Research

After The Guardian ran a story earlier this year on gamers inverting their controls, a group of scientists—who have…

Ever felt guilty about playing video games while the world crumbles around you? Well, you’re in luck, because Borderl…

Have you ever wondered what it would take for a person to perform Street Fighter’s Tatsumaki Senpukyaku in real…

Google’s DeepMind AI lab has been hard at work creating programs to take on human players across a variety of games…

Anyone who’s ever tried to play Magic: The Gathering or listened to a friend explain it to them has had to reckon…

Sea Hero Quest is a video game developed in partnership with Germany’s Deutsche Telekom, game studio Glitchers and…

From the limited findings based on a recent experiment, researchers at Brandeis University found that sounds can…

In the “water is wet” category, researchers at Indiana University just published a study confirming that Twitch…

Strategy games can be exciting. They can be...strategic. They can be easy, they can be hard. You might not have ever…

Do violent video games make people more aggressive? Politicians and pundits have been asking that question for years…

Video games look really good when there are vehicles moving, guns firing and buildings exploding. Something they…

I tend to get angry at little things in video games. A lot. Sometimes really, really, really angry. I'm starting to…

After this thing the other week here’s some actual science proving actual things. Specifically: “’immoral’ virtual…

Animal simulators are all the rage these days, with games about playing as goats, cats, and bears all popping up in…

I self-identify as a straight male-bodied dude, but recently I've taken to playing as a female-bodied character in…

Video games have their rockstars. But they're not the same kind of rockstars as the ones who strut around in dresses…

Getting old is never easy. Candy tastes less sweet. Hangovers get ever more brutal. Pop music becomes increasingly…

Korean researchers have developed a stroke recovery program that uses Kinect. As you can see in the above video…

Researchers at the University of Minnesota say they've found a link between motion sickness and iPad gaming. The…

By now we should all be on board with the idea that texting while driving is a particularly dangerous and…