Publisher Aniplex, and developers tri-Ace and Lasengle have announced OCTOPinbs, a multiplayer firefighters-versus-arsonists social deduction game for three-to-10 players. It will launch for PC ...

Investigative action has freed Cookie’s Bustle from harm. You are free to dance now, Cookie. Free to be happy.

A hot potato: Just because game company executives love AI, it doesn't mean everyone feels the same way. According to a new survey from GDC, over half of game developers think it's having a negative ...

Play and ride a bike on thousands of user-created tracks in browser. Built with HTML5 and JavaScript for endless creative fun. Canvas Rider is a browser-based game that allows players to ride a ...

Are you tired of feeling safe and happy all the time? Is your daily life overrun by feelings of security, contentment and peace? Do you want an escape from all of the oppressive niceness around you?

High Potential’s mysterious mastermind just got a little less mysterious. Warning: Spoilers ahead for season 2, episode 2 of “High Potential.” During episode 2 of High Potential’s second season, which ...

Here at Ars, we’ve written frequently about the video game industry’s ongoing problem with blatant game cloning and the shifting legal and ethical landscape around the issue. But we’ve rarely seen a ...

If the Super Bowl is the annual equivalent of a massive summer blockbuster, a seven-game series is an 800-page novel, full of plot twists, complicated characters, exultation and heartbreak. A ...

A hot potato: A game that recreates a school shooting has been released by the parents of a boy who lost his life in one of these incidents. The Final Exam tasks players with surviving an attack as ...

In server-side JavaScript, you will most likely use the fs library for dealing with the filesystem. This library is a module in Node and other platforms like Bun. So you don’t need to install it using ...

Dear readers, today I want to talk to you about a game development studio that is doing truly impressive things: Phoboslab. This independent studio, founded by Dominic Szablewski, offers us fun, retro ...