In 1964 30 sixth grade students from Westchester County did something nobody else had ever done before: they learned from a computer game. Today the computer’s usefulness as an educational tool has ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

It sometimes happens that we want to create a computer game that will be remembered by players and all of humanity forever. But we hit a bit of an impasse at the beginning. We have no idea what kind ...

Cornell College Assistant Professor of Statistics Tyler George and one of his classes have taken part in a newly published study exploring how a unique computer game created a research experience that ...

When Jared Pincus was only a few years old, his father, Allan Pincus, fixed up an old computer and gave it to him to play with. Allan was mesmerized by young Jared’s ability to latch onto the mouse ...

Human-computer gaming has a long history and has been a main tool for verifying key artificial intelligence technologies. The Turing test, proposed in 1950, was the first human-computer game to judge ...

A computer game helped upper secondary school students become better at distinguishing between reliable and misleading news. This is shown by a study conducted by researchers at Uppsala University and ...

Role-playing games mean a lot of different things to different people. For some, playing an RPG means sitting around a table, rolling dice and telling stories with friends. For others, top RPG games ...

Last week the Video Game History Foundation announced that it had acquired the full archives of the 1980s game publication Computer Entertainer and would be making them available through the Digital ...

The video game has been part of tech culture since it launched in 1993, with its signature view of a gun centered of the ...