We've been hearing for years how mobile gaming has been growing at nearly inconceivable rates and will soon become the dominant force in the gaming business. Today's $ 10-billion purchase of Clash of...
What does Clash of Clans maker’s $10-billion sale say about the future of gaming?
HP’s new gaming laptops are fast, affordable, and surprisingly professional
Much of the time at Ars we look at laptops that tend towards the thinner and lighter end of the spectrum. These are great for portability, but they all tend to give up a little, and sometimes a lot, when it comes to raw performance. HP's new Omen gaming laptops...
Twitch reaches multi-year deal to stream competitive gaming from new ELeague
ELeague, the competitive gaming venture from Turner Sports and WME | IMG has reached a multi-year deal with the Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch to distribute live event coverage and on-demand content.
ELeague launches on Tuesday and fans will be able to watch streaming coverage of...
Roblox launches on Oculus Rift, bringing user-generated, social gaming to virtual reality
Virtual reality is all about letting users get immersed in worlds that have never been seen before, but they are usually worlds someone...
Epic looks outside of gaming for new uses of Unreal Engine
SAN FRANCISCO—At a GDC keynote presentation Wednesday, Epic Games' Tim Sweeney showed off plenty of Unreal Engine-powered games and highlighted how developers would soon be able to build those games in a fully virtual reality editor. But the more surprising focus...
Why Microsoft is finally pushing for cross-platform online gaming
With this year's Game Developer's Conference barely started, Microsoft has already rolled out a major announcement that has the potential to significantly change the console gaming landscape. By allowing for cross-network play on Xbox Live, Microsoft has signaled it's willing to open the doors...
Norwegian high school puts e-sports and gaming on the timetable
Most of us have tried to sneak a quick game of Minesweeper in during our computer classes at school, but for students at Garnes High School in Norway, playing games won't be something they'll have to hide. Garnes Vidaregåande Skole, a public high school in the city of Bergen, Norway, is to start teaching e-sports to its students starting in August. The elective class...
Enough of this console nonsense: It’s time to put a gaming PC in my living room
Way back at the beginning of 2015 I tasked myself with building a gaming PC for the living room. 12 months later and finally—after coming to work for Ars, travelling halfway around the world a few times over, and patiently waiting for someone to release a console-like case that didn't suck—it is done.
As is usually the case...
Gaming laptops, mice, and desktops feature heavily in Lenovo’s consumer line-up
Lenovo announced in November last year that it was teaming up with Razer to build a range of gaming systems, and its consumer line-up contains the first fruits of that collaboration, with a bunch of Razer-branded variants of its Y-series hardware.
GeekWire Deals: Bring precision to your mobile gaming with this ‘ScreenStick’ joystick
Last week, we brought you this awesome game controller that snaps onto your phone for a more console-like mobile gaming experience. But more casual gamers may not see the need for all the buttons. With today’s GeekWire Deals offer, you don’t have to deal with Bluetooth connections just...