Understanding gambling addiction
For machine gamblers, it’s not whether they win or lose — it’s how much they play the game.
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.
Princeton Review names MIT a top school for video game design
Undergraduate and graduate programs both lauded.
Visiting Artist Ben Houge leads lively 'Sound and Real-Time Systems' panel
Artists discuss the convergence between video games, digital media and music composition.
Experimental World War I video game combats 'over-engineered' storytelling
MIT lab proves games don't need supercharged technology to create dramatic narratives.
Game puts artificial intelligence in the mind of the beholder
What if developing certain kinds of AI didn’t have to be so laborious?
LGBT content and video games: MIT lab tackles the issue
Popular games still haven’t shown they can handle lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender representations. Research at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab wants to change that.
Award-winning game explores puzzling dreams
MIT game wins Kongregate award, to receive 1 million free ad impressions
Computer learns language by playing games
By basing its strategies on the text of a manual, a computer infers the meanings of words without human supervision.
Faster computer graphics
Digitally mimicking the photographic blur caused by moving objects is surprisingly hard, but new research offers ways to make it easier.
Learning science through gaming
An MIT-produced interactive game, 'Vanished,' now being played by thousands online, offers a novel experiment in alternative science education.