From simple pastimes, video games have become vital cultural forces shaping the future of entertainment, social life, technological innovation, and the very way we learn and interact with the world.

The way we interact with games and invented characters can shed light on how we think. AI is poised to take things further. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly ...

Zak Parrish is a senior developer at Epic Games and he helps teams realise the full potential of the Unreal tool set – the game engine behind Fortnite – and how they can use it to accomplish virtually ...

Reality show contestants are fiercely protective of how they look on screen. For Chloe Veitch, one of the breakout stars of Netflix’s risque dating series “Too Hot to Handle,” that kind of intense ...

OpenAI’s new short-form video app, Sora, seems to have all the ingredients of a viral hit. Just hours after the app’s launch on Tuesday, memes created using its AI video-generation technology were ...

Teens compete in a video game tournament at the Portland Public Library in Maine in 2018. (Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images) How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this ...

As I wandered through the exhibition Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art, my mind felt like it had been hit by several lightning strikes. This exhibition, currently at ...