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Enlarge (credit: Amazon) Ahead of the United States’ Memorial Day weekend, Ars staffers were milling about the virtual water cooler when someone happened upon some intriguing data: their personal Amazon shopping history. This spreadsheet, which consisted of years of purchases and thousands of dollars of receipts, was easy to compile within the Amazon account interface, […]
Sega’s action-adventure series Yakuza first launched in 2005, and Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is the final chapter to protagonist Kiryu Kazuma’s story. His journey has been uniquely Japanese, tackling underground criminal organizations with geopolitical tones, commenting on the way people use technology, and showcasing the country’s culture. Sega’s North American localization team at […]
Have you ever noticed the most effective and efficient human creations are modeled from nature? From buildings designed like termite mounds to self-healing buildings developed using bacteria in the concrete; biomimicry is phenomenal approach to solve problems in a sustainable way. Biomimicry (also known as Biomimetics) was coined by Otto Schmidt in the 1950s and […]
Far From Noise leaves players teetering over a cliff’s edge, their rusted-out car having spun out of control and left them in this unfortunate predicament. With no hope in sight and any movement liable to send the player toppling into the abyss, all there is left is to talk, think, and take in the silent […]
New York City lawmakers voted to repeal the prohibition-era, racist Cabaret law that limited entertainment and dancing to venues with a license. Despite 25,000 restaurants and bars in the city, only 97 venues have a cabaret license. “New York deserves to be a dance capital of the world,” civil rights attorney Norman Siegel declared, standing […]
Fashion brand GANT is launching its biggest ad campaign to date: a show on YouTube. “Couple Thinkers” stars former Late Late Show host and comedian Craig Ferguson and his wife Megan Ferguson as they tackle some “big life questions” like space and time. The aim is to get broader global awareness. Fashion retailer GANT is […]
Enlarge / It’s hard to tell from this promo image, but this game is a poignant meditation on friendship and death. It was easier for me to walk away from Persona 3 than I expected. The game about nine friends and a dog—which celebrates its tenth anniversary in the States this year—follows a similar arc […]
EMPORIUM looks to take the player on a short, emotionally-harrowing journey through personal tragedy. It offers a series of bleak moments sprinkled with a handful of choices, having players join with another’s pain and try to find reason, beauty, and poetry when their in-game lives are falling to pieces. EMPORIUM doesn’t offer much of an […]
Halfway through the second season of The Detour, which premiered on Tuesday on TBS, Robin (Natalie Zea) tries to soothe her jealous husband, Nate (Jason Jones), by insisting that he’s helped make her life “normal.” But Nate objects: “Quit it with this normal shit, ok? It doesn’t exist! And your quixotic pursuit of it is…it’s […]
