If you both enjoy playing video games and drawing, telling stories, or creating art, you may have wondered how to make a video game yourself. The good news is that the internet's array of free, ...

Today, Slate is debuting Pears, a brand-new word game to freshen up your puzzle routine. It’s fast. It’s fun. And it’s got a little attitude. The brainchild of Slate’s Dan Kois, built by a team of ...

Shuffalo is a new word game from the New Yorker. You need to make a word from the provided letters, using each letter once. A letter is added each round, starting with four and ending with a bonus ...

Kind words make people feel good, and a video game is aiming to create conversations between real people. Even though AI can create conversations between people and machines, they might not be as ...

The game was included in the iOS 17.5 update, and Apple News Plus subscribers can play it now. Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, ...

A new word game just dropped, and this one looks pretty fun. Strands is a new game from the New York Times, the same people who brought you Connections and Spelling Bee. (The NYT is also the current ...

According to a lovely New York Times profile of Wordle creator and software engineer Josh Wardle (get it?), he devised the game as a gift for his partner Palak Shah, who loves word games and crossword ...

In July, I started to make a word game for iPhone using ChatGPT as an experiment. Two months later, and the project is growing, along with headaches. Readers of AppleInsider may remember to the middle ...

From Scrabble to Wordle, word puzzle games are a firm favorite amongst gamers, thanks to their mind-training capabilities and the sense of pure elation when you nail your lexicon mastery. So, to help ...

Test your brain power with this addictive new game from the New York Times—and find out the best strategies for winning Remember when you couldn’t start your day without doing the new Wordle challenge ...

A couple of hours after the New York Times announced on Monday that it had acquired the online word game known as Wordle, its inventor was still looking for the right word—this time, for his emotions.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Today, Slate is debuting Pears, a brand ...