This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. For this series' final entry, we're ...

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Are we living in “The Matrix” in real life? In the 1999 science-fiction film, Neo discovers that the universe is a simulation — but one scientist believes that the idea isn’t all fiction. Dr. Melvin ...

Is this planet just a rock floating through space? A result of some higher power? Or maybe just someone’s abandoned Sims game? Sometimes, it’s hard to say, especially when you witness something so ...