The hottest new board games from Gen Con 2016 07:36 Gen Con bills itself as "the best four days in gaming"—and in many ways, it is. More than 60,000 people crammed into the Indiana...Read More
“The best four days in gaming”—Gen Con in pictures 12:13 Gen Con: The best (and most exhausting) four days in gaming. (credit: Aaron Zimmerman) We just got back from the 49th annual Gen Con t...Read More
The Harry Potter play might make you into a Slytherin 09:31 The world of Harry Potter has become an industry. The books have sold hundreds of millions of copies around the world, the film adaptatio...Read More
Heavy rotation: The tabletop games we’ve been playing this summer 05:25 This weekend, the Ars Cardboard crew is drowning in a sea of tabletop games at the annual Gen Con gaming convention in Indianapolis. We’r...Read More
Submarines, spaceships, startups, and sci-fi—the life of Hannu Rajaniemi 10:27 At Ars Technica Live #4, Hannu Rajaniemi talks to Annalee Newitz and Tiffany Kelly about his double life as a scientist and a science fict...Read More
Reboots be damned, Stranger Things shows a better way to do nostalgia 14:08 This trailer is completely fine, but the series is so much more charming. Warning : This post contains minor spoilers for Stranger ...Read More
The basics of the thorny relationship between science and philosophy 07:38 A lot of things that try to pass themselves off as science, like homeopathy, clearly aren't scientific. But it might surprise you to k...Read More
This science fiction novel is a perfect antidote to the U.S. election season 10:08 Sometimes you need to escape from the news by plunging into a fictionalized version of it. Malka Older's second novel Infomocracy is ...Read More
Scythe, the most-hyped board game of 2016, delivers 08:08 Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage right here —and let us know what...Read More
A new app reveals apocalyptic history behind novel Frankenstein 06:36 An iOS app called Summer of Darkness was released earlier this summer, just in time for the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frank...Read More
