Forty years on, Super Mario Bros. remains a gold standard in intuitive, joyful game design. From its iconic World 1-1 to its bold 3D leaps, Mario’s levels teach without tutorials, reward curiosity, ...

Some video games use their tutorials not just to teach mechanics, but to deliberately mislead players for narrative or thematic impact. These deceptive intros can hide major twists, reframe the story ...

Recently, Michael Hall, a doctoral candidate in the Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Program, was invited to ...

Students in Prairie High School’s video game design class often work on assignments using AI — without getting into trouble for it. The class is among several career and technical education classes ...

Art focus: Video game design. Adviser nomination: “Alex has been an incredible game design student!” adviser Joe Wagner said. “He works hard every day and he has developed very complex and ...

When I was a teenager in the early 1980s, I realized the potential of using video games in education. The same high school classmates who couldn’t pass a test at school could somehow remember what ...

CINCINNATI — D’Arcy Smith was at the Cincinnati Fire Museum with his kids when he got an idea for a new video game. “There wasn’t a lot of stuff to engage with that was in their age range,” said Smith ...

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 ...

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. “I’m gonna make games,” Ellie Freeman declared at age 9. That was six years ...

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Curious about the games dropping this year? Check out our month-by-month breakdown of the hottest titles coming to the PC, PlayStation 5, Switch, Switch 2, and Xbox Series X/S. In 2014, I began my ...