“As game designers,” MIT’s Scot Osterweil says, “we’re convinced that game playing is a lot like science: There is problem-solving, exploration, collaboration, hypothesizing, testing and learning from ...
GamerGate has engulfed the Internet. It pits two factions against each other: The “gamers’’—people (mostly men) who see video games as part of their identity—claim they’re fighting for ethics in games ...
Physicists and game developers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Game Lab have launched a video game that teaches players about relativity by slowing down the speed of light. A Slower ...
The place where the video game was invented more than 50 years ago now wants to teach teachers, entrepreneurs and students how to design games for learning — and it is hoping that the end result will ...
"The world described by Einstein's theory of special relativity is one not explored by many game designers," says Steven Schirra of MIT Game Lab. Which is a pretty strong opener for an email. Not only ...
As self-driving cars slowly make their way onto our roads, how will developers help these autonomous vehicles make difficult decisions during accidents? A new MIT project illustrates just how ...
MIT hackers have, for some time now, considered playing “Tetris on the Green Building” to be the mother of all hacks. Just last week, they FINALLY accomplished this long sought after hack. MIT ...
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