Ai Drove Belgian Startup Funding Near €500m In H1 2024, Report Finds

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 wiseacres argue that most pirates would never consider paying for a legitimate version of the game in the first place or that piracy can actually be useful as a word-of-mouth promotional tool. While the true effect of piracy on sales revenue is likely somewhere between those two extremes, piracy's precise financial impact on a game has always been hard to nail down.

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 series exploring Nemo's origin story, loosely based on the former, called Nautilus, premiering in a couple of weeks.

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 tactical RPG with well-worn hero classes and mechanics familiar to fans of crunchy tabletop games and CRPGs.

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, Compliance, and Making Infrastructure Smarter." Our tone this time around will be a little more policy-oriented than our San Jose event.

The cast and crew on 'Teacup' discuss how separating characters from their support systems heightens the tension and leaves them vulnerable to the unknown.

As we wait for any news at all about Nintendo Switch 2, the first Switch will not go out quietly. Nintendo made that clear with a banger Nintendo Direct in June that opened with a genuinely lovely surprise: a new Mario & Luigi RPG. Mario & Luigi: Brothership is the first game in the beloved series of brotherly turn-based RPGs in nearly a decade, following 2015’s Paper Jam for 3DS.