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Ars takes a closer look at Volkswagen’s ID Buzz electric van

Produced and directed by Sean Dacanay. Click here for transcript . (video link) On Wednesday, Volkswagen used the South by Southwest festival to formally unveil the ID Buzz, the company’s forthcoming electric van. In the lead-up to that debut in Texas, VW gave Ars an hour with the gold-and-white show car to have a poke […]

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Watch Sam Machkovech go hands-on with Valve’s Steam Deck

Produced by Sean Dacanay. Click here for transcript. (video link) Valve’s portable Steam Deck has been released, and if you put in your preorder early enough, you might have one of the devices in your hot little hands this very minute. For the rest of us, though, we’re stuck waiting until inventory catches up to […]

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Missing mass? Not on our watch—Dr. Paul Sutter explains dark matter

Produced and directed by Corey Eisenstein. Click here for transcript. (video link) Greetings, Arsians! We have something special for you today: the premiere of a new science series we’re creating, called Edge of Knowledge. We’ve recruited physicist and author Dr. Paul Sutter (Google Scholar link) to be our host and guide on an eight-episode romp […]

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War Stories: How Deus Ex was almost too complex for its own good

Directed by James Herron, edited by Sean Dacanay. Click here for transcript . (video link) Coming in under the wire here is our last video for 2021—and we tried to make it a fun one. If you play games, chances are you’ve played something that Warren Spector was involved in creating—with stints at Origin, Ion […]

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Unsolved Mysteries: Quantum Leap’s Don Bellisario on the fate of Sam Beckett

Produced by Adam Lance Garcia, edited by Ron Douglas. Click here for transcript. (video link) Fresh from our talk with Warhammer remembrancer Dan Abnett on the unsolved mysteries of the Warhammer universe, we now turn our attention to a science fiction property with a bit less grimdark: the one where a polymath with an eidetic […]

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Unsolved mysteries of the Warhammer 40k universe with loremaster Dan Abnett

Shot by Adam Lance Garcia and edited by Justin Sloan. Click here for transcript. (video link) It’s been a while since we last got to do an episode of “Unsolved Mysteries,” our series wherein we ask creators to take us on a journey into the deeper and more mysterious aspects of their created universes (our […]

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A Lengthy Blade Runner Meeting with Westwood co-founder Louis Castle

Click here to transcript. Since 2020 brings to a close, we have still got a couple extended-edition”War Stories” movies to launch, and that there has been some time coming. We had a terrific time {} to Westwood’s Louis Castle–a lot so we really got two movies from him rather than one. Along with talking about […]

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War Stories: The Way Nintendo Marketed the NES into a Doubtful country

Created and led by Justin Wolfson, edited by Chris Jones. Click here to transcript. Now Nintendo is a family name, the most gaming equivalent of a significant manufacturer like Disney. Nevertheless, it was not always the way. Ars Technica’s most current War Stories movie examines the early days of Nintendo’s 80s invasion of American beaches […]

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Scott Manley Investigates the far reaches of space{} his Best 1,000 YouTube Remarks

Developed by Vara Reese, led by Adam Lance Garcia, edited by Danny Behar. Click here to transcript. After checking a bucket list thing by doing a movie with LGR’s Clint Basinger past month, there was just 1 place we can go following: to distance . And no founder controls the intersection of space science, gambling, […]

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Amnesia and Soma Founder Thomas Grip Describes how he makes Matches Frightening

Video made by Justin Wolfson, edited by Patrick Biesemans. Click here to transcript. Welcome to”Scare Tactics,” a pilot for a movie series that intends to explore the different founders make terror games. We see terror as a distinctive genre–terror games are not necessarily played for exactly the very exact reasons as other matches. They are […]