Readers discuss their usual tactics for beating video games and how they decide when to give up and when to multitask. The subject for this week’s Hot Topic was suggested by reader Fennel, who asked ...

Best video game sound effect? Easy: that noise when Mario starts riding Yoshi. I don’t even know how I would describe that sound effect to someone who had never heard it without just making the noise.

Minecraft has become the first video game topic to accumulate a trillion views on YouTube. The crossing of this milestone was announced by the video-sharing platform's official account, with a ...

It’s easy to think of comics and video games as having adjacent fandoms. Gaming events like PAX draw many of the same demographics as New York Comic Con and at Anime Expo—men and women ages ...

AI NPCs. AI scriptwriting. AI voice acting. AI artwork. AI creation tools. Yes, AI is everywhere in game development. In the past couple of years it's arisen as something of a dirty word, an ...

Online video games are excluded from the social media ban, but digital media researchers say the definitions are too broadly defined and games could yet be included. The sound world of Indiana Jones ...

Just a game? Study shows no evidence that violent video games lead to real-life violence Date: November 5, 2021 Source: City University London Summary: As the latest Call of Duty video game is ...

Between The Super Mario Bros. Movie and The Last of Us, big-budget game adaptations are one-upping the competition — but that wasn't always the case. Randall Colburn is a writer and editor at ...

A gaming disorder, sometimes referred to as “video game addiction,” is a pattern of game-playing behavior—involving online gaming or offline video games—that is difficult to control and that continues ...

Cheryl Olson had seen her teenage son play video games. But like many parents, she didn’t know much about them. Then in 2004 the U.S. Department of Justice asked Olson and her husband, Lawrence Kutner ...

Around the world, video gamers spend billions of hours per week in front of their screens. Some scientists have researched the impact of video games. Here, find our how they affect the brain and ...

Even in an ever-changing industry that is gradually moving away from traditional hardware, the gaming console remains an almost mythical device. Modern gaming consoles are often the entertainment ...