We've been hearing for years about the potential upsides to video games: They can teach us to process visual information quickly and make decisions based on what we see. They can improve manual ...

Creating a successful game is an art. There are many elements that must be integrated effectively, including the characters. Character design plays a critical role in the success of a game; the way ...

A team of faculty and students from Rochester Institute of Technology is developing a game system that will help undergraduate college students navigate the barriers to academic and social success.

Developing an understanding of what makes mobile games fun — and what makes players tick — is an important arrow in the modern mobile game marketer’s quiver. Back when IDFA reigned supreme, marketers ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. To explore this potential, the American University School of Communication has selected three fellows for a new program aimed at ...

John Hanke, the man at the helm of Google’s experimental game, Ingress, charts the course for the future of mobile gaming. Last month, Google unveiled its first mobile game, an ambitious, experimental ...

Jake is a writer from the United Kingdom. With a focus on first-person shooters, RPGs, and achievement hunting, writing about the gaming industry comes naturally and is a real point of pride. Outside ...

Discover how mechanism design theory uses incentives and game theory to achieve desired outcomes in economics and businesses while overcoming self-interest challenges.

Order of the Sinking Star is a Sokoban-style puzzle game ten years in the making, and Jonathan Blow tells us why it's worth playing.