The artistry and design behind first-person shooter (FPS) games are often overlooked in discussions about the genre. However, these elements play a crucial role in creating immersive, engaging ...

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When I meet with Cole Wehrle to talk about his new studio, Buried Giant, he is wearing a shirt that says, in basic, block capitals, 'Board Games'. It's an amusing role reversal, to see the man whose ...

Wizards of the Coast has hired longtime Dungeons & Dragons writer James Haeck as a senior game designer, bringing one of 5th edition’s most prolific contributors fully in-house as the D&D team ...

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Riot Games is embracing bold new designs and reworking its approach to releasing champions in League of Legends. This shift stems from the belief that taking risks on innovative mechanics is ...

Esteemed designer Reiner Knizia has created over 700 published board games. If we reprint one of these board games a month, it will take us just over 58 years to reprint them all. By that time, fans ...

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 ...

Rebecca Heineman, the game developer and winner of the first American video game competition, has died. Heineman died after a short battle with lung cancer, her friend Heidi McDonald announced on ...

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The academic and research community has used different terms over the years to define and frame video games that go beyond entertainment. The term serious games has proven the most enduring, ...

Lego's brick-built Game Boy replica is bound to be one of the most popular gift ideas for retro gaming enthusiasts this holiday. The 421-piece recreation of Nintendo's legendary 1989 handheld is ...