Video Games

Invader Tags European Space Agency With Alien Art

The anonymous street artist strikes again

How the Tetris Theme Song Was Made

A small piece of hardware produced the iconic sounds of gaming

If You Die in This Video Game, You Can Never Play Again

How do people play when dead means dead?

Each level explores a different kind of psychological trauma.

Can a Video Game Teach You to Manage Stress?

“Nevermind,” a video game controlled by a player's heart rate, aims to help people deal with trauma

Preserving Old Computer Games Is Harder Than it Seems

There’s an art and a science to resurrecting now-defunct PC games

How Is Brain Surgery Like Flying? Put On a Headset to Find Out

A device made for gaming helps brain surgeons plan and execute delicate surgeries with extreme precision

A Single Video Game Character Can Cost Around $80,000 To Make

It takes money to make money.

"Full Blood Resurrection" and Other Gaming Terms Are Entering Chinese Vernacular

As online gaming is so popular in China, it’s changing the way people talk.

An original Tetris arcade game

Playing Tetris Could Stop Traumatic Memories from Becoming Flashbacks

The visually stimulating game seems to lessen the blow of disturbing events when they are recalled

Digital artist Jeremy Sutton's finished painting captured the many elements of the event.

This Is How You Live Paint an Event

Artist Jeremy Sutton painted on his iPad while musicians performed and visitors played virtual reality games at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Super Mario Bros. creators Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka in a screenshot from Kotaku's YouTube video "Design History of Super Mario Maker, E3 2015"

The Creators of Super Mario Drafted The Game on Graph Paper

The levels were originally planned out one at a time by hand

Researchers Are Training Robots Using Minecraft

The popular game helps robots learn real-world skills

The original Pac-Man was kind of a feminist.

Pac-Man Turns 35 This Month

The now-iconic game was originally released by Namco in 1980

Here's How Video Game Designers Give Voices to Imaginary Creatures

All they need are digital vocal cords, voice box and mouth

The Hemingwrite is a newfangled take on the old school typewriter, featuring cloud back-up.

Five Wild Ideas That Just Got Funded: From a Digital Typewriter to Treadmill-Powered Gaming

A Los Angeles group is also creating greeting cards with personalized audio messages from top celebrities

German-American game developer Ralph Baer, in 2009, showing the prototype of the first games console.

Remembering the "Father of Video Games," Innovator Ralph Baer

The lab, where the inventor of the video game and the electronic game Simon, goes on view at the American History Museum next summer

Candy Crush Soda Saga brings classical music to tablets, smartphones and computers around the world.

Why the Composer of Candy Crush Soda Saga is the New King of Video Game Music

You may have never heard of Johan Holmstrom, but millions listen to his music every day

Atari cartridges and packaging recovered from the Alamogordo landfill are shown off on April 26, 2014.

Atari Games That No One Wanted Now Selling for $500 a Pop

No one wanted Atari's E.T. in 1982, but they want it now

We're Terrible at Distinguishing Real And Fake Schools of Fish

You can test your fish school savviness in a free online game created by scientists

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A Military Contractor Just Went Ahead And Used an Xbox Controller For Their New Giant Laser Cannon

The army’s new laser cannon is controlled with an Xbox controller

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