the Warner Bros. pastiche is weird. But its co-op arena battling is refined.

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  6. WarCraft Arclight Rumble impressions: High production values, questionable costs

    Blizzard's first "smartphone RTS" doesn't break new ground—but feels solid anyway.

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  7. We made a PlayStation Plus explainer that’s better than Sony’s [Updated]

    Breaking down Sony's confusing messaging with easy-to-digest tables and lists.

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  8. Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany goes green in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law trailer

    We also have a first-look image from Echo, a new series slated for 2023.

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  9. Acer’s new portable monitors can make 2D look like 3D

    4K monitors take supported PC games, files into stereoscopic 3D territory.

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  10. For All Mankind sets its alternate timeline sights on Mars in S3 trailer

    "There is a primal urge in all of us to explore."

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  11. There’s something seriously wrong with Homelander in The Boys S3 trailer

    "I may be a superhero, but I'm also just a man who fell for the wrong woman."

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  12. Testing shows AMD’s FSR 2.0 can even help lowly Intel integrated GPUs

    FSR 2.0 can make Deathloop just about playable on a two-year-old laptop GPU.

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