Games

"Strike Group Defender: The Missile Matrix"

Navy training game earns accolade at international conference

Interactive game developed by Lincoln Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research to teach ship defense is named Best Government Game at the Serious Games Showcase and Challenge.

January 20, 2015

A new kind of media theory

MIT professor Fox Harrell works to enrich the subjective and ethical dimensions of the digital media experience.

May 22, 2014

Le Morte d'Arthur and the engineer

Laura Meeker '14 designed a game combining engineering and literature to convey the essence of Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur."

March 25, 2014

The WiTrack system provides significantly increased accuracy in tracking a person’s movement, and can even detect motion through walls and obstructions.

New system allows for high-accuracy, through-wall, 3-D motion tracking

Technology could revolutionize gaming, fall detection among the elderly, and more.

December 11, 2013

Cover of "Phantasmal Media" book shows hood of gray sweater with table graphics on top.

Building culture in digital media

Fox Harrell’s new book presents a ‘manifesto’ detailing how computing can create powerful new forms of expression and culture.

October 23, 2013

During the HEAT game, players can call up video surveillance, narrow into specified regions of interest, search databases, and display search results in their attempts to locate suspicious activity and persons at an airport terminal.

Taking games seriously at the Lincoln Laboratory

Exploring games to improve decision-making

September 23, 2013

Big game hunter

MIT sociologist T.L. Taylor studies the subcultures of online gaming and the nascent world of online e-sports.

September 3, 2013

Can a game help a player feel empathy with those with depression? That's the question "Elude" addresses. It was featured at the Foundations of Digital Games 2012, the Research & Experimental Game Fesival, Games for Change, ANZ 2012, and Meaningful Play 2010.

Learn game development at MIT this summer

MIT Game Lab to offer one-week professional development class on game development for software engineers in August.

June 18, 2013

The new version of SimCity introduces a whole new level of complexity to the game.

Sneaking a peek at the new SimCity

MIT alumnus and lead designer of the digital game visits campus

June 12, 2013

Screen capture of the time dilation effect in OpenRelativity.

Playing with Einstein

MIT Game Lab releases OpenRelativity, a game-development tool to help developers and educators experiment with the effects of special relativity.

May 28, 2013

Wireless researchers host ‘Game-Jam’

Event will bring together game developers, graphic designers and audio professionals to design mobile games that will help wireless researchers gather information on network data.

May 13, 2013

A sphere is in the center of a cube with blue sides and an orange top. The text "MIT Game Lab" is next to the cube.

MIT Game Lab explores the potential of games and play

New laboratory opens its doors with a symposium, a festival and seven new games.

October 23, 2012

Incoming freshman Kaylee de Soto got a head start at MIT, arriving in June to help the Plasma Science and Fusion Center update its fusion video game.

Kaylee de Soto: A game changer

Incoming freshman refreshes Plasma Science and Fusion Center outreach tools.

September 6, 2012

A person sits in front of slot machine with back turned to camera.

Understanding gambling addiction

For machine gamblers, it’s not whether they win or lose — it’s how much they play the game.

September 4, 2012

3 Questions: Hanna Rose Shell on the hidden history of camouflage

Historian of technology’s new book traces the surprisingly recent invention of a standard military practice.

May 10, 2012

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