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Popular Brain Game Maker Luminosity Faces a Fine for False Advertising
The science doesn’t back up the claims that playing memory and attention games can prevent mental decline
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Utah Will Soon Have an Imaginary Theme Park
In 2016, virtual reality fanatics will step into a VR “VOID”
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Minecraft Players Are Recreating Scenes From Studio Ghibli Movies
Now gamers can romp around Yubaba’s Bath House and clamber into a Catbus
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A Real Nuclear Apocalypse Would Be More Beautiful Than the World of ‘Fallout 4’
It would also be much, much more devastating
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Gamers Raise Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars a Year by Playing the Worst Video Game Ever Made
“Desert Bus” lets you undertake an eight-hour-long digital road trip in real time
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Why Librarians Should Love Fallout 4
To survive this video game’s nuclear wasteland, players need to return their library books
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A Minecraft World Built for Exploring Chemicals
The new world, called MolCraft, is a virtual chemistry museum
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How Computers Learned to Play Nintendo
Super Mario World is a great test for artificial intelligence
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Invader Tags European Space Agency With Alien Art
The anonymous street artist strikes again
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How the Tetris Theme Song Was Made
A small piece of hardware produced the iconic sounds of gaming
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If You Die in This Video Game, You Can Never Play Again
How do people play when dead means dead?
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Can a Video Game Teach You to Manage Stress?
“Nevermind,” a video game controlled by a player’s heart rate, aims to help people deal with trauma
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Preserving Old Computer Games Is Harder Than it Seems
There’s an art and a science to resurrecting now-defunct PC games
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How Is Brain Surgery Like Flying? Put On a Headset to Find Out
A device made for gaming helps brain surgeons plan and execute delicate surgeries with extreme precision
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A Single Video Game Character Can Cost Around $80,000 To Make
It takes money to make money.
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“Full Blood Resurrection” and Other Gaming Terms Are Entering Chinese Vernacular
As online gaming is so popular in China, it’s changing the way people talk.
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Playing Tetris Could Stop Traumatic Memories from Becoming Flashbacks
The visually stimulating game seems to lessen the blow of disturbing events when they are recalled
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This Is How You Live Paint an Event
Artist Jeremy Sutton painted on his iPad while musicians performed and visitors played virtual reality games at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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The Creators of Super Mario Drafted The Game on Graph Paper
The levels were originally planned out one at a time by hand
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Researchers Are Training Robots Using Minecraft
The popular game helps robots learn real-world skills
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