Ars Technica - War Stories

Ars Technica - War Stories (2022)

1 Season 32 Episodes Returning Series
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Ars Technica takes an in-depth look at the biggest hurdles developers face when creating some of the most popular video games of all time.

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E01 7m

How Gamers Killed Ultima Online's Virtual Ecology

2022-06-02
E02 7m

How Thief's Stealth System Almost Didn't Work

2022-06-02
E03 8m

How Stardock's Elemental: War of Magic Failed

2018-02-28
E04 10m

How Serious Sam's Demo Saved the Game From Extinction

2018-10-04
E05 13m

How Star Control II Was Almost TOO Realistic

2018-10-23
E06 17m

How Aliens versus Predator's Late Design Change Made It a Classic

2018-11-20
E07 10m

How Total War: Rome II's Ambition Was Almost Its Undoing

2018-12-18
E08 19m

How Dead Space's Scariest Scene Almost Killed the Game

2019-01-08
E09 11m

How Blade Runner Reinvented Adventure Games

2019-02-15
E10 13m

How Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Solved Pathfinding

2019-02-16
E11 11m

How MechWarrior 5's Team Fixed Their Player-Killing Level Generator

2019-04-03
E12 13m

How Amnesia: The Dark Descent Tricked Players Into Scaring Themselves

2019-04-16
E13 11m

How Slay the Spire’s Original Interface Almost Killed the Game

2019-05-02
E14 10m

How Localizing Return of the Obra Dinn Nearly Sunk the Game

2019-05-21
E15 12m

How This War of Mine Plays on Your Emotions

2019-05-30
E16 19m

How Subnautica Succeeded Without Weapons

2019-06-05
E17 11m

How Dead Cells Cheated to Make the Game More Fun

2019-07-17
E18 12m

How Sid Meier Almost Made Civilization a Real-Time Strategy Game

2019-09-23
E19 23m

How Mind Control Saved Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

2019-12-03
E20 23m

How Myst Almost Couldn't Run on CD-ROM

2020-01-28
E21 32m

How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation

2020-02-27
E22 21m

How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations

2020-03-17
E23 17m

How Homeworld Almost Got Lost in 3D Space

2020-04-07
E24 29m

How Netflix's "Extraction" Engineered a 12-Minute, One-Shot Action Scene

2020-04-28
E25 21m

How Alan Wake Was Rebuilt 3 Years Into Development

2020-05-14
E26 14m

How "Robert the Bruce" Continued the Story of "Braveheart" Under Brutal Conditions

2020-05-19
E27 22m

How NBA JAM Became A Billion-Dollar Slam Dunk

2020-06-16
E28 19m

How Amazon’s “Undone” Animates Dreams With Rotoscoping And Oil Paints

2020-07-14
E29 23m

How One Gameplay Decision Changed Diablo Forever

2020-08-18
E30 28m

How Forza's Racing AI Uses Neural Networks to Evolve

2020-09-13
E31 14m

How Deus Ex Blended Genres To Change Shooters Forever

2021-12-16
E32 14m

How Gears Of War Almost Didn't Have Multiplayer

2022-05-26

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