Video Games

In NASA's new "Mars Rover" game, players drive a rover through rough Martian terrain, challenging themselves to navigate and balance the rover.

Take a Spin Around Mars in NASA’s New Rover Game

Tour the Red Planet without the risk of a multi-million dollar crash

Ten-year veteran of the Smithsonian's protective services office, Sargeant Nadia Tyler is master of the wildly popular Pokémon Go.

Gotta Catch ‘Em All on the National Mall

Sergeant Nadia Tyler, a security guard at Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, is collecting Pokémon creatures daily

Before Pokémon Go, These Scavenger Hunts Were All The Rage

"X" marks the spot

A 1959 exhibition of the first video game "Tennis For Two," designed physicist William Higinbotham at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1958.

The Pioneers of Video Game Technology Are About to Become the Stuff of History

The American History Museum's Lemelson Center will record 20 oral histories from early video game innovators

The Age Suit at the Liberty Science Center lets users feel what it's like to get older.

Could Virtual Reality Inspire Empathy for Others?

Virtual reality could allow users to step into someone else's shoes, experiencing things like having migraines or swapping genders

University of California, Irvine students playing League of Legends.

UC Irvine Becomes the First American Public University To Offer E-Sports Scholarships

The university jumps into the world of competitive gaming

Shocking.

Tesla vs. Edison Is a Video Game That Will Literally Shock You

Fight the 'War of the Currents'

When Work Becomes a Game

Across corporate America, applying the principles of games to the non-game setting of the workplace is a growing phenomenon

Teslasuit, a full-body VR suit, worn in a demo.

What It Feels Like to Don a Skintight Virtual Reality Suit

Though it sounds a little weird, it might be the future of virtual reality

Iranian men play a soccer video game at a CD shop in Tehran June 10, 2006.

Inside Iran’s Budding Video Game Industry

The Iranian video game industry, shaped around piracy and economic sanctions, is slowly growing

The Museum of Pinball in Banning, California, boasts a treasure trove of vintage and modern pinball machines and arcade games.

Take a Turn at the Flippers This Weekend at the World’s Largest Pinball Museum

So you didn't win the lottery: why not try your hand at a game of pinball?

A climber stands in front of Mount Everest at Kala Patthar in Solukhumbu District of Nepal

Virtually Climb Mount Everest From Your Living Room

A new virtual reality experience allows users delve into the world of Everest and scale the beast firsthand

Popular Brain Game Maker Luminosity Faces a Fine for False Advertising

The science doesn’t back up the claims that playing memory and attention games can prevent mental decline

This architectural drawing shows the VOID that will soon take over suburban Salt Lake City.

Utah Will Soon Have an Imaginary Theme Park

In 2016, virtual reality fanatics will step into a VR "VOID"

Minecraft Players Are Recreating Scenes From Studio Ghibli Movies

Now gamers can romp around Yubaba’s Bath House and clamber into a Catbus

The light from a Naval missile test off California

A Real Nuclear Apocalypse Would Be More Beautiful Than the World of 'Fallout 4'

It would also be much, much more devastating

Gamers Raise Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars a Year by Playing the Worst Video Game Ever Made

“Desert Bus” lets you undertake an eight-hour-long digital road trip in real time

Why Librarians Should Love Fallout 4

To survive this video game's nuclear wasteland, players need to return their library books

A Minecraft World Built for Exploring Chemicals

The new world, called MolCraft, is a virtual chemistry museum

How Computers Learned to Play Nintendo

Super Mario World is a great test for artificial intelligence

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