From a programming perspective, binary is embedded into the way developers make video games. But beyond the 1s and 0s of coding itself, for a long time another kind of binary has been imposed onto ...

Originally, video games were a product you paid for once and that then provided as many hours of entertainment as users ...

One of the oft-cited, counterintuitive facts in computerland is that the video-game industry pulls in more money than Hollywood. Over the past several years, the two entertainment media have converged ...

Recent analyses highlight how multiplayer games are increasingly using in-game systems to promote prosocial behavior and reduce toxicity. From Overwatch’s endorsement feature to Death Stranding’s ...

Playtesting is hardly a new discipline in games. We actually dedicated an in-depth guide to the job. But over the last 15 years, the field has matured, leading to the emergence of more specialised ...

The video game Valorant, a fast-paced team-based shooter, has recently become a testing ground for a promising new direction in artificial intelligence research. The game’s developers at Riot Games (a ...

This graph represents all possible choices a player can make in a simple text game visualized as 36 choice nodes in 15 trees. This project falls under narrative modeling and generation, search, ...