When it comes to a dream career in game design, every journey starts at the same place—picking the right university. According to new international rankings from The Princeton Review, Rochester ...

Our research into player engagement frequently encounters nostalgia as a key driver of player satisfaction. Nostalgia is both ...

Peter Perla, the late sage of modern wargaming, explained how wargames facilitate proofing through what he called the “cycle of research.” The cycle is the sum of wargaming, exercises, and analysis, ...

Contention Games founder Gary Dworetsky raised nearly $4 million with his 2022 Kickstarter for Slay the Spire: The Board Game, which turned 2019’s genre-defining rougelike deckbuilder into a ...

Yana Boyko's five-racket design, which she drew in June 2024, has appeared on a t-shirt sold at the ATP Masters 1000 event.

Everything from their ban philosophy, design timelines, and their thoughts on the current competitive meta were discussed.

So, Nvidia just revealed DLSS 5, its new AI graphics tech that uses generative systems to “enhance” video games with more photo-realistic effects, and I’m not going to worry about mincing my words ...

A team of 20 designers turned to the exuberant, ephemeral natural world and to grittier L.A. street scenes as inspiration for the look of the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Sign up to start every ...

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

The psychology of game design relies heavily on behavioral conditioning. Grasp the science behind dopamine loops before you open your next digital loot box.

Bowling Green baseball Sam Seidel designed the outfield wall for the newly-renovated Steller Field, and in the home opener, ...

Amid the doom and gloom in the games industry right now—the mass layoffs, the studio closures, the declarations that TikTok is winning the attention war—there are still little studios plugging away at ...