To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

Could a machine outthink the best human mind in the world? Thirty years ago that was still an open question, but a historic matchup between a chess grandmaster and an IBM supercomputer answered it. On ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...

There are few series as beloved as The Lord of the Rings, whose fantasy setting would serve as an inspiration for incredible movies, tabletop games, and, of course, games. However, despite iconic ...

The deranged school shooter who massacred eight people in British Columbia made a “horrifying” video game in which players gunned down shoppers at a mall, it emerged Friday. Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18 — ...

For most adventure games, the long-term goal can often focus on solving a grand mystery or chasing a lost artifact of the past. But for the upcoming Mixtape, from publisher Annapurna Interactive, it ...

This year’s NBA All-Star Game is slated for Feb. 15 and will be held at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles. It figures to be yet another exciting showcase of basketball’s brightest stars. However, in an ...

Julián F.L. is a video game & anime expert, historian & journalist with a lot of passion for these subjects and over 10 years of experience in writing about them. He has enjoyed video games, anime, ...

Fluorite would have been a fantastic name for a smart car, such as an EV or a self-driving model. Instead, Toyota decided to use it for something nobody saw coming: a game engine. Not a game per se, ...

Konami announced a new Castlevania game during the February 2026 State of Play, and it's a 2D side-scroller made in partnership Evil Empire and Motion Twin, the makers of Dead Cells. It's called ...

For something that represents the pinnacle of athletic achievement, an Olympic gold medal isn’t exactly built like solid gold treasure. In fact, it’s mostly silver — and lately, some athletes say it ...

Ms. Hitzig is a former researcher at OpenAI. This week, OpenAI started testing ads on ChatGPT. I also resigned from the company after spending two years as a researcher helping to shape how A.I.