A Roman board game has mystified researchers for years. AI discovered how to play

By simulating thousands of matches and analyzing wear patterns, researchers reconstructed the rules of a long-lost blocking ...
VGR

5 Ways Modern Games Are Borrowing From Classic Arcade Design

Modern games often struggle with a familiar problem: players have more choice than ever, yet less patience. Endless tutorials ...
Polygon

Sony patented AI-generated video game tutorials this year, and it sounds like a nightmare

Tutorials might well be the bane of the video game industry's existence. Teaching a player how to do something is surprisingly difficult to do. Even if a developer crafts an educational and ...
Forbes

From Mobile Game To Living Room: How Designer Brittny Button Is Reinventing Furniture Design

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Lauren writes about interior design and real estate. In September 2025, Button became the focus of a first-of-its-kind ...
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“Players hate them, and they won’t even try to look for them until they absolutely have to.” Japanese game developers discuss the pitfalls of tutorials

“Itchie”, a Japanese programmer and producer who used to work at game companies like Square and SNK, recently took to X to reflect on a fallacy that tripped him up earlier in his career as a developer ...
Wired

An AI Dark Horse Is Rewriting the Rules of Game Design

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 ...
GameSpot

Build A Library Of Video Game Books With These Black Friday Deals

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. There are dozens of video game books in Amazon's Black Friday and B2G1 Free sale, so to help you navigate the discounts, we've rounded up the best ...
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Pioneering Game Designer Rebecca Heineman Has Died

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. A game industry legend, Rebecca Heineman, has passed away due to cancer on November 17, 2025. She was 62 years old. Friends of Heineman have mourned ...
PC Gamer

Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died

Hardware 'We had 16 megahertz CPUs, 640k of RAM, floppy disks': John Carmack reflects on the hardware that made Wolfenstein 3D Action Prince of Persia's creator reacts to Ubisoft's cancellation of The ...
VideoGamer

Starfield 2 will be “one hell of a game” claims designer as Bethesda learns from its mistakes

You can trust VideoGamer. Our team of gaming experts spend hours testing and reviewing the latest games, to ensure you're reading the most comprehensive guide possible. Rest assured, all imagery and ...
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Pokemon Legends Z-A tests my 25 years of Pokemon experience in all the wrong ways, and I'm begging Game Freak to ease up on the tutorials

Metroid Metroid Prime 4: Beyond review: "The series' atmosphere has never been better, while being dragged down by a boring overworld and clunky psychic powers" ...