This article is part of AI Week. For about a year now, all of the content for the mobile game Sunrise Village has been generated by AI. But far from generating a backlash from players, it seems that ...

Advanced AI models appear willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put into simulated geopolitical crises. Kenneth Payne at King’s College London set three ...

At the Neon Genesis Evangelion 30th Anniversary event in Tokyo this weekend, Pixelity showed off its upcoming XR game EVANGELION: Δ CROSS REFLECTIONS, revealing it’s going all-in on hand-tracking. On ...

This video documents the gameplay on a specialized Minecraft server where player strength is determined by combat outcomes. The footage focuses on the strategic planning and coordination required to ...

The designers at Lightspark write: Humans can’t reliably recall colors. This is a simple game to see how good (or bad) you are at it. Dialed shows you a color for 5 seconds, then asks you to recreate ...

Attention, gamers: if you thought new titles on top of the endless cavalcade of sequels and remakes were derivative now, wait till you hear about what the game engine maker Unity has got in store.

Making a video game usually means learning to code, working with complex game engines, and spending hours piecing everything together. That is true even for simple casual games. Many aspiring ...

Fringe movements are using games and other online platforms to draw growing numbers of children to their causes, new data and dozens of interviews show. By Pranav Baskar Taking a page from the child ...

Ramin Djawadi’s Game of Thrones theme is one of the most iconic TV scores of the 2010s. There’s perhaps a reason, then, that when House of the Dragon began, Djawadi returned to Westeros and kind of ...

It was the summer of 2020, and researcher Walter Crist was wandering around the exhibits inside a Dutch museum dedicated to the presence of the ancient Roman empire in the Netherlands. As a scientist ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For lifelong gamers, figuring out what to do with piles of aging game controllers from past platforms can be a challenge. Is it worth keeping ...

Smartphones, social networks and search engines are being flooded with “smart” new features as the tech industry bets that artificial intelligence will revolutionize every facet of life. But in one ...