Is it even possible to define games?
Three of gaming’s brightest theoretical minds ponder what turns out to be a huge question.
Joseph Bernstein
The woman behind League of Legends wants undead death knights as complex as Don Draper
Christina Norman, lead creative developer at Riot Games, thinks narrative depth is the way to keep her game on top.
A tribute to the TI-83 games that got me through trigonometry, and got me a C+ in trigonometry
The news that Texas Instruments is adding color to its ubiquitous graphing calculators brought streaming back a torrent of gaming memories. What Dan Rubinstein never realized as he struggled to communicate to me the principles of trigonometry was that I was engaged in the management of a large-scale
A conversation about Wii U with Jeff Ryan, the man who wrote the book on Nintendo
Is the new console a stopgap in Nintendo’s grand plans for a holographic game system? Who wants a Nintendo social network? Why is Mario in timeout? And much more.
Science figures out human-rodent multiplayer
Well, this story just about made my day. Scientists have figured out a way for humans and rats to interact at scale, meaning, the human’s movements control a rat-sized robot in a pen with the rat, and the rat’s movements control a human-sized “beamed” avatar. Professor Mandayam Srinivasan, author o