Deep within the source code of this online multiplayer game lies an enigmatic number that puzzles and inspires experts to this day ...

If you like mandatory co-op games, this one's for you: introducing WheelMates, a new two-player co-op action-adventure where each player controls an R/C car in the house of an eccentric scientist, ...

An HR advisor with a background in recruitment and HRIS functions, with a passion for video games and writing. Oliver grew up playing Call of Duty with his siblings and has garnered 1000s of hours ...

The New Scientist Book Club moved from the dystopian near-future imagined by Grace Chan in Every Version of You in November to the utopian far-future imagined by Iain M. Banks in The Player of Games ...

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 ...

Movement is something we might take for granted in games. Characters are expected to move in certain ways, and controls are often similar across games (an A button to jump, clicking in a left stick to ...

Netflix is acquiring Estonian startup Ready Player Me, a company creating "cross-game avatar tech" that allows players to bring their digital personas with them to different games, the company's CEO ...

Netflix will soon let customers make their own customized gaming avatars — which will travel across the streamer’s collection of titles — through the acquisition of Ready Player Me, an avatar-creation ...

The video game industry tends to be volatile, with entire genres going in and out of vogue. We’ve seen fighting games, RPGs, platformers, FMV games, and real-time strategy all declared as dead as the ...

Data from a new global survey involving over 30,000 gamers spread across 20+ markets shows that, overall, people who play games prefer single-player over multiplayer. However, digging into the data ...

This is a primal movement beginner video where I demonstrate some simple movements and a flow you can use to start natural movement training. The first part is a tutorial of various positions and ...

The Skins Game makes its return next week. Before the action gets underway, let's take a look at each player's 2025 season, including results and key stats for skins. On Black Friday, The Skins Game ...