Rum and Bones: Second Tide—A piratical tabletop MOBA

Enlarge (credit: Charlie Theel) Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com—and let us know what you think. Rum and Bones: Second Tide is a board game that combines pirates with ideas drawn from Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas (MOBAs). The concept alone is worth […]

Fossil Hunters – Dig Up Bones, Make Your Own Dinosaurs

Fossil Hunters sends players to an abandoned dig site, seeking the dinosaur bones buried deep within its dangerous caves so that they can cobble together their own colossal reptile skeletons. Mixing creativity and cavernous explorations, it looks to offer some delightful adventures for any dinosaur fan. Players will be able to choose one of four […]

Shocker: “Yeti” poo, bones not actually from yeti

Science is rarely kind to “crypto-zoology,” which posits the existence of “hidden” creatures such as yeti, chupacabra, and Korean unicorns. It used to be that you could return from the weekend in the woods to regale your Sasquatch-hunting friends with tales of mysterious nocturnal sounds, a chase in the darkness, and—dramatically pulling a bag from […]

Osteoporosis diet: These five foods could PREVENT weak bones

According to the International Osteoporosis Foundation, one in two women and one in five men will suffer a bone fracture after the age of 50 in the UK. Last year they warned in a report that millions of cases of osteoporosis are undiagnosed. It is thought the increasing trend for cutting out dairy from diets […]

Kinect is pretty great at scanning dino bones

When your fancy high-tech tools aren’t suited for the job, it’s time to call the tinkers. The Field Museum of Natural History had a certain famous Tyrannosaurus rex skull they wanted examined with 3D imaging systems, but their dental scanners couldn’t fit around the dinosaur’s massive jaw. They contacted MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture group, […]

Diablo 3: Rise of the Necromancer Review — Roll them bones

Enlarge / That’s… that’s just a heart, y’all! It feels like a million years ago now, but there was a time when one of the hottest topics among the video game community was over whether Diablo 3 looked too colorful. In early pre-release screenshots, some saw Diablo‘s grim and decayed world of Sanctuary slipping down […]